New Consciousness

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

October 14, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Our world is changing rapidly and dramatically and we have work to do in order to move into the New Consciousness that is emerging on our planet. We have to change. We have to choose what to leave behind and most of all, we have to keep raising our vibration….!

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.

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Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Not everyone is aware of this New Consciousness. They see the turmoil but not the promise.

And a great many people are simply not drawn to this new level of being. But those of us who recognize this call have work to do.

I don’t know where it will lead. I do know that we must set our sails in the direction of this higher vibration, this New Consciousness. I know that’s where I’m headed. As are you, because you are drawn to the message of podcast Will you come exploring with me?

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we think about how those of us who are called, are to continue Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness.

Many people are wondering what’s going on. Why are we experiencing this huge and challenging change? Where are we headed?

The fact is that change is ever-present and on-going, and where we head next and where we end up can be directly influenced by our own consciences. choices. We need to give our thoughts and intentions and beliefs some careful consideration.

What is this New Consciousness? The fact is, that although it is relatively new in our awareness, the New Consciousness, the new State of Being is already here. We just have to increase our own awareness and raise our participation in it.
How does it come into being? Where does it take us? Here we are, ready and willing, how do we embrace this New Consciousness? What steps do we take? How do we know if we are succeeding? What is our role?
And finally, we need to figure out how to find each other so we can walk the path together.

The fact is, that although it is relatively new in our awareness, the New Consciousness, the new State of Being is already here. We just have to increase our own awareness and participation in it. Our first step is to become aware of the existence of this New Consciousness.

Our planet is changing very rapidly. We are part of a huge over-arching cycle but within that Grand Cycle, there are smaller cycles with various goals and outcomes. We are part of the cycle working to raise our individual vibration and blend it with others for the over-arching good of all. There are smaller cycles within the Grand Cycle.

We have ignored a lot of the signals that this New Consignees is actively and enthusiastically coming into being. Environmental change is one huge sign. We notice it, we were warned about it, and we ignored it. But nature is putting her foot down and we are to heed her warnings and take strong actions.

It is also interesting that with the world quarantined with no immediate correction in sight, we are in an unexpected position of reinventing everything we do and even starting some solutions from scratch. We need to become very innovative and creative. We need to look at all our current choices from this new perspective. We need to question all of our former choices. We are to take giant steps into the new technology and innovative discoveries. We have to let go of the way it was because it’s not going to be that way again. And that can be scary. And exciting. And challenging. It’s time to be creative and innovative and look for entirely new ways to provide a service or a product.

We can do that. We just have to identify a need and begin to provide an innovative answer. Put on your creative hat and go exploring. Be open to the oddest of ideas. Who knows what is needed in this New Consciousness? We have some exciting creating to do.

What does this New Consciousness want from us? What does it need from us?

The overarching energy shift is the rise of the feminine. That means the qualities of flexibility, creativity, compassion, and a great deal of determination. This feminine cycle has just begun and it has many centuries in which to develop. We are here at the beginning of the rise of the New Conscious.

What is our role?

I first became aware o the Transformational Community in the 80’s when I lived in New York City. I was definitely a part of it as I became a Reiki Master Teacher and worked with those affected by the beginning of the AIDs epidemic, but I didn’t see it as a revolution, a major change, I was just ecstatic to find like-minded people to learn from and work with. The idea of a new consciousness was not in our vocabulary. That seems to have emerged in the last few years. And I am forty years further into whatever you want to call this major shift in consciousness.

Not everyone is going to move into this New Consciousness. They may not ever be aware of it or have the tools to make the necessary changes in themselves. And we have to make that OK. Those of us who are aware of subtle energy, who experience ourselves as belonging to an over-arching vibration of oneness, have work to do. We have to contribute positive energy to this expanding field of the energy of Oneness.

We are to continue to raise our vibration. We do that with intention and energy work. I have become more aware of the power of our collective vibration as I am honored to have people from all over the world join the Deeper Song Community. I once had a Reiki client say she had found me by tuning into my energy in the New York City phone book! Energy is a powerful connector.

The fact is there are a lot of us that are mooning into this New Conscionssness but there are more people unaware of the need to raise our consciences than people who are.

So part of our role in the New Consciousness is to shine our light so others see it and recognize it in themselves.

According to HeartMath.org every thought in our heart connects 100 thousand hearts around us. We have planetary work to do and we have the ability to do it.

We are in a period of conscious change and those of us who are aware of this unfolding change have work to do. We must raise our own vibration. We must raise our consciousness. And we must shine our light into the world so those who are aware of the own light within can find us and become part of the group consciousness.

Our path is underway. It is evolving and it is attracting more and more conscious seekers.

Notice the dramatic changes around you. Notice the subtle change around you. It’s like a new bud that suddenly bursts into full bloom and its fragrance begins to permit the entire garden.

We have to balance our conciseness and keep it balanced. We have to change and keep changing. This is a time of evolution and it is all about welcoming change – letting go of what no lobe serves us, repurposing the gifts we have been given, and allowing our minds and our imagination to soar. We are to follow this new path, this path that asks us to leave behind our old ways and move into an adventure that takes us places we have yet to imagine.

It is a new world unfolding and we have changes to make.

This time is truly is about creating a “New Consciousness.” I know that I create my reality through my thoughts. I know that my words and beliefs and actions determine my experience. I know how to change that. I have begun to be more aware of my choices, my words, and particularly my beliefs around what is possible. And I try to stay very, very, very flexible!

So here we are, ready and willing to embrace this New Consciousness but without any real idea of the steps to take let alone how to know if we are on the right track.

This is enormous change. There is a faint trail forming as others find creative ways to raise their consciousness and raise the vibration of our collective Field of Light energy.

This new trail we are traveling shows us a powerful need for change and a need to rapidly adapt to the new surroundings that are unfolding.. There can be turmoil and uncertainty in change. And it can also be very freeing.

There is discovery in change. There is re-evaluation n change. There is choice in change. There is patience involved with change. Most of all, change allows us to reach a new state of consciousness, a new state of being. And that is what many of us want.

We have to trust. And we have to keep looking. I know this [art of welcoming and embracing this New Consciousness, this new State of Being is about each of us raising or vibration. We do that through intention. And we monitor our beliefs and actions and words to make certain they keep us on this higher plane.

It is our responsibility to change ourselves in order to change our world.

We begin by examining our beliefs of what is possible.

In order to manifest a new state of consciousness, we have to manifest change within ourselves, here in our human expression. That means we have to examine and question our beliefs, our attitudes, our understanding, and our actions.

How do your actions need to change?

This is a time that asks for great flexibility, great curiosity, the willingness to try new things, and diligent creativity when it comes to bringing new ides life.

We are still in the early stages of developing a New State of Consciousness but the momentum is building rapidly.

What does“a new state of consciousness” mean to you? What are we building?. How do we do that? Who is doing that? How do we find and recognize each other? And most of all, what will the New State of Consciousness look like? And feel like?

My personal primary goal is to continue to raise my vibration – whatever the looks like and feels like and however I find to do that. I use powerful tools like intention, shamanic journeying, mediation – physical things like Qi Gong and music and dance – a spiritual practice built on all the myriad of spiritual practices I have explored and included in my life. There are many ways to raise our awarenss and our vibration.

So I study and go where I am called. Then I turn and share with others what I discover.

There are others on this unfolding path. We may call ourselves transformational thinkers, or light-workers, or Transcendent Leaders, but there are many of us and we do recognize each other and are creating powerful international groups with very high intentions.

As I continue to raise my vibration it is going to resonate with others who are also consciously raising their vibration and we may even support each other in our journey. Raise your vibration and see how your life changes.

So we know the New Consciousness, the New State of Being is already here.

We know that we need to change our thoughts and beliefs and actions to continue to raise our vibration to be a useful participant in this New Conciseness.

How do we find others and walk the path with them?

The idea that not everyone will move into this New Reality, this New Consciousness, disturbed me a bit when I thought about it from my human perspective. Then I found some numbers. There are about 80 million people who are in the Transformation Community but there are 7.8 billion poplins in the world. We are outnumbered but collectively we are very, very powerful. And of course, not everyone is going to be drawn to this New Consciousness, this new State of Being.

We have to go where we organically congregate. We get to find each other online in classes and events and FaceBook groups that are energetically gathering to create change in our panel. We enthusiastically participate and we find others walking this same path as like-minded light-bearers.

I have seven friends with whom I speak or write to regularly. Each friend both nurtures and challenges me. We help each other grow stronger and stranger and our light shines more brightly. Cultivate new like-minded friends online and walk this unfolding path together.

Stay aware. Stay open. Be flexible. Explore the myriad of new possibilities that are evolving. This New Convinces is a work in progress and we are part of that work.

We are developing a new State of Being and it will be awesomely beautiful as well as very, very different.

As I work on raising my vibration, expanding my awarenesss, moving into broader service, and constantly work on changing myself, I have a different effect on the world around me. It is more powerful It is more profound.

I walk the earth with a more conscious footstep. I interact with others with a deeper awareness of our core connection. I recognize our similarities.

And that changes the response of the world around me.

We are developing an expanded vibration.

We are to become centered, aware, with an ever-rising vibration – that’s how are to walk the earth now. We are to be more mindful of nature – our own unique and valuable place in nature, the gifts nature brings to us, our interactions with nature, our role in nature. And most of all we raise our awareness of our oneness with the vibration of All.

In my spiritual practice, I sit and consciously raise my vibration through intention.

In my spiritual practice, I experience myself as an integral part of the light field of consciousness that surrounds our planet.

In my spiritual practice, I see other light beings look up and see us hold that steady light and recognize it in themselves. They make a choice and come join is. The field of light grows brighter.

It isa powerful sight to see.

This group, this transformation group then turns to the future. We set down the beliefs and habits and expectations of our old reality and with our lights shining brightly and steadily, we move along the path in that leas to our New Conscious. Our Next. Our Future.

Cultivating a New State of Consciousness will create a New State of Being. How are you going to begin? How are you going to continue?

The New Consciousness, the new State of Being is already here.

When I raise my gaze, I see the new path, the new horizon. I choose that path and move forward with strong purpose and deep trust.

When I approach someone in a high vibration I move within so we are talking heart to heart. When I work, I put my whole self into what I am doing. Gibran says, “Work is love made viable.” I make my love more visible.

Cultivating a New State of Consciousness will create a New State of Being.

How are you going to begin? How are you going to continue?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I begin now to create a new state of consciousness and a new state of being by changing myself.

HEART MESSAGING OUR WORK IN THE WORLD

According to Heart Math,org every thought in our heart connects 100 thousand hearts around us.

Center yourself in your own heart with a breath.
On an exhale feel our hearts expanding with positive, loving feelings. With an awareness of our Oneness.
Join our hearts in the here and now. Feel our collective power of love and connection. Feel it gain power and expand.
Join our hearts to the Light Grid and send our focused, collective positive heart energy, our transformational heart energy to move through the grid. Connecting all. Raising the vibration of all.
We are in that grid, we are part of it, we are connected with it We are that light grid. With that awareness of our oneness, accept our combined blessings and bring them back into your own being. Let your self be filled with this enriched, emp \owered, raised energy, Allow your vibration to rise. Be present with how you feel.
We close with gratitude for this time of sharing and support.
We move back into our lives connected,. heart to heart, soul to soul.
May we alwasy serve a higher purpose.

I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you.
To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

The Path We Choose

September 16, 2020 By Cara Lumen

The Path We Choose

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are responsible for the journey we take. We are responsible for the path we choose. We choose what we bring in our backpack and we are responsible for how willing we are to keep going.

We cannot go back. We can only begin from her ewe are and move forward – or sideways – it is our choice in each moment. How do you chose? What do you chose?

In this episode we explore

The Path We Choose

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The Path We Choose

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are responsible for the journey we take. We are responsible for the path we choose. We choose what we bring with us in our backpack and we are responsible for how willing we are to keep going.

Years ago, when I left the Mid-west to move to New York City, a friend gave me a copy of the Robert Frost Poem “The Road Less Traveled.” 50 years later it still hangs on my wall. It has lived on both coasts and is now back the Mid-West – a circuitous route, truly a road less traveled.

And I am forever grateful that I had the courage to take the Road Less Traveled.

We make our choices. We reap the response. With each choice, we learn how to choose better and we keep on going.

Where are you on your journey? What new options are you considering? Where are you headed?

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we think about The Path We Choose.

This is a translation of a poem by Antonio Machado. When I first heard it I cried. It is called “Traveler.”

Traveler, your footsteps are the road
There is nothing more.
Traveler there is no road.
The road is made by walking.
Walking makes the road.
And if you turn around you only see the path you can never walk again.
Traveler, there is no road, only a trace of foam upon the sea

Let me read it again:

There is a sadness about never going back. There is a challenge in knowing your next step is creating your new path.

Let’s see hat we can learn from this poem:

What is our read made of? What choices have you made that brought you to where you are today?

How do we make our road? If each step is responsible for creating our path, how aware are you of the next step you are taking?

Finally, what are our choices about directing our path? How do we make them? How do we choose?

What is our read made of?

“Traveler, your footsteps are the road
There is nothing more.”

With each step, we create the path we take. Our choice directs were we go next. Now that is very important to know. That means that in every move we have choice . Choice to go one way or another, we get to take the path that goes up or the path that goes down or left or right or straight ahead.

With each step in each moment, we are creating our path. Each thought creates our next experience. We can control that. The deeper the awareness we have of our own heart, our own purpose, the more aligned is the step we take as we make our road one chosen step at a time.

Do we stand still on our road? If only footsteps make the road, then standing still to consider, to contemplate before we choose our next step is a good thing to do. But we don’t move forward until we take that next step. That next step creates our road.

How do we make our road?

We have created where we are stanging today through the choices we did or did not make. I am deeply aware that some of my choices were made with more awareness than others. And some steps were taken in response to an experience. We each create our own path by the choices we do or do not make. The steps we do or do not take.

“Traveler there is no road.
The road is made by walking.
Walking makes the road.”

If I stand here doing nothing, I am not traveling, I am not moving forward. “The road is made by walking.” So I have to take a step. I have to make a choice. I have to put one foot in front o the other and look to see where it has taken me. I have to see if it is aligned with my beliefs and if it is taking me where I want to go, to what I want to do.

I can only move forward by taking a step, and then another step and then another step. “Walking makes the road.”

We need to try, we need to explore, we need to experiment. We have to move forward in order to learn, to understand, to experience, and to absorb. That’s a lot from one step. But even one step provides us with a new view.

“Traveler there is no road.
The road is made by walking.
Walking makes the road.”
And we cannot walk the path again .”

There is no going back. What’s done is done. Learn from it, change from it, and build on what you learned – but you cannot go back and change it .

“And if you turn around you only see the path you can never walk again.
Traveler, there is no road, only a trace of foam upon the sea.”

How delicate is our journey. We have left ripples with our footsteps but those ripples are long gone. We have survived the high seas of our journey, the high tides, the low tides, but there are no traces of our path, our footsteps, our traveling though left to see. Only in your heart, only in your memory, only in your regrets only in your knowledge that you made good choices. You walked a strong path. And those steps of the past are not your next step. They are gone. Past moments in time that has dissolved.

It’s as if we are standing on a ledge of time with only a next step to take. We can choose a new direction. We can choose a big step or a small step, a hesitant step, or a bold one. We can go in one direction or the other. But the only way our road unfolds is if we take a step.

Here’s the Robert Frost that still hangs on my wall and live in my heart.

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Traveler, there is no road, only a trace of foam upon the sea

I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you.
To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts or this podcast and the Deeper Song newsletter.
Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

September 13, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

Insights oF a Deeper Song

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

\We get to rethink everything we take for granted. We have to get creative and innovative and imaginative. The world will never go back. We can never go back. And that is a good thing.

What do we want to create? Who do we want to support?

This is a time for deep introspection.

This is a time for expansive creative exploration.

I particularly want to address this to those of us who have the freedom of retirement in the next 20 years. It is a time of tremendous creativity and adventure.

We have new tools and techniques to learn to use in order to make the most of this next opportunity.

First, you choose an area of interest and then you go exploring. A Deeper Song Member who is looking at retirement has powerful gifts to explore. She is an imaginative and expressive writer and she has a depth of knowledge in both horticulture and music. She has strong gifts to cultivate. As she pr press for retirement, She gets to go exploring to discover how she might share those gifts. Ans she will want to explore some of the available technology – like video. Or children’s books, or…

I don’t know which comes first, the idea or the technology. I think they become intertwined in the doing. For instance, the podcast format has added an experience of intimate sharing that I do not have with my posts. And using only my voice, rather than going to video, allows the listener to use his or her own imagination to enrich the listening. So sometimes the form in which you offer your gifts helps form the content and structure of your offering.

And you MUSt have an offering, a place of service. I watch the seniors in this center gradually be allowed to return to well-distanced bingo, but the pot lucks are not allowed for now. What ARE they doing? You do want to find a way to feel you are in service. And in this age of the internet, you are guaranteed to find like-minded people with whom to share your passion.

Bring those gifts and hobbies up into the light and see where they fit into your future. Look at what you always wanted to do but put off and go do that.

This is an era of change in which we are being asked to step forward with our best self, our most creative, innovative self and offer our gifts to the New Consciousness.

What is calling you? What form will you experiment with first?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I open myself up to identify a gift I have that is needed in the New Consciousness.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Make a list of things you wish you knew how to do and go exploring.
Look at some tutorials on recording a podcast or a video, or posting a book on Amazon. Look at online class formats and how-to videos. Identify the format you want to learn first. Then learn it enough so the technical part is not in the way of your self-expression ad make an informed decision if you want to use it in your work.
Take one of your passions and the form you like to work in and create something.
You have begun. Keep going.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK
The Unseen World Needs UsAn Exploration of the Unseen World

The Unseen World needs us – it needs us to translate, to pass along their messages and teachings and guidance. We need to learn to pay attention. We need to learn to understand. Are you ready to become a messenger, an interpreter for 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 why
The Unseen World Needs Us
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Inner Work
UNDERSTAND YOUR CALLING

I’ve been speaking to a few Deeper Song members who are in their 60’s and retirement is coming up for them. I just remember what Chris Brown said to me five years ago when I was 82, -“What are you going to do with the next 30 years?”

It’s interesting to look at your life in 30-year blocks of time an to get to a point where you get to live the next 30 years in pretty much the way you’d like it to be creatively.

I have two words of advice. Keep your body in shape and go exploring…

If you don’t have to earn an income, the whole world is open to you. If you have an entrepreneurial bent, ditto.
So there are several questions you need to ask yourself.

Do I want to work with other people or work alone?
Do I want to work with beginner or advanced?
Of all the interests I have, what calls to me most right now?
What skills do I need to learn and can I begin to learn them now?

That’s just a place to begin. As you explore you will change your mind. And the beautiful thing is, if you are not focused on bringing in income, you get to do exactly what you want to do. In my case I get to write about what I want to learn. And my podcasts are nurturing my soul.

There is one other step. How do you want to share with others what you are going to do next?

Posts, podcasts, videos, Zoom groups, offering your work online – art, books ,music. You do want to offer what you create. You have no idea whose heart you will touch, whose life you will affect when you offer your heart’s message to the world.

I think it’s important to give away some of what you create in this wonderful, open period of exploration you are undertaking. The response you receive will begin to tell what resonates. When you know you are touching the lives of others it warms your heart and makes you appreciate your own value in the world.

In retirement, you will be given a gift of time – time to explore and discover and share what you learn.

Your retirement years are meant to be productive – an acute time of exchanging energy with others on your path. What are you going to do with your next 30 years?

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Outer Work
MONEY MANAGEMENT

20 years ago in a talk given in my woman’s group in Santa Rosa, California, a financial member suggested we have two savings accounts. One to save up for large yearly payments and emergencies and a second one not to be touched. Sort of a hidden asset account.

As I was rearranging my money this month I realized that the first account that saves up for yearly payments and unexpected expenses represents safety, it is meant to be used for both the planned and the unexpected.

The second account is for security. I put something in it every month. It may also come to represent puree self-indulgence at some point…

The first month after my divorce when I alone was responsible for caring for my children, I ran out of food money. We literally put water on our cereal. From then on I wrote out my weekly food checks in advance and knew that I could only spend that much that week.

Now I use a spreadsheet to plan or my savings and my spending but the budgeting is the same. I have a plan for what will be needed and saving goals for yearly bills. Then I have my “dealer’s choice” savings account.

What kind of a financial handing system do you want to put into place? Give some thought to how your needs have changed and what you need to do to stay safe.

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HOW DO THE GEESE KNOW?

I heard geese flying south this week, honking loudly as they flew over. Going where it is warmer for the winter. How do they know? Does their inner clock say this is a new season, time for a change?

How am I to get ready for the winter months? It is a time for shorter days, warmer clothes, and perhaps more contemplating. That works.

When I was a young wife and mother I loved to garden and each winter I would pour over the seed catalogs to see what I wanted to plant in the spring. I even started seeds indoors to get an early start. I loved doing that planning So what if we each paused right now to look over our personal seed catalog for possibilities to see what we want to plant in the next growing season? What would you order?

I would order a willingness to move my body more. Whether that has to come in some new excise video I discover online or a daily use of my walking sticks, I will have to decide. But I will put that intention on my pending order. Perhaps I will order several varieties of movement.

I would like to be surprised in the coming season. It may be something I learn, a new skill I acquire, a new friend I meet. I will plant a package of surprise seeds and see what I get.

And then there are the old favorites, the perennials if you will. My writing has matured into podcasts. My newsletter is now archived on my web site. I have started a new weekly inspiration note. I have a strong group of friends who nurture and support ad interest me. I’ll take good care of those.

The geese know. They know it is a time for contemplation, for looking at what worked and what didn’t, to know what to leave behind and what to carry with them.

The geese seem to know it is a change of seasons. What will change for you?

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OUR GLOBAL DEPER SONG

I am both touched and honored by your presence. You come from all over the planet and as I receive a notice of each new Deeper Song Member and where you are from I wonder how you found me and I am very glad you did. We are a global community. As we each work to raise our vibration we are connecting more strongly with each other and we keep deepening the layer of light energy that we are offering our planet. Our collective work is powerful. Our individual work creates change. I am honored to be a place holder for us to come together in deep, deep service. Together we create change.

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THE POWER OF PERSISTENCE

I needed to figure out how to do one thing – make the control edition screen in Garage Band bigger so I could see to edit my podcast. I made it bigger before and every thought I have crib sheets for the editing shortcuts, I didn’t have this one on it. I had no choice but to figure it out because I could not see to edit the waveforms.

I spent nearly 30 minutes looking at tutorials and reading the help library in GarageBand, and I greatly wished I could remember how to make that portion of the screen bigger.

So I persisted. I was not angry, or upset, just dogged determined.

And of course, when I found it, it was very, very, very simple – Command, Control, and Arrow up or down…I know that. We all know that. I had just not made the connection to use that in GarageBand.

But this is about persistence – whatever it is within you that makes you keep going, keep looking, keep trying. It’s a good quality to have. It will solve lots of your problems and strengthen your journey.

Don’t give up.

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

Stunning space photos taken from a man’s back yard.

The Shift Summit and Music Festival, September 18-21.
My Qi Gong teacher Daisy Lee has a segment as does my drum and flute teacher Christens Stevens. Michael Beckwith is always good – see what calls to you is always good and… cheek it out and

Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation is a foundational book for learning to do shamanic journeying.

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

We all agreed to come into this lifetime in order to do specific jobs – to be part of the evolving landscape. I’m not sure any of us expected it to be this dramatic. But we are up to the task. We are stepping forward. We are raising our vibration and bringing others with us.

This week I launched a new offering – Mindful Moments – an opportunity for you to pause and go within and simply be. All our answers lay within – in our most inner knowing.

As this new era evolves, we will be shown our role and how we are to begin to put those steps into place. First, we work on our self. Then that change begins to radiate out to the awareness of others and they see in themselves the opportunity to change

Keep radiating out your highest vibration. That will change our world.

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THE REFLECTING POOL
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop” – Rumi

As we move into fall it is a powerful time to connect with nature – how she lets go of what is no longer needed, how she lets seeds drop to the gourd to come alive in the spring. It is a time for releasing, a time of letting ideas marinate and ripen.

Look for beliefs you might leave behind. Look for projects that could use a little distance on them in order to take them to their next level. But most of all, leave behind anything that no longer serves you – beliefs ideas, grudges, fears, Just put them down., leave them behind The path will be easier without them.

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CARA’S CORNER
THE POWER OF BEING ECLECTIC

I unexpectedly had an email exchange with a friend about plants and I realized I know a great deal about plants and was once an enthusiastic gardener. And the world eclectic came to mind. It means a “broad and diverse range of sources.” “Extensive, comprehensive” are other words to describe eclectic.

It means I’ve been an enthusiastic explorer of many of things all my life. And have had a very good time doing it.

Curiosity has been a cornerstone of my life accompanied by enthusiasm and a love of learning. Add to that my gift of seeing the overview and it allows me to make some interesting philosophical connections.

Pause a moment and perhaps make a list of all the things you have explored in your lifetime. It’s not about being good at it, it’s about exploring it, experiencing it, trying it out.

I had a horse of my own during high school. I have shown a Kerry Blue Terrier to his championship. I organized a Picture Lady program so well in my school district that the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City took it on as a project. I have been a copywriter and a television talent. I have been in plays. And I worked with a lot of men with AIDS in NYC when the epidemic first began. I learned to make silver jewelry and clay sculptures in NYC. And I taught Reiki to lots of people.

All of the varied things you have done in your life have contributed to who you are today.

A story popped into my mind just now. When I was ten or twelve or so, my mother took m sister and me blackberry picking. It was NOT fun because the bushes were scratchy. I complained. My mother said, “It builds character.” So a lot of things we do are simply meant to help build a frame of reference, an experience upon which to base future decisions. We like it, we don’t like it. It is easy. It is hard. You don’t know until you go exploring.

What are you willing to explore this month that you have never tried before but would like to experience?

Go do that.

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A DEEPER SONG

Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
The universe it not outside of you
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want, you are already that.”
– Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song
I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

July 22, 2020 By Cara Lumen

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness that is unfolding. What that looks like is emerging. It is up to us to stay aware, keep watching the unfolding patterns and find our new place of service We can do that. Ans it will be very, very, very rewarding.

To move ahead we have to lay down the beliefs and ideas that no longer are needed or even make sense int this unfolding new world and we get to reexamine even our most subtle of gifts.

How do we know that to keep? What to discard?

In this dramatically changing world, we have to rethink many of our choices. What do you need to leave behind in order to move forward?

In this episode we explore

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

18 minutes

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Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

Begin your
Exploration of the Unseen World
with these two foundational steps:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection (12 Minuates)

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star (16 mints)

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet. (16 minutes)

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work (15 minutes)

Are You a Transformative Leader?

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

TRANSCRIPT

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

An Exploration of the Unseen World

In order to move forward, we have to leave some things behind. If we don’t, the load will be too heavy.

The changes taking place in our lives are so dramatic it’s as if we’ve been transported to another world. A world where the rules have changed and the opportunities have changed.

It is clear that life will never be the same. So what does that mean we need to do – to adjust, to prepare, to be ready for this new Next?

I have some ideas and the first thing to do is to lighten our load by leaving some things behind – like expectations and beliefs.

Welcome to Reflections of a Deeper Song. I’m Cara Lumen, Founder of the Deeper Song Community and I’m here to take you on Adventures into the Unseen World.

Reflections of a Deeper Song helps us:

Expand our relationship with our inner world and learn to interpret its powerful guidance.
Raise the frequency of our vibration so we can be of greater service to the planet
Expand our role as Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

You know – easy stuff…

The question asked in this episode is What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

I was on a shamanic journey – which is my favorite form of meditation. I had asked for clarity and guidance about the New Consciousness that was emerging. What did it mean? What would change? What did I need to do?

The main message was made very clear – we are all one world. One planet. No countries, no races, no separation. One planet – all the same energy. That is the major lesson. We are are a Whole World Community, We all have some work to do there.

But the image that struck me most was that of all of us on the path stopped and began to lay down our differences on the path beside us with the intention of leaving them behind. We put down our beliefs, our culture, our expectations. We did it with gratitude but with a strong decision to leave them behind.

After we laid down these burdens, we turned and begin to walk the path forward together, shoulder to shoulder – in unity.

All of us – moving forward together – as One.

How do we do that? How do we make that happen?

There are three things I see to do now:

1 – Put down what no longer serves us

2 – Look at even the most subtle of our gifts and begin to cultivate them

3- Look closely at what is unfolding and find our new place of service.

You know – easy stuff…

The first step is to lay down our differences, to put down what no longer serves us.

1 – Put down what no longer serves us

Not all of us can do this. Not all of us are self-aware enough to identify our stuck places – the beliefs that no longer serve us and the beliefs that are no longer true in this unfolding New Consciousness. We have to put down sooooo much stuff. Some of our beliefs and habits are deeply engrained and we have to work to weed them out. We may not even know a prejudice is there until we really look. But we must look closely and deeply and leave behind what no longer serves us.

Begin by examining your beliefs. If you are like me you may have beliefs about circumstances and people you actually have no experience with. Listen to the stories and needs and circumstances of people from other countries and expand your awareness of what ONE World actually looks like. What it is. What it can be.

We have beliefs from our parents, our schooling, our experiences both good and bad. And we make a lot of assumptions about what we do not know. Know where your beliefs came from and question every single one of them. See what you can leave behind. What is not true. What no longer serves you.

Put it beside the path an move forward with a lighter load.

So we have lightened our land by putting down the beliefs and even the traditions that no longer serves us

What are we bringing forward with us. We get to look at even the most subtle of our gifts and begin to cultivate them

Our world is changing. It is changing dramatically and it is changing forever. We are being asked to question every choice, explore the unfolding opportunities and adjust – a lot.

How we live in our world and interact in it is in the process of changing. And we have to stay flexible and creative and aware.

Let’s begin by looking at the gifts were born with. Some gifts have been developed, some not. Look at even the most subtle of your gifts and begin to expire and cultivate them for potential creative use.

It is time to question everything. Are you doing work you love or is there something else you have always loved to do? What gifts do you take for granted that are now both useful and in demand? You may have been doing work that will no longer e needed or the form will have so drastically that you don’t want to do it. Then what do you do?

You turn and open a new door.

You have been given many, many gifts, some of which you may have even forgotten. Take a personal inventory. Look for skills and passion and interests you have that may be of value in the New Consciousness we are weaving.

For instance, I write, but I’m also a good organizer. I see the overview easily so I am a good teacher. I’m also 87 so it’s a good thing I can use the internet.

Understand your role and cultivate new ways to expand it. In 2015 – 2016 I recorded 47 podcasts over two years. This is 2020. Four years later. What made me begin again? Because the times have changed, the need has changed. I have changed. It is time to change.

I’m going to keep writing posts and my newsletter, but this is how I want to help those of us walking along this path to the Unseen World.

Look at how you need to repurpose your gift. Or resurrect one.

Filter through what you have, look for where it is needed, and see what you have to offer. There are new opportunities unfolding every day.

So we know to put down what no longer serves us and look at even the most subtle of our gifts and begin to cultivate them. Now it is time to look at what is unfolding and find our new place of service.

If you look closely at science and technology you will see remarkable new ideas and opportunities and solutions emerging to save our planet and create new ways of living and doing. That means we, as explorers and expanders of our new world consciousness, have to be flexible and open and curious and willing to explore.

Look closely at what is unfolding. Look closely at the new developments in science. They can make houses out of 3D printing! That’s a game-changer. Artificial Intelligence goes beyond anything we have yet imagined and can take over the mundane sorting and comparing tasks as starters. As working environments evolve for more remote workers a new set of needs and opportunities evolves and emerges. New skills will need to be developed. And our expectations will change because everything is changing.

Watch the changes. Look for the new needs that are emerging. Look at the new opportunities that are unfolding. Be aware of what services will disappear.

Examine your own gifts and passion. Look for what will be needed and find your new place of service. You may be surprised at what shows up. Perhaps you even get to develop new skill sets that never existed before.

Recognize and value your must mundane gifts. If I can’t do it and you can – your skill becomes valuable to me.

I also think we will begin to barter so notice what skills you take for granted because they are easy and understand that you could barter with them. Like you build and I cook. I imagine it and you make it happen.

But most of all, look for the unexpected idea, the idea that seems to pop in from nowhere. That is your inner voice, your inner wisdom, guiding you. Listen. Explore that idea. Test it out. And see if that unexpected and odd idea is not so crazy after all and is actually yours to explore and develop and make happen. Trust your inner wisdom. Listen to your inner voice.

If you can, stay above the fray. Keep looking at the overarching trend. Look for what is evolving as a need and the solutions that are emerging and see where you might fit in.

As we move into this New Consciousness this new World experience, we’re goiter to consciously and willingly leave behind beliefs and expectations that no longer serve us

We’re gotten to reevaluate our gifts, even the most subtle and see how they can be repurposed in this New Censuses. At what point do we look for and identify our new place of service.

But here’s our NEXT. We are Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness that is unfolding. What that looks like is only in glimmer form. It is up to us to stay aware, keep watching the unfolding patterns and find our new place of service We can do that. Ans it will be very, very, very rewarding.

Stand in the light with your gifts and prepare to step format into your new role.

As with all change, stay open, be flexible, and test out ideas to see what call s to you.

We are building a New Consigns. We are Transcendent Leaders and our job is to light the way.

Think on that and see where it leads you.

Deeper Song Process

Take stock of the beliefs and expectations that you are carrying around with you and see what you can put down, what will no longer be needed in the new Consciousness we are creating.
Look at what is left. What you value. What you can now see that you haven’t noticed for a long time.
See how you are to repurpose yourself for the New World experience that is emerging.
Do that.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I willingly leave behind beliefs and choices that no longer serve me.

I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. Ashe
To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
I also invite you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

How To Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

June 3, 2020 By Cara Lumen

How To Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

When we choose to explore the 95% of the world that is unseen it is wise to set up a protective shield of intentional energy that deflects and transforms negative energy. Learn why and when to use a protective shield, how to erect one, and how to use it to raise yore own vibration.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker 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 learn
How to How To Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection
(16 minutes)

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Begin your
Exploration Unseen World
with these two foundational steps:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection (12 Minutes)

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star (16 mints)

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

How Vibration Heals

The Transformative Sphere

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

TRANSCRIPT

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

I was not taught to set up protection before I meditated, but I was taught to set up protection before I took a shamanic journey. In one of my journeys, I asked for guidance on setting up protection and I was given this wonderful awesome, beautify Transformative sphere Which I am going to teach you so you have it available forever.

I’m Cara Lumen, Founder of the Deeper Song Community and I’m here to take you on Adventures into the Unseen World.

Reflections of a Deeper Song helps us:

Expand our relationship with our inner world and learn to interpret its powerful guidance.
Raise the frequency of our vibration so we can be of greater service to the planet
Expand our role as Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

In this episode, I will teach you to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

I was getting used to being in opine classes where there were guided meditations. They all began with some sort of a protective egg or circle of energy. I was in the middle of a wonderful guided journey when the instructors where that an object was flying toward me. To my surprise, a dragon showed up. Then the instruction was, “It settles on the branch of a tree.” And both the dragon and I looked surprised. She settled on the ground and has been with me in my journeys eery since. Her name is wen.

There are many reasons we may want to have a way to create energy around ourselves Everything is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed, only repurposed. So how do we repurpose or deflect negativity?

We create a Transformative Energy Shield. We can create a Transformation Energy Shield around ourselves and we can create one around a group. It is a shield of intentional energy that deflects and transforms negative energy.

You probably have some questions.

Why you need a shield?

How to erect one and How to use it?

How do you use the Transformation Shield to rains yore own vibration?

I have answers for you.

Energy cannot be destroyed

Think about that. Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be repurposed. Put to another use, transferred in its purpose. The purpose of a Transformative Shield is to reprise energy.

Why do you need a shield?

Energy comes in many levels of vibration. Some high, some not so high. We want to continue to raise our own vibraiotn while at the same time being able to deflect from us all lower vibraiotn. We do that with the Transformative Shield.

It is natural to think in terms of putting up a protective shield for ourselves. We put up an umbrella when it rains. We go inside our homes for protection when there is snow. But there are times when you want or need to be able to put up an immediate form of protection – when someone is angry for instance, or when you walk into a negative situation. But we particularly want to put up a Transformative Energy shield when we do our inner work, our silent exploration, perhaps even our mediation.

The Transformative Energy shield converts repurposes and raises the vibration of whatever shows up. What a life-changer that is!

This is truly a magical Shield, For you see, The Transformative Shield transforms energy on both sides of the shield.

So we sit her and surround ourselves with this wonderful protective shield and then we think, “Hey, here I am stuck in this sphere of energy with all m own fears and negativity reflecting back at me. That’s not so good.”

But you see this is a magical sphere. It is a transformative shield on BOTH sides. It transforms any negative energy you are putting out and reps rose it into positive energy, a higher vibrato-in You can sit in your transformative shield and transform your negative into positive energy. When we place ourselves in the protection of a Transformative Sphere of Energy, it immediately begins to transform our own negative energy. If we are fearful or angry, it transforms that energy and reflects it back as centered serenity.

The Transformative Energy Shield also transforms negative energy coming toward us and reflects it back as positive energy to others. It is a two-way transformer of energy.

The Transformative Energy Shield can be erected in seconds

You create a Transformative Energy Shied through your exhaled breath and your intention. Take an intentional breath and feel transformative energy surround your heart. On an exhale, feel a shield form and expand to surround your body. It is invisible and invincible. Continue using intentional exhales to expand and thicken your Transformative Energy Shield until you feel secure.

So now that we know how to erect a Transformative Energy Shield, how do we use it?

You can use the Transformative Shield to disassemble negative energy from within yourself.

You can transform the energy around you and you can transform the energy of the World you live in.

Begin by creating a positive inner energy Use it to raise your own vibration and to purify your thoughts and intentions.

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to clear your own body suit of negative thoughts and energy. Begin at your heart center. Breath a Transformative Energy Shield into existence and with each exhale extend it further out, feeling it clearing away all negative, non-supportive thoughts and transforming them into a higher vibration.

On each inhale intentionally raise your vibration. From your centered heart energy, feel yourself radiating out positive energy to balance all levels of your body suit.

You use the Transformative shield to transform the energy around you

When you become aware of negative energy and want to shield yourself from it, create a Transformative Energy Shield with a single exhale and experience it deflecting any negative energy and transforming it into a higher, positive vibration.

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to balance the world around you

Now that you are balanced, begin to consciously send out healing, transformative energy to the world to restore balance to all those you come in contact with. You become a walking Transformative Energy Shield, balancing energy wherever you are.

So we use the transformative energy shield to raise your own vibration as well as the vibration of the world around us.

The major work we, as Transcendent Leaders are to do is to continue to raise our own vibration. We can use our Transformative shield to work on ourselvess.

You become an Organic Transformer

Whatever energy comes into your field is changed. This Transformative Energy Shield is not only about protection, it is about transformation. It radiates the transformative energy of your positive intention. It radiates the transformative ability to intentionally raise energy to a higher, more positive vibration.

The Transformative Energy Shield is a field of vibration that changes whatever shows up into harmonious, balanced, positive, higher-vibrational energy.

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise your vibration and keep it raised

Your life experience manifests from your own vibration and you have the power to raise your vibration at will.

Your awareness, your intention, and your choices allow you to clear, repurpose, and raise the vibration of your energy.

Teach yourself to become more aware of levels of energy – not just its existence but its quality, its tone, its impact. Notice the vibration of a room, of a person, of a situation and use the

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise that vibration

Become more aware of the many levels of vibration you experience in your bodysuit existence.

Elevate those.

Choose what you want to transform and use the Transformative Energy Shield to do it.

The Transformative Shield is a powerful personal tool Use it to clear your own energy and raise your vibration. And use it to transform and negativity you feel coming your way.

Raise the Transformative Sheila in seconds with your breath and your intention.

The most powerful use of the Transformative Shield is to raise your own vibration. In your meditative, contemplative spiritual practice, surround yourself with the shield and feel it transform your own fears and apprehension into tranquil harmony.

Work on yourself first All change begin from within.

A Deeper Song Process

Center yourself in your heart.
With a focused exhale begin to erect your Transformative Energy Shield from your heart to surround your body suit.
Notice how it immediately transforms all or your own body suit into positive, raised energy.
Turn your attention to the world around you and become aware of how the Transformative Energy Shield transforms any outer negativity coming your way.
Know that your Transformative Energy Shield is one of transformation and develop your own unique way to use it to raise the vibration of the energy around you.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the power of my Transformative Energy Shield and I use it to raise vibration all around me.

CLOSE

I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect, and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you.
To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.