Manifestation Mastery

At the turn of the 20th century, the Spiritualist Movement took hold of Western culture in a big way. Spiritualism was a form of religious practice that combined Eastern Transcendentalism with occult mystical practice and ideas, and was promoted in the U.S. and Europe by an eccentric woman who called herself Madame Blavatsky. Psychology was an infant science, and many traditional scholars from the ‘hard’ sciences got caught up in trying to prove or disprove Spiritualist practices, which included seances, parlor games centered around ESP, and a practice called “automatic writing.” Automatic writing was a form of light trance in which the medium, usually a woman, would lightly hold a pen or pencil over a pad of paper and wait for it to move on its own accord. The message spelled out this way was taken to be a message from “the spirit world.” Some women wrote entire novels under pen names of entities “channeled” during automatic writing sessions. Today, the practice is once again becoming popular, but the focus is less on contacting the dead and more on contactingone’s own higher Self. Many of the 19th century women who channeled automatic writings were actually highly intelligent persons who, because they lived as women in Victorian times, were thought incapable of such written wisdom, even though they were fully capable of it. Popular New Age writers Amy Zerner and Monet Farber have an automatic writing kit now available. You can read a review about it at www.amazon.com.

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The word for ‘angel’ comes from a Hebrew term that simply means ‘messenger’. Each of us has access to an inner guide, or as some would say, a guardian angel, that can direct us toward what is best and help us in times of stress or danger. Many people have had the experience of hearing an audible voice directing them to ‘duck’ or ‘jump’ or some other specific instruction that, given in the split second before a traumatic event, literally saves their lives. When people look back on such experiences they often attribute them to an angel, and this is consistent with the meaning of the word. What few people realize is that such guidance is always available, even when the situation is not life-threatening or dramatic. For example, I have often had the experience of not being able to find some small item—keys, a paper, an object–and when I finally stop looking and simply ask, “Where is it?” I pause, and ‘hear’ in my head the answer. This happens so reliably that now, when I’ve lost something, I ask right away. Why scramble all over the house when I can just ask somebody who knows? Is that somebody me, my inner self, or an outside celestial being? Does it matter? The most important thing is realizing that we all have this guidance ‘built in’ from birth. All we have to do to find it, is ask. Does anything ever get any easier than that?

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