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For years I have said to myself when passing the bum on the street, “You are God.” For me this statement didn’t mean that you are the God, but rather that your body contains a part of Source.

Recently I changed my thought to, “You are God in a body.”  This feels a little different. For me this is an acknowledgment of  our physicality and at the same time the essence of  a supreme being, the energy of The Energy  within. Suppose that you and I are God in a body?  If this is true, why are we living as we do?

My friend emailed,  “What does this mean exactly?  How is it that we are God in a body but that we don’t know we are?  Is it one of those mysterious questions that can never be answered?”

Perhaps the answer depends on how you see God, if you do.  For me, I see God as the divinity within every animate and inanimate object.  How is that possible you might inquire?  I can’t answer that. It’s simply a inner knowing as an intuitive woman of strong, non-traditional faith.  I am not a church or temple goer. I don’t profess any special powers but rather practice living from my heart.  The answer to everything seems to be in my heart center. It’s a simple formula I have created unknowingly.   My unspoken guideline is, “Would I do this, say this, be this with one of my beloved children?”  If not, I’m off. 

There seems to be a presence in our universe of unconditional love that many call God.  This presence never leaves us, although in our bodies on our planet of contrast, we often feel “alone and separated” as “A Course in Miracles” drums into our heads.

What if the choice is always a decision to act and speak from our ego-mind or from the unconditional love of our heart? If unconditional love is the pipeline to God or perhaps is God, then we are always connected.  We are given the opportunity every minute to choose to lead with love.

As much as my ego allows, I am choosing to love you not because I am magnanimous and want to overlook your faults, but rather because what you think of as faults, I see as missteps and not as you.  For me, you are God masquerading as a human being.

Yesterday I heard an interesting story from a man who had had several memorable out-of-body experiences. He shared that when he was two, he remembered seeing his body in his crib.  He was in a state of bliss above his body. His mother came to check on him and was startled to see that he wasn’t crying, his normal state of awakening from a nap.  Instead he was smiling. He heard her speak to him in a language unknown to him. What he saw was his mother wrapped in a yellow fuzzy energy that he knew was a communication of unconditional love.  He felt so loved that he can recreate that picture for himself even today at sixty.

What if this love that I am calling God, is with you always?  What if your whole purpose of being born into a physical body with all of its vulnerability, is to live your life full out, remembering with every breath that you are the creator with The Creator? 

If this is true, are you willing to live from your heart to create the life of your dreams?

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Cassie, a young woman in her thirties, emailed me that she was still grieving her mother who passed on at her birth.  Cassie is still grieving for lots of reasons, not the least because her mom grieves for her.

Her mom is still with her. Her energy is so powerful that she immediately showed me she was right next to Cassie.  She has given herself the role of a guardian angel for her daughter whom she could never hold in the flesh.  In actuality, mom is not her “official”  guardian angel, but acts like one.  Through Cassie’s life her mom has been with her as an alive mom would be. Cassie has been loved more than she knows and can imagine.

As a baby, Cassie was able to see her deceased mom, to be with her, and to know she was “real.”  She was snuggled and loved like any doting new mom might be.  But as Cassie grew and her linear thinking was enforced by those around her, she was taken care of by another woman who became her mom. What I’m seeing is that Cassie grew up in a reasonably loving home and became a healthy, positive and vibrant young woman.  Still, she always felt a little like a traitor loving someone beside her birth mom.   She felt like she had to step over her birth, because the thought of her mom dying so she could have life has never left her.

What the angels encourage her to understand, is that Cassie’s birth was the physical reason her mom died, but not the spiritual.  There are many things that happen in our lives to which we assign a meaning that has nothing to do with the truth. In our world,  all we know for sure is our physical existence.  However, this is only a small part of who we all are.  Our quantum physicists indicate that 98% of our DNA is spiritual and not physical.

Think of our third dimensional reality as a construct for life in the physical. We are taught from an early age the rules of navigating our physical world. What is possible and what is not. Both time and space are a way of organizing life, but in the spiritual world neither exist.

Cassie’s mom will continue to be her mom until Cassie no longer needs her. Cassie will reunite with her mom when it is her time to leave her body.  There is no need to worry if she will know her, because her mom will be there with her. Cassie will recognize her energy, the way the blind recognize their visitors and the way the “dead” recognize us.  They see our energy field, as distinct from each other as in the flesh.

What Cassie’s angels want her to understand is there is never too much love.  Cassie’s devotion as well as her birth mom’s devotion to her will continue.  Love does not just “make the world go ’round.” It is also is the reason for life in a body.

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Often I check on Google Alerts to see if anyone is reading my drivel.  I’ve noticed there are weekly articles on the fear of death.  The dead and I have made friends in the last eleven years.  These topics no longer frighten me. In 1999 the dead showed up in the middle of the night with a burst of blinding light right before the “turn of the century,”  2000 A.D.

Now I’ve had a solid ten plus years of the dead and me learning to talk to each other.  The dead seem to trust me more now that I am not so terrified of connecting. They show up without the early-on labor pains of 2000 – 2004.  Now I feel  safe and comfortable in their presence.  I know that the very alive dead are often delighted to reunite with us.  There are things and incidences left unspoken, that initially at least, they would like to be able to rectify.

What I’ve learned is in the timelessness of the afterlife, most of the very alive dead finally let go.  No longer does it matter to them whether you have a new lover. Or if you are thirty pounds overweight and your hips fill the chair. They don’t care. It’s not a concern.  The dead live in the spirit world where bodies no longer matter. Life is simpler minus the body and all the care it requires, all the pain it brings, along with all the hopes and dashed hopes that are carried because of our focus on the physical.

What matters in the afterlife is your level of consciousness.  With a high level, you are able to create a positive difference in many areas both on earth as well as in your dead life. With a low level, you will most likely coast until it is time to side down the birth chute and give it all another try.

Often those I read for in my practice express concern over the wishes of their deceased.  “What about my brother selling the house and running with the money?” “Where did Grandma hide all that money she stashed?” “Is Dad upset because Mom remarried? By the way, that guy is not anywhere near as nice as you Dad.”

Perhaps immediately after death Dad might be concerned. It’s my experience that there are some spirits who still hold on like they did in life. Eventually, even these spirits let go. The memory fades. They’re content and most often nonplussed by the vagaries of our alive life from the view of the spirit world.  Think of what happens to you when you go on a fabulous vacation. As you traverse at breakneck speed downhill on your new skis, are you feeling depressed because you aren’t sitting at your computer in your windowless cubicle? I hope not!

Should you be interested in connecting with your own deceased, I have some tips for you.

1.  Before you are ready to fall asleep, settle into a quiet space.  Breathe consciously but remain awake. Invoke the picture in your mind’s eye of Dad or Grandma, or whomever.  Make your wishes known and open your heart so that you are offering a loving invitation. If your intention is to tell Dad “a thing or two,” he probably won’t show up.

2.  This second step is most important. Drop a bubble of white light around you. Put yourself in the middle of a golden white sphere of light.  Moving into the astral plane when you sleep can get you in trouble, so be careful to protect yourself with the light so you don’t attract negative energies.

3.  Again, focus on the person in spirit form you are missing and allow yourself to fall asleep loving them as best you can. If you like, you may say their name out loud three times, knowing that most likely, they will show up.

4.  Sleep knowing that even if you don’t remember the first couple of times you attempt this, eventually you will succeed.  It took me a couple of years to completely forgive my mother. One day I realized that it was over. I loved her and she loved me, as much as we were able at the time.  She did the best she could as did I. Now Mom and I often enjoy each others company at night. F.y.i., she’s been dead thirty years and it took me 25 to get to this place of unconditional love.

5.  It’s a good idea to keep a pen and paper by your bed. Try not to be discouraged if you don’t remember in the morning. Keep at it, and if like me, there is a lack of forgiveness in the way, it is never too late to ask to be forgiven and to forgive. It paves the way to good health, higher consciousness and joy.

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The topic of death and dying is not among our favorite, unless you, like me, are fascinated with the unknown.  What strikes me whenever the topic of our mortality comes up, is how terrified most of us are of moving into what appears to be nothingness. Are we afraid that we will no longer exist?

What is difficult to understand from our linear, 3D (third dimensional) perspective, is the continuity of life. I don’t mean life in a body. I mean the you in your body. Your consciousness.  How you choose to live with what is given you physically. The essence of what makes you, you. This essence of you is what distinguishes you from others, not your physical attributes or lack of them.  Your essence, including  your level of consciousness, is what continues even as your body dies and returns to pure energy.

We forget when we are born into a body that is we are always alive after life.  If you think I am mumbling gibberish, look at it this way.  In our 3D life, the only alive beings and things are those who breathe. In order to breathe, you have to have a body.  When you move into your dead life, you are alive as always. You just are not breathing; you are being.

There are four differences worth mentioning between life and what we think of as non-life.

1.  In a body we live in time and space. Language and perception are filtered through our 3D reality.

2.  In life, everything unlike the physical is ethereal and thought to be “whoo-whoo.” Life on earth is about navigating through the either/or world of contrast, the world of perceived separation. This polarity encourages judgment, often misinterpreted as discernment. Life without a body is lived in a world of unconditional love. There is an awareness of Oneness.

3.  Since we do not see the dead in our physical world, we assume they are extinguished. They are not. As a Medium who resisted talking with the dead, I know first hand of which I speak. No one is dead.

Deepak Chopra, one of my favorites, talks about how we are breathing in the energy of Jesus, Buddha, Krishna as well as Hitler and Stalin. Energy continues. You are energy;  i.e., you never die. It’s impossible.

Then what are we afraid of?

We are afraid of the void. The blackness of what appears to be nothing.  In fact this nothingness is the place of all creation. What if every moment of every day we are creating our life by choice? We just don’t realize it. What if this void is what we are so terrified of when we lose our job, our family, our status.

4.  The most noticeable difference between life today and in the afterlife is today we are measured in the physical and we are rarely enough.  In our continued afterlife, we are not measured at all. We are accepted, as is, without judgment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In our dead life we live in the spiritual world of no criticism and no judgment. Imagine being accepted, even loved, in spite of what you know about yourself.

What if today you decided that, in spite of appearances to the contrary, you are blessed?  You are whole and holy, making the best of the physical life you have been given. What if you cranked this thought up a notch?  What if you decided that today will be a fabulous day, one where you will own your creator energy within, and choose to make a positive difference in someone’s life today, maybe your own?

From the world of the alive and the alive after life, I wish you peace of mind, a fullness of heart, and a joy from knowing you chose to be here now. You chose to move into this positive change of energy. It is only humankind that things of change as odious. Change is what life is about, either on this side or the other. We are all blessed and surrounded in Unconditional Love, even if in 3D we are coping with the impossible.

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“My sister, Alicia, passed away two years ago. I still have the pain, loss and guilt.  I’ve lost my purpose in life, my joy and my direction.  I just want to sleep or even die in my sleep so I won’t get up to go to work to face the day without my sister.” Elisa, Bakersfield, CA

The death of your sister  has obviously left you devastated.  Your angels are showing me that you are managing to come into a tenuous balance. You are “working” on yourself. In spite of this cry of desperation, you seem to be learning to control your mind as you move into the stillness in the center of your being. If I am incorrect, then please get yourself to some grief counseling, which is offered through hospitals and psychologists, and also online.

Your sister appears to have mastered the purpose of life. She carried an innocence that comes from looking at life and others with the freshness of a child, relaxing into whatever was happening. What you are unable to see in the physical, Elisa, is that your sister is as alive and real as she always was. Her sweetness is still with her.  What appears to be a lost for us in the physical is simply the release of the body.  She is as alive as she always was. She lives in the spirit world, complete in her wisdom and being, connected to the God Source in whatever form gives her pleasure.

Alicia has lived many lives, this time sharing her joyful exuberance before she moved back into her spirit life.  She was here only a short time to pave the way for the rest of us.  She is always with you, which I think you know. It is up to you to recreate happiness and love for yourself and others if you want to honor the life of your sister.  You can do this or you would not have been given this “opportunity.”

Your sister cannot live your life for you. It is up to you to pull yourself together to honor her by living your life to the fullest. To promote your healing,  you can share with others who have suffered like you.  In sharing your grief and glimpses of happiness, you will be able to help others who mourn and learn to walk through their grief.  You will heal and become whole again.

You will be reunited with your sister when it is your time to pass on.  Until then, it is time to learn from your sister what it means to live in the physical but not of it.

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One of the most difficult things to understand from our linear viewpoint is the “why” of premature death. A client asked, “Why did my daughter’s boyfriend have to die in a motorcycle accident?”

My angelic team, responded:

For the record, this particular young man did not “have” to die.  He was stressed and tense.  He didn’t feel sure of himself and of his capabilities. As a cover up, especially to himself, he could act sure of himself, make decisions, some reckless, to prove to himself and others that he was who he pretended to be. What made it more challenging for him was he was resistant to seeing anything except his own way.  He still had the self-centeredness of youth.  He still believed that if he pushed hard and long enough in the direction he wanted to go, he would get what he wanted. Death and dying were for someone else, certainly not him.

There is a reason that a fortunate life stretches out its years.  It takes time for us all to understand how the universe works and the best way to navigate around the obstacles.  As youths, we often think we can barrel through.  As adults, we  can take advantage of learning that introspection and solitude offer wisdom and balance. There is a time to move forward and a time to hang back and always a time to listen to one’s inner voice of reason.

For the mother who wrote in and her daughter, it is the opportunity for you each to understand that what is underneath us all is the loving divinity, no matter what the behavior.  This young man rode his bike for the unacknowledged thrill of defying death.  It is the free-fall that makes us jump out of planes, hang glide, or schuss to the bottom of the mountain as fast as we can travel. The angels say that we are testing God.  There is always a little, “I’ll show You/me what I can do!  I’m not afraid!”

In truth it is the fear of of separation, the aloneness that we all experience in life. This young man felt he had to prove himself in order to be accepted.  He used his bike as a mode of self-expression and as a way to build respect for himself and from others.

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One of our greatest gifts is choice. Alive or dead we have choice.  In our physical life we have defined our ability to choose from the narrow view of what we think is available to us. Until recently, even our scientists have been blocked by their insistence that every experiment must be duplicated exactly.  Then our quantum physicists proved that we see what we expect to see.

We identify ourselves and our options through the physical.  Our physicality defines our boundaries:  young vs. old, beautiful vs. ugly, able-bodied vs. disabled, brilliant vs. dim-witted.  Most of us don’t see beyond this.  Why?  Because we are taught to follow the rules.  Or else!

We fool ourselves into thinking our boundaries offer us protection, when in fact they create unnecessary barriers. Deliberately we block the free-flow of energy and loving between apparently different-appearing people, as well as an understanding of what other options are available to us in all parts of our life.

In our dead life, we no longer look at life through our physical eyes. We all sense each other, but the physical  most often overrules and we don’t listen to what we feel.  How many times has our heart skipped a beat because someone beautiful or handsome smiled at us?  Maybe it’s not the blessing we think.  Maybe the blessing we are searching for is what is hidden from view.  What if we listened to the whisperings of life through our heart as we do in our dead life?

In your dead-life, and you can be assured that you will have one, there is nothing physical in form. You no longer live in  time and space.  Play with me a minute and allow your mind to imagine you are you, but now you are not in a body. There is nothing physical about you. Instead you exist minus form.  You exist in what we call spirit which is not defined by how you look physically.  Instead you are defined by your ability to love and think. No longer do you have a physical heart and brain but you do have your heart’s ability to love and your brain’s mind to think.

Who are you then?  You are your heart’s definition of loving and being loved.  You are your ability to think beyond what you were taught in your physical life. In your dead-life you are given the opportunity to merge into the all-loving space of what we call God, the Universe, Source, or even the Void.  You live in your afterlife space of total acceptance.  Any judgment comes only from you about you. Exactly how you are is your inner vision of who you are.  In a body you choose daily.  Every minute. I chose twenty minutes ago to sit down and write. Already this morning  I’ve made some 50-100 unconscious and conscious choices this morning and it’s not even 10 a.m:  to get out of bed, to shower, to brush my teeth…

Suppose today you begin your physical life differently.  What if you make a choice, right now, to live in joy?  The same problems still exist. Perhaps your body feels ill, you’ve lost your job, your mate has taken off without you, your child doesn’t speak to you.  All of these issues can make you miserable. Or you can choose again.

What if today you choose to enjoy the birds in the trees? Or the rain on the window? Or the smile of a stranger? What if you think of all of these happenings as a gift? The gift of life. The gift of learning to accept the small things that make a huge difference in your quality of life.

You don’t have to wait until you die to feel loved or accepted.  The Divinity is within you, dead or alive.  He/She/It sees you as the perfection you are, no matter what you think or did yesterday

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Life is always intriguing with the dead. Here’s what happened yesterday.

A new client showed up to amuse me. She had all the usual questions and then asked about two women, both deceased. The first had a strong presence with a definite attitude. I sat up higher in my chair. My chin raised. I could feel myself looking down at my client, who turned out to be her daughter.  She was across from her, like me, and looked down on her daughter with disdain.  She seemed to have an inflated opinion of herself and expected her daughter, as well as the world in general, to kowtow to her.  Opinionated and definitely not nice, this woman was a joy for no one. She had filed for divorce when her daughter was young and her husband was awarded the divorce.  As you can imagine, mother and daughter did not have a loving relationship.

That validated, we moved on to my client’s second person, also a woman, who turned out to be her grandmother. Here’s the interesting part. I have noticed a few other times, that the dead don’t necessarily present a true picture of who they really were to the inquirer.  Grandmother showed me a woman with a big heart, loving arms, and plenty of caring to go around. I had my eyes closed as I was describing how this felt and I know I was smiling.

When I finished I asked my client if this woman was like this? “Not at all,” was her response. She was rather cold and distant.  This is not a good response for repeat business obviously, so I asked what was off. “Everything” was her answer.  It was only a few years ago where I would have slumped down in my chair.  Instead I asked a few questions and my client kept talking. She had been assigned the duty of reading over her mother’s and grandparent’s papers from their estate and had found that her grandparents were a philathropic pair. In fact they had donated large sums of money to different charities as well as had paid for my client’s private school education.

The grandmother, in her own eyes at least, was a woman who contributed to society.  She thought of herself as someone who had acted admirably with her own family and magnanimously with society as a whole. There was no room for introspection because she never allowed herself to doubt her behavior.  The money of her husband insulated her from the dirty business of everyday life.

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Life has gotten more interesting lately.  Crossing back and forth between dimensions, or what I call “crossing the dimensional line,” has become more apparent lately.  It’s usually a subtle experience, one that could easily be missed, but not always.

My dear friend Abby, who twenty years ago knew nothing about apparitions and life beyond our 3D reality, told me this morning that she had three “dreams” within the last couple of weeks that disturbed her because she couldn’t understand them.

First she saw her deceased mother, “clear as day,” standing at the foot of her bed, looking alive and well with a slight smile on her face.  Abby said, “She looked pretty good too. She always did take care of herself.” She was “so real” that Abby was a little startled. Lucky for both Abby and me, she is coming to visit next week. We’ll take a look then.

Abby and her mom were very close. Laughingly, they had made a pact before mom passed on, that mom would do her best to let her daughter know that she was still around, somewhere. Mom did that in a big way when she passed on some ten years ago.  Mom died on the east coast and when Abby returned home to San Diego, her mom was no longer in the framed photograph Abby had by her bed of the two of them. She was whited out as if a ghostly form had replaced mom in Abby’s treasured photo.

Still, seeing her mom right there in the middle of the night was not a normal experience for her. Within days of seeing mom in her bedroom, Abby saw her brother, Frank, also alive and well, standing at what was now the Starbucks of Old Souls at the foot of her bed.  Frank died young in a drowning accident.

In Abby’s third dreamlike experience, although she said she must have been dreaming but didn’t feel like it, she felt herself “lift off.” She said “I was flying,” not far from the ground, but not touching it.  These are not normal experiences for my friend and she was a little shaken.  “What could this mean?” was her very normal question.

Here are a couple of thoughts from the angels:
• Her mom and brother are trying to talk to her. Perhaps there is something they want her to know. We’ll find out next week when she visits.
• My friend is having the opportunity to prepare for her own passing one day by having the reassuring vision that these two family members, both of whom she had very strong, loving bonds, are still around.
• Since Abby has been having some minor health issues, this is a very real reassurance that life continues.
• Or maybe it’s just that our linear outlook, which we were taught is the only real life, is not all there is. What can be more real to our 3D mind than our very own clear experience of our loved ones, long since dead?

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Here’s another question from Carol, one of my favorite easy-chair philosophers.

“WHY did God create physical stuff, including humans?  You said, ‘The physical 3D world of contrast offers us the challenge to carry this love that we take for granted in the dead spirit world, into our “alive” world.’

“In other words, what is the PURPOSE for being in a body? Why come here to “learn all this stuff” when we’re supposed to already KNOW it in our “dead life?” I am gathering that our dead life is actually our birth life, the place from whence we came, and coming to earth or any other planet/dimension/environment is kind of like picking a game we wish to play.”

My personal answer is, “I dun’no.”  Here’s the angels’ version.

The purpose is so simple you don’t think of it because you’ve forgotten what it was like to be dead. In your dead life, you live the life of the honored child as long as you choose. Not spoiled, but appreciated for who you are. Loved without question. There is no earning of love because you got good marks or cleaned your room.

What if God is not what you think? What if what you call God is an energy of perfection, all-inclusive of every thing and every being, every saint and every murderer, every rose and every cow flop?  This Energy of Perfection allows you complete freedom on earth to make what appear to be terrible mistakes. He/She/It allows the freedom to create not just joy but misery, beauty as well as atrocity, brilliant discoveries as well as unintelligent drivel.

You are taught that God is all good. That God only creates good.  For you in a body, there are a myriad of choices every moment in every day that you barely notice. You are part of a circular, recycled energy.  You are made of the energy of Creation. You choose to create consciously or not, but you still create.

On your planet of contrasts, you have the opportunity to inhabit what appears to be a very slowly mutating body, from birth to old age. This is the ultimate gift and at the same time your nemesis.  The body can cause you pain, make you cry from loneliness and fear, and bring you the exquisite joy of loving and being loved.

Perhaps being in a body is God’s greatest gift, the opportunity for you to create every moment from your backpack of tricks.  What if everything in your life, from your most spectacular accomplishment to your most devastating day, is your creation?  In a body you have a chance to play God with your life. What bigger gift can there be?

Try thinking of God as “The Void.”  A place of nothingness from which everything is created. Everything is birthed from the darkness, the nothingness of everything. Every possibility. Every option you can imagine, most of which is overlooked.

To be human is the ultimate gift.  On your planet of polarities, it is hard to miss contrasting differences. At the same time there is always another opportunity to change your mind to view your life differently. The choice is the gift.

When you are in your dead life, you continue where you left off in your alive life. Or, you can throw back all your game pieces and begin again, certain you’ve figured life out this time. You will never lose your “place in line” of your spiritual awareness that opens life after life.

Life is the ultimate freedom even for those of us trapped in a body that refuses to work. The choice is the freedom and it is always yours. How you perceive your life is how you create it, whether your body can move or not, whether you can see or not, whether you can speak or not. These are “opportunities” not for the faint of heart. These options appear for those who are here to change themselves as well as the world.

One more thought. Imagine you are alive now in your dead life. You are loved, celebrated and everything you have ever wanted is already yours. How long do you think you might remain in this place before you winked out from boredom?

What if your dead life in spirit form is your energy in a state of renewal and your earth life in a body is your life of creation?

What you acknowledge as flesh and blood is simply energy. Energy never dies. It shape shifts. Some times those shapes are visible to your linear mind’s eye and sometimes not. It makes no difference. It is impossible to kill off anything or anyone. You can destroy their appearance, and apparently kill their body, but each of you continues to exist because you are made of energy. You just don’t exist in the form and shape you were in five minutes ago.

You spend your life looking for Unconditional Love again. The connection is offered spiritually, but in your culture, it is the last place anyone looks.