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Soul Evolution

 From the moment we are born, our souls may feel heavy because they are carrying the weight of all we have lived, loved, and learned in our past incarnations. It is only when we actively seek to work through our issues that we can lighten the load and our souls can evolve. Divesting ourselves of what no longer serves us, such as unwarranted fear, the inability to feel empathy, or self-limiting behaviors, are just some of the many challenges we may face in this lifetime. While some issues we face are easier to deal with because they are the final remains of residue from a past life, other issues offer greater challenges because we are meant to work through them throughout this lifetime.

Often, we expect ourselves to recover quickly from difficult or painful circumstances. When we do not or cannot, we may feel emotionally inept or hopeless. The evolution of the soul, however, is an ongoing process that can take many lifetimes. It is a matter of accepting that even when we do our best there are going to be situations, people, and outcomes that we cannot control. It is also important to remember that your experiences now may be setting the groundwork for future healing -- whether in this lifetime or the next one. The more you release in each time, the more you grow and the more your soul will evolve.

Although it is not always possible to work through all of our issues in a single lifetime, it is important that we confront what we are called to face in this life and do the work we need to do. It is also important to remember that the most effective way to let your soul grow is to be an active participant in life. Be present in each moment and your soul will do this work for you. (Daily OM)

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Light of Truth Oracle - "Heritage"

Voluntary Hibernation - A Vital Spiritual Process

 Sometimes it is necessary to take ourselves out of circulation; to take a step back; to withdraw from usual routines. This is necessary in these moments to absorb all that has taken place in our lives since the last time we took a voluntary hibernation. For so many of us, alas, these voluntary step backs don't take place, and it is often only due to enforced withdrawals, like serious illness, that we can have a hibernation period.

It cannot be stressed enough how real, and how necessary a hibernation period is. Our consciousness is all seeing, and on total record, taking on board everything that is sees, filling our sub-conscious with debris. This debris in turn can mix up the communication wiring to our conscious mind, and confuse us with the decisions we find ourselves making.

During a voluntary withdrawal, we can actually slow the absorption process down, and begin a casual review of our thoughts, our feelings and our memories. This enables us to understand more the appearance of the world around us, a world shaped by our thinking. We can then learn to recognise once more who we are, and begin a self healing process, if required.

The withdrawal is especially helpful during the process known as 'the long dark night of the soul' which is a process associated with spiritual growth and the 'burn' of the spiritual muscles after a work out in the college of life gym. Experienced spiritual explorers will recognise immediately the signs of this process, and not hesitate to put themselves out of circulation. Clearing out the debris in the sub-conscious is a vital process to ensure that a true spiritual awakening can be sustained and the purity of energy flow between the levels of consciousness is maintained.

The magician will often use this voluntary hibernation to review life experiences, and his/her reaction to circumstances and stimuli in their life. Through this process it is possible to determine the life lessons required to be repeated, thus keeping those memories afloat in the mental library. It is also a good time to begin the assimilation process of those memories no longer necessary to the life journey; especially those memories linked to life lessons not to be repeated.

To the outside world, the actions of the magician, going through this hibernation process, will be deemed as odd, and out of character. The outside world will fail to understand the needs of the magician or the pathway in his/her life. It is thus another reason why the withdrawal process takes place as this quantum leap process is a personal and private thing for the magician - Matthew James   

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The First Painter Syndrome

 Who taught the first painter to paint? What practical book of oil painting or watercolours was around when the first time urge came to illustrate a tapestry with a colourful representation of what was on the artist's mind? Nothing. No teacher was there to criticise or point out the right or the wrong. The first one was the he or she who did what came instinctively. They let it flow naturally. The did what felt right ... free from the criticism of others. Then down through the ages, as recognised styles developed ... it became more and more 'wrong' to express a 'free style' and it became more of the norm to have to paint exactly as it is taught or it is written in books.

It is exactly the same at times with mysticism. With clairvoyancy in particular. From bitter self experience I found the world of self development a world lacking in free styles. It is a world where the mystic is expected to follow the same road as all of those who have gone before. If he or she doesn't then they get 'shackles' tied to their ankles and they get criticised. They get operantly conditioned that they are 'not old enough' to read professionally; they cannot have the abilities they claim because they have not followed the pathway that has been apparently laid down as the only way to develop as a medium or a clairvoyant.

The same can be said with The Tarot. With Tarot card reading. The norm dictates that tarot cards must be studied intimately and their 'book readings' .... the 'norm' on what they mean and what they can 'only mean because so and so said so' ... learned parrot fashion. There appears no room or acceptance for freestyle anymore.

Remember, that which is written is only an opinion. It is only what someone else has interpreted what the image means. It doesn't make that meaning as being cast in stone. That first interpretation could have been wrong. It may have worked for the first person who created the image. The first who laid down the pathway at that time. It doesn't automatically mean it is right for each and everyone.

No. I walked away from the world of the Psychic Centre and the Spiritualist Church. There is no room for a freestyle mystic there. Freestyle Mystic can read as a chaos magician, but I don't really care. I have methods which I have developed ... the 'first painter' syndrome in other words ... methods which work extremely well for me. Methods which have reaped uncanny accuracy time and time and time again. Methods I do not force on others because I visualise we manifest in a freestyle world. Each and every one of us has freewill and the right to self expression. In that freestyle world we are all entitled to our own self expression.

Applying this therefore to my freestyle method of divination. To my long sojourn as the 'professional tarot reader' ... I have a deep respect for the 'book meanings' of the tarot images. I respect the subconscious images which are contained within the tarot. I do not begrudge anyone who read the tarot in that way ... but for me I interpret the tarot differently. I find the way which is right for myself .. for my own self expression. It is from this slant that I practice divination. I respect therefore that there will be many experienced tarot readers out there ... who will view my Daily Merlin insights and obtain completely different meanings to what appears in the workings. It does not mean what I have seen is wrong. Remember thus that the primary use of the Tarot is as a key to open the door to the super conscious part of the psyche. It is an aid and a springboard ... nothing more. Tarot is designed as the means to access the altered states of consciousness ... this is why I use the tarot ... as the means to the end like the key to open the door. They are not the end result. They are but the start, the beginning of the projection. They are thus my connection between this world and the others ... 

COPYRIGHT MATTHEW JAMES 2007

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