What Is Calling You?

“Your planet at this time is vastly speeding up, and its Earth inhabitants need to speed up their time line as well, to keep in step. Therefore, it is not sufficient to be satisfied with a house in the suburbs, one or two cars in the garage, some kids, a college education. Actually, you had all this at one time and what did you feel? Enormously restless and starved for the truth.

But that was a long time ago. However, the break from that reality is not too different than what you are being asked just now, in this present moment.

Take time now to ask these important questions. They are worth repeating. What is this pain calling you to? Where are you being led and to what end? What are you resisting? Meditate, sit, conjure, know for yourself. We await your revelation.”

I paused to reflect. I closed my eyes, sought a calm place within and asked that very question and thereby received very clear directives:

“Dear One,

Live as close to the land as possible. Stop running around trying to meet that perfect someone in the most unlikely places and leave that meeting to us. That trust more than anything will assure its happening.

Instead, mind the home fires, and write this book. As we have said, we are in a hurry, we want to get this done, and what better healing for a hurt and broken right hand than to have the word of the Lord flow through it? This is your destiny, you can accept it or not, but we do not feel that this is something that you want to turn away from, for this is your fulfillment.

If you are in need of inspiration, cleansing and clearing, and coming into the All That Is, walk in the woods, that will do it every time. Your borrowed dog Mini, is missing you.”

Mini was a lovely mutt who lived on the land of the bed and breakfast where I was staying. She was the companion of Moosie, a lovely, old, and very large Great Pyrenees. I often borrowed Mini from her owners to be a companion to me on my long walks through the forest. She made everything come alive as I walked with her, chasing every rabbit and squirrel that dared to show its head!

A Walk in the Woods

After hearing the proffered Guidance, I followed the suggestion to go outside. My stroll through the woods led me up the hill towards the B & B, on whose grounds I lived. On the way, I gazed at the loveliness of a new grove of red fir, felt awe at the beauty of rain drops clinging to a branch, and wanted to bring home the hummingbirds’ nest but left it, in case they wanted to use it next year. I left a portion of my peanut brittle for my neighbors, collected the papers they passed onto me, and stopped to chat a bit about the news of the neighborhood.

On the way back to my sweet cabin, nestled as it was in a clearing in the woods, I was directed to go on by. I made my way up through the ram’s pasture, now vacant in the hope of lambs in the spring and found, up on a hill under the pines, a perfect medicine wheel with Mother Nature providing the rocks in the right formation to hold the four directions.

The Medicine Wheel

As always, I asked permission to enter the wheel. Receiving that permission, I proceeded and turned to each direction with the following incantations:

“To the East, to golden eagle, to new beginnings, to the light within and without, to enlightenment. To the East, I ask that your power and your spirit come into me now.” I felt it come in, all through my body like a lightning bolt. I gave thanks, “O’Mitakuye Oyasin to the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of the East. To all my relations.”

Then, on to the South.

“To the South, to the little mouse, to trust and innocence and the good road home. To the South, I ask that your power and your spirit come into me now.” I gave thanks as above and went on to the West.

“To the West, to black bear, brown bear, to introspection and looking within. To the West, I ask that your power and spirit come into me now.” Giving thanks I then moved on to the North.

“To the North, home of white buffalo and snow leopard, home of the wisdom place and those gone by. To the North, I ask that your power and your spirit come into me now.” After thanking the North, I completed the circle by moving again to the East, and then walked to the center of the circle.

There I knelt, put down my hand and caressed the Earth, saying, “To Mother Earth, to the two leggeds and the four leggeds, to those who fly and crawl and swim. To Mother Earth.”

Then I rose and made three clockwise circles above my head, saying, “To Father Sky.”

At last, I stood and addressed the All. I said, “Great Spirit, Great Mystery, hear this one, Anya, who calls to thee. Thank you for the opportunity to be your voice. Let me be worthy of it.”

I heard that the directions had messages for me, so I headed back to the East and faced in that direction:

“Dearest Daughter, do not feel that you are unworthy for this task, for it is truly yours and none other. You have spent a lifetime preparing for this and the time is now. Embrace it.”

And the South counseled, “Dearest One, It is all love, every bit of it. Live into love and all else will flow.”

The West added its voice. “Become one with this project. Live into it and with it. Let everything else go now. The world can take care of itself for a while. Let this be your gift to the world.”

As I completed listening to the North and taking in the words I heard, my mind created a mental image as it gave me this message: “It is all light, Dearest One, all light. See it as light and it will be so.”

After completing the circle, I stood at the East and asked permission to leave the wheel. My heart was full of the guidance I had received in this way. I walked on home and entered my cozy cabin while the gentle rain/mist continued to fall, and was grateful for the fire in the wood stove that I had made earlier, and for a sweet evening at home.

Challenge and Responsibility

I commenced reflecting on healing and transformation being the same thing. As the Chinese proverb goes, each new challenge presents a new responsibility/opportunity. So my new opportunity is beginning to look like this:

›  Spending lots of alone time, writing the book.

›  Purifying my diet.

›  Conserving my resources.

›  Deepening my meditation and yoga practice.

›  Refreshing with long walks in the woods.

›  Letting the world be.

›  Trusting that the right man is going to come into my life at the right time and without any effort on my part.

›  Listening, asking, listening, following.

So, these were my instructions. I intended to live up to them!

Multidimensionality and Healing

I then began to review in my own mind what I knew about living in multiple dimensions from my training and experience as a healer. I wanted to cast my net further afield, always looking for the first cause of the pain that did not seem to be responding to simply working with the physical manifestation.

Following will be essays on living multidimensionally and how it affects healing as it comes down to the physical, all of which formed the background of my consciousness as I addressed my own journey.

People who are familiar with spiritual texts will have come across this way of seeing reality - or we should say, these realities. There have been many references to multidimensionality in spiritual literature down through the ages. Sri Aurobindo wrote of layers. In the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, these layers are referred to as bardos. In the series called, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, by Baird T. Spaulding, references are made to coming into form, then out of form, then showing up miles away in the next instant. These are all examples of beings who have mastered living in different dimensions.

In recent works, Barbara Ann Brennan in her book, Hands of Light, described seven levels of consciousness and trains people to work within them. Constance Rodriguez in her book, Gifts of the Soul, describes six levels. Ram Dass in his book, Be Love Now, talks about transcending the material plane to the Soul or God Plane, where some spiritual seekers get lost or simply don't want to come back. But coming back is also a...