About

Hummingbird photo

by 8hummingbirdway

My husband took the beautiful photograph of the hummingbird that graces the top of this page. He is a devoted lover of birds and all critters, of flowers and all plants. He is magic in the garden, and grew the tithonia flowers that the hummingbird is drawn to in the photo. The plants seem to commune with him in an unusual way. He knows what they need and provides it. I too, love to plant and have my hands in the dirt. It’s a large part of what brought me here to the Northern Catskills where I was able to afford a few acres to simply relish and breathe and garden. However, I recognize a greater soul than I in my husband’s connection with nature. I learn from him often and still get my hands dirty despite his humbling (to me) alignment with the plant realm.

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Gratitude Practice

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Sometimes a small decision or action can provide a significant impact.

I recently heard a spiritual leader say that a practice of gratitude can bring healing, light, and balance to one who feels victimized. I believe this to be true. I have seen this in play for others, and for myself as well. 

One simple way to shift into a place of gratitude is to write daily “I’m grateful for …” and list 5 things that pleased you in the day. This could be done throughout the day or in the evening. This practice keeps us on the lookout for the small blessings in life and shifts our focus so that we embrace what we experience in a new light. The warmth of the sun on your back, the fragrance and beauty of a flower, the sight of a loved one’s smile, …all these things gradually become the building blocks of pleasure and wellbeing. Each can be received as a gift just for you, for which you can more fully experience gratitude. 

Two friends sharing a daily list of 10 items by text or email can inspire both people, and also enhance a friendship, as well as your day.

Another way is to express gratitude in prayer, giving thanks directly for the blessings you are experiencing.

Sometimes the shift can start to occur right away, and sometimes it takes months of a gratitude practice to realize that you are finally coming from a new place, but the task is simple and the change, when you arrive, is profound.

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About F, my friend

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A loved one asked me in early August if I could journey for someone else, a longtime friend, who plans to end his life. I said yes, but that he would have to ask me himself, or be ok with it – that he should reach out to me. A couple of weeks later he did. I will call him F (for friend). I have been on a journey with F for about 2 months.

On our first call we spoke for an hour and a half about his life. He is currently driving around the country in his car on a “farewell/gratitude” tour, visiting those who have been important in his life. He plans to end his life in April 2024. He told me during that conversation that as a young child he asked his mother “Why did you bring me here?” He has never felt that this physical reality was his home. He has not aligned with others that feel like his people. He calls himself “relational” – meaning that he cares more for people and authenticity than for things or peripheral occurrences or what might be driving forces for others. He also has seen his mother and his aunt suffer from dementia in recent years, and he does not want to experience it. He does not have children to tether him or to look out for him in his aging years. He has no strong love for any particular place here on Earth to feed his spirit and to hold him.

As we spoke, we were very open and forthright and a friendship developed. I feel strongly aligned with F and I recognize him as a warrior, which is something I have found in myself and in others. Warriorship to me means that one has strong values and stands in their truth, stands FOR the truth as they see it, walking a path of authenticity that nobody can sway or influence. F is a loving, wise, openhearted man. My opinion is that this physical reality in which we live NEEDS warriors like him in the current time of confusion, division, corruption and deception. I expressed this to F, but he feels he has done his time and is ready to leave it behind.

I shared with him about the work I do and told him I thought soul retrieval might be helpful. He was open to the possibility.

On our second long call, F told me that he is thinking about “exiting” in December 2023 rather than April 2024 to avoid bringing darkness to the birthday month of a sibling. We spoke about patterns in his life and I found him to be unusually self-aware. Surprisingly to me, F does not believe in a soul, or that one’s core being sustains after death. This felt like a substantial obstacle to my being able to assist him. However, we set a time for a soul retrieval process.

I asked for chalnneled guidance from Sri Pune and was told that my working with F would be an opportunity to create a shift for him.

On a 3rd call we talked about his family of origin; he is close with some of his siblings and had a positive relationship with his mother. His relationship with his father was not close or supportive. He did have 3 significant men in his life that were positive role models.

I did a soul retrieval for F in late September and returned 2 soul parts to him very early one morning. A 2 year old holding onto a kitchen chair and a 4 year old sitting under a tree. He reported that he woke with a great deal of energy.

F’s journey took him to Long Island, and I felt moved to invite him, this close friend of a beloved one, to join me in a visit to my daughter’s home in CT in mid-October. He also felt that it would be positive to meet. The next part of the soul retrieval process was to teach him to journey, and doing it in person is always a delight. F was surprisingly open to it; he enjoyed the experience. We had dinners and campfires at night with my family. We became friends in the physical realm and our time together felt “soulful.”

Now he is on the road continuing his gratitude/farewell journey. Heading south toward warmth.

He keeps reminding me that he has not changed his mind.

I have to say that I understand F. I remember reading long ago that when the time came to leave this world, in some Native American tribes, the elders would simply walk over the hill to make the journey on. I am a few years older than F, but I am tethered by my beloved children, husband, grandchildren, stepchildren, my work helping others, and by my love of this earth, the woods, the ocean. I can, however, imagine a time when I will be ready to go.

F has no descendants to tether him, nor is he tethered to the land. He moved a great deal in his life, especially at an early age, and now he is on a long journey in his car, without an anchor. He has an estranged wife that he cares for, but she does not provide a reason to stay.

This warrior is a vibrant strong man of wisdom and love.

I am grateful for the opportunity to work with F.

I am somehow encouraged by the fact that F + I have developed a strong connection and genuine affection.

I am encouraged by my gut sense that it’s not his time yet.

I am hoping for him to make a new choice.

However, in all honesty, I am not attached to the outcome.

I know in my heart and soul that F WILL continue on after death. And I will check on him if he chooses that path to make sure he arrives in a place of wellbeing, love and light.

In the meantime, I am committed to doing the best that I can for F. I am pulling for him. I don’t have a sense that it’s his time. I feel we need him.

We will continue the soul retrieval process when he has a long stop later this month and in early November. There are integration journeys ahead (to align with his returned soul parts), releases to make, important questions to answer, and more.

I hope this work will be pivotal.

I hope that beloved others that F connects with on this gratitude/farewell journey of his will reach out with love and show him they ARE his people, that there are pockets of love in this world, and cause him to want to stay here in the physical realm with their support.

I envision him finding solace and purpose.

Of course this is not mine to decide.

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I am to write from the content of my soul

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I have been asking Sri Pune for content – both to support my friend who is channeling their frequencies, and to have easy posts to offer.

In response, I have been guided to write from the content of my soul.

This seems a tall order, but completely appropriate.

I feel vulnerable, and yet what do I truly have to offer but myself?

I have learned these shamanic ways, and now I must use them in a manner that assists others, provides healing to others and that expresses me, my love, my version of healing.

And so this is how I will proceed. I will look for inspiration from within myself, from my life and thoughts and yearnings.

If you want more from Sri Pune, a channeling website is coming from Norlen, the channeler, and there will be a link on this website. In the meantime, if you want to personally ask for information, guidance and/or healing from Sri Pune, let me know and I will connect you individually with Norlen, who is not currently charging for her channeling work.

All Love,

Annie

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Devas of the Animal and Insect Realms

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At Findhorn, an intentional community in Scotland founded in 1962, a practice of communing/consulting with and inquiring of plant devas was developed. A plant deva, as I understand it, is the supreme being of a specific plant. The deva of a daisy can provide assistance and information for, as well as receive love and recognition from, the lover of the daisy who reaches out for infomation.

In the past several years I have been using a similar concept to address issues with animals and insects who I want to communicate with. It started with the bees that we kept. They would sometimes be agitated when my husband and I went to inspect the hives, and when they were, we more often came away with stings. After my husband started to show signs of a developing allergy, I reached out to the queen bees telepathically each time we put on our suits. I let ech queen know we were coming to her hive and what we would do there (check honey supply before the winter, check for mites, put on another hive box, etc.). Since I started this, the stings have barely been an issue.

Since then I have been successful in contacting with what I think of as animal and insect devas. I journey to them, recognize them respectfully, and generally ask them to stay off our property or out of our home. I let them know we will not harm their family of beings if they cooperate, and I ask for guidance in supporting their departure and drawing a firm line. In one case I was guided to sing a specific balancing song as I walked our property boundaries sprinkling raw oats, and a specified herb as well as a spice. That was a big task! More recently, I was advised to roll up and sweep under the mat on our back porch.

The result has been amazing. This is the kind of thing my mother might have done when I was growing up, and I would roll my eyes and internally question her mental balance.

But here I am, discovering I don’t have to kill anything/anyone to sustain a sanitary and enjoyable home! (I do trap bees and spiders and bring them outside, but earwigs? …this method worked great!)

Gratitude to Findhorn and to Dorothy Luella Klug Allen – my kind and independently thinking mother.

Sorry about the eye rolls mom.

Sri Pune guidance and video – how to access light frequencies

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Shamanic healing through soul retrieval can assist a person to access light frequencies as trauma is healed and one is finally free to align with his/her soul purpose.

10/6/23 – Hello we are Sri Pune and we are here today to help you understand an avenue. Understand that this avenue which is unfolding within is allowing you to access these frequencies of light. Understand that these frequencies of light which exist are allowing you to activate your potentials. Understand that as you activate your potentials within, the avenue within yourself will unfold. Understand that the avenue within yourself which will unfold is one of the activation of these light frequencies. Understand that these light frequencies which are contained within the system are being allowed to be tapped into at this time. Understand that these light frequencies which are contained within the system are for the allowance of the individual to access recesses of the soul which are guiding you upon your path. Understand that this guidance upon your path are being activated at this time. Understand that this time is one of a great evolution of consciousness. Understand that this time of the great evolution of consciousness is occurring on this planet at this time. Understand that this planet is going through an evolution of consciousness herself and this evolution of consciousness within the planet is occurring for all beings. Understand that this occurrence for all beings is being contained within each system. Each system is containing these frequencies of light. Understand that these frequencies of light which are occurring on the planet are also occurring within the system. Understand that you may access these light frequencies within. Understand that the accessibility of these light frequencies within exist with your intention. Understand that your intention activates these light frequencies. Understand that it is your intention that enables the light frequencies to flow within your system. Understand that as you allow these light frequencies to flow within the system, the activation of your potentials will occur.

Video link of this channeled message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B1lIfQgtoc

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Michael Harner (1929-2018), father of today’s shamanic renaissance

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We have Michael Harner to thank for the availability of shamanic knowledge and practice in our part of the world today. An American student of archaeology, he did his doctoral dissertation research in eastern Ecuador among the Jívaro people in the late 1950s. He learned a great deal about their ways from tribal healers and elders. In the early 1960s he learned from the Conibo of the Peruvian Amazon where he became a student of shamanic healing. He was then approved as a healer by both of these tribes. He later traveled to learn more about tribal healing in remote locations all over the world.

The word shaman comes from the language of a Siberian tribe.

Based on Harner’s studies, tribal healers universally practiced soul retrieval, extraction (clearing), and psychopomp (assisting the dead).

Harner created the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in 1979. He developed core shamanism, a system designed for Westerners to apply shamanism and shamanic healing successfully to their daily lives.

Click this link and scroll down for a definition of core shamanism and a brief talk from Michael Harner

https://www.shamanism.org/workshops/index.php

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Sri Pune speaks

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A friend of mine has begun to channel. She is a soft spoken and humble woman. Her name is Norlen. Five frequencies named Sri Pune (pronounced “Shree Punay”) offer messages of love and wisdom daily. Here is a message from August 8, 2023:

Yellow Light Frequency

There is a development in the structure of light at this time. This development delivers a frequency which contributes to humanity’s rays of light consciousness.  We seek to develop these rays of frequency in order to connect the heart to the mind. Heart consciousness must prevail.

There is a wonderful establishment of light. It is called the embellishment of the yellow structure of humanity. This structure is a frequency of golden yellow light. This golden yellow light brings rays of sunlight which absorbs into the body. This frequency establishes a foundation for the body to adjust to the new frequencies. We would like to establish the connection with the yellow frequencies of light. There exists a level of discernment which plays upon the humanity’s consciousness at this time. Humanity is at the beginning levels of acceptance of reality as it exists now. This present moment returns to our consciousness. We usher in the consciousness of the present moment. Reality consists of 7 thought processes. These 7 thought processes contains information for the evolvement of the soul. Returning to the beginning. What is the beginning of time? Time is an illusion. Time is a thought. Where is the beginning of thought? Where is the beginning of thought when there is only this present moment? This is the conundrum. How can we explain the beginning of thought when there is no beginning and there is no end? We have our work cut out for us today. Expand on the idea that the present moment contains many layers. These layers wrap around each other. This connection with each other relays information consistently with each other. This allows each present moment to gather information from the past and the future. How then can there be a beginning? We would like to explain that the beginning is a representation of the past. This past representation allows for a beginning place in a NOW moment. We allow the circumstances of enlightenment to take place at this time of the NOW moment. As the NOW moment is enlightenment. We would like to explain the circumstances of reality and how it exists on this plane of illusionment. There is a separation from humanity’s consciousness; there is a division of the mind and the heart. The mind and the heart must collaborate. When the heart is disconnected from the mind, illusion results. In order to reconnect the mind to the heart. The mind must relinquish control to the heart. The heart knows all truth. Allow the heart to rule.

This transcription is from before Norlen was videoing the sessions.

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Learn more about Soul Retrieval

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Soul Retrieval is the most desired shamanic process. If you have read the information I have on my Soul Retrieval page and still want to find out more about soul retrieval, I suggest you read Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman. Sandra is one of the best teachers of shamanic topics of our time. She has developed the soul retrieval process as I know it, and this book is a delight to read. If you prefer to listen to her read it, the audible book is called The Soul Retrieval Journey, Seeing in the Dark. Sandra Ingerman has also written on many other shamanic topics – such as Earth-healing, journeying, ceremony, visioning, and personal healing of various sorts.

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Assisting the dead to cross over to the next world

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An aspect of my work that some are unaware of is assisting those who have passed from this physical realm to arrive where they should be – with their beloved spirit families, to rest, rejuvenate and move forward in the light. Generally I check in 4 days after death when I am aware that someone close to me or in my community has died. Sometimes I receive a request to check on another person’s loved one.

Occasionally when I perform a clearing in a home when someone feels a presence there or experiences unsettling energy, I find that someone (or several people) who have died and didn’t cross over initially are hanging around. I always communicate with them and give them the opportunity to cross before clearing the house.

Assisting the soul to cross to the “Land of the Dead” is the one area where a shamanic practitioner can help another without permission. Of course, the soul is not forced to cross, but I can show up and offer to help. 

Generally once a person has left their body, the physical world is not the best place to linger.

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