According to Michael Tamura: “The school of life is one of experience and distilling what we learn from it into wisdom… what is truly important in a soul’s education  is not what we are born into – our heredity, gender, environment, religion or socioeconomic status – or what happens to us in life.”

“It is in how we choose to respond to whatever happens in our life, in whatever condition we find ourselves that we gain our immortal wisdom and everlasting freedom and reveal the true worth of our soul.”

Lately my challenges come from such mundane issues as technology. I suspect this comes from my ingrained belief
that since I am already 70 years old approaching 71 I should no longer learn new things. But sending e-mails is not a new skill for me! Yet last week I had to retype my essay because my web creator failed to get what I sent. I thought I got Yahoo’s confirmation that the mail had been sent. Then I checked. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no record that I had sent the essay!

Another incident. I tried as many as five times to share a video with a Facebook friend> Each time I would Get “You have to provide a recipient.” although I had typed the name. I even checked the spelling. I gave up and wondered what universal law was spooking me.

Next morning with the first attempt to send the same video I could not send the night before, was right away sent. The lesson is for me to check my thoughts. I think several of my favorite authors will tell me that challenges will be repeated till I learn the lesson.

I believe I am and will never be too old to learn.

Dr Cherie Carter Scott… believes that we will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.

According to Dr Christine Page; ” If God is omnipotent then the obvious place to start to explore its presence and to see its reflection is within our own core and not within the mindset of others.” I would like to restate that as: “Since God is omnipotent…”

“You Are the Answer” emboldens me by: “The divine law of asking and receiving cuts out all the middle men>” No offense to my Church that teaches that reaching God is done better through mediators more worthy than I am.

Dooley’s encouragement states: “It’s been even trickier because our entire planetary culture so far, has conditioned us to look outside of ourselves for direction, meaning and proper behavior.”
“You are the Answer” explains: “each one of us has a unique relationship with God and this relationship sets the basis for our spiritual growth.”
“The measure of our evolvement is not in what happens in our lives but in how we respond to all that happens.”

Before the Butterfly Can Fly

Although I’m almost 71 years of age, I still seek external permission to think independently. This is the result of social conditioning.I claim permission from Rabbi Darfour: ” Increasingly, I am persuaded that the beginning of faith ought to be inquiry, doubt, and disbelief.”

“Faith is not a fixed phenomenon, not a body of answers, so much as it is a process, a constant incorporation of new knowledge and new wisdom from different sources.” (2002)

Dooley argues against struggle even martyrdom; this appeals to me: “”Blood, sweat and tears aren’t what it takes to create real change. Instead its your imagination, beliefs, and expectations that draw you into action, circumstances and coincidences that make dream manifestation inevitable.

Radically “Life Is a Gift” asserts: “Freedom means loving yourself enough to be true to yourself and trust your emotional guidance. It means not giving in to what is socially expected or what the inner voices of fear exhort you to do nor feelings bound by past choices that are no longer serving you. It means making choices that express more of who you are. It means feeling your way into the flow. It means having faith in a loving cosmos.”

The context of my musings is Dr Christine Page’s : “During this time of the great shift, there will be increasing distortion of the hologram as individuals reconnect to their own divine consciousness and choose not to follow a collective truth unless it resonates with their soul.”

May I point out that Dr Page is the author of ” 2012 and the Galactic Center”. May I end with questions. Granted that our human nature is tainted with original sin, weren’t we saved by Jesus Christ? Didn’t our Baptism give us a clean, new slate? Why then does our Church not joyfully exhort us to live productive lives instead of forever hounding us with guilt?

” When we are in resistance, we give our power away to the very object of our resistance” An example in my life is my struggle to clean my Facebook news feeds of obnoxious posts from Fast and Furious. For more than a week, I politely requested the Facebook Admin to free my news feeds of such posts because they were crowding off my favorite posts from :pixels, Whisper of the Heart, Inspiration Garden, Creative pictures, Beautiful Garden etc. But Facebook posted even more!

Then my husband told me to simply ignore the posts. I felt better; but Facebook persisted. I am consoled by a line from “You Are the Answer.”:  “It is not God who kicks us out of his grace; it is we who drop out of the oneness, abundance and flow of life when we resist anything.”

Esther Hicks has this to say: “… you just set the tone, where you are by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your tone in a very clear, deliberate way anything that doesn’t match it gravitates out of your experience, and any that does match gravitates into your experience. “

In my effort to educate my many fears I came across several insightful statements from my book Urban Shaman. I read about two kinds of interpretations: evaluation and analysis. I consider this helpful because I’m still trying to silence my monkey mind.

Way back in college I did a lot of analysis of literary pieces as an English major. Now I realize I wasn’t doing analysis but evaluation. No wonder I have been anxious. I was constantly passing judgments on people and events whether they were good or bad. And to think that till I was older than 60 years old I was still doing my school routine of nightly examination of conscience. You can imagine what this does to a judgmental ISTJ personality.

Fortunately The Energy Prescription book says: “Our human personality is not our true nature. Spirit is our true nature, and sometimes the old needs to die so that the new can be reborn.”

According to Dr Christine Page: “Now as we face the Age of Aquarius, we are being asked to develop self-consciousness. Each of us must accept responsibility to fully embody our incarnated soul and hence together move forward in a collection of highly individuated connected beings.”

Indeed the above is such a stimulating statement. However, now that I am approaching 71 years and as I fight against elevated blood pressure readings, I choose not to get into the fray, much less get caught in the conlict between the Liberals and the Traditionalists especially in religion.

I can’t help but be grateful for an article by blog.action.org posted on Facebook exposing why the UNCRC has frontally
attacked the Vatican for its handling of sexual cases against the priests. I prefer the article of Bobit Avila of the Philippine Star – clearer tackling of the issue with implications for the Philippine situation.

Back to Dr Christine Page to explain my side:”…in an educational system that taught us there is one right answer to any question – and that it is held by someone else and understood only by a lot of mental effort… We were trained to ignore and mistrust our own instinctive and intuitive answers.”