This process of  acknowledging these milestones of completion amid feelings of sadness and loss allows me to turn once more my full attention to the windshield of the horizon and what is appearing there.

When the remnants of Hurricane Ike knocked down trees and outbuildings on our property in September 2008, we knew things were going to be different for awhile.  There was the cleanup and the construction of the new building to deal with.  It kept us busy for months and months.  In the back of my mind, I was thinking that once this is done, we will be able to get "back" to what we were doing before the storm.

The great cosmic joke is to ever think we can get "back" to another point in time.  Who was the person who said you can't jump into the same river twice?  A wise person, no doubt.

In December 2009, I finished the first phase of the interior of the building and set it aside.  Immediately, I began to anticipate getting “back” to the point where we were pre-storm, pre-construction. 

By this point, nearly 16 months had passed. I soon realized that unless I could figure out a way to build a time travel machine, I would not be going "back."

The only way was to move forward in my own consciousness.  I could re-energize realities that were in place in 2008, but the experience would be different because I was no longer in the same place in consciousness.  No doubt, some realities I would re-energize and I have.  The things that were still relevant I picked up and moved on with.

But what of the essence of the past that was lost?  How do we deal with the skins we shed as we move into new and different futures?  This is a question we’re all facing more and more - those of us who are cultivating and creating conscious change in our lives.  At each juncture we can take a moment -- a long moment -- however much time we need -- to mourn what is being left behind, what is no more and will never be again.

I have arrived at the place of mourning. Each day I sit in gratitude for all that has been.  I love and release what is leaving my life. This allows me to open to the new and welcome daily all that it brings.

I'm thankful for all that was in my life as the calendar clicked into September 2008.  I'm thankful all for all that has happened since.  As I turn to face what promises to be the most transformative period of my life, all these past timeframes fade from my rearview mirror.

Now I bring my full attention to the energies of Summer of 2010.  I listen within to the messages I receive.  I interpret the symbols that show up.  I open to each moment as it arrives and I release each moment as it passes. There is only now, only this moment beaconing to us through the windshield of our next horizon. 

Channeling or whatever term we will use to describe the skill of “universal access” will someday be accepted as a process as natural as breathing. In fact, it already is, but at present many subscribe to belief systems that block this ability from their reality. Like anything else, it's a skill that must be accepted and developed. This book offers steps you can take to cultivate, nurture and develop this skill. Even if your belief system can't yet embrace the concept of channeling, you'll find exercises here such as automatic writing, dream work and interpreting the symbols of your waking life valuable in sharpening your ability to receive intuitive guidance. Over time, the guidance that comes through will help you build a belief in your own abilities and subsequently transform the course of your life.

Excerpt from Channeling into the Next Dimension: A Handbook for Opening Your Psychic Senses by DL Zeta & Peter Phalam

From the Journals of DL Zeta

On Sunday, January 26, we had a solar eclipse in Aquarius. In the weeks prior to the eclipse, the event kept filtering into my consciousness. I knew my intuition was trying to flag my attention, but I couldn't devote much mind space to it due to the increasing buzz about an impending ice storm. My time was consumed with buying supplies, doing laundry and preparing for a possible power outage. In the chaos of preparing for the impending storm, I overlooked the fact that we’d had an eclipse in Aquarius just before Hurricane Ike swept through here in September.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. First I want to talk about the ice storm.

The Ghost of Ice Storms Past

The night before the ice storm began, I revisited my memories of the last major ice storm we had here on December 25, 2000. That storm began early Christmas morning. Iced in alone and without electricity throughout the holiday and for the next few days, I began to experience a "timeline bleedthrough" in which I received the vision for a new way of being that included possibilities beyond anything I had imagined. To make this shift, I needed to clear out emotional "static" -- old fears and programming from the past. Synchronistically, that ice storm provided me with the opportunity to confront emotional trepidation around holidays and severe weather - particularly icy weather. It allowed me to face fears of isolation, particularly in a desolate environment, and ultimately, physical death. These were all deep, primal fears dredged up from the suffering well of collective consciousness.

What happened that icy December in 2000 amounted to a dark night of the soul that allowed me to "rebirth" my consciousness and awaken to the wealth of assistance available in the realm of the “unseen” -- the realm of spirit.

Nine years later, my memories of that time are cast in a glow of appreciation and gratitude for the life-changing rite of passage the storm afforded me. I'm grateful and blessed each day by the emotional freedom, inner strength and spiritual connection I’ve begun allowing into my life in the years since that time of ice.

As the ice storm of January 2009 bore down, I doubted it would have anything approaching the impact of that storm in 2000. I was pretty certain the same circumstance wouldn't wield the same power.

One thing I haven’t mentioned is that there was an eclipse the day of the December 2000 ice storm. I didn’t know it in 2000. In fact, it’s something I found out nine years after the fact. We’ll come back to that in Part 3.

The Ice Storm of 2009

The morning of January 28, I woke to the sound of ice on the roof. A light rain the night before had turned to sleet and freezing rain. I woke the moment the electric grid went down. At first, I experienced an inevitable resistance, impatience and bristling against the inconvenience. But this all quickly turned to awe and dread of the powerful forces of nature. For the second time in just over four months, I felt myself in the sharp teeth of clashing energies.

In the Wake of Hurricane Ike

It in the four months since Hurricane Ike swept through on September 13, leaving a trail devastation in its path, I have found blessings and healing.

I know everything that’s happened has been in accordance with divine perfection. In the months before the storm, I began receiving visions of a new living space that would allow us to grow and expand in ways that are aligned with our spiritual purpose. Inside the space there would be a greenhouse where Peter could grow vegetables and herbs year round. There would be a sound-proof audiovisual room where we could create CDs and DVDs for the ever-growing number of people we work with. There would be an exercise room where we could focus on fitness, even in the coldest part of winter. There would be an area for a hot tub and massage table for relaxation and renewal, a garage to house our cars, and a writer's loft, a space for inner listening and writing. By July of last year, I was making drawings and mapping out the design of the building, not knowing how and when this building would come to be.

The morning after Hurricane Ike brought the two largest trees on our property down onto our carport and shed, I stood in the carnage feeling the weight of the loss. Amid it all, a strong, clear voice said “Now we build.” Three days after the hurricane, we bought a steel building online and began the cleanup and foundation work to bring the vision of our building into being. Every step we took - from dirt work to foundation to erecting the building and putting up interior walls - brought a healing and renewal. As the New Year began, I found myself in a place of peace and gratitude.

Even as the dust settled in the wake of Hurricane Ike, a new event was brewing on the horizon. There is no doubt we are entering new and more intense weather patterns. Some attribute it to shifting energies preparing the way for 2012. Some say it is global warming. One thing I’m certain of. Each experience we undergo contains a message. To receive the message, we must embrace the experience, open to its message and receive it with an open heart and mind. I call this process “surrendering to the storm.”

Next: Messages of the Ice, Part 2 Surrendering to the Storm

Messages of the Ice, Part 2

Surrendering to the Storm

The January 2009 ice storm lasted over 36 hours. By the end of the first day, I found myself in a familiar yet uncomfortable emotional space. As I stood under the eve of my house listening to trees snapping under the weight of heavy ice, I realized I was still holding emotional energy around the devastation of Hurricane Ike. It wasn't the carnage that still held me. It was the brute force of the weather system, the power of it. The deadly potential of it. The knowing that once it landed at my door, there was no going back, no escape. I could take steps to protect myself. I could get to the safest place I could reach, but beyond that, I was a passenger on the speeding train of the storm's fury. That is the point when you recognize the only course is to surrender to the storm.

It was this kernel of surrender to the forces of nature with both the hurricane and the ice storm that brought me face-to-face with the specter of death. Both events were deadly. Large numbers of people passed over. Animals died. Trees collapsed. The entire natural world fractured. As the ice storm bore down, there was little time to contemplate the bigger questions. This took back seat to immediate survival issues.

The Challenges of Ice

If Hurricane Ike opened a wound, the ice storm was salt poured into the wound. In the first days of the ice storm, hundreds of trees and limbs tumbled onto the ground from the weight of the ice. Our mile-long dirt road became impassable - in some places, stacked 4 ft. high with fallen timbers. Peter joined with several men from our neighborhood who risked life and limb to clear a path through the debris-strewn road. They sawed and lifted and tussled with broken trees even as other trees and ice-encrusted limbs toppled around them. This was just to create emergency access to the outside world. Driving the ice-covered road was still treacherous. Trees were falling. Large branches dangled precariously by thin strands. Tangled conglomerations of broken trees leaned overhead.

I joined a group of women who took food and water to a near-frozen dog an absentee neighbor had left in a pen. As we dodged falling branches and missile-like shards of ice, we watched a tree come down on a row of mailboxes. That night as I wrote in my journal by candlelight, I contemplated how easy it is to depart this life under such circumstances. Any injury in combination with an impassable road is a recipe for life's final flicker. Certainly our battery-powered radio was bringing news each day of those who had skidded on icy roads, been hit on the head by fallen limbs or frozen inside unheated houses.

Physical Death is a Subconscious Decision

My inner questioning as always brought answers. Physical death, I was shown, is not a matter of weather events. It's not a matter of an opportunistic disease or a life-consuming systemic infection. Physical death is not a car accident, a crashed plane or any other disaster. Physical death is a decision made at a very deep level of our being. The events that swirl around us each moment are doorways and opportunities for one to execute the decision to pass over from the realm of the physical to the realm of spirit, but they aren't the determining factor. This explains why people survive circumstances that seem insurmountable.

I could see how at the root my discomfort with Hurricane Ike and the ice storms of 2000 and 2009 was this question: will I leave or will I stay? Each time I've asked this question I've chosen to renew my contract here. Underneath it all -- regardless of what life has delivered to my door -- each time I have held fast to my sense of purpose and my mission for being here. Each decision to stay in the game of Earth school has brought me into deeper affirmation of my purpose to become a vehicle for spirit on Earth. Each decision has helped me come to a deeper love and nurturing of my human self and all its frailties and foibles. Each decision has helped me see through the illusory surface of reality to the deeper meanings beneath. In this deeper reality, we are all one and the same: spirit in search of experience.

The Passing of a Poet

One evening as I was writing by candlelight, an image of a poet friend came into my mind. She is a strong woman of courage who taught me years ago that the most powerful images in poetry and in life are found on the jagged edge of the precipice between worlds. It wasn't until the roads cleared and I was able to travel into town that I learned she had passed during the ice storm. She had battled lung cancer for over a year. Based on what had been coming to me during the storm, I knew she had chosen her time to depart this plane, flying into the further realms on the strong wings of the storm.

Like many poets, Brenda danced with otherworldly visions:

“We should all be naked for this.

Gates of the prisons opened.

A flood of spirit pulsing

through the streets – like blood loosed

from the heart.

We should all be naked unbound angels,

no robes to tangle in rapid feet, in

criss-crossed legs.”

(“Naked,” Brenda Moossy)

The Ice Storm's Message

After renewing my contract here, I began asking about the deeper purpose of the ice storm and grid outage. I was reminded of how we are better able to undergo guide changes during times when the electrical grid is down. This happened during the ice storm and accompanying electrical outage of December 2000, and I sensed it was happening again during this latest outage. I could also see how this outage was a time of rest, reflection, redirection and coming into the new level of consciousness that our new building symbolized. (In dream symbols, new construction is symbolic of a new level of consciousness we're "building toward.")

As soon as I came into the true message and meaning of the storm, the heavy mood of resistance lifted. Synchronistically, temperatures warmed. The road melted. Trees dropped the last of their ice. We drove into town for supplies.

That weekend, Peter and I got out the lawn chairs and enjoyed some 60-degree sunshine out on our front deck while the last of the icicles melted off the shady side of our new building. We joked we were "camping at home" using the house in lieu of a tent. Everything else was the same -- ice chests for refrigeration, candles, flashlights, battery-powered everything. Some neighbors with electric cook stoves were even cooking outside on barbecue grills. The sound of neighbors' gas-powered generators provided the background for the surreal scene.

Next: Part 3: The Connection Between Eclipses and Weather Events

The night of January 27, 2009, a 36-hour ice storm began that knocked down trees
and power lines and left much of our northwest corner of Arkansas without
electricity for over a week. During the power outage, I fell into a nightly
practice of reading by the light of a battery-powered light. Before long my
attention returned to the subject my intuition had been beckoning me toward
prior to the ice storm: eclipses. I was directed to a book I'd serendipitously
purchased the year before: Eclipses by Celeste Teal. Once I began to digest the
information in this book, my guides were able to reveal to me the deeper meaning
of the weather events of the past year.

On August 16, 2008, there was a lunar eclipse in Aquarius. The "air" eclipse
happened less than a month before Hurricane Ike came ashore in mid-September and worked its way north from the devastation of Galveston to the Arkansas Ozarks
and points beyond. Just prior to the ice storm of January 28, 2009, there was a
solar eclipse on January 26, once more in Aquarius.

In the book Eclipses, Celeste Teal writes that the earliest astrologers regarded
the zodiac sign of an eclipse as symbolic of the nature of the events "coming
due." An eclipse that took place in one of the three fire signs was symbolic of
wars and terrible slaughters: in Earth signs, of barrenness, scarcities,
droughts and earthquakes; in air signs, of wind and storm; and in water signs,
of heavy rains and floods.

This is a generalized guideline of possibilities. Certainly each eclipse is
unique for the time in which it occurs. However, I can't overlook the apparent
connection between the Aquarian (air) eclipse of August 16, 2008 and Hurricane
Ike, or the Aquarian solar eclipse of January 26, 2009 and the ice storm that
followed right on its heels. In a synopsis of the January 26 solar eclipse,
"turbulent weather" is listed as a possibility. As I learned more about these
apparent connections, I realized the intuitive hunches I'd been receiving for
studying eclipses were helping me understand more about the connection between
solar and lunar eclipses and world events and conditions.

Some Eclipse Basics

Before I go further, I want to provide some eclipse basics. Teal's book lists
in its bibliography another excellent book, Interpreting the Eclipses by Robert
Carl Jansky. It was in his book I found some simple explanations of eclipses.

A solar eclipse:
*is a conjunction of the sun and moon
*can only occur at the time of a new moon

A lunar eclipse:
*is an opposition of the sun and moon
*can only occur at the time of the full moon
*can only occur approximately 14 days before or 14 days after a solar eclipse

Both solar and lunar eclipses have effects upon the Earth's electromagnetic
field that can be scientifically measured. Both occur in cycles that can be
accurately predicted.

As I've come to understand it, an eclipse shows a place of "stored up" or
unresolved energy. As such, an eclipse offers a window of opportunity to address
a situation or condition. Each of us is plugged into these cosmic energy flows,
which can be harnessed constructively to achieve our personal aims. Even when
an occasional eclipse triggers changes we would prefer not to undergo, there is
an important learning experience and an opportunity for growth. By examining
it, you can come to a better understanding and work with the flow.

Eclipses as Rites of Passage

I mentioned in part one of this series that I'd experienced a major turning
point on Dec. 25, 2000, when iced in alone over the holiday. On that day there
was a solar eclipse in Capricorn (earth), which is ruled by Saturn. Saturn is
generally associated with energetic cleansing and clearing. The influence of
that December 2000 eclipse extended into 2005. During that five-year period, I
underwent daily clearings that allowed me to step into ever greater levels of
clarity, emotional freedom and spiritual communion. For me, the eclipse and ice
storm of 2000 were rites of passage that allowed me to create a major timeline
and identity shift. For more on timeline and identity shifts, see my e-book,
Portals of Spirit: Multidimensional Doorways for Healing and Transformation,
http://celestialvision.squarespace.com/the-portals-of-spirit-ebook-by/

Eclipses as Indicators for Physical Death

The connection between eclipses and personal and world events doesn't stop with
weather. Physical death can also be predicted when our natal astrology charts
are impacted by an eclipse. This can come into play when there's a closing
transit of Saturn to an eclipse on the nadir or fourth house cusp in a person's
astrology chart. Two notable examples are famous astrologer Grant Lewi, who
recognized the shape of his own planetary alignments and took out a life
insurance policy just before he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The energy of an
eclipse can extend for a period of up to five years or more. This was seen with
Jim Morrison of the Doors who died when Saturn eventually transited an eclipse
that fell on his nadir five years earlier.

Although I haven't studied their charts for this indicator, I did have two
friends who passed after the two most recent eclipses -- one passed three weeks
after the August 16, 2008 lunar eclipse, and another passed January 28, just two
days after the January 26, 2009 solar eclipse.

Eclipses and Relationships

Teal's book contains information about eclipses dating from 1900 to 2050.
Looking back over the timing of eclipses throughout my life, I found an
interesting pattern: all my major relationships began a month or so prior to an
eclipse. One theory I have about this is that I tend to sense the energy of an
eclipse for a few weeks before the actual event. It may be that the "shake up"
created by the energies of an impending eclipse creates sufficient chaos in my
life for major changes to take place. I'm sure as I study further, I may see
connections between the astrological makeup of the people entering my life and
the energetic influences of the eclipses that occurred before or after their
arrival.

This is only scratching the surface of the connection between relationships and
eclipses. In her book, Teal writes that special karmic relationships may be
shown with those people whose sun matches the sign of one of your natal eclipses
(within plus or minus 3 degrees of the conjunction or opposition). Your
feelings toward these people may be intensified by their connection to your
growth and evolutionary progress during this lifetime. You may feel a sense of
spiritual connection with them.

The Influence of Prenatal Eclipses

It's generally thought that the last solar eclipse before our birth activates
the essence of our soul. Some astrologers believe the prenatal solar eclipse
indicates the actual time the spirit enters the unborn child's body. It's also
believed that the prenatal lunar eclipse is the mechanism that seals off
memories of past lives. That is because the moon is considered to be the planet
of accumulated lifetimes. Since the full influence of an eclipse can take four
years or longer to complete, this would explain why young children sometimes
have an awareness of previous lives that eventually fades and completely
disappears before age seven.

Eclipses and Our Natal Astrology

I don't want to imply here that I believe eclipses always trigger "negative"
events. Celeste Teal writes in her book that a lunar eclipse on her natal
Jupiter in 1996 resulted in the completion and publishing of a book. Jupiter is
the planetary ruler of Sagittarius, which is linked to things such as
publishing. The project was clenched when two weeks following the lunar
eclipse, a solar eclipse fell on her natal Neptune and "inspiration flowed." In
this way, an eclipse is about the culminating of something in which we've
invested time and energy.

Upcoming Eclipses and 2009 Weather Potentials

On July 7, 2009, there is a lunar eclipse in Capricorn (earth) that "highlights
national concerns."

On July 21, 2009, there is a solar eclipse in Cancer (water) with the theme
"desire for reforms."

On August 5, 2009, there is a lunar eclipse in Aquarius (air) focused on
"humanitarian deeds."

On December 31, 2009, there is a lunar eclipse in Cancer (water) with the theme
"burdens and sorrows."

It will be interesting to see if the indicators the ancient astrologers used to
predict weather via eclipses hold true for this year's remaining eclipses. If
they do, we could experience droughts through most of July influenced by the
July 7 lunar eclipse in the earth sign Capricorn. This eclipse could also usher
in Saturn-based clearings since Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. After the
Cancer-influenced solar eclipse the end of July, there could be floods that end
the droughts. And hold onto your hats (yes, literally) as there is yet another
Aquarian (air) eclipse in early August that could give rise to hurricanes and
other intense storms. The focus on humanitarian deeds during the influence of
this eclipse could center on relief efforts to areas most affected by turbulent
storms beginning in early August. The lunar eclipse in Cancer on New Year's Eve
could signal the beginning of a rainy 2010 with flooding in some areas or other
overwhelming life experiences as symbolized by flooding.

I want to thank all of you for sharing in this journey and for your patience, encouragement and understanding these recent weeks as we struggled to realign ourselves, allowing chaos to unravel the old so the new could more fully crystallize.

Today I am beginning my new series titled Accessing Fifth-Dimensional Consciousness, which originally took shape a year ago under the title Entering the Portal of Earth's Future History. This new series has taken on new name and shift in focus to incorporate my visions and experiences of the past several weeks.

Love and Blessings
Deborah

The camera is a good device to illustrate the rapid acceleration of change in inner technology many are experiencing. Not too long ago -- 10 or 15 years -- cameras didn't change that quickly. There were advancements here and there, but a basic 35mm camera didn't change much from year-to-year. Now a state-of-the-art digital camera is pretty much obsolete within a year. This can be compared with how rapidly our "inner technologies" are advancing.

As Light Warriors and Lightworkers, we are used to downloading our next assignment and proceeding at a certain pace toward its completion. For the most part, we have relied on books, teachers and life school to provide us with the tools needed to fulfill those assignments. We are now receiving visions that require us to expand our understanding of new technology in the physical world. This understanding helps us engage our rapidly-expanding repertoire of inner technologies.

Expanding our aptitude of these inner and outer advancements in technology often requires our ego to come into a place of surrender more quickly than ever before. Part of this surrender may be releasing our resistance to learning new technologies in the physical world. When we say things like “I’m unable to use a computer,” or “I don’t know how to download a file,” or “Digital cameras are too complicated,” we are shutting ourselves off from activating important new inner technologies. These inner technologies allow us to step quickly into the movement toward ascension consciousness.

The Ego’s True Role in Spiritual Evolution

This brings us to an important point about the ego's true role in our spiritual growth and expansion. Many people have mistakenly granted their ego way too much authority and power in managing their spiritual growth. They do this by allowing the ego to decide what spiritual guidance it will follow. When following guidance, many choose the “path of most convenience,” preferring not to challenge their current skill level or cause their ego discomfort by taking risks and attempting new and unfamiliar things. In some cases, the ego even attempts to “micro-manage” or revise downloads of guidance to suit its present comfort levels. This results in slow spiritual development and even stagnation.

The ego’s true role in carrying out spiritual “assignments” is to distill the essence of the downloads and find ways to carry them out here "on the ground" in physical reality. This is the ego’s proper domain - navigating physical reality and finding ways to carry out that guidance, not questioning the guidance. This is where many Lightworkers and Light Warriors struggle.

When spirit asks you to learn something new - to take leaps within yourself and to step beyond what you've previously seen for yourself - be willing to follow this vision. We see many still struggling with learning the basics of the Internet, accumulating backlogs of spiritual assignments that make it increasingly difficult to navigate the changes taking place in their lives. This leaves many feeling overwhelmed with the rapidly changing energies and what they are asking from each of us.

On some level, we know that taking these steps, mastering our own latent inner technologies changes us in ways we can't foresee. It changes our resonance, our vision, our perception and our field of possibilities. In some cases, relationships are de-magnetized, lives change, we are drawn to leave jobs, cities, old friends and old ways of being. As we trust in spirit and make these changes and the accompanying leaps toward allowing the activation of our inner technologies, we come into a deeper sense of fulfillment and purpose. We move past old beliefs and thought patterns that once held us fast, enslaving us to physical reality. In some ways, we no longer feel ourselves to be the same person. This happens when a new aspect of our higher self steps in and becomes our guiding star.

Our identity shifts. Our life changes. Our experience of the same event or person changes. This is the path of spirit, ever-changing, ever flowing, with great freedom, aligned with the spirit of freedom, the movement toward self-realization, which blesses us within every moment and in turn allows us to become a blessing to all we know, all we come into contact with.

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!