That same day walking back from a swim, I had another future vision where I saw us more mobile, keeping our present home based but traveling in an RV and living elsewhere part of the year. The following day, a fellow camper mentioned a metaphysical community south of Austin, Texas and I found I resonated strongly with this possibility. This revelation at our campsite helped me understand more deeply how future vision works

The Inner and Outer Workings of Future Vision

When we perceive a new timeline, we may just see a small part of it at first. This is the part we're most in resonance with. In my case, the challenges I had with my back earlier in the year prompted me to begin visualizing alternate timelines, specifically timelines where I'm fit, healthy and very mobile. As I took steps toward this timeline, I perceived my hair short. I saw my self more physically active. When I cut my hair and begin working at physical fitness, this helped me tune in the picture more clearly. When I went into the woods I entered a portal of clear seeing that was greatly expanded due to the June full moon happening in conjunction with the summer solstice. The powerful combination helping greatly expand my "future vision". Now I understand that becoming more "mobile" within my physical body is bringing me to a new place of being more "mobile" overall.

I had no idea how this new timeline would unfold, but in hindsight, I can see how reading the symbols of what was happening could have yielded some clues several months ago. The stiffness in my back I experienced in January spoke about "flexibility" and the need to create greater mobility. I focused on the physical aspect which was the most pressing, but held in awareness the likelihood of the mobility issue appearing in other areas of my life. When the time was right, the next chapter of the "mobility" storyline arrived!

Now that I have increased my awareness of new possibilities we can energized by opening to these moments of "future vision," I will begin exploring this new access point to higher consciousness. Future vision occurs in those moments when we raise our vibration to access visions of our future. The exact moments we view during these moments of future vision correspond with our present-moment focus, our intentions for the future and the degree of our openness to our field of possibilities. This is one more way in which our future creates our present moment through these glimpses of future vision. This is why we often receive only a piece of the picture. Part of our journey is in discovering the other pieces and our willingness to act and to release the creations of the past.

I will share more future visions and identity shifts as new adventures unfold.

Al Young and the Psychic Housekeeper

One day as I was taking a break from my writing, I wandered into the bookstore that adjoined the coffee shop.  It was an independent bookstore with narrow aisles and offbeat books.  On a sale table, I discovered a novel about a psychic housekeeper by a writer named Al Young. The title of the book was Seduction By Light. I had never heard of Al, but by then, I'd already begun following the word psychic around.  Even back then, I was fascinated with the notion of combining literary writing with the brave new ideas such as psychic sensitivity that had begun to visit my mind.

I took Al's book home, and then promptly got busy with other things and forgot about it.  There it  sat on my bookshelf for the better part of a year until one day sitting at my computer, I glanced up and noticed it.  By "chance," the book had gotten dislodged from the row of books on the shelf and was teetering precariously on the edge.  Suddenly Al and the psychic housekeeper came back to me.  I picked up the book and something flashed through my mind.  There was a flier on my desk about a poet reading that night. The featured poet was named Al Young.  Could it be one and the same?  I wondered.  I took Seduction By Light with me and showed up at the poetry reading.  Al was surprised to see the book, which had been out of print for some time.  We both agreed it was an odd "synchronicity" that he was a visiting professor in the university's writing department that year.

Any doubts that I’d had about psychic sensitivity were dispelled by the Al Young incident. I now knew (and perhaps more importantly, I believed) something was going on.

The Book Game

Soon afterward, I began playing the "book game" where I would ask a question, then allow myself to be led to a book on the shelf,.  I would open the book at "random" to a certain page.  The answer would always be there.

By the time the book game began, I had acquired several hundred books on spiritual and metaphysical topics, so using my books as a giant Tarot deck was a natural.  I would pick up a book, feel its vibration and some part of me just "knew" the information contained there.  Maybe "remember" would be a more accurate way to put it.

Soon I began pursuing otherworldly knowledge in a more direct way.  I knew enough to have a few dozen questions swirling around in my head at any given time.

Opening to Channel

As my finances allowed, I got readings from psychics and intuitives.  These were "professionals" that were able to answer some of my most pressing questions so I could move on to others.  In between readings with others, I began trying to answer some of these questions myself.  A perennial do-it-yourselfer, I simply emulated the processes I'd seen others use.  (Once again, it is more likely my observations of others prompted my memories of my own abilities).

Before long I was "channeling" almost every day, using a tape recorder to document the answers I received in my sessions.  The first answers were about 30% accurate, but over time as I built a belief in myself as a psychic, my "memories" of my psychic abilities became stronger and more clear. I was 50% more accurate, then 60%, then 75% and so on. (I will add here that the information I "downloaded" at that time was 100% accurate; what I was developing was my skill at interpreting and translating it).

There came a time when the readings I received from others were merely validating the answers I received on my own.  The last reading I received was several years ago.  At the beginning of the session, the psychic looked at me and said, "You're going to be doing what I'm doing."  She was right.  In fact, I had already begun to "remember" that in this lifetime I would help others through my intuitive abilities.  The last few readings I had gotten had seemed more like training sessions for doing my own readings.

Psychic Happenings and Synchronicities

Since I became a "professional" psychic, synchronicities have become an almost daily occurrence.

Last week there were two notable psychic events.  The first happened as I was out for my daily walk along the dirt road near our home.  As I was walking along, drinking in the afternoon sun, I began to daydream about a scene from a story I am working on.  In the scene, I wanted to show a childhood memory where the main character’s family realizes he is psychic.  Immediately an image of a snake popped into my mind.  It was a large copperhead, curled on a dirt road and well camouflaged among the dust and rocks.  Perfect, I decided, my character would "intuit" the snake.  In the next second, I came to a full stop and dropped my gaze to the road ahead of me. The same snake I’d just seen in my daydream lay coiled before me, enjoying the afternoon sun.  We eyed each other warily as I slowly backed away and followed a route that gave us both more space.  Walking toward home, I marveled at the magical "synchronicity" that had just occurred.

The second psychic event happened a few days after the snake encounter.  I had spent the morning writing in a bookstore (some things don’t change that much). At a certain time, I knew it was time to go run some errands.  My first stop was a copy shop where I planned to run off photocopies for a client.  As I pulled into the parking lot, an image came into my mind: I saw my client arriving while I was making the copies.  I saw myself handing her the copies.  I dismissed this as a possibility.  I’d said nothing about when and where I'd be making the copies and besides, my client was orchestrating a musical event that day.  The odds of her showing up at the copy shop seemed slim.  As I walked toward the shop, I wondered why my intuition had brought me the image in the first place.

A few minutes later, as I was finishing my copying, I looked up to see my client enter the store.  She had some last-minute copies to pick up for her event later that day. "Right on time," I thought to myself, marveling simultaneously at the part of me that wasn't surprised at all and the other part of me that was amazed.

Even after all this time, I am utterly amazed at the synchronicities and psychic happenings that rotate through my life at an increasingly dizzying speed.  One experience seems to confirm the one before it and build toward the next.  They are all intricately related in an infinitely ecstatic and expanding moment of now.

Each psychic event and synchronicity serves to remind me that developing psychic skills is more a journey of discovery than a slow process of starting from scratch.  We are all vast beings with unlimited talents and abilities we are just waking up and starting to remember.

I experienced a fascinating turn of events with a timeline shift these past few weeks.  The seeds for this shift were planted when I began to experience challenges with an old back injury.  At times, my back would be stiff and sore, to the extent it affect my daily activities.  As I began focusing on the message of this new development, I began perceiving a new timeline.  In this new timeline, I was focused on fitness and taking a more progressive approach in regenerating parts of my body in need of healing.  I have always been committed to daily exercise -- walking 2 miles every day when the weather is 45° and above, rebounding on cold and wet weather days and swimming every day in summer.  This level of activity seemed adequate in the past but as I began to receive more images from my new “fitness timeline,” it became apparent my regimen needed an upgrade.

I received images of myself working out in many ways -- dusting off my mountain bike and exploring local biking trails, getting back into yoga, practicing with some callanetics videos I’d bought but never watched, and going into some advanced and more rigorous workouts on my  rebounder.  In the visions for my new timeline, I was muscled, flexible and loving it.

My guides showed me how easy and joyful it was to move in my new and improved body, how greater amounts of life force energy would open new doorways of perception and how I would be physically able to physically accommodate more levels of my being. Suddenly I understood the message of my physical challenges.  I was being asked upgrade my physical system in order to take my spiritual development to the next level.

As I stood at this new crossroads, I could clearly see the forking directions of my options. I could choose to remain on my  present course.  I would likely continue to experience physical challenges as I tried to accommodate my ever expanding spiritual vision with a degenerating, creaking vehicle ( my body.)  From this perspective, I could see this was like undertaking a cross-country trip in a vintage automobile.

The other option was to refurbish my “vehicle” by adopting a new timeline with its accompanying super fit lifestyle.capable of upgrading and refurbishing my body. This new timeline allowed for ever greater spiritual growth and expansion that translated into new experiences, new realities and further timelines.

I chose the new timeline.  I didn't know exactly how I would navigate from my current timeline of challenges with my back to this new timeline of super fitness, but I trusted it would all happen with perfect timing.

Over the next few days, I began to observe changes.  I began noticing things I hadn’t noticed before.  Quite by accident, I discovered a yoga channel on our list of cable channels.  I began to notice the sports department at the store.  I discovered some supplements designed to help rebuild joints.  And perhaps the most startling, I woke up one morning and realized I am going to cut my hair.

This is maybe the most obvious "proof" of a full-blown timeline/identity shift.  I’ve worn my hair waist length for over 15 years and rarely have I thought about cutting it.  But this "focus self" of my new timeline had no use for all that hair and no connection to it.  In fact, my newly-discovered self helped me see how it would get in the way of a super fit lifestyle.

So it soon will be cut and donated to Locks of Love and no doubt put to good use.  In the meantime, I continue to be fascinated, amazed and mindboggled how this new timeline is teaching me who I’m becoming and helping me build the foundation for the next stage of my life within the present moment. 

-- Jim Carrey

The above quote by Jim Carrey sums up the intention of what I'm writing here. At some point in the last two years, I realized the early part of my life had been so rooted in lack, illness, scarcity consciousness and negativity that the best way to reach a state of equilibrium and clear-seeing was to allow myself to experience abundance in a variety of ways.

Spiritual vs. Material Abundance

As I improved my quality of life and upgraded my material possessions, I felt supported and validated by the positive changes I was making. A side benefit of this new level of manifesting is that I could see clearly how what we manifest is just a by-product of our inner growth and spiritual understanding. It’s possible to accumulate wealth through means other than spiritual abundance. While it may offer many attractive distractions and opportunities, material abundance without spiritual abundance is ultimately hollow, empty, depleting and even enslaving.

My arrival at this understanding came after I had finally accepted some basic tenents of the universe and began to become a conscious creator and manifester.

These basic tenents are:

-- I can create anything I want;

-- Desires come into my life quicker when they are aligned with my spiritual purpose;

-- Whatever images my imagination brings me are real and possible for me so long as I am willing to allow them;

-- I am infinitely more than a physical being;

-- Reality is much more than a concrete, physical experience;

-- Creating happens quite some time before the desired manifestation shows up in physical reality

-- Great levels of material success unaccompanied by great levels of spiritual understanding can result in devastating inner poverty and servitude

As I integrated these tenents into my life, I began to heal lifelong physical challenges, lifelong emotional turmoil, mental confusion, fog resulting from both, and the most destructive of all, old core beliefs fueling a perception that my spiritual connection existed somewhere outside myself. From this perspective, every thing I dreamed of was completely beyond my reach: health, unconditional love and the resources to support my dreams.

From my new perspective, I found that everything I’d ever dreamed of was possible. My dreams included what most people want deep down: a meaningful, fulfilled existence; knowing, understanding, loving and honoring myself; communion and connection with others who love and honor themselves – in essence, a mutual support network instead of the more prevalent template of a mutual enabling and manipulation network.

Adventures in Abundance and Manifesting

The changes I’m describing began to take root after I decided to take the “risk” of living my life in a way that made sense to me – essentially, I chose to begin living my life in a way that fed my spirit. I chose to trust that as I did this, all that I needed would arrive in my life.

As I chose this path, pictures and visions started to arrive. I took one step, then the next was revealed. “Things” I'd wanted in the past showed up. Some of them were no longer relevant. After awhile, I sifted through the "backlog" and began manifesting things that I’d wanted in more recent times. Resources, information and ideas arrived. Whenever I asked for something, I received a set of instructions on how to bring it into my life. I kept a "manifestation box" where I placed desires written on slips of paper. Over time, many of these requests arrived in my life.

In the past, I might have judged myself for exploring abundance in purely physical ways. However, my new “abundance of vision” helped me to see that, given my own unique personal history, the quickest way to step into an abundance of spirit was to allow myself to experience abundance in many different ways. By experiencing abundance in all its various forms, I was able to discern the difference between qualities and levels of abundance. I could see that when we arrive at the ultimate level of abundance -- abundance of spiritual alignment - we are able to perceive the real “secret.”

Start Where You Are – Without Judgment

The key is to start where you are. If you need to energize the place where you are abundant in a material sense, begin there. If you need to manifest health and well-being, begin there. If you are seeking a soul mate relationship, begin there. Start wherever you are. If you persist in manifesting your dreams and desires, sooner or later you will arrive in a place of clear-seeing where your vision expands beyond physical, material reality.

After awhile, I reached the point where I realized things are fun, but their satisfaction is fleeting. I began focusing on bringing into my life those things that helped me carry out my purpose. Then my dreams expanded. I wanted to live in a holistic world founded on principles of peace and love.

Obviously, we can’t mandate or require others to adopt this same desire. We can only do what feels right to us and share the results of our adventures in consciousness with kindred and like-minded souls just as I’m doing here.

In my own case, I began to suspect there was a further shortcut - to just be the “me” who’s loved, fulfilled, abundant, healthy and living my dreams. I began to see how I could energize the timeline where this is a reality by becoming the version of me who is all this. The version of me lives in a world founded on principles of love and peace.

This is my project for 2008, to become that version of me who has the abundance of spiritual connection from which all else flows.

Invitation to Abundance

I invite all of you to join me in this Abundance Project. Over the next few months, I will continue to post my experiences. I invite you to share yours as well. As more people take the shortcut of energizing the timeline where they are completely abundant and be-ing all they desire, we will begin healing the world one person at a time. It is in this place where you will find the true essence of what you have been seeking throughout time.

There is still one very dearly held dream I’ve yet to realize: writing a novel. I've made numerous starts over the course of my life, but the actual completion has eluded me.

While the type of novel has changed over the years -- I now see a "visionary novel" based on concepts from my channeled writings -- the essence is the same -- a work of fiction. Reality creation at its best is the creation of an entire world that plays as vividly as a movie in the mind.

This year I’ve vowed to make the novel a reality. Instead of slogging through the old methods of novel creation that have stymied my creativity in the past, I decided to try something new: energizing the timeline where the story is complete and adopting the identity self of the book's creator. I then write from the perspective of one who has already created the story and knows well both the story and the steps of its creation.

I had no idea how this might work. But I have faith in the timeline technique and in my desire and ability to create. So I began. I saw myself as the person who has completed the book. I began to act as this person. I found myself thinking, "Now that it's finished, I'll want to design an interesting cover." That caught my attention because it was the moment when I realized I had completely stepped into this new identity. I understand now why and how actors enter the identity of the person they will create on the screen.

Soon afterward, my complete identity shift was underscored by a dream where I received the entire story for the novel, including its title. I even received a sequel to the original story and its title. When I woke the next day, I knew my reality had changed forever. I was now a novelist.

I also knew something I had long suspected: our visions manifest magically when we get out of the way and allow them to come into our physical reality.

What would have otherwise taken me months and possibly years to slog through was downloaded into my consciousness in a single dream. All that was necessary on my part to facilitate this was to set the intention, energize the timeline where my dream was already a reality and begin to act from the identity self of that timeline. The universe in its magical, mystical way held up its end of the bargain and brought me everything I was seeking and more.

Of course, now I have a bit of work to do, translating my dream and downloading it onto paper. But it’s a labor of love replete with the added joy of collaborating with spirit, allowing creations to happen easily and effortlessly!

The more I explore timeline shifts, the more excited I become. A timeline shift involves perceiving/imagining/sensing/feeling/visualizing the realities you choose and then energizing those realities by connecting with their feeling state. Once this is done, you then go about your business with a knowing, trusting and acceptance that this reality is already a part of you. You may look around you and observe the realities of the past, but you know that within you, you have made the shift to a new timeline. There is a built-in "lag time" between an inner reality shift and its appearance in physical reality. This is why the new reality you've adopted takes some time to appear in your physical reality.

Once we've made the shift within ourselves, that's all that matters. The new reality is a done deal. As long as we can remain calm and knowing about this, sooner or later our inner and physical realities will align. If we allow ourselves to get caught up in thoughts of doubt, we undermine this alignment.

The Timeline Shift Theory

The Timeline Shift Theory says that an infinite number of timelines exist within our energetic field. Because these realities are already in existence, all we have to do is to perceive the timeline we prefer and shift to it by adopting the focus self that belongs to the timeline of our new identity. The timeline shift technique doesn't require us to create a new reality from whole cloth. If we can imagine/perceive/sense this new reality, it already exists.

If we are overly identified with physical reality (the what-you-see-is-all-there-is perspective) using this technique is akin to bending over backwards and touching your nose to your toes. Just as we would have to develop an amazing level of physical flexibility to achieve this yogic feat, we must develop a masterful level of inner flexibility to consciously release our present moment identity or focus self. This is truly stepping into the unknown. When we adopt a new focus self identity we’re creating wholesale change at the quantum level. We don't know ahead of time all the large and small changes the shift will bring. It requires surrendering our old identities, letting go of the death grip control we have on our present reality and going along for an amazing ride into a new reality unfolding moment by moment.

Potential Stumbling Blocks

As I began working with energizing timelines, I began to identify some of the potential stumbling blocks. In my case, I realized parts of myself held reservations about this seemingly magical technique. One part of me felt it was too easy. I recognized this as a part of myself that had been indoctrinated early on in the idea that life is hard. With this belief in place, it’s hard for me to accept that life can happen easily and effortlessly. I have begun working with the part of me still invested in this belief. The new belief I'm adopting in its place is that new realities can happen easily and effortlessly - as long as they are aligned with my spiritual purpose. I'll return to spiritual purpose in a moment.

Another part of me wants everything to be measurable from a physical, scientific perspective. This part of me expected the timeline shift to be physically visible the moment it was made.

If I’m energizing a timeline where I’m living in New York City , for example, this part of me expects me to suddenly be there the moment I’ve made the internal shift. Due to the "lagtime" I mentioned above, this is unlikely to be the case.

It’s important to keep in mind that physical reality is only the toenail of our existence. The way realities manifest on Earth at this time, it will almost always lag behind the reconfiguration of inner reality. In addition, when we refer to physical reality to see if the shift has occurred, this is once more working in reverse and taking our clues about reality from the physical. If the shift has been made within us, then it has been made, regardless of what our external reality is saying at the moment.

Now that I'm aware part of me holds this these expectations, I can begin to work with them. One way I'm transforming them is to get this part of myself to agree to the fact that I can intuitively perceive the shift as soon as it occurs. This effectively changes the instrument of measurement from the physical reality to the intuitive perception of the shift.

To me this makes perfect sense. If our perceptual skills are finely tuned, we are able to recognize that, while physical reality still looks the same, we have shifted to a different timeline. From this moment on, we will make decisions from the perspective of our new identity self. Because these new choices carry us along a different timeline, we will have different experiences in this timeline. Our vibration is different along this timeline. We magnetize to us different people and possibilities along this timeline. By shifting to this new timeline, we have effectively transformed our destiny.

Another possible stumbling block is to hold onto unresolved energy around the old timeline. If you’re holding onto negative emotions about the old timeline -- or if you’re seeking to escape from some aspect of it -- this can bind you to the old reality until it is released. It’s next to impossible to release what we resist.

Once we’ve visited any possible stumbling blocks, we’re ready to begin the timeline shift process.

The Timeline Shift Process

The first step is to choose a reality you want to shift to. You most like have given a great deal of thought to how you would like to change your present reality. Call up these images now of your ideal reality and fill in the details.

In a quiet meditative state, align with the timeline reality that you have chosen. Allow your self to be filled with this reality. See it. Feel it. Look at the world from the perspective of this self who is experiencing this timeline. From this point on, act from this self’s perspective. This is not "acting as if" or "seeing" your self in this reality, which would imply you’re still outside it. It’s important to completely align with the new identity.

After you have shifted to this new timeline and are completely aligned with it, having adopted it as your new identity, open your eyes and look around you. Yes, you’re seeing the same physical reality you saw before closing your eyes. But if you’ve done the timeline shift process correctly, you’re looking at the old reality with new eyes -- the eyes of the new focus self. From this point on, you will begin making choices and acting from the perspective of this new focus self and its timeline.

If you feel you were not successful in making the shift to the new timeline, you may want to revisit the list of potential stumbling blocks and see if any of these are interfering with your purpose.

Timeline Shifts and Spiritual Purpose

Earlier I mentioned spiritual purpose. I want to close with a few words on its significance in making timeline shifts. It’s been my own experience that moving to a new timeline that’s aligned with my spiritual purpose is much easier than moving to a timeline that is less aligned. Many of us hold the intention to always be moving toward fulfilling our spiritual purpose. From this perspective, trying to energize a timeline not aligned with our spiritual purpose would be like trying to drive a car with the brakes on!

May the shift be with you.

There's a feeling at the beginning of a new year that it's possible to step free of what we're ready to leave behind and begin to create anew. The result of this is that many people are starting diets, new exercise workouts and taking steps to make all their dreams not yet realized a reality.

This is all well and good. A new year does have that "clean slate" feeling. We can choose to wake up every morning of 2008, step into a clean slate and create anew with the motivated enthusiasm of that first week in January. This is my goal this year, and I will share my insights along the way, offering snapshots of my renewed efforts to create the best year ever.

Another technique I plan to use daily is what I call timeline shifts. I consider this a shortcut (no one ever said it has to the hard) to manifesting in reality creation.

Timeline shifts are based on the "parallel universes" theory. When applied to our daily life, we can extend the parallel universe theory to the parallel realities theory. This theory states that an infinite number of variations of our present reality exist in parallel energetic dimensions. In parallel realities, I am all the things I've ever imagined becoming: a novelist, belly dancer, poet laureate, world traveler, fitness aficionado, mountain climber, and much more. In order to draw any of these realities already in existence into my present focus reality, all I need do is begin focusing on it, harmonizing with it, and setting my intentions to make that a central part of my present reality.

This method of creating feels more aligned with the Law of Attraction than some of the older methods of manifesting. For one thing, it sees the desired reality as already in existence, not something that must be developed from scratch. It also sees the desired reality as something that is already a part of me. It is already the reality of a "me" that exists in a parallel dimension.

To me, this is a more effective technique than seeing my desired creation or reality as something not yet in existence, or not yet part of me. It is already a living reality that needs only the nurturing light of my intention and attention to come into energetic resonance with my present moment.

I have a number of experiments in mind to explore the parallel realities technique in this coming year. I will share here in this journal the progress and results over the coming year. Feel free to share your own experiences at the end of these posts or in the "share your thoughts" section of this web site.

It is possible to walk through life seeing very little of what is there all around us - visible and invisible. It is also possible to awaken and begin to see more of what is around us physically, and to see with our inner eyes that which is invisible to the physical senses. That's what happened to me in 1999 around the time of the winter solstice. I was suddenly able to see and sense realms of such joy and peace that I was thrown into a tailspin. It was like shining a flashlight into a dark room and seeing all the cobwebs and junk that have been hidden. Now all of it had been brought to awareness and needed to be addressed. I began to see all my experiences in a different light. Sometimes I would go into overwhelm, sometimes I felt ecstatic. At other times, I was depressed at all the weeks and months and years I had seemingly "wasted" slogging through illness, negative emotions and scarcity consciousness. In time, I was able to release my feelings of depression and come into place of gratitude and acceptance for all my experiences. It was then I was able to receive the gifts they offered.

I found that even the darkest seed of suffering has the capacity to unfold the flowers of a joyful spring; that a true renaissance of the spirit is possible when we come into mastery by allowing ourselves to experience all octaves along the spectrum of life experience.

As I moved further into this renaissance of spirit, I was able to raise my vibration to align more with my higher self, which is always in communion with our oversoul, the organizing entity for our orchestra of selves. These selves incarnated in various timeframe dimensions cumulatively comprise the gifts and knowledge of our soul throughout time. As I began tapping into this rich treasure trove of knowledge and understanding, I received tremendous downloads that I have, in the last couple years begun to organize into the channeled messages contained on this web site and in my book, Portals of Spirit, which will be complete early in 2008.

There's much more to come. The downloads keep arriving. I continue to translate and share them and I look forward to sharing with you here in time. It is a joy and a pleasure!