Tag: wisdom

Channeled Message – Be the Change

by 8hummingbirdway

LEI LEI SPEAKS

This message was inspired by Ghandi’s words “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” I pointed out the message and Lei Lei expounded upon it’s meaning, speaking of various ways we could each BE the change, allowing our own needs and wishes to show us the way.

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A time of presence; dreams point the way

by 8hummingbirdway

Early one morning, about 5 weeks ago, I experienced a moment, an hour of deep presence and well-being. I spoke with Lei Lei during this time about this feeling and about two dreams. [Lei Lei is a being that I channel.]

We see that you are in a great state of …or a high state of presence this morning.

Thank you. Yes, I feel this. I feel that I reside in a place of holiness, almost …a place of understanding and of knowing what I need to call forth in myself in order to move forward in the best way possible in my life, in my days, in my actions, in my choices. And this is trust, deep trust in myself and all those around me and God and Life and Mother Earth and All-That-Is …as well as releasing all fear …trusting that my own presence and my response is landing in a place in which I am at ease and trust and well-being. And is that all? Ease, trust and well-being, compassion and kindness, awareness without fear, which is what the trust connotes.

We feel your energy, Annie, we feel your presence, your trust. We are happy that you are in this place at this time.

Is it possible that I can sustain this?

It is possible that eventually you can sustain this. We are unsure as to whether you can sustain it fully “now,” in this “time,” [and we put quotes around now and time, for we sense that you can achieve this way of being that you seek …and we do not align with the existence of time as you know it.] And so we are in support of you, moving forward in this way, with ease, trust, inner confidence, compassion, presence. We see that is within your reach to do so. And you will observe what brings you out of that space, what unsettles you, what seems to have power over you to change, to release your well-being, to reconnect with fear.

I would like to not walk that path of fear. I have walked it for so long.

We understand, and we see that you are in an elevated space at this time, and we support you in moving forward in this space and sustaining this ability. We do not doubt you. We simply leave room for a more full arrival in the future …if you are falling away at any time.

[I then shared with Lei Lei about a dream in which my son and my grandson had put themselves and the family at risk. They were avoiding the situation, would not admit it or talk about it. My daughter and I were afraid for our sons, and for the entire family.]

This a dream of fear and unsettled feelings – that which you are trying to leave behind. The dream brings you to the core of your concerns, which is your beloved ones. And this is a challenge – for you to trust, to know that they are ok, to know that all of you are ok, to trust your path regardless of anything that happens, regardless of all that might occur. So it is right to the point of where you sit at this moment, this business of trust and fear, worry for your beloved ones. And you must release them to their path, whether jail or death. These are the ultimate fears – imprisonment, harm, death, pain, suffering, loss of freedom, and also betrayal. These are the ultimate things you fear, it seems.

Thank you Lei Lei.

You are most welcome.

Is there anything else to fear?

Being found unworthy, incompetent, unable to fulfill your expectations, your responsibilities, being found faulty, being found less than you want to be. And you do not want this for your beloveds either – to be found faulty or to be afraid or to be betrayed or betraying the family in any way.

Yes. These are some of my fears that could unsettle me or change my course or cause me deep consternation, fear, and worry. My beloveds. And so I suppose the task is to release them to their paths with trust that this is the way for them. Even if it does not appear to be the way.

Yes. These are very difficult things to accomplish.

I see you are taking me to the core of those things that could unsettle me and bring me to fear.

This dream has done that.

[I then told Lei Lei about a prior dream of complex challenges …of systemic patterns and ego matters.]

This is not unrelated to the dream that you woke from today. It is about trust and fear and repercussions and falling short and intricacies of what is required for each individual in each situation. In both cases, there are others at play that one cannot control, although in this prior dream one can cover and fulfill their tasks for them. So, the same dynamics are at play. However, this morning’s dream is cutting much closer to the soul because they involve your beloved ones – your son and your grandson. And this is your weakness, your vulnerability. And these kinds of things …these subtleties …these are why we are not certain that you have fully arrived in the place that you hope to have arrived. However, you can see this place, and you are aware of it, and you can work towards it and overcome obstacles going forward now that you have the vantage point at this moment. And we are grateful that you have touched this and will be moving forward toward this in the ways that you need to.

Thank you, Lei Lei. I understand in this moment. I ask for help in going forward and sustaining this understanding and movement forward.

I thanked Lei Lei for their part in bringing me to where I sat that morning.

They respond: “However, more may be revealed to you as time unfolds.”

I take this to mean that even though I feel at the pinnacle of knowledge, and feel I have “arrived” where I want to be …there will be more to conquer within myself. There will always be more, I think.

2 or 3 days later, the sky started to fall in for me, as a result of a sequence of events.

At this time, 6 weeks later, I have passed through that time …which unsettled some of my most important relationships and showed me more fully who I am.

Am I back in the throne I hoped to occupy? In a way. I am grateful for my challenges, the teachings and experiences. I have navigated them the best I could – imperfectly, with humility for the most part. I have drawn lines that I needed to draw for myself, and I have learned from the experiences.

I am currently at peace with myself and with my loved ones.

I am ready for whatever else occurs, realizing that the challenges ahead may be even greater, and run deeper.

Life ahead is a mystery.

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Arcturus and Arcturians; what we know …and more

by 8hummingbirdway

Arcturus is the 4th brightest star in our galaxy. This giant star, part of the constellation of Boötes, outshines our sun 100 times.

The handle of The Big Dipper points to Arcturus.

Arcturus is 36.7 light years away from Earth.

The Inuit people know Arcturus by two names, Uttuqalualuk (“old man”) and Sivulliik (“the first ones”).

I have read publications that claim Arcturian origins. They mention planets of Arcturus, and a single culture of beings that reside throughout these planets.

Planets that orbit Arcturus have not as yet been detected by humanity.

From Wikipedia: By 1928, Arcturus had become part of the teachings of  Edgar Cayce, an American  psychic. The star Arcturus was mentioned by Cayce in more than 30 of his psychic readings. He described Arcturus as a “gateway” to higher realms of consciousness that can have a profound effect on people’s lives. Cayce called the Arcturians the most advanced community in the universe, the community most similar to the divine.

I have been exploring concepts, ideas, meditations and practices from materials that claim to have origins in Arcturian wisdom, as well as other extra-terrestrial origins. I have found them to be helpful and compelling. They bring forth thought-provoking and expansive concepts and understandings about the time we are living in, about the wisdom of the human body, about our human ancestry, about the human heart, about healing, frequency and much more.

I have been deeply impacted by what I’ve read and considered. I am experiencing personal growth as a result of my exposure to new concepts and partaking in the expansive and healing exercises offered.

I expect to share specifics about what I am learning in future posts.

It is my understanding that Arcturians are significantly “less dense” than humans, meaning that they do not have a physical body in the way that we do. It has taken me some time to come to terms with this possibility.

Many of us have no problem with an invisible God, invisible angels …and also less elevated beings of invisibility, such as beings of malevolence.

But we are stop there. It is a big adjustment to accept the possibility of extra-terrestrials at all, let alone those of less density.

Have you ever met people who saw ghosts … or fairies as a child …or had invisible friends?

I have come to believe that the human visual spectrum will naturally expand in the future …to allow for the perception of those who are less dense.

Just one of many changes as we move forward.

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A Dream of Learning to Expand into Love

by 8hummingbirdway

I recently had a lovely dream about the steps and lessons along the way of life.

There were lessons at various stations/locations, teachings about how to live, how to communicate, about negotiation, kindness, sexuality, and other aspects of the way we navigate our lives.

There were other individuals along this trail, and some stations were difficult to reach, to navigate, and/or to understand.

One was in an auditorium or theater – with rows of seats – and had something to do with understanding and acceptance of various orientations and ways …of self and others.

One was in a beautiful natural setting that was difficult to find …and even to see or perceive.

I remember talking with another person about the challenges of reaching these locations …as we sat on the auditorium chairs …not realizing that we were IN a teaching place at the time.

The journey could be walking or riding or simply being somewhere.

It involved being open-minded and seeing/understanding.

One could go to a teaching station and completely miss the lesson.

It was a beautiful dream and I felt honored by the message and excited about the levels of understanding and connection that I am learning to choose …through experience, and through the beautiful lessons.

As I thought about the dream, I realized that there has been a shift in my sexual orientation – more focus on alignment with my husband than on our individual pleasure.

Then my mind went to the day before when my husband and I discussed the placement of a used rug he’d bought. I had brought it into the living room and placed where I thought it should obviously go. He came into the room a bit later and joined me on the couch …and within a few minutes he said he had envisioned the rug in a different orientation. I consciously resisted the usual path of overriding his ridiculous idea. This would have been my choice in the past – not saying it was ridiculous but pushing my vision as the right one. Normally he would give way to this tactic.

On this day, however, we discussed it for a while and then decided to try it the way he preferred. We worked on getting it just right, moving the coffee table and getting it just as he wanted it.

This is way out of character for me – or for a prior version of me.

Eventually he decided that it worked better the original way, but I didn’t control the situation …or control him as I would have tried to do in the past. (He is historically more flexible than I regarding that sort of thing.)

He also has been shifting his energy toward me. I am experiencing much more support and appreciation from him, and much less of a critical focus on my cooking and other aspects of our life together.

We are liking each other more and learning harmoniousness!

I suppose life IS a classroom, kind of like in my dream …if one pays attention and is open-minded.


I want to say, in closing, that I had been feeling that my recent focus on not judging others was a final step in becoming a person I feel good about being.

Now I realize there is no end!

There are SO many ways of living our lives that could expand and improve – kindness, generosity, open-mindedness, supportiveness, holding one’s tongue, and on and on.

I feel excited about this, and curious about what’s ahead.

I also want to remind the reader that I have come to believe that dreams are messages from one’s soul.

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CHANNELED MESSAGE – How to navigate this time. Love yourself. Reside within your Heart.

by 8hummingbirdway

LEI LEI SPEAKS

This message offers guidance on how to evolve at this critical time, and steps to move your awareness into your heart.

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Drunvalo Melchizedek, a man of Wisdom

by 8hummingbirdway

My friend and ally Norlen sent me an interview with Drunvelo Melchizedeck a couple of weeks ago. I aways listen to what she sends, as she is a significant director of my pathway forward into greater light and wisdom.

I initially stated that he is in indegenous man, but this is not accurate, I apologize and have corrected my prior post. He has learned from and engaged with many Native American people, as well as indigenous people and others all over the world, but his ancestry is not known to me. (He was born Bernard Perona.)

Drunvalo is a man of great kindness and love. He has much to share and he shares it with everyone …in his books, his classes, and also for free on YouTube.

I am paying attention to this man because I feel myself drawn to his passion and because I feel my being expand in response to the knowledge he shares.

He has studied with many people who he was guided to seek out. Each one had wisdom to share, and this wisdom has all congealed into the knowledge that he shares with us.

There is so much.

Drunvalo Melchizedek is a fearless warrior of these times – not in the way of battle, but in the way of showing up humbly with courage, love, and commitment.

In one YouTube talk, he tells of a 3 year global mission to physically repair what is called the Christ Consciousness Grid that now encompasses the earth about 60 ft above us. This grid allows us to move from the Mind back to the Heart, paving the way for the salvation of humanity.

So much of what he has experienced is on this level of devotion and service.

I call him a warrior because of the way he lives his life, and because of his devotion and service to Mother Earth and to humanity as a whole.

He has a great deal to teach us.

He speaks of the Merkaba – our light body, which is surprisingly large – in a video that he provides on YouTube.

A teaching video about his life is below. It’s a bit long, but there is some outstanding content. He tells of his experience, offers practies and guidance, and you cannot help but see his soul and his devotion in each moment.

He developed the beautiful Unitly Breath meditation that I cannot recommend highly enough. I have been practicing it daily since I heard it last month, and each day it is more impactful. In 10 minutes, we are deeply connected with Mother Earth, Father Sky, and God. It is uplifting and moving.

https://youtu.be/CKy_uEj0mPY?si=xVPLJoywA5irkrEj

There are many more videos and he has written 5 books.

I feel I am taking a significant step forward in my personal and spiritual devvelopment through the offerings of this man. I cannot express my excitement and gratitude.

I am especially grateful for open access to the wisdom and knowledge that he provides. Many who are given or acheive this kind of sacred knowledge hold on tight and sell it – or just hold on tight.

Blessings to you in your journey forward.

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A Channeled message: Bands of Being

by 8hummingbirdway

This message was provided to a person who recieves weekly channeled messages. It was channeled specifically for her, but the message is is one that might be helpful to any of us. We all reside in places of lower and higher energies, frequencies, and vibrations at various times.

We want to describe a vision that we have of you.

You are floating along with some intention, but with great ease, in a band of color, which is up on the rooftops, a level with the lower home rooftops, one story. 

It is a band of purplish-blue. 

We see other bands, and they all denote certain ways of being, or feelings, or sense of oneself, or the world that one lives in, the way that one must navigate.

And so this bluish-purple is harmonious compared to some of the lower ones. 

The ones at the lower level, closer to or even within the earth, are more muted hues. 

They are even shadowy when one gets to a place of blame, disappointment, criticism, anger with oneself or others, sorrow.

And we are happy to see you where you are now, in a place of relative harmoniousness. However, there are also many bands above you. And oh, you are rising now into a greenish, a lovely soft green.

And it is a place of love, a place of gratitude, greater harmoniousness. And again, you raise up into a lighter yellow, that we see a light yellow, where you are elevated even more.

You have a greater trust in yourself and in your life. 

Be aware that time is passing. More time than it takes to say these words.

There are pauses, and so you are spending some time in each band, and then you elevate to another band, or sometimes sink down to a lower one.

There are ways that one can rise to a higher band. 

One can be at the tops of the highest trees, or one can be at the mountaintops.

And one can go even higher than this, where the colors are more golden, and white, and a bright blue, we see. They are not aligned with the chakras or the rainbows. It is various amounts of shadowiness …or your alignment with a particular color that you particularly enjoy might be very high.

And we want to say that the higher bands will find you closer to spirit. And you can enter these higher bands through meditation or prayer. You can enter these higher bands through high regard of yourself or others, or gratitude, as we mentioned before.

Sometimes singing will help one. Singing a favorite song will help one to rise up. 

Forgiveness, acceptance, blessed memories, connection, heart connections with those you love.

Feeling, being in touch with your feeling of connection with spirit and even the angelic realm, creator. 

Being in nature, for some, elevates one to a higher band of being. And we offer this vision so that you can choose how you want to navigate your moments.

Recognize that you always have a choice. One cannot go from the lowest to the highest, but one can climb almost as if it is a staircase. 

One can climb higher and higher in various ways – by residing in joy, trust, acceptance.

We would like to see you in places of great pleasure and harmoniousness and blessing. 

And this is all we have for you today. 

Blessings to you

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Self-righteousness

by 8hummingbirdway

I truly believe that we are entering a new time, that our world is changing. I am coming to understand more and more that reality is not easy to understand, to pin down. Things are not as they seem. I/we seem to have been living in a fictional reality.

No – that’s not right. It’s that we somehow construct our sense of reality based on our perception of what we believe to have occured/be occurring in our lives …and around us.

We actually get to choose the reality we live in to some extent …by our perception of what is and what we align with …and how we conduct ourselves.

Mostly I feel I am aligned with the raising frequencies and vibrations. I believe in them. I hold onto these beliefs with all my heart.

(I’m sure this would sound completely crazy to my dad, who I love and respect. But he is no longer with us in the physical world.)

Today, however, I woke with a bellyache. I had gone to bed self-righteously and distant because my husband wouldn’t talk to me about an issue I was annoyed about. I realized this morning that if he had simply worded his position differently, it would have been no issue.

Is this how I want to live? Causing strife and negativity around me?

No. I want to be that person who lets small things go, who recognizes what is important – my beloved partner, that our time together be harmonious, that wakes up each morning with gratitude …rather than remorse.

The debate was so unimportant. Different ways of communicating …a minor irritation.

I missed our gentle evening time together – listening to a story and then enjoying the back porch after dark …giving him a back scratch. This is the true gold in my life.

I will apologize this morning, forgive myself, and do my best to harvest all the blessings that are here for me in this day.

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Refrigerator Wisdom #3

by 8hummingbirdway

This third and final piece of refrigerator wisdom that I have to share is the words of a song I learned in my late 20s.

I attended a weekend workshop with my first husband. It was a workshop that facilitated emotional healing. I think it was called “Opening the Heart.” It was excellent, and was a good first step in sorting myself out. I learned a few songs that stuck. Here’s one:

It’s in every one of us to be wise

Find your heart

Open up both your eyes

We can all know everything without ever knowing why

It’s in every one of us

By and by

Just writing these word on this page is very powerful for me. This is a core song for me. It sing it every time I go to my altar, which has been every morning for quite a few years.

These words have been reassuring to me over time. They tell me that I will get to a better place “by and by.” They tell me that wisdom is available, and also simply “knowing” – that it’s in every one of us!

I fully believe the words.

This song has been a beacon of light for me for 40 years.

The Hollies sang this song, a longer version, but this is the part I hold sacred.

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Refrigerator Wisdom #2

by 8hummingbirdway

The second piece of refrigerator wisdom came straight from my husband’s brother’s refrigerator to mine. I have always assumed it was put there by his wife. We women tend to be more sentimental. Regardless, I’m sure my brother-in-law aligns with the sentiment.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by loving an imperfect person perfectly.

This speaks volumes to me. And it has grown over time within me.

Love.

It’s perceived in so many ways.

The most important aspect of this message is that we must devote our selves to those we choose to love. I cannot think of a more important endeavor in this life. Our loved ones change and unfold as life goes on – and in response to life.

People don’t show all of themselves right away. Not because they are deceptive, but because they change. They are where they are in each moment. For example, different things are at play when one is in the business of falling in love. Charm shows up naturally. More smiles present themselves in response to feeling happy. Strong connection is on display as this love grows.

The same thing happens when a mother gives birth. She is biologically programmed to be attentive, protective, mindful, comforting, and nurturing in relation to her child. She even speaks in softer tones.

As time goes on, the person in each of those scenarios returns to the full spectrum of themselves. Their attention and focus eventually returns to the day to day aspects of life. Other responsibilities resume their position in the array of one’s life – work, shop, cook, pay bills, etc. Stress creeps back in and impacts that which began as something in a fairly tale. Love remains, but often must take a back seat to other realities.

Additionally, as life unfolds, aspects of who we are sometimes return to us …or show up surprisingly. When something happens (a birth, a job loss, buying a home, a death), we find that we carry parts of ourselves that we hadn’t known before. It may be a residual pattern from our upbringing, or it may be a new development that change has brought forward.

Meanwhile, our loved ones’ job is to expand their view and understanding of us. Compassion may be needed. Generosity might be required. Acceptance will be called forth.

The one thing we can count on is change. Being anchored in the words of this refrigerator wisdom above can help us keep our feet on the ground, remember what’s important, and call forth the inner fortitude and ability to sustain love.

I realize as I write this post that I may have to write something about leaving my first marriage.

Sigh.

Down the road.

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