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J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

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REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG
An Inner World Exploration

J-1 – Foundation For The Journey Within –
Create Your Sacred GArden

Within the inner world of your invisible self is a personal place of power and healing. It is a sanctuary for guidance, introspection, and spiritual deepening.  It is available to everyone.

Your Sacred Garden in your personal sanctuary. It is a place of self-healing. It is the starting place for meditation, for shamanic journeys.

It this episode, Cara Lumen, spiritual explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community, leads you on a guided meditation to create this inner sanctuary for your own spiritual practice.

Using the ancient introspective method of shamanic mediations called “journeying”, Cara guides you to the inner realms where you create your personal place of refuge. Everything you find in your Sacred Garden is an aspect of you, a symbolic, metaphoric message from your inner self.

Whether you want to mediate for self-healing, a deeper understanding of your soul purpose, the well-being of our world, or insights and wisdom for your daily life, you begin your meditative journey in the sanctuary of your Sacred Garden.

In this episode. Cara will guide you in building a transpersonal bridge between the inner and outer world and help you uncover the treasures of your inner self.

In this episode: 

1. Discover the purpose of Your Sacred Garden. What is it, why you want to use it, how to create it.

2, Journey to your invisible worlds to create this sacred inner retreat.

3. Learn how to immediately add the Sacred Garden to your own spiritual practice.

Resources: 

Drumming Recording: For your personal practice, this drumming tape by Shamanist Sandra Ingerman will help you move gently into a receptive state for your journey. Your journey can be as long or as short as it turns out to be.

In this episode Cara use a Tibetan Hand Bell / Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium.  There is a variety of these available.

Further Study: If you want to learn more about shamanism I suggest you begin with the book Awakening to the SpiritWorld, the Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, both of whom I have studied with.

You can also take courses from both Sandy and Hank at The Shift Network.

THE JOURNEY TO THE INNER WORLD SERIES

The first three podcasts should be listened to in order.  They lay the foundation.

J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

NEXT: J-2 Connecting with your Power Animal

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Nurture the Garden Of Self

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Nurture the Garden Of Self
An Inner-world Exploration

Our strength comes from within.  Our ideas come from within.  Our entire life expression comes from within. Within you, accessible by your imagination, there’s a Garden of Self and we are each responsible for planning, cultivating, and harvesting our own crops.  

Intention plants the seed

Starting your Garden of Self is as simple as setting an intention.  

Today I plant the seed of Serenity in my Garden of Self and I will water it with patience, nurture it with silence, and harvest it throughout my day. 

Well, wow!  Let’s do more of that.

Today I plant the seed of Wisdom in my Garden of Self.  I nurture it with contemplation and mindfully harvest it throughout my day, picking one succulent berry at a time and savoring it.

More?

In my Garden of Self, I planted an acorn called “Cara” and it immediately grew into a giant oak complete with a bird’s nest, a rainbow parrot, a squirrel and a bunch of acorns that are future Cara trees.  

It’s a mature tree, as I am mature, but it has a lot of life and a great deal still to offer. Insights, wisdom, hope.

What will you plant in your Garden of Self?

The Fountain of Love

In your Garden of Self create a water source.  In the Sacred Garden where I begin each shamanic journey, I have three separate water sources:  a reflecting pond, a bubbling brook, and a waterfall.  So I was surprised to find a different water source in my Garden of Self, which is down the road from my Sacred Garden.  But a fountain showed up, a happy, bumbling, spray-sharing laughing fountain. It is from this Fountain of Love and Joy that I am to nurture the crops I plant.  

Build the support you need

You may need to provide a trellis for some of your crops.  A support system that encourages growth and the space to expand or elevate above the ground.  What in your life needs support?

You may need to prune a plant in your Garden of Self in order to encourage the growth of one strong central plant.  Don’t be afraid to prune and let go. It will make the core stronger. 

My Cara tree has obviously been around for a while. Do I need to prune it?  Support a branch here or there?  Drop a few more acorns of wisdom?

Cultivate, encourage and support whatever you grow in your Garden of Self. 

Share your harvest

In the Garden of Self, you plant the things you need in order to elevate the vibration of your Body Suit.  

At some point, you are going to share your harvest.  Perhaps you will share a little.  Perhaps you will share a lot.  Who will you share it with?  How will you take it to market?  Who needs what you have to offer?

I’m dropping acorns of wisdom like a wild woman. Sometimes the wind helps me and carries them farther afield.  Sometimes they just drop to the ground and take root.  Sometimes they go to feed a bit of nature like a squirrel.  I just keep dropping seeds of Insight and Wisdom and let them fall wherever they may. What seeds are your sharing from the plant that is you?

Allow the cycles to unfold 

Gardens go through cycles.  Their needs change.  Sometimes they take.  Sometimes they give. It’s all part of the process of nature’s cycles.  Know where you are in the cycle and what you need to do/provide next. 

You may need rest in order to restore. You may be harvesting the best crop you ever produced.  You may be simply looking over the seed catalog to see what you want to plant.  Each stage is perfect.  Immerse yourself in it. 

Plant some experimental crops

You won’t know whether you like the crop until you harvest it and put it to use.  You don’t have to grow a lot of an experimental crop, but do plant enough so you can understand its needs, its demands, its preferences and how the final harvest nurtures you.  Even planting one seed and following it through its process can provide the information you need to make a decision on whether or not to plant more. 

Keep the Garden of Self nurtured

What does our Garden of Self need right now?  Where are you in the cycle? Not all crops will be in the same stages of readiness.  Give them what they need.  And remember one cycle leads to the next. So while one field is allowed to lie dormant in order to restore and replenish, another will provide multiple harvests.  Be aware of the difference and honor the process and the cycles.  

Intention provides direction and growth

Each day, pause to consider the intention you have for your Garden of Self.  That pause to balance and gain awareness will help you set an intention that will carry you forward in the most positive and productive manner.  Set an intention and let it unfold. Then follow the path that opens up. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I tend my Garden of Self with conscious intention every day.

Deeper Song Process

  • In a state of meditation, journey to find your Garden of Self and begin to explore.
  • See what crops need to be planted.  What do you want to grow and encourage in your garden of Self?
  • Plant some staples, but perhaps start a few experiments crops.  
  • Tend your Garden of Self every day.
  • Harvest when ready and share what you have grown.
  • Look over the seed catalogs and plant some experimental crops….!

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden? 

What Seeds Do You Plant for the Future?

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers
raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively,
can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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The Secret Garden

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As we begin to expand our inner work, this exploration of our Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, we want to create a launch pad, a Secret Garden from which we begin our exploration. It is part of our inner world, our Invisible Self.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community help us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she explains how to create and use a secret garden of your imagination as a safe space for contemplation and exploration.

Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all of yourself.  – Rumi

(7:35) In this episode we consider: 

1 – The Purpose of the Secret Garden

2 – The meaning of the elements in the Secret Garden

3- The Sacred Garden and healing

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

Power Journaling

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

“Awakening to the Spirit World, The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation” Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wasserman

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

Open New Doors and Close Old Ones

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Open New Doors and Close Old Ones

Creating Conscious Connection

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

There was an urgency to it. I needed and wanted to complete a lot of podcast scripts that I had been working on so that I could move forward. But what happened was that when I went through them, out of about 20, I’m only going to record two. Because I have already moved on.

Change happens slowly and then suddenly it races forward with great abandonment. We need to pay attention to the sudden changes and be willing to move forward and keep up.

I’ve been feeling this new direction unfold for six months. It was when I took the class from Peruvian Shaman Puma that I got the idea to record the seven rays. And that idea opened a whole new way to share energy with you, as guided meditations. So instead of exploring and sharing what I find, this next part of my path is to help you find your own answers. How fun for both of us! A few days later, I woke with a zillion ideas of inner Journeys to Self that I can make into experiential podcasts. 

Listen and you will hear. Follow those nudges, particularly the ones that say “go exploring”. Check out the smallest nudges and give them serious consideration. The nudge is the universe talking to you. Pay attention. Be ready to close some old doors and open some new ones. 

My work is also being transformed by my new understanding that we are already the highest vibration, we just have to remember that and access it with focused awareness. It’s not about raising our vibration because it is already raised. It’s about allowing ourselves to experience ourselves as the highest vibration. That may take some practice. And that’s a whole new direction for me.

Notice what you have outgrown or gone past and leave it behind. Make room for the new adventure.

Sometimes it is a specific need that makes you take a different path. Sometimes it is an unexpected opportunity or a new insight. Let some doors close as you open new ones. 

All things unfold in their perfect time. But we have to pay attention. We get to go exploring with each new nudge. And we have to be open to walking down a new path.

What doors are opening in your life, and what doors are closing?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open and aware of the ongoing changes that are being offered in my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Start listening very closely to the nudges of your inner voice.
  • Take time to consider and explore many of those nudges.
  • Be willing to change your direction.
  • Gently close the doors you leave behind.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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More Ray Journeys!

I’m on a roll here.

The seven rays are portals, pathways, rainbow bridges to our energetic origins and by connecting with them and interacting with them, we become seeds for the new humanity.

The core purpose of these Deeper Song explorations is to deepen our understanding that we are a center of natural wholeness and organic universality.  We are pure energy. We are the universe and we are to consistently come from that place of interconnected, interactive wholeness.

The series continues: 

A Deeper Song Guided
Journey to the Orange Ray
(23 Minutes)
(LISTEN)

A Deeper Song Guided
Journey to the Yellow Ray
(23 Minutes)
(Listen Here)

A Deeper Song Guided
Journey to the Green Ray
(23 minutes)
(Listen here)

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===INNER WORK===

Pay Attention to What’s Happening in the Middle 

It was just one cord standing between me and having my new 21-inch computer monitor work.  I plugged one end into the monitor and the other to the outlet and nothing happened.  There was no power to the monitor.  This went on for days with me plugging and unplugging with no success.  Finally, I switched sides of my desk to plug in the cord and in the process of jiggling the cord, the monitor came on! 

There was a box in the middle of the cord that does not care to be dangled, it needs to be flat. I had not thought of it as part of the process because there was no plug in or out. There were cords but they were permanently attached. It was just a box on the cord that connected the monitor to the power. I paid attention to both ends but had forgotten to take care of the middle!

There is a life lesson there.

Pay attention to what goes on between the start and the finish. 

Is that a lesson for my life? Am I paying enough attention to my current processes, my current insights, my current needs? Only partially.  “Middle” is halfway between the beginning and the end. How is my day progressing? Am I still headed in the direction I chose when I check in at mid-day? Am I caring for the middle well enough?  How is my project doing?  Am I paying attention to how I structure the middle so I have a strong finish?  

I’m sure you’ll think of other analogies but do pay attention to the middle of …whether you are doing…

===OUTER WORK===

The Seasoning of Your Life 

I’ve been there before in my journeys but it was a surprise considering that I had asked about the direction of my life. I have a healing hut in my Sacred Garden. Within it, among other things, there is a cauldron around which three women stand. In this particular journey, they were seasoning it. And great smells came from it. They would periodically taste it. When I asked them what they were doing, they said they were seasoning my life.

That’s an interesting concept – to season your life. We can spice things up or leave strong tastes out. We can acquire new tastes and explore different flavors. The seasoning of my life is changing. The focus of my work is changing. All I know to do is to keep trying new flavors, new seasonings, new combinations. And see what I like. See what resonates with me.

Are you an experimenter? Do you try different combinations in your life? Do you explore new seasonings? Is your soup of life a bit bland? Or is it too spicy already?

Add new flavors, new seasonings, to the cauldron of your life.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Establish Balance 

What is important to you? And are you achieving the balance you need and want in order to pursue and cultivate the different aspects of your life? Working from home has presented both opportunities and challenges. The rapidly changing discoveries and opportunities that keep evolving are pushing us to keep up and constantly learn new skills and reconsider our choices.

As you make your choices, both personal and professional, keep your life in balance. Explore the conscious flow of new opportunities and ideas that are gushing out of this evolving era and see what resonates with you, what you might use in designing your next phase. 

Make room for your internal work. That should be the priority. When I create balance in my life, I have room to explore and contemplate, and go down different paths to check them out and productively share what I discover. If I don’t make room to explore, I will probably not make time to change.

Create a way to be contemplative. Establish a pattern of going within and seeing how you’re doing. Is your current path rewarding?  Is it taking you where you want to go?  Are there new opportunities you want to explore? Look to see if you are maintaining balance between the inner and outer worlds that you wish to explore. 

In stillness, you will find your next step. Not in creating a master list or actively exploring new openings, although those are part of the process. Your awareness comes in the stillness. Create some stillness. Be in it. And find your balance.

===DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Qigong Global Summit! Free! May 24-28! Shift Network. I learned a lot from this last time.  

“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”  – Brian Clark It’s Time to Think Differently About Your Career

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Anticipate the Future

There’s so much change going on in the world today, we are hard-pressed to keep up, let alone think ahead. But think ahead we must. We need to anticipate the potential of the future. And how we might take advantage of it, adapt to it, move forward within it.

But most of all, I think we need to look closely at how we are evolving. And how we might create for ourselves new work, new ways to make a living. New ways to be in service.

People are no longer retiring, they are creating new phases of productivity in their lives. 65 to 95 is 30 years!!!!!

When you look at what you are doing with the idea of changing it, all sorts of new possibilities show up. And you get to go adventuring.

I remember when I moved from New York City to Santa Rosa, California with my special needs granddaughter in tow. I had called ahead to the temp agencies and I knew exactly what I could earn. I did get work right away and the first place that I worked offered me a full-time position. But I said, “No, I want to go exploring.” So I continued to explore the wine country through temp work and got to work at everything from wineries to fire stations. But that’s my version of working. To explore.

At 88, I am doing all my exploration in my mind, and online. And sharing it with whoever is interested in what I’m discovering. And I certainly have no idea where this is taking me. Or us. But I like the open road. I like the ability to travel on and off the beaten path. And then turn around if that path ceases to resonate. 

This idea of having a productive end-stage of life is powerful.  I am the only person in this senior center who has any out-reaching productivity going on.  I can’t imagine what they are doing with their days. 

Look at your life. Look at your gifts. Look at what you love to do. And go make up your next source of income for the next fulfilling part of your life. 

Change is happening very rapidly. Be flexible. Be willing to let go of what no longer works. And have a great time exploring and unfolding your next.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

SHIFT

Even the slightest shift will take us in a new direction. And the world today is shifting like a whirling dervish. The Oracle card I drew for us is “shift.” What do you need to shift in order to move forward? Are you looking in as many directions as you can to identify your next possibility, your next potential place of service? What belief or expectation do you need to shift in order to allow you to move forward? Even the slightest shift will change where you end up. Take one new step forward and shift your view.

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

When the Current Catches You 

It’s interesting how rapidly one moves forward when you are going in the right direction. I feel like a kite cut from my string and I am soaring and swooping and having a lovely time on a summer afternoon. I have completed a phase. I have left it and moved on. I have totally immersed myself in this new stage of exploration. It is incredibly freeing. The ideas are exciting and promising and abundant!

What are you hanging onto that needs to be released? Is it a plan? Is it an idea? Is it an expectation? Let go and then stand on the edge of opportunity and look around. Use your imagination to see where each path may lead. Then turn in a new direction and go exploring. 

The energy of our experience here on earth is changing rapidly. It is a great opportunity to explore further afield and then change directions. Come exploring with me. We have work to do and discoveries to make.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Leave It Behind

I lay down what is no longer needed and move forward.

I lay down what is no longer needed and move forward, free now to travel a new journey of exploration.

I lay down what is no longer needed and move forward, free now to travel a new journey of exploration. New pathways call to me. 

I answer the call.

-Cara Lumen, May 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a Broader Context

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It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a Broader Context

Creating Conscious Connection

(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

As it often does, a single phrase calls out to me to be explored. This phrase was in what I wrote about the Oracle card Revision. I said: “It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a broader context”.

We are moving into a new era. And it rather changes everything. So what do we as members of the Circle of Light Beings do?  The planetary context is this very rapidly changing world that is faced with dramatic changes that we must address and address well.

Shift your point of view

I had a certain view-changing insight recently when I realized that we are already higher consciousness but as humans, we have forgotten that. That makes everything I do come from the top down, not the bottom up.
I am looking at all of us as higher consciousness already, rather than looking at us as a lower vibration that needs raising. It’s a very big difference. It changes what I choose to do. So perhaps the first step is to raise your vision and your expectation of what is possible.

Open up new vistas in the unfolding new era

There are so many new opportunities opening up in the world today. We have to be willing to let go of what we know, what didn’t work, even what we are rather fond of, and what is safely comfortable. We need to develop a fresh viewpoint about what is possible and what our role in it is.

Search deeply into the cycles of your life to discover new ways to apply and revise your gifts and your expectations in order to contribute more actively to this evolution we have entered. 

Come from the energy of collective oneness.

We are together in the same ocean of life. My wave over here affects your wave over there. My dashing up against a rock affects the rock and comes back to you. This concept of being one is a very impactful place to be because everything is connected. Is that the broader context we must become more aware of? Being connected? I now understand that we are already a high vibration, we just don’t know it, or we just don’t know how to access it, or we don’t think we know how to access it. But we already are high vibration. And we are to resonate to that high vibration. We are to act from that high vibration. Because we are that high vibration.

Seeing myself in this broader context changes my sense of personal value, it changes the impact of my actions, and it adds a whole level of responsibility on what I choose to do.

We get to re-examine what we are doing. We get to reassess our choices and where they have brought us. And most of all, we get to re-interpret our role in the world.

I have been blessed with subscribers from all over the planet and it changes how I see my role. I have no idea what individual lives are like, but I do know that we are all drawn together because we are the Circle of Light Beings and our job is vibrational. It is about keeping a raised consciousness about what is possible. And what our role in that high vibration is.

I recently re-wrote my who-and-do-what statement. That always helps me clarify what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.

“I help those who are aware of being higher consciousness to fulfill their role as Light Bearers.”

This is a world like we have never seen in our lifetime. That means our role is changing. It means the opportunities are changing. It means mindful change for the highest good is required.

This is a good time to rethink your role in the world. You were placed on this planet at this time with certain gifts and certain skills that are needed. We’re being called into deep action right now. Look for unusual opportunities to explore. 

It is time to re-vision your role, your purpose, in a broader context in this rapidly unfolding new era. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I explore my role in the world and find ways to deepen my service.

Deeper Song Process

  • Listen within. Listen to your inner guidance. Ask for support and information and ideas for you to consider in changing your direction, and how to take the first steps.
  • This will take time. As these ideas come in, immerse yourself in them far enough to know how they truly resonate. And if they are for you. And if they are for now.
  • Let go of how it has been and open up to what is possible in the now.
  • How can you reposition yourself to be in deeper service in this rapidly changing world?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider: 

Trust Your Inner Answers.  

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Join the Circle of Light Beings

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Our Global Deeper Song Community
Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet. Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Journey to the Red Ray
A Deeper Song Guided Adventure

The Seven Sacred Rays are within each of us.  The seven rays are portals, pathways, rainbow bridges to our energetic origins. By connecting with them and interacting with them, we become seeds for the new humanity.

Each Ray has a different purpose and in this series, you will experience a guided journey to find out your relationship with each Ray.

This is a guided journey to the Red Ray.  If you like, take a moment to select a crystal to hold while you journey that will represent the Red ray.  Or you can do that on your next journey.  Set yourself up in sacred time and sacred space. 

In this series, we explore and deepen our reciprocal exchange with each ray.  What the ray gives us, we can turn and give to others.  Build a relationship with each ray and accept the insights and guidance it offers. 

Welcome to the unseen world…

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Journey to the Red Ray,
A Deeper Song Guided  Adventure
(29 minutes)
(Listen) 

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To Sing a Seeper Song Consider:

Prepare to Journey 

Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Deeper Song Guided Journeys to the Seven Sacred Rays:

Journey to the Red Ray

Coming Soon

Journey to the Orange Ray
Journey to the Yellow Ray
Journey to the Blue Ray
Journey to the Indigo Ray
Journey to the Violet Ray

Trust Your Inner Answers.

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

How to Open Space for Change

===INNER WORK===
Organic Universality

This newsletter evolves as I come across a phrase or a concept that I want to explore more deeply and share with you. It often propels me to consider a new viewpoint. In a recent journey of mine emerged this phrase:  “come from this place of natural wholeness – organic universality.”  I like the idea of organic universality and wanted to explore what that looked like and felt like and how to experience that. 

A few weeks ago, I made a giant step into thinking of us as being cosmic wholeness but here in our human expression we forget that we are, we don’t think that we are. But if we come from a position of already being cosmic wholeness, instead of striving to raise our vibration, we simply have to remember that we already are high vibration. 
“Organic universality” – we are a unified, all-encompassing energy. So what do I do here in my human expression to feel that I am universal wholeness, organic universality?

The expectations of what is possible are greater. It may not mean that I dream bigger but it certainly will mean that I dream with more flexibility, more paths to explore, a bigger field to plant in if you will. 

“Natural wholeness” is an interesting concept. My body is naturally whole. I am to live my life from a place of knowing that I am organic wholeness. I’m not sure I know how to do that. But I like the concept.

The more we involve ourselves with the unseen world, the broader and deeper will be our experience of being here on earth with a huge purpose for our life.

It may be that I desire to go work on the inner planes because the physical plane is so dramatic at this point in time. My job is not to work on the physical plane. It is to work on the energetic plane. The plan of wholeness. The plane of oneness. So in my meditations and in my flute playing and my writing, I try to come from the viewpoint of already being Whole. Of being universal wholeness. Of being all one energy.  And that shifts how I respond and react in my human expression. I can’t take this concept any further because it’s fairly new for me. But we can begin to live our lives as being absorbed in, an integral aspect of the cosmic force – totally connected with all things cosmic, all things beyond cosmic. See what a shift in energy that brings to your daily life? Go exploring and immerse yourself in organic universality.

Insights will Develop with the Doing

I was on a journey asking for guidance for this new direction I’m going in, and the keywords were  
“insights will develop with the doing.” And that is happening. So I need to be patient. As I recorded the Ray Journeys and record other ideas that I have, I also need to periodically pause to see where I am. Because that very doing, that very fact that I am exploring new concepts, will open new insights and new pathways. Be patient. Keep exploring. And let the next step open up the new portals.

===OUTER  WORK===
Getting Started Changes Everything

“Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember:
Getting started changes everything.” – James Clear

I have been semi-stuck for many months now, knowing that something new was coming in, but having no real idea what it was. But it’s here. And it gets clearer each day. I now have specific steps I can take. 

Start from where you stand. Take one step. Look around. It will change your view. Just that one step. I turn to face a new direction in my work and it is exploding in this new direction. There are changes I need to make in my physical life and I need to go exploring to find what steps are for here and now. Take a step. Try it out for a day. Adjust it. And choose how or if to move forward.

Getting started changes everything. What do you need to get started on?

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Ask the Right Question

If you want to gain clarity, you must ask the right question.

How do you seek to deepen your awareness? Do you meditate? Do you journal? Do you just listen to your inner voice? 

If you want clarity, you have to ask the right question. You might ask is this for me? Or how do I do this? You might ask what are my next steps? You might ask may I have more clarity about…

If you are not getting the answers you seek, frame your question in a different way. When you ask the right question, you get the right answer.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Astrologically in the month of May keep an eye out for new directions and insights. It’s going to be an exciting month.

Just read this and think about it. 
Embrace Unlearning to Enhance the Journey Ahead

Brian Clark suggests we can and will work into our 70’s Welcome to Your Multistage Career

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
The Higher Path

A friend of mine recently experienced racial bias in a workplace. It was pretty blatant. And she didn’t know whether it was because she was a woman or because of her cultural background. She lives in Europe.

There seems to be a major separation underway. Those of us who are willing to raise our consciousness and become more inclusive. We are open and adventurous and eager to explore in this new unfolding era, and we are willing to change based on what we find. And there are those who will not even consider questioning their own beliefs and actions. We are separating. There are some people you can bring forward with you, and others you cannot. And you have to know when to leave someone behind. It is their choice. As you continue to work to raise your own consciousness and become aware of your higher vibration, you will organically drop friends and acquire new ones that are more in alignment with your new focus. Be OK with that. Let your paths separate. Honor your own journey. 

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===
Ready but Waiting


The Oracle card I drew for us this time is “Ready but Waiting”. She holds in her hand a dove. But it is not time to release it yet.

How will you know when you are ready? And what are you ready for? And how will you know when the waiting is over?

Watch the changes that are showing up in your life. They may be subtle. They may be overwhelmingly blatant. Observe them, consider them and make fresh choices that are in alignment with your raised awareness. 

See if you are indeed ready. Do you have the beliefs in place that will carry you forward? Do you have the expectations in place that will allow for great expansion? You can prepare. Perhaps you need to leave some things behind to make room for this new whatever it is that’s coming in. How are you preparing yourself to be ready for the next? Do you know what you’re waiting for?

From Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===


Magical Time


I am letting my imagination flow freely, and I am coming up with all sorts of incredibly powerful and interesting processes for us to explore. I don’t have a plan other than to listen to my Inner Voice. I simply respond to the nudges that are showing up. And I write it down, and then I get some distance on it and see what I’ve got. So after these initial guided journeys into the individual seven rays, I’m going to offer other ways for you to go exploring in your inner world. At least that’s where I am right now. We’ll see what unfolds.

Go exploring. There are powerful new paths waiting for you. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

There are two paths.  I have a choice.

There are two paths.  I have a choice. And I do not know where either path will lead me. 

There are two paths.  I have a choice. And I do not know where either path will lead me. I choose one, step forward and trust…

– Cara Lumen, May 2012 

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara
Come Sing a Deeper Song  
I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.
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It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a Broader Context

Creating Conscious Connection
Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

As it often does, a single phrase calls out to me to be explored. This phrase was in what I wrote about the Oracle card Revision. I said: “It is Time to Vision Your Role/Purpose in a broader context”.

We are moving into a new era. And it rather changes everything. So what do we as members of the Circle of Light Beings do?  The planetary context is this very rapidly changing world that is faced with dramatic changes that we must address and address well.

Shift your point of view

I had a certain view-changing insight recently when I realized that we are already higher consciousness but as humans, we have forgotten that. That makes everything I do come from the top down, not the bottom up.
I am looking at all of us as higher consciousness already, rather than looking at us as a lower vibration that needs raising. It’s a very big difference. It changes what I choose to do. So perhaps the first step is to raise your vision and your expectation of what is possible.

Open up new vistas in the unfolding new era

There are so many new opportunities opening up in the world today. We have to be willing to let go of what we know, what didn’t work, even what we are rather fond of, and what is safely comfortable. We need to develop a fresh viewpoint about what is possible and what our role in it is.

Search deeply into the cycles of your life to discover new ways to apply and revise your gifts and your expectations in order to contribute more actively to this evolution we have entered. 

Come from the energy of collective oneness.

We are together in the same ocean of life. My wave over here affects your wave over there. My dashing up against a rock affects the rock and comes back to you. This concept of being one is a very impactful place to be because everything is connected. Is that the broader context we must become more aware of? Being connected? I now understand that we are already a high vibration, we just don’t know it, or we just don’t know how to access it, or we don’t think we know how to access it. But we already are high vibration. And we are to resonate to that high vibration. We are to act from that high vibration. Because we are that high vibration.

Seeing myself in this broader context changes my sense of personal value, it changes the impact of my actions, and it adds a whole level of responsibility on what I choose to do.

We get to re-examine what we are doing. We get to reassess our choices and where they have brought us. And most of all, we get to re-interpret our role in the world.

I have been blessed with subscribers from all over the planet and it changes how I see my role. I have no idea what individual lives are like, but I do know that we are all drawn together because we are the Circle of Light Beings and our job is vibrational. It is about keeping a raised consciousness about what is possible. And what our role in that high vibration is.

I recently re-wrote my who-and-do-what statement. That always helps me clarify what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.

“I help those who are aware of being higher consciousness to fulfill their role as Light Bearers.”

This is a world like we have never seen in our lifetime. That means our role is changing. It means the opportunities are changing. It means mindful change for the highest good is required.

This is a good time to rethink your role in the world. You were placed on this planet at this time with certain gifts and certain skills that are needed. We’re being called into deep action right now. Look for unusual opportunities to explore. 

It is time to re-vision your role, your purpose, in a broader context in this rapidly unfolding new era. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I explore my role in the world and find ways to deepen my service.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Listen within. Listen to your inner guidance. Ask for support and information and ideas for you to consider in changing your direction, and how to take the first steps.
  • This will take time. As these ideas come in, immerse yourself in them far enough to know how they truly resonate. And if they are for you. And if they are for now.
  • Let go of how it has been and open up to what is possible in the now.
  • How can you reposition yourself to be in deeper service in this rapidly changing world?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider: 
Trust Your Inner Answers.  

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Join the Circle of Light Beings

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Our Global Deeper Song Community
Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet. Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Journey to the Red Ray
A Deeper Song Guided Adventure

The Seven Sacred Rays are within each of us.  The seven rays are portals, pathways, rainbow bridges to our energetic origins. By connecting with them and interacting with them, we become seeds for the new humanity.

Each Ray has a different purpose and in this series, you will experience a guided journey to find out your relationship with each Ray.

This is a guided journey to the Red Ray.  If you like, take a moment to select a crystal to hold while you journey that will represent the Red ray.  Or you can do that on your next journey.  Set yourself up in sacred time and sacred space. 

In this series, we explore and deepen our reciprocal exchange with each ray.  What the ray gives us, we can turn and give to others.  Build a relationship with each ray and accept the insights and guidance it offers. 

Welcome to the unseen world…

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we exploreJourney to the Red Ray,
A Deeper Song Guided  Adventure(29 minutes)(Listen) 
Listen to 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 
Apple / Spotify /Google
and the Deeper Song Website
To Sing a Seeper Song Consider:

Prepare to Journey 

Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Deeper Song Guided Journeys to the Seven Sacred Rays:

Journey to the Red Ray

Coming Soon

Journey to the Orange Ray
Journey to the Yellow Ray
Journey to the Blue Ray
Journey to the Indigo Ray
Journey to the Violet Ray

Trust Your Inner Answers.

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

How to Open Space for Change

===INNER WORK===
Organic Universalityy

This newsletter evolves as I come across a phrase or a concept that I want to explore more deeply and share with you. It often propels me to consider a new viewpoint. In a recent journey of mine emerged this phrase:  “come from this place of natural wholeness – organic universality.”  I like the idea of organic universality and wanted to explore what that looked like and felt like and how to experience that. 

A few weeks ago, I made a giant step into thinking of us as being cosmic wholeness but here in our human expression we forget that we are, we don’t think that we are. But if we come from a position of already being cosmic wholeness, instead of striving to raise our vibration, we simply have to remember that we already are high vibration. “Organic universality” – we are a unified, all-encompassing energy. So what do I do here in my human expression to feel that I am universal wholeness, organic universality?

The expectations of what is possible are greater. It may not mean that I dream bigger but it certainly will mean that I dream with more flexibility, more paths to explore, a bigger field to plant in if you will. 

“Natural wholeness” is an interesting concept. My body is naturally whole. I am to live my life from a place of knowing that I am organic wholeness. I’m not sure I know how to do that. But I like the concept.

The more we involve ourselves with the unseen world, the broader and deeper will be our experience of being here on earth with a huge purpose for our life.

It may be that I desire to go work on the inner planes because the physical plane is so dramatic at this point in time. My job is not to work on the physical plane. It is to work on the energetic plane. The plan of wholeness. The plane of oneness. So in my meditations and in my flute playing and my writing, I try to come from the viewpoint of already being Whole. Of being universal wholeness. Of being all one energy.  And that shifts how I respond and react in my human expression. I can’t take this concept any further because it’s fairly new for me. But we can begin to live our lives as being absorbed in, an integral aspect of the cosmic force – totally connected with all things cosmic, all things beyond cosmic. See what a shift in energy that brings to your daily life? Go exploring and immerse yourself in organic universality.

Insights will Develop with the Doing

I was on a journey asking for guidance for this new direction I’m going in, and the keywords were  “insights will develop with the doing.” And that is happening. So I need to be patient. As I recorded the Ray Journeys and record other ideas that I have, I also need to periodically pause to see where I am. Because that very doing, that very fact that I am exploring new concepts, will open new insights and new pathways. Be patient. Keep exploring. And let the next step open up the new portals.

===OUTER  WORK===

Getting Started Changes Everything

“Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember:
Getting started changes everything.” – James Clear

I have been semi-stuck for many months now, knowing that something new was coming in, but having no real idea what it was. But it’s here. And it gets clearer each day. I now have specific steps I can take. 

Start from where you stand. Take one step. Look around. It will change your view. Just that one step. I turn to face a new direction in my work and it is exploding in this new direction. There are changes I need to make in my physical life and I need to go exploring to find what steps are for here and now. Take a step. Try it out for a day. Adjust it. And choose how or if to move forward.

Getting started changes everything. What do you need to get started on?

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Ask the Right Question

If you want to gain clarity, you must ask the right question.

How do you seek to deepen your awareness? Do you meditate? Do you journal? Do you just listen to your inner voice? 

If you want clarity, you have to ask the right question. You might ask is this for me? Or how do I do this? You might ask what are my next steps? You might ask may I have more clarity about…

If you are not getting the answers you seek, frame your question in a different way. When you ask the right question, you get the right answer.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Astrologically in the month of May keep an eye out for new directions and insights. It’s going to be an exciting month.

Just read this and think about it. Embrace Unlearning to Enhance the Journey Ahead

Brian Clark suggests we can and will work into our 70’s Welcome to Your Multistage Career

===OUR EOCING FUTURE===

The Higher Path

A friend of mine recently experienced racial bias in a workplace. It was pretty blatant. And she didn’t know whether it was because she was a woman or because of her cultural background. She lives in Europe.

There seems to be a major separation underway. Those of us who are willing to raise our consciousness and become more inclusive. We are open and adventurous and eager to explore in this new unfolding era, and we are willing to change based on what we find. And there are those who will not even consider questioning their own beliefs and actions. We are separating. There are some people you can bring forward with you, and others you cannot. And you have to know when to leave someone behind. It is their choice. As you continue to work to raise your own consciousness and become aware of your higher vibration, you will organically drop friends and acquire new ones that are more in alignment with your new focus. Be OK with that. Let your paths separate. Honor your own journey. 

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Ready but Waiting

The Oracle card I drew for us this time is “Ready but Waiting”. She holds in her hand a dove. But it is not time to release it yet.

How will you know when you are ready? And what are you ready for? And how will you know when the waiting is over?

Watch the changes that are showing up in your life. They may be subtle. They may be overwhelmingly blatant. Observe them, consider them and make fresh choices that are in alignment with your raised awareness. 

See if you are indeed ready. Do you have the beliefs in place that will carry you forward? Do you have the expectations in place that will allow for great expansion? You can prepare. Perhaps you need to leave some things behind to make room for this new whatever it is that’s coming in. How are you preparing yourself to be ready for the next? Do you know what you’re waiting for?

From Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Magical Time

I am letting my imagination flow freely, and I am coming up with all sorts of incredibly powerful and interesting processes for us to explore. I don’t have a plan other than to listen to my Inner Voice. I simply respond to the nudges that are showing up. And I write it down, and then I get some distance on it and see what I’ve got. So after these initial guided journeys into the individual seven rays, I’m going to offer other ways for you to go exploring in your inner world. At least that’s where I am right now. We’ll see what unfolds.

Go exploring. There are powerful new paths waiting for you. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

There are two paths.  I have a choice.

There are two paths.  I have a choice. And I do not know where either path will lead me. 

There are two paths.  I have a choice. And I do not know where either path will lead me. I choose one, step forward and trust…

– Cara Lumen, May 2012 

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  
I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.
Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community