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		<title>Coincidences and Their Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelley, Since December, I&#8217;ve had recurring encounters with a particular subject and a certain number. I read a review of the film, A Dangerous Method, about Jung and Freud. A few weeks later, I was reading a book about spiritual emergency that made reference to Carl Jung and synchronicity. Over several days things kept popping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley, Since December, I&#8217;ve had recurring encounters with a particular subject and a certain number. I read a review of the film, <a href="http://adangerousmethod-themovie.com/">A Dangerous Method</a>, about Jung and Freud. A few weeks later, I was reading a book about spiritual emergency that made reference to Carl Jung and synchronicity. Over several days things kept popping up regarding Jung. Shortly after I began to notice the number 123. It appeared on a data sheet I was reading, then later was in a book, on my trip meter as I was driving, the call number of a book&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Are these &#8220;coincidences&#8221; a manifestation of a mind primed to look for these things because of my reading? Could these happenings be some sort of synchronicity or message from the Universe or spirit guides that I should be heeding? If so, how do I get clarity as to what it is? Thanks, Belle.</em></p>
<p>Thanks for your note, Belle. For me, everything is a sign pointing to some deeper meaning of itself, or to some point of power. Why? Because I choose to see events as such. Because I choose to perceive events at all levels available to me, not just the most evident and most pressing. <em>Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.</em> They are reminders that the Multiverse is alive and aware of each of us. We are aware of miracles when <em>we choose</em> to be active participants. For me, such coincidences are feedback that I live in an animistic reality, that All Things are connected.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2824" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;" title="Mystical Numbers" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/images.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="221" />In my experience, miracles are natural signals we allow ourselves to perceive. We have cultural signals to which we have ascribed collective meaning, such as weather patterns and interpreting animal behaviour. Through Jung’s work we have the symbolic interpretation of our own unconscious via archetypes marking the places where we as individuals draw from the same shadow pools of meaning. In specific pockets of divination we have collectively accepted symbolism in the tarot or the Runes. Because we are well aware of each of these systems of symbolism, we have assimilated them into a code that has been interpreted and accepted at a collective level.<br />
The basis for what you are experiencing personally, however, is no different. We tend to reject personal signals and coincidences because there is no lexicon for how to interpret them. In essence, we doubt our own ability to interpret not just what the Multiverse is saying to us, but what our own unconscious is saying about our lives.</p>
<p>When you become aware of personal signals, it is up to you to interpret what they mean. Certainly there are books available to tell you what every sequence of numbers means in discrete detail. They may hit on exactly what you need&#8211;a signal of affirmation&#8211;or they may not. I suggest a more personal decoding approach. Consider what you were thinking at the time you perceived the signal. What was your state of being? How did you feel? What happened immediately after perceiving the signal? What memories or thoughts were triggered? This sentient information is the map that informs you of your personal language to your unconscious, to your spirit guides and totems, to the Multiverse. The more you work with understanding signals in your life, the more signals will come, the more evident their meaning will be, and the thinner the barrier becomes between your unconscious and conscious minds.</p>
<p>While I can&#8217;t tell you what you are onto, Belle, I can without hesitation inform you that you are onto something. The fact that you have become aware of coincidence is half the awareness. The rest is creating the language through which you understand what signals are saying. That language comes from within.<br />
Be well.</p>
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		<title>Allowing Intuition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelley, I enjoy reading your insights. I am 28 years old and have been experiencing bouts of depression for about ten years, although the last few years it has been more consistent. I have tried therapy, medication and even making nutritional changes. I have had a mild positive reaction but the depression seems to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley, I enjoy reading your insights. I am 28 years old and have been experiencing bouts of depression for about ten years, although the last few years it has been more consistent. I have tried therapy, medication and even making nutritional changes. I have had a mild positive reaction but the depression seems to be getting worse. I also suffer from anxiety, and have a driving phobia that has affected my life. I often feel disconnected from people I care about. I feel like what I want the most is not available to me, feeling loved and affection. I have a lovely boyfriend but I worry about draining his energy and expecting too much. Please help me, Elizabeth.</em></p>
<p>Thanks for your inquiry, Elizabeth. I am shown a glimpse of your chakra system, in which the root, sacral and third eye chakras are over active. They burn a bright, silvery white. We don&#8217;t often think of these chakras as &#8216;related,&#8217; in that the lower three primary chakras are &#8220;earth&#8221; chakras, while the upper primary three are &#8220;Spiritual&#8221; chakras. The middle chakra is the heart, and it exists in both planes (how fitting!) The thing is, all of our chakras are related and are interdependent upon one another.</p>
<div id="attachment_1628" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 369px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1628 " style="border: 0pt none; margin: 12px;" title="Chakra_7_SystemThe Chakra System" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Chakra_7_System.jpg" alt="The Chakra System" width="359" height="358" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Chakra System</p></div>
<p>The root chakra is the first one, located in the base of the spine, and it generally relates to our ability to master the formed realm. literally, it indicates our ability to survive here, at a very basic but needful level. It also indicates that we recognize our tribe and where we fit into it.</p>
<p>The sacral chakra is next, located in the lower abdomen, and it&#8217;s associated with how we feel about being in the formed realm, emotions, sexual energy. The second chakra also indicates the places where we do not fit into the tribe, what the &#8216;punishments&#8217; are for that, and how we will react to the tension of that dynamic.</p>
<p>Skipping all the way up to the brow is the third eye. The third eye is the point that we have learned the mastery of the formed realm, have found balance being a spirit in flesh, and are ready to perceive the unseen aspects of this realm. It is all about intuition and the culmination of wisdom.</p>
<p>Overactivity of these chakras as a unit tells me that you have begun perceiving unseen aspects of this realm and you&#8217;re not comfortable with that, or that you are not comfortable being able to do that in your present tribe. Another aspect to consider is how your shift through puberty and adolescence affected how you see the world, spiritually. This is related to the onset of depression. Depression is our power withheld, specifically it is intuition withheld. What intuitive perceptions do you put away in order to make other people comfortable? What intuitive perceptions do you have that make you uncomfortable?</p>
<p>I suggest finding someone to work with in a soul healing capacity. That work could take whatever form seems to address restoring your power and confidence in your own perceptions. When that healing is done, working with someone to develop your intuition and finding a community with which you can share it is ideal. It may be possible that I can help you with these things remotely, though I support your choice to work with someone near. Ultimately Elizabeth, you have a wonderful gift. It&#8217;s OK to allow it.</p>
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		<title>Soul Isolation and Seizures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelley&#8211; I was misdiagnosed with epileptic seizures at the age of 15, and was put on many different anticonvulsant medications for over 10 years. None of it helped, and none of my EEG&#8217;s showed conclusive evidence of epileptic seizures. I have only recently realized that my seizures are due to some kind of spiritual blockage. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley&#8211; I was misdiagnosed with epileptic seizures at the age of 15, and was put on many different anticonvulsant medications for over 10 years. None of it helped, and none of my EEG&#8217;s showed conclusive evidence of epileptic seizures. I have only recently realized that my seizures are due to some kind of spiritual blockage. I have been able to control them better, but not completely, and would love some insight into what I need to do further to either have them under complete control, or to harness their power. When I was a teenager, and my spiritual awakening began, I had very vivid, powerful dreams, I could dream walk, I had prophetic dreams, I could communicate with my spirit guides easily. I can no longer do this, and it is rare that I have restful sleep. Any insight into this problem would be immensely appreciated! Love and blessings! &#8211; Niki</em></p>
<p>Thanks for your note, Niki. The message that I got from your guides is that some facet of your soul is seeking a different way to express that deeper part of your consciousness, specifically through training in spirit walking, or shamanic journeying. The aspect of your soul that I met with indicated that she is eager and waiting for you to work with her in learning to journey out with purpose to some intended healing. My feeling is that this will sate the part of you needing that release and expression, and it will help manage your physical symptoms.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2795" title="pearl-oyster" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pearl-oyster.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="139" />Also, if you can acquire a naturally formed salt water pearl, this is a powerful fetish to have in your toolbox of spirit travel allies. It came to me very prominently in working with this aspect of you. If you have or can get one, keep it with you when you sleep, and as you adventure into learning to journey. The salt water pearl brings you grounding between spaces, and assures your ability to bring something beautiful from discomfort.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, seizures occur when a facet of the soul attempts to leave the body but is confined for some reason.  The soul is infinite, and aspects of it naturally come and go as they need to.  This is how our consciousness expands, provokes new thoughts and beliefs.  When an aspect of the soul wanders out due to trauma and can&#8217;t return, shamans consider this state soul loss, or soul separation.  Soul loss can manifest in many ways, such as chronic doubt, depression, pain.   Soul parts are returned through a process known as soul retrieval.    The phenomenon you have experienced can feel just as bad&#8211;when a soul part needs to wander out to expand and release, yet can&#8217;t.  This state leaves you feeling trapped in yourself and spiritually isolated.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t recommend learning to journey alone.  Let me know where you are located and I can help you find a teacher. If you are open to distance learning, I can help you with that. I don&#8217;t think this means that you have to commit to the servitude of shaman hood or hone the intuitive skills of a mystic, so much as just give yourself this outlet for now. Cultivate it and stay open to what it brings. I wish you healthy, passionate travels, Niki!</p>
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		<title>Find the Self, Find Soul Kindred</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Kelley, I&#8217;m hoping you can tell me if you see someone special entering my life. I&#8217;d love to know what it feels like to be in a loving relationship. It&#8217;s taken me a long time but I know I&#8217;m ready to love someone again. I&#8217;ve never been lucky enough to find that type of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Hi Kelley, I&#8217;m hoping you can tell me if you see someone special entering my life. I&#8217;d love to know what it feels like to be in a loving relationship. It&#8217;s taken me a long time but I know I&#8217;m ready to love someone again. I&#8217;ve never been lucky enough to find that type of relationship. My kids are grown and before I leave this earth I&#8217;m hoping to see what it feels like to really be with a soulmate. Blessings, Cindy.</em></p>
<p>Thank you for your note, Cindy. What I see in your need to find a soul friend is a general need in finding a spiritual tribe. You have not consistently been able to surround yourself with like-minded people, or with a tribe that carries your passion for all things soulful. Rather, you&#8217;ve kept your ideas around spirituality to yourself out of fear of judgment. This is in part the reason that a close soul friend hasn&#8217;t been able to come. Allowing this group connection requires opening up more about who you really are inside, so that you can attract and find a tribe to support you and allow you to contribute from a more authentic place in yourself. <em>You have to invest your true self externally for the Multiverse to invest in you authentically.</em></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="  " style="border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;" title="Holy Ghost and Attendants, Horseshoe Canyon - Canyonlands National Park, Utah" src="http://chadbutrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_6138.jpg" alt="Holy Ghost and Attendants, Horseshoe Canyon - Canyonlands National Park, Utah" width="300" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Holy Ghost and Attendants, Horseshoe Canyon - Canyonlands National Park, Utah</p></div>
<p>Creating this deep, personal sense of community is what brings the potential for soul love, and the investment in such a group must be to truly immerse in spiritual community. It can&#8217;t be for the sole purpose of allowing this soul friend in, as that purpose alone isn&#8217;t addressing your deeper need for tribe. This group feels like people with a shared common interest in spiritual studies or a particular spiritual approach. Your involvement with this new group leads you to a new relationship in a little over a year from now. The group is what creates the opening for this relationship to happen. Your submission to be who you truly are across the strata of your life is what allows it to happen.</p>
<p>Be well, Cindy!</p>
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		<title>Digging into Dirt Meditation &#8211; Messages from the First Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelley, Two years ago I developed a skin condition on my fingers&#8211;mostly on my right hand.  Doctors examined all sources though the final diagnosis has been psoriasis.    I am a believer in the body-spirit connection and have consulted &#8220;Heal Your Life&#8221; by Louise Hay.  I have tried to release all past &#8220;junk&#8221;.  The condition [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley, Two years ago I developed a skin condition on my fingers&#8211;mostly on my right hand.  Doctors examined all sources though the final diagnosis has been psoriasis.    I am a believer in the body-spirit connection and have consulted &#8220;<a href="http://www.healyourlife.com/" target="_blank">Heal Your Life</a>&#8221; by Louise Hay.  I have tried to release all past &#8220;junk&#8221;.  The condition has improved, but it is still there. Can you give me any more advice so I can have my beautiful hands back? Katherine</em></p>
<p>Thanks for your inquiry, Katherine. You are wise to consult sources of imbalance on all levels. Indeed, you make important observations about fortifying mind/body/soul/emotional balance. Those are:</p>
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<li> We can affect that balance, and</li>
<li> We must know when to seek help maintaining it.</li>
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<p>When I work with your guides and a proxy of yourself I see that your hands are very etherically sensitive. You take in a lot of information through them about other people, the things you touch, the way the atmosphere around you feels. As a result they have gotten their &#8220;filters clogged,&#8221; so to speak. The energetic overburdening of your hands is also affecting energy flow in musculature of your shoulders.</p>
<p>We are all very susceptible to the energies around us, and we take them on in different ways. As a result we have to cultivate an awareness of what we take on as well as a process for how to release it. As an intuitive who has spent much time working with others, I can tell you that we can&#8217;t release too much.  Most people don&#8217;t release enough.</p>
<p><a href="http://123rf.com"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2519" style="margin: 10px;" title="Dirt Meditation" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/5409716-woman-s-hands-on-green-grass-palms-down-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="179" /></a>What I see being critically important is for you to restore or beef up your connection with Nature through your hands. They need to feel direct connection with the Earth for a while. It&#8217;s time for what I call a daily &#8220;dirt meditation.&#8221; For twenty minutes or so each day, allow your hands to connect as fully as possible with the Earth. This can be in grass, dirt, clay (not water, and at first, not rocks). Get your hands as flat on the ground as you can, and be with that connection. However it manifests, just be with it. Don&#8217;t try to talk with it, affect it, or intentionally alter your life force in anyway. The planet can do this work for you, just allow it.  </p>
<p>How many days you do it is up to you. I suggest doing it for a week, rain or shine, at different times of the day, and re-evaluate.  This need isn&#8217;t just about healing the physical characteristics of your hands or bringing balance to their etheric sensitivity. Your hands are barometers indicating greater need for etheric reconnection in how you experience your cosmology at a deep level of being. There is information that will be transmitted from the ground to your hands, through everything that you are, about who you are, about what you do, about how you see the world and care for it, for yourself. Stick with the dirt meditation until you get those memos. My guess is that once you start getting them, you won&#8217;t want to stop.  They are messages directly from the First Mother to you.  Be well, Katherine!</p>
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		<title>Knowing When It&#8217;s Time for a New Cosmology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelley, I&#8217;m at a crossroads. Do I leave my role as a nun and go back to laylife, or stay in the robes going it alone, or continue to stay in this monastery? Thanks, Isabella. Thanks for your note, Isabella. The overarching impression that I have is you are craving an experience of the Divine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley, I&#8217;m at a crossroads. Do I leave my role as a nun and go back to laylife, or stay in the robes going it alone, or continue to stay in this monastery? Thanks, Isabella.</em></p>
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<p>Thanks for your note, Isabella. The overarching impression that I have is you are craving an experience of the Divine that is not above you, but includes you. This need feels like a departure from the cosmology that is presented in your current dwelling, a shift that has contributed to your unrest in that space. I applaud you for realizing that you need a change, and that you are willing to do what you need to feel balanced in yourself. You are very connected into All Things and are at peace with that spiritual bond. You want more expression of it and a way to experience it that puts you in new spaces, new energy, new movement. &#8220;Movement&#8221; is the keyword. Your life force is very healthy and thriving, but it&#8217;s very close to your body. This state is neither good nor bad. When we need to be insular, we hold our life force close. When we need to connect and share, we expand it outward. Where you have been living has required you to keep your life force close as a means of connecting with the Divine. You have mastered relating to the Divine in this way. You are ready to extend your life force into new experiences and spaces, and to find Divinity in new ways. For you to meet this need you must gradually extend your life force out, as well as physically relocate.</p>
<p>My overall feeling is that you have gone as far as you can in personal and spiritual development at this monastery. Staying there past this point will dull the gifts you bring it. Whether you remain in robes or completely step away from the identity you have created as a nun is your choice. Your thirst for knowledge and connecting with the Divine in everything is leading you into the world in a new way, and tells me that you will never be a layman at anything you do.</p>
<p>Be well, Isabella.</p>
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		<title>If Mama&#8217;s Not Happy&#8230; Harnessing Etheric Support in Hard Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The saying goes, "When Mama's not happy, nobody's happy."  One woman explores how to set the etheric tone for her space during family hardships.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kelley, my husband and I are taking care of his mother in our home. She is not well and on hospice. He is barely working due to the economy and is having an extremely hard time coping. I rely on my deep faith and metaphysical beliefs to keep going, and try at all costs to inspire my husband. Is there anything about this situation I need to know to assist him with all of these life transitions? Thank you for your insight. Deborah</em></p>
<p>Thanks for your inquiry, Deborah. When I look down over this dynamic, I see that you are keeping a good bit of etheric distance from your mother-in-law and husband, and keep to yourself a lot more than usual. You aren&#8217;t avoiding anyone, just creating a wide berth for everyone else to have space they need in your home and to keep intrusions into your own space a minimum. For you, allowing others their space is a gift, partly because you treasure solitude and space so much, but also because you understand what growth can come from time alone. Your mother-in-law is not etherically capable of that kind of self-work right now. All she can do is hold it together, and that&#8217;s a big drain on you, your husband, and your space. Get others involved in keeping her entertained and engaged. Ask loved ones and your community to come have a meal with her, or read to her. Find volunteer groups if you have to, pet services who visit people who are house-bound. Spread this need around as much as you can, not just for your own sanity but because your mother-in-law needs diverse healthy life forces around her right now. Schedule weekly visits from friends so that you can have your alone time and reboot.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://creolemagik.com/transpersonal-witchcraft/the-honor-of-peak-experiences-and-sacred-space/"><img style="margin: 10px;" title="Personal Sacred Space" src="http://creolemagik.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Space-225x300.jpg" alt="Personal Sacred Space" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Personal Sacred Space</p></div>
<p>Your husband needs others to help, too. He is taking so much on himself and feels it&#8217;s his duty to be everything his mother needs. While understandable, it&#8217;s not possible. One thing you can do to help him is get your loved ones and community involved, ASAP. Like your mother-in-law, he isn&#8217;t able to lift the household vibe right now. He can, however, be more active in how he holds his mindspace, and that may need to be addressed. Regardless, he doesn&#8217;t have the etheric ability to support the collective. It&#8217;s right that he focus on maintaining himself right now. You have an emotional reserve to draw on, to feed you, and right now he doesn&#8217;t. Even under sunny skies, you are the emotional trendsetter in your household. Where you are is where everyone else is. <em>You have the ability to set the pace for all involved, which to large degree means you have the responsibility to.</em>Particularly right now, when you aren&#8217;t feeling the direct blow that your husband is. The balance for you lies in finding how much you can cheerlead and knowing when you need to step back and give yourself a break. I&#8217;m not suggesting you be quiet or demure, just remember that your strength is in how you hold and create your space. And as you get familiar with that you sill start to see how personally empowering working with your etheric space is.</p>
<p>Your husband doesn&#8217;t have a solid foundation to process the things happening in his life now, but he&#8217;s not going the route of the stoic. He is actually questioning from where he draws strength and faith, and is shifting his beliefs based on this experience. As well, he will rise to your emotional status. He learns from you, even if he doesn&#8217;t express it as so.</p>
<p>Your power lies in exerting your etheric field instead of withdrawing it. Now is the time for your intuitive gifts to come to the fore, not only for your own sanity&#8217;s sake, but for the benefit of the group dynamic, too. I see the center of your home is very active elementally. It would be a great place for you to work with your space, to invite the land elders, Nature spirits and any other light creatures who wants to help your household. Make your home sacred space. Always remember that you have etheric help to call on as much as friends and loved ones. Ask these beings to help you hold the space. Ask them how to arrange your space to better facilitate the changes in it and your lives right now. Ask them what plants or stones can be allies in your space right now, and in what rooms they should go. Revisit this bond with your home spirits a couple of times a week and keep that relationship active and manifesting in your home. It will do wonders to alleviate stress and move you all closer to needed improvement. This ritual of observance and awareness will also radically strengthen your intuitive skills and your marriage.</p>
<p>Along that line, your husband and yourself need to take time, alone. If it&#8217;s not possible to do over night, at least go on a date together. This partner alone time needs to be a priority on a regular basis. He really needs to feel and stay bonded with you, even if his earthly consciousness acts or speaks otherwise.</p>
<p>Hang in there, Deborah. Remember that you can ask help of your allies, physical and spiritual. Your intuition is great. Go with it. Your space and your family are demanding that you come out of the broom closet.</p>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Call, You Don&#8217;t Write&#8230; The Quiet Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As psychopomp is a critical role of my personal and professional shamanic path, I&#8217;m often approached by those who want me to communicate with deceased loved ones. In some cases a different scenario arises and I&#8217;m asked, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t my deceased loved one visit me?&#8221; My immediate response is, &#8220;How do know your loved one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>As <a href="http://www.psychopomps.org/" target="_blank">psychopomp</a> is a critical role of my personal and professional shamanic path, I&#8217;m often approached by those who want me to communicate with deceased loved ones.  In some cases a different scenario arises and I&#8217;m asked, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t my deceased loved one visit me?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>My immediate response is, &#8220;How do know your loved one doesn&#8217;t?&#8221;  There is an assumption that because we are emotionally close to a deceased loved one that we are open to and will recognize a visit from that dear soul.  It&#8217;s an understandable assumption, as our culture generally sensationalizes and romanticizes interactions with the deceased.  In reality, it is often <em>because</em> we are so emotionally involved with the deceased that we don&#8217;t or can&#8217;t perceive their presence.  Sometimes when loved ones are still actively grieving loss, they are too distracted to observe spiritual activity.  In their haze, they miss subtle messages that a trained intuitive would intercept, or they are holding out for a grand entrance when a gentle presence is right in front of them.  Consequently, sometimes when the deceased sense that their loved ones are not moving on, they do not visit them on purpose.  The inability of living or deceased loved ones to accept death causes all involved to stagnate.  Often the dead realize that their presence may only encourage the living loved one&#8217;s grief instead of soothe it.    </p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2303" style="margin: 10px;" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/angel-300x297.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="297" /> Emotional involvement isn&#8217;t the only impediment to visitation from beyond the grave.  Whether due to fear of the paranormal or the exclusion of such a possibility due to religious path or life view, these can be long-held beliefs that prevent spirit interaction.  Often people haven&#8217;t really considered the possibility of interacting with a spirit until someone they love dies.  Again, in that dynamic lies an assumption that the emotional bond will in and of itself reveal an active connection beyond the veil, and in this case trump institutionalized beliefs.  I know it is entirely possible for someone who does not believe in spirits to have a spontaneous change of heart.  However, in these cases there is still more than an emotional bond at work.  Our consciousness is organized into beliefs and personal truths so that we can make sense of data coming in.  At any point that we choose, we can change our beliefs, thus change the organization of our consciousness.  In the case of those who prior eschewed spiritual possibilities let alone contact, it&#8217;s not likely that their beliefs will spontaneously reorganize to suddenly allow the perception of a visitation from a deceased loved one.  If you fear spirits or have rigid beliefs that oppose paranormal life, the likelihood of experiencing such after the death of a loved one is slim.  It is possible, though not probable.  Naysayers who do experience unexpected spiritual interaction have generally gone through a rampant restructuring of their beliefs.</p>
<p>Another reason that the dead don&#8217;t visit is simply because they have no need to.  They&#8217;re happy.  They&#8217;re peaceful and they have genuinely grown beyond the concerns of the formed realm.  It doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t love us or have abandoned us.  It doesn&#8217;t mean you will never see them again.  In fact, most of us repeat experiences of ourselves with the same groups of souls.  It just means they&#8217;ve moved on to the next point of their destiny.  </p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the magickal combination? Why do other people have full-on conversations with your deceased loved ones when you don&#8217;t seem able to?  Remember that people who work with spirits likely demonstrated some innate ability to do so early on in life and/or had a life-changing experience that opened them to their ability, and have dedicated their lives to the skills and boundaries of that work.   It&#8217;s not random or trivial.  They devoted themselves to learning to read the signals and communication of spirits in subtle and profound ways.  Moreover, they do so without an emotional charge.  They are not emotionally involved with their work, and that enables them to stretch the limits of their ability.  To people who interact with spirits doing so no different than interacting with the living.  Venturing into the realm of the dead is as common place as walking into a crowded restaurant.  In short, it&#8217;s not a big deal to them.  They will it so, and so it is.  Through that accomplishment, it&#8217;s always a miracle.</p>
<p>The thing is, there isn&#8217;t anything special about people who experience spirits and those who don&#8217;t.  The only difference between those who do and those who don&#8217;t is willingness and the taming of cultural domestication to see life in a fuller, less prescribed way.  If you are curious about how to interact with spirits, connect with a trusted professional who can mentor you in doing so.  If you&#8217;re not but still want to interact with deceased loved ones, find someone who can do so and know that your bond is as intact as ever across the veil and it&#8217;s a blessing to have such.  Moreover, find etheric ways to deepen your relationship to your loved ones now, and the opening for that greater interaction will always be there.</p>
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		<title>The Tribe of the Modern Mystic &#8211; Setting Spiritual Boundaries with Challenging Energies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 13:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent discussion around disruptive energetic activity in someone&#8217;s house a question arose that often comes up in such dynamics: What do you do when a visiting energy doesn&#8217;t honor boundaries? Many people at some point encounter energetic or spiritual activity in their home or workspace that they find disruptive, disturbing, or flat out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>In a recent discussion around disruptive energetic activity in someone&#8217;s house a question arose that often comes up in such dynamics:  What do you do when a visiting energy doesn&#8217;t honor boundaries?</em></p>
<p>Many people at some point encounter energetic or spiritual activity in their home or workspace that they find disruptive, disturbing, or flat out frightening.  Most often, how that energy is dealt with determines how well the dynamic finds balance.  I&#8217;m careful to distinguish “energetic” from “spiritual.”  Sometimes the activity in a space is due to odd fluctuations in the etheric field and has nothing to do with spirits.  In this case, balancing the elements of the space can bring relief.  Likewise, there can be a spiritual presence that readily exhibits a personality or humanoid traits, such as a female form or voice.  Ultimately such disturbances indicate  a different kind of energy out of balance and don&#8217;t carry a &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;bad&#8221; judgement.  They just indicate that something needs attention.  <em>For most people it is the element of surprise that is bothersome.</em> This is true whether the disturbance is another person coming up behind them or an insect popping out.  Once they get their bearings on the situation they manage it by asserting a more suitable way to approach, or by determining if that particular bug can roam freely in the house.  With the boundary set, things calm.  It&#8217;s no different with spiritual energies.  In the case of a spiritual interruption, we set boundaries, such as, &#8220;It&#8217;s OK if you&#8217;re here, though I allow no physical contact,&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s OK that you&#8217;re here, though please no surprise visits.&#8221;  What happens when the energy doesn&#8217;t hold up its end of the peace?</p>
<p>In order to understand why an energy doesn&#8217;t honor a boundary, let&#8217;s examine what that energy may be and its reason for making itself known to start with.  There are many scenarios under which spiritual activity happens, and I can only touch on a few here.  Figuring out what sort of visitor is present is key to resolving any unrest it causes.  Some visitors warn about dangerous situations.  Once the danger is removed, the energy moves on and disruption stops.  Others are enticed into a peaceful environment and simply want to enjoy it.  Some don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re deceased and don&#8217;t realize they need to move on.  Others perished traumatically and are locked in a PTSD dynamic, acting out their demise until someone understands that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening and helps them move on.   In some cases a paranormal disturbance can indicate trouble in the home.  The phenomenon referred to as &#8220;poltergeist&#8221; activity isn&#8217;t necessarily a spirit visitor at all, but an unconscious projection of a person in the household (usually a child) who has been traumatized and doesn&#8217;t have the communication skills to express their distress.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2290" style="margin: 10px;" title="Spirit Visitors" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/guardian-angel-242x300.jpg" alt="Spirit Visitors" width="242" height="300" />Another frequently occurring phenomenon is the visitation of spirit guides (or as some call them, guardian angels), who shake up the environment, particularly in the case of children, budding intuitives, or empaths who refuse to acknowledge their Other sight.  Even in the case of a visiting guide&#8211;beings we often assume to be gentle angelic creatures&#8211;we question their need to sometimes be forceful or frighten us.  Sometimes we have received gradual small signals that we may have ignored or just didn’t process as spirit communication, so a bigger display of need finally gets our attention.  Another way to look at it is by considering that spirits are beings from a foreign country and they don&#8217;t speak the language, or don&#8217;t know the customs.  They don&#8217;t know that disembodied voices in the night scare us, or that dropping onto the mattress while we&#8217;re sleeping is a bit rude.  Again, that element of surprise prevents us from perceiving friendly interactions, or at least misconstrued actions with good intentions.  Hence, this is the reason the accepted historic accounts with angels always begin with, &#8220;Fear not!&#8221;  <em>Moving past that initial shock is what determines whether we get the memo.</em></p>
<p>All of that said, when we have such experiences an opening for them has to be created somewhere.  Sure we can feel so terrified by spirit interaction that we run screaming from it and never look back, and no such contact happens again.  The cultural myth of &#8220;fire in the head&#8221; exists for a reason, though I think it&#8217;s somewhat misunderstood.  We&#8217;ve all read legends of the old man who heard voices and went crazy, or the young girl who was visited by spirits that wouldn&#8217;t leave her alone.  The message handed down has been that if we don&#8217;t accept the task of becoming a seer or conduit of the spiritual world in some way that bad things will happen.  I think it&#8217;s more benevolent than that.  In my experience we don&#8217;t have to take on the whole arena of what a spiritual encounter may mean, even ones that are very personal.  We don&#8217;t have to quit our jobs and move to an ashram in India or suddenly become vegetarian and take herbalism classes.  It may mean that kind of sweeping life change for some people.  What it demands without question is that we honor that we had <em>an experience</em> outside of our understanding, that we allow that one little interaction to open our understanding of All Things.  That&#8217;s all.  In that light when we have a challenging spiritual experience and we refuse to acknowledge it, chances are the environment will become more restless, not because we are cursed or are refusing the leadership of a spirit guide, but because we are refusing some wisdom to light within ourselves.  This is the reason that instead of dismissing energetic adversity we open a dialogue with it.  This is why instead of shutting down that part of ourselves we set boundaries for how we can accept it.  We do so not because we need to control the unseen, but because we have had a spiritual opening, an opportunity to learn something about ourselves.</p>
<p>Still, what if we go through all of these things and our visitor is still being obnoxious?  I tell clients to keep two things in mind.  The first is that All Things are connected, so when we speak from our truth, All Things actively participating in that connection recognize that fact and honor our needs.  Create the habit of observing and regrouping when caught offguard&#8211;seen or unseen&#8211;and set a boundary not out of shocked fear, but from personal truth.  It works.  The second thing I tell people when a visitor isn&#8217;t honoring their boundary is, because All Things are connected, consider what All Things is trying to communicate something important.  It may be about us, about the energy, or about the environment.  There is a reason it is persisting, the least of which is to be merely bothersome.  A final consideration is if the experience has traumatized the individual it’s very hard to find a place of balance from which to set boundaries.  Activity will likely persist until the PTSD of the individual can be released.</p>
<p><em>In our western culture we don&#8217;t have the community Crone sitting by the campfire scrying out the best way to do this year&#8217;s crop planting or helping us make sense of experiences that don&#8217;t fit our norm.</em> For this reason I actively teach people how to soften their experience of Other and to learn to integrate it into their lives.  Western culture is the only thriving population on the planet that regards paranormal activity as astounding, riveting, or disturbing.  All other cultures have integrated it into their experience of everyday.  As a result of our separation from our spiritual perception, we panic when it seeks to reunite with us. I first met my spirit guide when I was about twelve or thirteen.  I woke over years finding him standing at the foot of my bed, or at the end of the hall when I got up for water in the night.  All he did was stand there, but that was all it took to terrify me.  I didn&#8217;t learn who he was for another fifteen years.  For that reason through <a href="http://www.soulintentarts.com/node/22">private sessions</a>, <a href="http://www.soulintentarts.com/node/28">classes</a>, and <a href="http://www.soulintentarts.com/node/47">Distance Mystery School</a>, I&#8217;ve committed to create a new tribe of support for children and adults whose lives are blessed with such experiences and an uncontainable inner knowing.  I&#8217;ve committed to create The Tribe of the Modern Mystic.</p>
<p>As you feel led, I&#8217;ll be waiting by the fire.</p>
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		<title>Healing the PTSD of Paranormal Probing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s inquiry is a comment from my last article Paranormal Investigating &#8211; Troubleshooting the Middle World. &#8220;Kelley, you said &#8220;Should you find residuals from the encounter with these spirits – things like paranoia, troublesome thought or behavior patterns that disrupt your daily life – these are indications that your PTSD switch for paranormal experiences [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This week&#8217;s inquiry is a comment from my last article <a href="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/2011/02/24/paranormal-inv…e-middle-world/">Paranormal Investigating &#8211; Troubleshooting the Middle World</a>.  &#8220;Kelley, you said &#8220;Should you find residuals from the encounter with these spirits – things like paranoia, troublesome thought or behavior patterns that disrupt your daily life – these are indications that your PTSD switch for paranormal experiences has been flipped on and you should seek help in turning it off.&#8221;  I dabbled stupidly with the Ouija board as a kid and other things before I realized the seriousness of it. Now, decades later it seems that something may have remained.  How can I turn it off?   Thanks, Carolyn.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Thanks for reading and contributing, Carolyn.  The absolute best thing to do if you feel PTSD or anything unfinished from these experiences is to find a shaman to help you.  I can do this work remotely, but if you let me know your location perhaps I can connect you with someone with whom you can work in person if that is preferred.</p>
<p>Traumatic experience with the paranormal could be as benign as the shock of being told information you weren&#8217;t prepared to know or that no one else could know.  It could be as jarring as seeing objects move, hearing voices, seeing visitors&#8230;  Fright can even come days later in some signal, synchronicity, or dream pointing back to the spirit interaction.  The definition of &#8216;trauma&#8217; varies person-to-person.  The point is you know you&#8217;ve been traumatized if you can&#8217;t step out of the fear stemming from the original interaction.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, there are three layers to the aftermath of such spirit interactions.  First is turning off the switch, which I call rebalancing your etheric field.  Second is removing any errant life force that may be clinging to yours.  Third is healing focused on balancing the energy shifts from all of the above.</p>
<p>There is no shortcut to finding the place in your etheric field that is vulnerable to the trauma and rebalancing it.  Where it&#8217;s located is unique to the individual and the experience.  If you are adept at working with the etheric field you can do this yourself, though I would still recommend allowing someone else to do it.  The life impact of this kind of imbalance bears being thorough.  There are many ways to balance the etheric field, all of which require some knowledge of life force and how to move it.  At this stage, the original trauma is healed, as are emotions that came with it.</p>
<p>Removing unnecessary energies attached to yours is called by many names depending on culture and circumstance—depossession, extraction, releasement.  The state of having unneeded life force attached to yours is not good or bad.  It’s not light or dark.  There are no such judgments in shamanic work.  What exists is a state in which you are not functioning at your desired ability and benevolent work can be done to re-establish balance.</p>
<p>Like attracts like.  When you experience something that puts you into a panicked, anxious, or terrified state, you attract energy of that same state.  Psychological models call this PTSD, or being &#8220;shell-shocked.&#8221;  Spiritually speaking PTSD is recognized when you attract people who express the same feelings, situations reinforcing those feelings, or spirits/energies of similar trauma.  You think the distress and building panic are yours, when in reality like attraction is merely exacerbating it.  This scenario constitutes a spiritual emergency.  Until you direct healing to the trigger for the trauma the anxiety and panic keep playing out and/or attracting more of the same.  This is the spiritual truth of any trauma, not just those of paranormal origin.</p>
<p>After balancing the etheric field to restore calmness and removing unnecessary life force, healing is directed to all levels of your being, to help changes from the etheric and spiritual work to gently ground.</p>
<div id="attachment_2190" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2190" title="How About Demons? by Dr. Felicitas Goodman" src="http://www.intentionalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/index1-150x150.jpg" alt="How About Demons? by Dr. Felicitas Goodman" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">How About Demons? by Dr. Felicitas Goodman</p></div>
<p>That’s it, in a not-so-brief nutshell.  If you want to understand &#8220;the switch&#8221;&#8211;what it is, how it functions, and how the spiritual technology of managing it crosses cultures and time, the definitive work in my opinion is <em>How About Demons?</em> by Felicitas D. Goodman.</p>
<p>Be well, Carolyn.</p>
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