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How to Create a Mandala for Self Healing

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How to Create a Mandala for Self Healing

Creating Conscious Connection

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

A mandala represents your universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. I learned about the use of a mandala for self-healing from David Crow in the Shift Network Intuitive Medicine Summit.  He uses the form of a mandela for clarity and decision-making. We can use a mandala as a way to focus and sort out all the busy elements our mind tosses out into our day. It is a very powerful and clarifying practice to add to your personal expansion practice. 

A mandala is a circle.  For me, that means it has cycles within cycles and is constantly changing. The idea is that when you organize your ideas and action choices in the circle of a mandala, you will find them organically clustering in groups that help organize the clutter and create an awareness of priority and next steps. That clarity of purpose and priority helps guide your decision-making and clarifies your next steps.

The mandala uses images to express the energy and focus of a choice or an action. However, I had to begin by organizing my thoughts in words in the form of a mandala. 

This mandala-making practice immediately helped me identify clusters of ideas and actions and choices that were then easy to prioritize. That grouping action alone began to simplify my focus and declutter my mind. 

With the mandala in place, I could see what steps lead to what end result and see where that focus belonged in the over-arching objective. I had a 5 x 8 card handy and I drew a circle. At the top, I put “spiritual” because that’s the most important thing for me to do. I could add things like exploring the unseen world and all these other things I’m doing but the fact is my spiritual practice is at the top of my mandala. 

It was when I created a section for my “body expression” that a lot of things began to lump themselves into one section of the mandala rather than evolving into a long list of things to address.   I’m concerned about my eyesight and I’m concerned about my body posture. 

But immediately all the details of how I was working with both of those physical plane opportunities went by the wayside and I was able to se that section as “self-care” – actually “active self-care.” I’m working on several aspects of my body but being able to lump all those choices and challenges into one category made me feel less overwhelmed. Whether it’s the food I eat or the expansion of my Qigong practice, the whole purpose of those details and choices is to help my body structure and my eyesight. Active Self-Care became the focus for another section of my mandala

Another important segment of my mandala was the experience of connection. I have friends that I talk with online on a regular basis. We are walking the path together and we support each other in our explorations and our insights. Those experiences are very nurturing and nourishing. Connection is another segment in my mandala.

The fourth area of my mandala is Service.  My work in the world.  For me that means a lot of creative internal exploration and finding ways to share what I discover with others. 

To make the separate divisions in my mandala, I drew an “S” through the circle from one side to the other. And then made another “S” from top to bottom so my mandala looks like it is moving in cycles – which it is. For now, I have my mandala divided into four sections – Spiritual, Self-Care, Connection and Service.

As I created these larger categories for all the activities of my life, the details of how to accomplish them was simplified and clarified. I realized that I had four major choices or focuses in my life – My spiritual exploration/expansion, the well-being of my body, my nurturing connection with others who are walking this path beside me and on my path of service. All the details, all the clutter, fit into one of those categories. That realization immediately quieted my mind. It focused my intentions. Everything I do has one of four purposes – the deepening of my spiritual path, the well-being of my body, my connections with others who walk along this same path, and how I serve in the world.  

A mandala eliminates long lists of actions and clusters them into a focus of moving forward in one particular overarching area. It makes your life seem clear and simple and focused. 

I will keep exploring the use of this mandala because I like how it simplifies the details and keeps me from getting mired down in them. I have a feeling that whatever question or intention or problem comes up will go immediately into one of these over-arching categories. And thus be simplified as it is absorbed into a specifically focused direction.

Sort yourself out by using a mandala.  Draw a circle and begin to think in terms of over-arching categories. Your life as a human.  Your life as a spiritual explorer and whatever categories are priorities to you. 

You might have a separate mandala for Service alone.  That would help me focus my choices and prioritize in that area. If you are not clear about how to organize your mandala, cluster the details together until you identify the larger umbrella that will encompass all the detail in that focused outcome.  Or write all the things that you are concerned about on separate small pieces of paper and begin to move them into over-arching groups. My list for body care is fairly long because I am making changes and experimenting. Move these concerns, these worries, these potential choices into the larger picture of your Life Mandela. 

If you are artistic perhaps create a picture for each segment of your mandala.  Or maybe your mandala is just words like mine is. Notice how the simple act of moving the details into larger like-minded clusters eases your mind. If I have a long list under body care, even doing one of them is addressing that larger area of focus.  

How many divisions do you have?

When a new worry or choice or action comes along, look to see what larger category of your mandala it fits into. It will immediately seem less overwhelming.

For instance the podcasts I do go into three categories of my mandala – they nurture my own spiritual path, they are part of my Path of Service and they address my desire for connection.

The mandala helps me see my life as inter-connected. The mandala simplifies my focus – less detail, more overview. And in so doing keeps me deeply focused on each step I take.

The mandela is a visual meant to be observed and considered and absorbed as a meditative practice. I experienced a huge quieting of my mind as I placed the smaller pieces into a larger context that made me feel less overwhelmed, and I began to realize that when I work on one thing it is working on the others. Everything is connected and everything is moving so every action affects the whole.  Keep your eye on the whole…

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look for the similarities of the details of my life and simplify them in a medulla of my whole life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Identify the major categories for your life. For the moment make lists. 
  • Under those categories list of all the things that you need or want to do. Notice what overlaps into other categories. 
  • As you gain clarity, begin to group those details in larger groups.  
  • When all the things you are focusing on begin to fall into the larger groups, draw a mandela that incorporates these elements of your life into a larger, more inclusive form.
  • Notice how the details of your life are simplified into a few evolving and gradually shifting cycles that you can focus on one at a time. 
  • Work with that. 

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===

The Backpack Journey

A Deeper Song Adventure

This is a journey you will take over and over again. I call it the Backpack Journey because the lighter the load we carry, the further and faster and more energetically we can move forward. 

Come, let’s go adventuring.

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

The Backpack Journey

(20 minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Trust Your Inner answers.

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

===INNER WORK===

Work With What You Have

I don’t go anyplace anymore, so I never get to wear the wonderful and numerous crystal necklaces that I collected over the years. After having them in a drawer for a really long time, I took them out and hung them like sun catchers in my window. I sit beside their lovely energy all day. But just as I was about to order a small stone from Etsy, it occurred to me to wonder why I am not wearing all these great crystal necklaces just around my house by myself. So I picked one, vigorously applied my silver polishing cloth and began to wear it. I’m tuning into the great insights and messages and guidance that has been storing up in these crystals for these past 40 or 50 years. It is time for me to listen to them. They are a part of my life journey and it is time to actively invite them to participate in my life. It feels extremely good to honor and work with these stones that have been in my life for so long.  What have you put aside that you could welcome back into your life?

Honor the Process – Let it Unfold

Unfolding takes patience. It cannot be rushed. I got a new insight for my podcasts and I have no idea what to do with it yet. I must let it unfold. 

My body is going through all sorts of uncomfortable adjustments. I think it’s unfolding toward strength. I certainly hope so. It’s a bit cranky in the process. I just keep focused on the forward motion however small the shift. 

Things unfold in their own good time. Be patient and give them room to change.

===OUTER  WORK===

Make Aware Choices

I am becoming more aware that listening to the news of the world is NOT helping my body.  I get to stop.  There is nothing I can do on the physical plane and a lot I can do on the inner plane that does not require knowing the details of the news and the choices that are or are not being made.  

I happen to like the intelligence and expansive vocabulary in the conversations that I hear on CSNBC but my body’s reaction to the topics is saying I need to listen less and dream more…

Monitor your choices and don’t let the non-useful ones have any room in your life. 

Small Choices Can Make a Big Difference 

It’s interesting how a very small choice can bring such deep pleasure. One night as I was preparing my wonderful protein drink, it occurred to me that I would like to have a prettier cup to drink it from. My first thought was to order one online. And then I stopped and thought “look in your own cabinets.” And there was a lovely china cup that I had not been using. It is a pattern I really like. As I drank, I paused to admire and reflect on the beauty of the cup.  So now my nightly protein drink is an even greater treat because of the lovely container I am using.  Interesting how small choices can make such a big difference in a simple experience. What small choices can you make that will bring you pleasure?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Release Your Limiting Beliefs  

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to get rid of your limiting beliefs. The beliefs that say “I can’t “or “I shouldn’t”. So many of our beliefs come from the fears of others – our parents, the decade in which we were born, where we were born, our siblings.  And then they are the choices we made or did not make….  What beliefs have you picked up that actually belonged to someone else?  

Notice what you learned from your family – how they taught you to experience life, what they believed was possible for themselves and what they believed about you. 

Re-examine every belief that shows up in your life to make certain it is aligned with what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Begin by questioning what was expected of you because of the year you were born. 

For instance, I was born in 1932, in the depression so there were not many babies born during that period. Women of that period were not expected to go to college or have a job. They were supposed to get married and raise babies. 

(I got my BA in 1954 and went back to school in my 40’s for my MBA and I lived in both New York City and the San Francisco area to develop my holistic career. I actively bucked the trend and I’m rather proud of myself for doing all that.)  

A lot of our choices were made in response to the culture of the time we were born in. I still have a hard time dealing with men my age who feel their superiority the way they were simply brought up to see themselves. 

Currently, I have to check out my beliefs around the process of aging. As I sit here in this senior center, there is great evidence of decline. And I have to be careful how I view that as a potential or a possibility for my own path.  What do you want to do? What work do you want to do? What gifts do you want to share? How do you want to impact the world? Start there. See what you can figure out what to do to make it happen.

===DISCOVERIES ===

The Circle of Qi with Ding Ming-Tao is a free 6-part series that started this week. (Videos available)   I have read a great many of his books. Check out the flyer and see if it calls to you. To register, send your email to dmd@dengmingdao.com

Make Your Own Oracle Cards 

I was considering buying a second set of oracle cards when I realized I could make my own version. It’s a form of communicating with my inner self. I can simply place words on separate pieces of paper and then draw them and use them to focus my ideas for the day. Words like creativity, inner peace, laughter, body love. Whatever is meaningful to me. 

I made a long list of words and then I realized from my mandala work that I had four categories, Self Care, Spiritual Path, Connection  and Service.  That helped me expand the list of words that would help focus my attention and move me forward. 

I got some blank index cards and a black marker and made my cards.  And I am free to add words to explore as I am called to do so.  I will put on my “Cara Cards” words that express what I need to explore next.  

I gain great wisdom when I use my Oracle cards.  It’s a powerful form of self-reflection. One word makes me look at all the areas of my life and see where it applies or what new direction it opens up.  Or it might show me what I could focus on next. And it is easy to add a new word.

Here are some of the words I am using: Creativity, Inner Voice, Meditation, Tranquility, Serenity, Nature, Laughter, Rest, Body Care, Inspiration, Next Steps, Fork in Road, Future, New Path, Cosmic Consciousness,  Light Bearer, Intuition, Self-love, Self-appreciation, Vision, Unseen World, Future, Ancestors, Healing, Release, Inner Song, Inspiration, Circle of Light Beings. Phoenix Rising. Individual Harp. Inner Wisdom. Inner Knowing. Laughter. Vision. Cosmic Connection, Fire, Water. Air, Earth, Curiosity.

I use my oracle cards as a form of communication with my inner self and for guidance from the Unseen World. I like this idea of making my own oracle cards.  I can add whatever words I feel will move me forward. 

What will you put on your self-made oracle cards?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

A Vision of “Next”

It’s a bit like we are riding the rapids, things are changing so rapidly.  New doors are open and old paths are being shut off.  It’s a bit hard to keep up. 

We have to stay open and keep visualizing in order to have any clue about wise choices that will help us create our next. The world is changing so rapidly. The opportunities are shifting. We have to question everything. We need to explore or consider or at least experiment with some of these new opportunities that are showing up around our directions and choices and place of service. It is possible that very little of what we have put into our lives has any meaning right now. Unless of course, we’re talking honesty and compassion and inclusiveness. But all those beliefs about what is possible may have to go out the window. Because so much more is possible today that we never imagined a few years ago. Stay open. Stay curious. And go exploring.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Laughter

I didn’t get to draw am oracle card for us because the word “Laughter” popped in so loudly. It’s one of the words I chose for my self-made oracle deck.  

Remember the belly-laugh occasion in your life? The problem is that there were not that many but they were always a powerful experience.  

Living alone and staying home does not induce laughter.  So what options are open to me to change that?

I think I will begin with laughing with delight.  Surely I can do that.  I might laugh at delight at the sun on my shoulders, or the wind in my hair.  I might laugh at a successful completion of some step I am taking in my work.  I can sit here by myself laughing in appreciation for the lovely and meaningful objects I have around me.  At the very least, I can make a conscious effort to smile with satisfaction at something I have placed in my home.  I could laugh out-loud with joy when I complete a strong podcast outline.

I could laugh a little as my cat, Sebastian, figures out ways to get my attention.  

Finding reasons to laugh out-loud is a tad challenging.  How can you and how will you add laughter to your life?

===CARA’S CORNER===

Check Your Foundation

It was a simple change. I put a different pillow on the seat of my desk chair and my whole body applauded. And it straightened in response.  I changed my foundation.  I changed my base.  It was a small adjustment and it resonated far afield. 

I began to look at other parts of my foundation to see what needed shaping or repairing or replacing.  

I have changed my eating foundation thanks to my naturopath visit. I am working with the Nikken magnetic sleep system to support my body. But I need to change the foundation of my belief around my life and what is possible. That may require imagination and determination and a great deal of creativity. Examine the foundation you have built upon. Maybe you simply add on to your current foundation. And maybe you have to move your whole self to a new foundation. Give some thought to the ideals and concepts and beliefs that you were building your life upon.

Here’s the miracle.  When I stood up from sitting on that different pillow, my entire body realigned!!!!!!  I have been working toward this for months.  And one change – a change in the foundation I was sitting upon, created a miracle!!!!  What is the foundation you are building upon and how do you need to change it

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

It was a small choice. 

It was a small choice that created a shift in my very foundation.

It was a small choice that created a shift in my very foundation and my entire being grew stronger.

What else can I shift in my life?

– Cara Lumen, June 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)
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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
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How the Universe Talks to Us

By

How the Universe Talks to Us

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Are you listening?  Are you looking?  Do you see the signs and signals the Universe gives you? Pay attention. 

Sometimes we think of it as a coincidence. Sometimes we think of it as our intuition. There are many ways the universe talks to us, shows us what we are to do, and invites us to explore new possibilities.

We are all one universal energy, a collective consciousness. So it makes great sense that what happens way over there I can experience and feel over here. At the same time, what I do over here affects you way over there. Psychiatrist Carl Jung called  the term synchronicity believing strongly that we are all intimately connected via a collective universal consciousness. So these nudges, these insights, this knowing, is a form of conversation with the universe. We need to listen. We need to pay attention.

What do the signs and signals mean? Do they mean we are headed in the right direction? We are aligned? We are on the right track?  Or do they mean we are headed in the wrong direction? We have to go exploring, notice the signs that show up, notice the feelings that we have, and notice the ideas that keep developing into form. Listen to your inside world and let it guide you.

You may or may not have consciously asked a question. It may be that the universe sort of nudges you and prompts  you by giving you ideas and insights that lead you in the right direction. At other times you choose to ask the meaning of what is showing up to determine if there is an action to take. Ask the universe for guidance. Asked for insights. It’s not about receiving specific answers, it’s about an awareness, a sense of knowing what is the right choice for you. It’s not even about understanding. It’s about a feeling of it being aligned. Use your inner guidance, your inner knowing, to help you choose the path you are to be on. As you move along the path, keep feeling, keep listening, keep watching for the universe to support your journey, to guide your path to help you make that turn in the road. Are you listening? Do you understand the questions you need to ask and the answer you have received? Perhaps journal the nudges that you get in order to clarify them for yourself. Perhaps you just learn to pay attention to the nudges and let them guide you in the right direction.

I am now so tuned into listening to my inner voice that a single phrase can shift my awareness and even change my direction.  I turn to my computer to write and explore and expand on that concept to either share with you or apply to my own life. A phrase may come from the television.  It could be from an email, or a book, or the news. I explore the ideas the come from many forms but I always go exploring.

Are you listening? The universe is speaking to you and it is speaking rather loudly. Pay attention.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I learn to listen to the insights of the universe.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

1 – Pay attention.  Is it a coincidence?  Is it a repeated phrase? Is it the same idea suggested by several people at different times?  Those are nudges from the universe. 

2 – Explore the synchronicity.  Look for the message Look for the guidance from the Universe. 

Deeper Song Explorations

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

See the Pattern and Then the Potential

Curiosity Alone is Transformative

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

OUR GLOBAL DEEPR 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!

DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

An Exploration of the Unseen World

I have always stood on my own. So much so that when I could use some support I don’t know how to get it. It wasn’t until I found the Circle of Light Beings in a Shamanic Journey that I began to understand how to remain a strong individual and also be a strong member of a group.  I was taught a large lesson on this journey, one that empowers me and strengthens my ability to stand alone. I’d like to share this journey with you.

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
Your Role as a Visionary Harp
(Listen Here)

(22 minutes)

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings?

When I See Myself As Light

How to Interpret the Messages Within

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

The Space of Inner Knowing

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and

www.deepersong.com 

===INNER WORK===

Keep Listening

Change has been coming for me for quite a while. And I recently understood what that change was to be in one huge rush of awareness. It was a breakthrough so great I could not have imagined it. It is a door opening so far beyond what I was looking for that I still don’t know what to do with it. I have already begun work to make it happen.  We are really going to go adventuring now. Hang onto your hat.

===OUTER  WORK===

Enterprising

To me “enterprising” means resourceful. It also means creative and original.  We need to be all of those in this changing world.  We need to approach all aspects of our life from a fresh and inquisitive perspective. Enterprising means to re-purpose. How do we do that? Give some thought to how you will be enterprising in your life. Then do more of that.

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

End Each Day with Mindful Gratitude

There are many ways to close out your day but finding a way to reflect back and to offer gratitude clears your path to a healing night’s sleep. 

I have created a small ceremony of closure in which I release what is no longer needed and offer gratitude for what I received, gratitude for what I did do, gratitude for what I came to understand.

I have begun to journal as a way to end my day.  It makes me look back over my day and acknowledge the many gifts I revived.  

I started a little journal on my computer. At the end of each day I write a little acknowledgment for the gifts I received and a few highlights about what I learned or experienced.  Then next week on that day, I get to remember the blessings I received ad how I have progressed over the week. Then I replace it with whatever happened that day.  So  every day I get to look at my day the week before and noticed how those insights and changes evolved. Then I look back over my day and write down what I experienced. I make it a point to look to see what I should release. It could be a concern. It could be scolding myself for not doing something. Release worry. Release whatever you need to let go of. And then look back over your day in gratitude. You can make this releasing ceremony more elaborate if you want to. I could play my flutes, for instance.   But I like this idea of keeping a short daily journal to reflect back over my day and I notice where I was a week ago and how those choices played out. Experiment with the form, but whatever form your offering of gratitude takes, create a conscious end to your day.  

===INSIGHTS===

The Power of Dictation

I am on a roll here with dictation. And I’m having a blast. As I dictate the newsletter, as I dictate the script for a podcast, I am waving my arms and energetically raising my voice in emphasis, and putting great passion in everything I say. It is extremely freeing and I know that it is influencing my work. Have you begun to dictate yet?  Give it a try.

=== DEEPR SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Greater Heights – The Seven Rays and Beyond

I am studying with the Peruvian Shaman Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and am gradually learning about the Seven Sacred Rays of the Pleiades and that has thrown open the door to a new level of my work.I am being rapidly propelled to heights I had never imagined.  The information is pouring in like a floodgate has been opened. I am sitting here taking journeys to the seven sacred rays as fast as I can in order to get their message to share with you.  But about three journeys in to my exploration of the seven ray I had  this tremendous aha moment that has just thrown open the door to a whole new adventure for all of us.  Never before in my life have I felt such a big shift in conscious awareness. It’s exciting! It’s new for me! And we’re going to go adventuring together!

So I’m writing seven Ray journeys and I am writing about this new realization. I have to finish at least the drafts of all seven rays before I can start recording the series because I’m learning as I go. But this new pathway is like throwing open a door to a place I’ve never been before. And I’m taking you with me!

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 com from that place of interconnected, interactive wholeness.

You know, simple stuff….

I don’t even know where we’re going. But we are going. We are going together. Stay tuned.

FREE GIFT – Getting Your Feet Wet in Science of Mind PDF

I wrote Getting Your Feet in Science of Mind in 1998. It was a gift for the members of my Foundations class at the Science of Mind Church in Santa Rosa, California where Reverend Edward Viljoen was my pastor. It was the first in a series of small booklets I wrote about metaphysical principles. By 2000 I was a licensed Spiritual Practitioner and began service as a teacher in Science of Mind. Those churches are now known as Centers for Spiritual Living. 

This booklet went on to have a life of its own. It was sold in the church book store. It has been published in Spanish and Russian and excerpts appear on many websites of Centers for Spiritual Living.  I have created this PDF of the original booklet as a gift to all of you who are drawn to explore its message.

Get Your Free Copy Here

===OUR EVOLVING FUURE===

 Take Responsibility For Your Destiny

You are where you are because you chose what you chose. Bummer. Or not. How is your life working out for you? Are you doing what you love to do? Do you have friends that support and encourage and nurture you? How’s your body doing? How’s your health? I personally have some work to do. My body is grouchy. And I’m the one that got it here and I’m the one that has to take care of it and make the changes I need to make. Only me. My responsibility. My results. My destiny. I am the cause and I am the cure. You are where you are because of the choices you made. Where you go next is caused by  the choices you make. Choose wisely. Take responsibility for your destiny and make conscoius choices.  You are creating your “next.”  How do you want that to be?

===MESSAGE FROMT EH SACREE EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Patterns

I drew the Oracle card “patterns’”for us. Patterns show where we’ve been. And patterns can show where we’re going. Look around at what you have created. Look for the similarities. Look for the differences. Look for what calls do you. Look for where that pattern seems to be leading you. Look for the patterns that guide you to your next step. And be patient. For when it comes together it comes in with a roar. Watch the patterns. Let them guide you.

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

When the Student is Ready the Teacher Appears

I feel like I’ve been shot out of a cannon – the doors have been thrown open and my net path is not only clear, it is filled with exciting opposites and projects. 

I am taking  my second online classes with Peruvian  Shaman Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and I  am eager to translate some of what he is teaching me to share with you in some form. 

For someone who has been waiting for a major change to be made clear, I feel like I’m in a racing sailboat with my full sails catching the wind in the best possible manner. 

I am creating a series of recorded Deeper Song Guided Journeys that  will explore the Seven Sacred Rays and some of the Dimensions and also provide guided experiences for self-healing and change.  

The change is just beginning but I know where I am going — for now….

Be open to change and when the doors open go for it!!!!

A DEEPER SONG 

Adventure.  New Awareness

Adventure.  New Awareness. The portal opened and I step through.

Adventure.  New Awareness. The portal opened and I step through.  And I am transformed!!!!

– Cara Lumen 

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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Autonomy – The New Freedom

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Autonomy  – The New Freedom

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Autonomy is about self-governing.  Being independent. Taking responsibility for all your choices – and their outcome.  It is very freeing.  Autonomy is about being true to yourself. It is about having a sense of freedom and control in your life.  

On the mental level I feel very free in my life.  I get to write about what calls to me and explore what beckons without any regard to trying to make a living. I truly can explore anything I want – mentally.  Physically not so much anymore. But my inner world is expanding…

I have a very strong sense of purpose and the imagination and flexibility to allow my focus to shift as I expand my awareness and my horizon. I go exploring a lot.  And I listen to my inner voice all the time.  

Autonomy is about your sense of purpose. I am exceedingly lucky to be 88 and have such a strong sense of purpose. It makes my days rich in exploration and discovery.

Autonomy is also about what you refuse to put up with any longer. I made a very unusual decision 50 years ago to leave the Midwest and go to New York City.  It was life-changing.  My first week in NYC, I attended an event with a panel of achieving women saying they were more powerful because of having taken  “est” and that was the beginning –  est, Reiki Master Teacher Fourth Degree, Certified Bach Flower Counselor, Trager Practitioner.  I taught Reiki to young men when the AIDS epidemic was just beginning.  I read only philosophical books and took classes at the New School with powerful teachers and I immersed myself in a great city for discovery and expansion.  I explored things that were not yet in the mid-west I had left. 

Even when I was working for someone else, I worked as a temp rather than commit.  I was an explorer on a roll!

This is a fascinating time to reposition ourselves, to open up new paths to explore and potentially take.

Pause to examine what you are tolerating now that you don’t want to do, don’t need to do, or seems not to be lining up for you right now.  What can you release?

What is your passion?  Your primary gifts? Are you using them?

Cultivate a new community of like-minded friends online and support each other in moving along your similar paths together. 

What do you want to manifest in your life right now?   Choose one and find creative ways to make it happen. 

How are you expressing your autonomy – your individuality – your sacred calling? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make choices that are true to my gifts and my purpose. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • This is a time of great change. Look back at your life and see what unused or unexplored gifts you have that you would love to explore.
  • Do that. 

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!

===DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH===

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are in an era of profound change.  How we form our “next”, our future, is up to us and the choices we make today – in each moment.  

The world seems so chaotic. There is so much going on, that it is easy to feel helpless, like a small pebble in a very large ocean. But we have great power and it lies in each choice, each thought, each belief. 

Our destiny is up to us. We must take self-responsibility for what we think, the words we speak, the actions we take, the choices we make and the beliefs we hold. That’s how we manifest our “next.”  Our destiny.

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

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

(17 Minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

===INNER WORK===

Centered Serenity – Ready but Waiting

I’ve drawn the Oracle card “Ready but Waiting” a lot the past few months. How we wait is important.  “Centered Serenity” came up for me.  I can be expectant or excited but the best place for waiting for something to unfold is in centered serenity.  A peaceful place of being present in the now. An aware place of listening deep within. There is nothing to do – you are ready and you are to wait for your next step to unfold.

As I learn to wait with centered serenity,  I use my breath to move into my Still Point, drop my shoulders, relax my body, and immerse myself  in the silence around me. I am in a moment of being nothing – of being everything. As I allow my body to merge with and dissolve into the unseen world, I experience myself as part of a grand scheme, a larger purpose.  And I know and trust that when I wait with open willingness, my next step will be shown to me in the perfect tine. 

Make Room for Change

Change can take its time unfolding and it can also happen in an instant. We get to be both patient and alert. And don’t overthink the nudges and ideas and circumstances that show up. Let it unfold and chose in the moment.   

When a new idea or circumstance presents itself, center yourself and examine it from an overview perspective of where you are and where you want to go.  

These months of cutting back on content have given me space to rebalance, to explore new ideas, to adjust what I am doing  All because I made space – the space of nothing to do except what I felt called to do in the moment.  If that was thinking, fine. If it was a nap, fine.  If it was an idea to explore, even better.  Immerse yourself in a large chunk of nothingness and see what shows up.

===OUTER  WORK===

See the Bigger Picture 

It’s so easy to get caught up in detail and lose sight of our bigger vision.  I’m watching this new vision for process podcasts unfold and because it is unfolding I need to stay loose, I need to be flexible.  I need to be patient.  I need to give myself room for this vision to unfold – allow time for the concepts to evolve and mature.  So each step I take is leading me into a broader view of what is possible.  

Give up on the details and raise your gaze to see where you are headed.

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Huge Impact of our Word Choices 

We are not always conscious of our word choices and the affirmation they give us.  “I can’t” is the first one that comes to mind.  That’s a show-stopper.  Feel the difference in these words: That’s easy.  That’s too far.  That’s hard.   That’s exciting. That’s fun.  I love this. That is beautiful.  My heart is open.  I feel the connection. All is well in my world.  

Just notice the words you say to yourself and others as you move through your day.  And perhaps rethink some of your word choices…

Where is Your Sanctuary?

A sanctuary is a place for refuge, a place of safety.  Where is your sanctuary?

Sometimes we find sanctuary in nature.  Sometimes we find sanctuary in music.   Sometimes we find sanctuary in family or friends. 

I have a pretty even life going on so the idea of seeking sanctuary is a bit odd for me but what promoted this was the idea of a “garden as refuge.” To me that means a place of serenity, tranquility, contemplation.  

My entire home is a sanctuary, a place of nurturing and restoration, a place of creativity and discovery.  And every day in ceremony, I set up protection and raise its vibration.

Sanctuary means a place where you can be alone – with just you and your thoughts and feelings. You might find sanctuary in the ring support of others, but the sanctuary I’m thinking of is where you go to be with yourself. Do you set aside time to do that?

I have a morning ceremony in which I sit and look out at nature and play my flutes and drums and tuning forks and offer my intentions for the day and draw my oracle card.  That is a sacred time for me – a meaningful time –  and it sets the tone for my day.  

Where is your sanctuary and how do you use it?     

===DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ===

Dictation

Have you learned to dictate to your computer yet? It is a most freeing and amazing technique to master.  

On a Mac Choose Edit > Start Dictation (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

Tip: If dictation is set up, you can also press the Function key (fn) on your keyboard twice to start dictation.

This is super fast.  That function key is in the lower left hand corner so it’s very handy.  When the microphone appears, start talking.  And be sure to speak the punctuation like “period” or you will have one doozy of a run-on sentence….

(Sorry, can’t help you on a PC.)

I’ve begun to dictate a lot and I love it!  It also spells better than I do….

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

The Seven Sacred Rays – A New Offering

I am still tingling as I write to share this.  I am taking shamanic class from Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and we are studying the Seven Sacred Rays.  We began with the red and orange ray.  I took a journey to the Red Ray yesterday but today I took a journey to the Orange Ray and I am still tingling all over as I write this. After my journey, I immediately begin to write the first draft of a guided meditation journey I will share with you in a future podcast. I wrote the first Deeper Song Guided Meditation to the Orange Ray.  It is very powerful and I will record a guided journey/meditation for each of the Seven Sacred Rays.  But meanwhile, I have just written a first draft and allowed myself to be deeply guided as I did.  There are many steps to take before I share it with you – journey for guidance, writing the script, recording, editing, but this series is a high priority. So here we go adventuring – together.

More on the Seven Ray Journeys

I have just begun my work with the Seven Sacred Rays but the message I am receiving is that the Seven Rays are portals to the Unseen World. They are our connection, our bridge.  We must simply expand our awareness, raise our sights, and journey on. This is incredibly powerful work and it has just begun.

=== MY BOOKS ON AMAZON===

Author Page

I Want to Sing a Deeper Song

The Art of Wholing: Creative Consciousness for Change

Shape Your Journey, Clarify Your Calling: A Deeper Song

Do  You Need a New Tribe?

How to Read the Signs and Signals that Help You Build Your Business From Your Inside Out

Metaphysics and the Art of Dying

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

I think I even misread the concept.  The post said to rethink our services page from the standpoint of a visitor.  I like the idea of reviewing my website but since I only offer podcasts and newsletters I have no services page and I went to my About page.  I made some major changes that sharpened my focus. 

If you have a website, I suggest you review it yearly to see if it still reflects what you are doing and where you are heading.  

I’m going to do fewer personal growth posts and move more deeply into the Unseen World. I very much need to shorten my newsletter but I get excited and want to share.  

Whether you are an entrepreneur or have a job, write your who-and-do-what statement to get a handle on where you are and where you would like to go.

I help (the people you help)

To do (what you help them to do)

So that (what your work teaches/frees them to do. 

If that is your goal, how are you delivering that result?  Do you need to update your offerings? How do you need to redefine and reposition in today’s new and unfolding energy?

== MESSAGES FOR THE DEEPER SONG COMMUNITY FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Revision

“Revision” is the oracle card I drew for us. We are constantly revising our direction as we change our choices. We are consciously and constantly revising our conclusions as we gain more information. So does revision mean new information? Does revision mean leaving some things out? I like the idea of revising my thinking. As these new process podcasts emerge, I am  revising my thinking about what they should be like, what they should contain, what the order is. So new information and new viewpoints are some of the qualities that go into making a revision. 

What do you need to revise? What do you need to let go?  Revision can be about a total rearranging and it can also be revising one word. One phrase. What are you going to revise in your life and how are you going to do it? Oh yes, and when are you going to do it???

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Give Yourself Time

It isn’t that I haven’t been getting the messages, it’s that I hadn’t been heeding the messages.  I thought I had a huge breakthrough.  I re-wrote my who-and-do-what statement and it allowed many ideas to simply drop away and I felt myself rise into my new place of service. 

But in looking back over my notes from both my shamanic journeys and my notes from my daily oracle card drawings, the ideas for this change in direction have been hammering me on the head until I finally got the message.  The clues and suggestions were there – again and again, and again.  And yet the day it all came together for me was like being shot out of a cannon.  Many ideas and possibilities dropped away because they were not included in this new mission statement, this new definition of my purpose. They were no longer a part of my Grand Plan.

And it has taken months.  

And yet the day it all came together, it was like feeling myself rise to the surface ad begin to swim in strong sure strokes.  I knew my new purpose and my destination.  It feels great 

The Universe is talking to you. The Universe is showing you.  And each nudge takes you closer to where you are to do next. 

Notice what you need to free up in order to make room or this new awareness to unfold.  It has been important for me to make space to ask myself what I feel like doing – and then do that.  I was too crowded with have-to’s that I had made up to have time for many feel-like times. 

I also had to accept an idea that has bothered me since I first heard it. Last year Shamanist Ingerman said some of us were going into a new level of consciousness and it was our job to help others find the bridge and cross it or not.  Not everyone would come over and that really bothered me.  And yet, as I do a reality check on what I can and cannot do at 88, there is not much I can do on the physical plane to address physical plane needs, but I can do a lot on the inner planes.  I take a reality check to see where my choices have led me, see how aligned I am with my overarching goal, and chose my next steps that I can and will joyously do. Then I clarify my over-arching purpose. I’m like a helium balloon being let go to soar off into the sky.  

So here’s my updated who-and–do-what statement.  In many ways, it’s not new, except for the final step which allows me to stop doing some of what I was doing and focus on the adventures into the unseen world that I cherish.  

“I help those of us who are aware of our role as vibrational beings
To raise our vibration, elevate our expectations, and move into a higher level of conscious participatio
So that we can cross the bridge to a new dimension and bring others along with us.n
I do that by offering experiences that deepen our awareness of ourselves as pure vibration.”

How has your purpose changed?  What will you let go?  What does that free you to focus on?

A DEEPER SONG

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back and raise my sails to catch the wind!!!!!

I am off on an adventure. 

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  I skim the Ocean of Perennial Promise and keep my eye on the emerging horizon. 

Yeah adventuring. 

– Cara Lumen March 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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Respond Rather than React

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Respond Rather than React

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Reaction is unthinking. It is automatic, visceral, instinctive, primal, and uncontrolled behavior. 

Respond is to consider, and weigh our options and consciously choose your answer and your actions. 

Reaction seems to be emotional and very uncontrolled.  Response is measured and is consciously and mindfully reasoned out.

Recognizing and understanding the difference is empowering. 

We have control over where we focus our attention.  If we focus on the negative, what is not working, we experience fear and dismay and … all manner of negative emotions. 

When we are consciously selective, when we focus on the positive, the possible, the overarching well-being, we experience an entirely different emotion.  

They are both emotional – one focus is soothing and hopeful.  The other brings us angst and tension.  

A response can be negative but because it is a response rather than a reaction, it seems to offer us a logical way forward that a reaction doesn’t always have.

A logical way forward. A focusing of our ability to reason, to evaluate, to compare, and to choose.  Those quantities make up a response.  We want to cultivate our ability to respond rather than react as we move with conscious choice through our lives. 

The first step for moving into purposeful evaluation is to quiet your mind.  Shut down the what if’s and disbeliefs and particularly the scenarios of potential failure that we have a tendency to create. 

Our first tendency when facing a new situation is to begin to use our mind to evaluate, but I’m suggesting we learn to move into our Still Point with a deep breath and consciously relaxed shoulders, and sit in silence.  Listen as the silence deepens and calms and centers you.  This is where the truth lives. Not the what if’s, but the serene, awareness of natural unfolding cycles, and the consciousness of Oneness.  Go there. Be there. Trust that.  

Once you are centered in your Still Point, you are in a position to evaluate and mindfully choose your response.  

In this calm, centered state, feel yourself move to a place of seeing the overview. From that calm, centered, all-inclusive position, begin to consider your options, your possibilities, your potential path. Just observe with no emotion.

What can you actually control or directly affect?

Unless you are in charge of something on the physical plane, the majority of change comes from the energy and focus you create within yourself. Change begins within you.  That change radiates out into the world and is powerfully vibrant and influential.

As an 88-year-old woman, my in-person service work is now done within. I’ve held signs on street corners in protest a few times a long time ago.  I walked out on the highway in New York City to be part of the Hands Across America movement, but now my sphere of influence comes from within – though my intention and continually raising my vibration. 

This work is subtle. But it is powerful.  I watch as people join the Deeper Song Community from all around the globe and I know there are many of us, consciously moving to raise our vibration and the vibration of the collective consciousness.  We are in deep service and we are making a difference.  And because we are all doing inner work, energy work, consciousness work, we get to look more closely in order to see its subtle and powerful effect. 

And we get to trust.  Trust that this expanding, collectively raised vibration is making change. 

To convince yourself of your innate power to change, begin by making changes you can see and experience.  I can walk more and see the changes in my body.  I can study more and experience the deepening of my knowledge. I get to choose where I focus my energy.  

I’m relying on Gaia and my Soul Star to be my messengers, to help me support positive change.  I  consciously rise above the human chaos and focus on our wholeness, our heightened energy and I pick up my individual  harp and join the Circle of Light Beings as we play our music to raise the vibration of – everything.

Tune your individual harp strings to the sound of One.  Play your melody but stay in tune with the overarching symphony.  To respond is to make conscious choices.  Let us join together to raise the vibration of the whole.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move into my Still Point, tune my soul harp to the sound of One, and begin to play my melody for the well-being of all. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • In your quiet times, consciously raise your vibration and join it with the Circle of Light Beings and watch the powerful change that takes place. 

To explore your options and develop your personal approach, explore: 

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

The Power of Your Still Point

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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!

===DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH===

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

There is an emptiness about Wu Wei.  There is a tranquility about Wu Wei, there is a posture of moving with the flow, being gently rocked in the current of life while serenely sharing your inner light

Wu Wei is a concept in Taoism that means non-action.   Wu Wei means do what is natural, appropriate and leaves no traces.  

The “leave no traces” is an interesting aspect to consider. 

Here’s how I think it is: 

Stephen Mitchell’s translations of the Tao Te Ching says: 

The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.”

Wu Wie means to be present, resounds with inclusive clarity and leaves no traces.  

Wu Wei is about non-interfering, non-obstruction, and non-forcing.  It is about letting life unfold.  

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

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

(20 minutes)

(LISTEN HERE)

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Important Links From This Episode:

Stephen Mitchell Tao te Ching and Second book of Tao

Deng Ming Dao –  Everyday Tao-Living with Balance and Harmony

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Power of Your Still Point

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

The Space of Inner Knowing

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

We Are One With the Whole

===INNER WORK===

Patterns

I drew the oracle card “Pattern” and had to explore what it meant to me. A pattern is a repetitive design. I looked at the pattern of my life.  Strong elements in my personal pattern are intellectual curiosity, communication, and spiritual exploration.  Those are some of the threads I weave into my life.  But the pattern is up to me.  I can change the emphasis of one thread over the other.  I can change the depth and width of the use of that thread in the overall design.  Each element has a different color range.  How fascinating to feel myself weaving my day into being.  What threads do I emphasize? What patterns do I create? What colors do I choose?  

Think of your day as a tapestry you are weaving and choose your pattern with thoughtfulness and creativity.

===OUTER WORK===

What is Driving You Forward And Does it Leave you Room to Explore?

When we look closely, we will be aware that that are several core driving forces moving us forward.  It’s important to know what your core focus is and also periodically examine it for relevance. 

Survival is certainly a focus.  But what level do you seek?  Are you comfortably tucked into a modest home or do you want something luxurious that takes more time and money? Your choice will determine the size of the job you take and how long you work at it.  Supporting your choices will determine how locked in you are to the path you must take to support it.   If I have a backpack and an open road, I need only to take a dishwashing gig in a restaurant to find food. If I am running a big company, there are many layers I must master and manage. 

Balance is important.  Adjusting our goals is one way to make space to adjust our actions.  

I’m still in a stage of evolution; however, the clues from my inner self are getting stronger and clearer. But I do not make myself so busy that I do not have time to listen and explore in the moment. We need to make space for new ideas to make themselves known.  Spend quiet, contemplative time often.

Are you too busy to have time to listen, and think and consider what new opportunities are presenting themselves?

Find time to go exploring.  I have modified my offering output so that I can literately sit here and say, “What do you feel like doing?” My absolute favorite thing is to explore through writing.  That’s easy and fun. Shaping that into the format to share with others is the next step. 

So I mindfully listen in stillness and make room to explore what shows up.  

I love to learn but I’m rather full up.  I love to create and that’s a priority. What is important to you? What is your priority? What is your driving force?  What is crowding you so much that too don’t’ have time to explore?

Make some choices and leave room to explore.

Who Do You want to Serve? What do You Want to Help Them Do?

With the world undergoing such rapid and dramatic changes, this would be a good time to pause and make some thoughtful choices.  What new needs have opened up that you might fill? Who do you want to serve and what do you want to help them do? Let the answers to those questions guide your choices as you set about to create your “next.”

I was in Michael Port’s first Book Yourself Solid Coaching certification and one of my favorite tools to work with is the “who and do what” statement. 

If you are considering a new step, whether changing jobs, moving into retirement, or starting your own business. figure out the answers to these  three statements: 

I help (kind of people you want to help) 

To Do (what does your service/offering help them accomplish?) 

So that (what they can do after working with you that they couldn’t do before?)

Making those decisions will get you rapidly focused on the direction of your net step. 

How do you want to be in service next?

“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.”

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Prayer for Sacred Pauses

Goddess of the sacred pause
please grant me the courage
to lay aside swiftness
and take up slowness,
to embrace limitations as learning,
silence as stabilizing,
waiting as worthy,
and sitting as divine.
Goddess of the sacred pause
help me to know stillness as strength,
patience as powerful,
and healing time
as holy necessity. 

© Molly Remer 2019

The Unexpected and Its Source

The dish I had ordered for my altar was not the color I had ordered, it was not ceramic as I had thought.  It was plant-based resin and it has been a tremendous source of energy from the moment I opened the package.  This feather-shaped dish sent energy to heal my body, my heart, my insight.  All this happened within seconds of my opening the package. I had a sense the person who created this had infused it with very powerful healing energy.  I accepted the gift.  

I had ordered the dish from an artist on Etsy and the package came from Latvia.  I had to look up exactly where Latvia is. “Latvia is a democratic sovereign state, parliamentary republic Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had been part of the Russian Empire since the end of the 18th century, but after the Russian Revolution of 1917, they became independent states.”  It is on the Baltic Sea across from Sweden and down from Finland.  My little package had traveled a long, long way.

I wrote the woman who made it and asked what she had added to it energetically. And she wrote back “only a little piece of my heart.”  

Be aware of the energy of “inanimate” objects.  Learn to feel their energy.  Learn to interpret their energy.  

This particular item is a  small dish shaped like a feather.  I got it to serve as an offering dish on the altar I am creating under the window next to my desk.  

I have to thank the universe for bringing this energy to me.  I thought I ordered blue – I would not have ordered it in black.  I thought it was ceramic or I would also not have ordered it.  But the Universe made those choices for me.  It wanted the energy it carries to get to me. 

I have recently learned of the powers of the Condor in Peruvian shamanism so I will use this feather to represent the Condor, which represents the Upper World, the realm of the divine origins and Spirit.

So unexpectedly, I have received an additional gift.  It has opened my heart and offers to take me on journeys to the upper world.    

But the gift was greater than that. As I work with this dish and it keeps reflecting back powerful energy to me, I realized this is reflecting MY energy, perhaps enhanced by the women who made it, but the resonance is so strong in  my heart chakra that I have come to understand it is the energy of my own heart that I am expanding. And when I held it above my crown chakra, it was like being blessed with very powerful cosmic energy. This is my own focused energy being reflected back to me! So here is my big lesson – don’t give others credit for the energy that is actually coming from you.  

I did not expect this. I simply ordered a small dish for my altar. And I got much, much, much more. 

Be aware of the powerful positive energy you project and notice how it is reflected it back to you. 

Create Releasing Ceremonies

One of the strongest images I have received in my journey work is the idea of leaving behind what no longer serves us – to lighten our load as we move forward along our path.  

A Releasing Ceremony helps us leave behind what is no longer aligned with our purpose, what is actually stopping us. Setting aside those obstacles clears the path for a positive journey into our next adventure.

In your Releasing Ceremony, you can be specific or general.  With my blessing, I release whatever is causing my body to resist standing up straight. I am grateful for my eyesight and intentionally release any and all elements of my past and present that are causing my vision to blur.

Move deep within to create your statement of release. Feeling what you want to release, move out from the deepest corners of your being and begin to lift.  

You have to believe that you can make this healing happen.  It’s not you making it happen, it’s you opening yourself up to allow it to happen, to allow our body to self-heal, to self-correct.  Encourage it.  Keep releasing the known and the unknown beliefs that have brought you to where you are.    

In one journey, I laid aside what I no longer needed and watched it turn into butterflies of transformation. In another journey, I watched what I laid down to leave behind turn into water to nurture the life near by. 

Release what you no longer need however you are called. Burn it in fire and watch it turn to smoke.  Dissolve it in water.  Simply lay it down and leave it behind.   It is up to you to choose what you want to release and how you want to release it.  Look at your willingness to let go and make certain you are truly willing to release it – what you know and also what you don’t know, what you are not aware of. I release any and all beliefs, ideas, circumstances that are holding me back from wholeness in the present moment.

Make releasing a part of your daily spiritual price.

Further Exploration: 

The RIver of Time – The Discovery

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Your Offering

I got a lovely lotus incense burner from Etsy with the intent of actually burning incense in it.  But instead, I have turned it into an offering bowl in my morning ceremony.   It is interesting to feel your intentions being offered as if they were the smoke of incense being carried off into the world. What do you offer the world today?

I offer my healing voice. I offer my curiosity.  I offer my willingness to explore.  You get the idea – create some form of an offering moment each day and with intention send that focused energy out into the world. 

===DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ===

When the Time is Right

This change has been a long time coming.  I have felt it but nothing definitive showed up.  Until now and I sure was surprised.  “Sound healing with your voice. That is a new step for you. Heal with your voice.  Heal with your tone. Heal with your intention.”

So, here I go exploring and experimenting with and sharing how we are to use our own voice to heal – ourselves, our planet, others.  That’s all I know at this point.  

Deeper song member Noralee noticed that I had changed gong sounds at the end of my podcasts.  I had been using a handheld energy gong but have begun using a 6” desk gong that sits on my desk.  Christina Gerber  and I had a long conversation about using humming to heal.  I have written The Intentional OM Hum. I have made up songs to the elements that I used to sing but now play on my flute. Recently I am beginning to use a focused intentional hum toward my body and my life.  I will experiment with vowel sounds and pitch and sequence.  I will begin with an intention and see what evolves.  I may play with the poetry pattern I know of beginning with a word that is repeated and placed in an expanded context.  I have words I sing in my head as I play my flute but it never occurred to me to sing them to anyone else. 

My intention is for my voice to be healing.  That could take many forms. I can do that.

In my journey on this topic of my unfolding process, the Circle of Light Beings were a primary component – singing our individual songs and also combining our voices to support an overarching collective, harmonious sound.  

What it looks like is that in some future podcasts, I may sing to you!!!!  

Aren’t new adventures fun! 

A Deeper Song Exploration:

The Intentional OM Hum

How to Use Sound for Self Healing

The Deepest Sound is Silence

Play Your Body Song  

Join the Circle of Light Beings

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

How I Found Connection – The Visionary Harp  

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Create a New Model For Our Changing World 

Our world is constantly changing.  Things are different but just how different are they? One major shift is that everything is now online. What do you need to do to get better at that?  Create a home office, get a better microphone, adjust your lighting, figure out how to host on Zoom?  

The first step in creating change is to recognize that change is needed.  

The second step is to explore the possibilities.  I like doing podcasts better than videos.  I don’t want to teach a class but I will work 1:1. I increase my FaceBook connections by friending people I take online classes with.  Where else do I need to do to make myself known – to reach the people I want to serve?

The second step is to choose from all the possibilities you have explored. For instance, my spiritual practice keeps evolving as I immerse myself more deeply in that experience.  I moved things around so I can easily add my xylophone and my tongue drum to my morning spiritual practice.  Drawing an oracle card each day has become very meaningful for me. Experiment, rearrange, choose what resonates.  

Develop what you have chosen to explore.  Take it a few steps further so you can see the possibilities, so you underhand the potential.  Take time to understand how this new direction feels to you. How it expands and challenges you.  

Adjust.  Constantly adjust because as you grow, as you get better at what you are doing, you can take on more challenges or expand your reach. 

Create your new model for this evolving world by recognizing the need for change, exploring the myriad of new possibilities that are evolving, choose those that resonate, develop them to fit your needs, and adjust until you own them!

===MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Stretch 

“‘Stretch is the oracle card I drew for us for the next two weeks.  It shows a woman with many roots and branches coming from her head and arms and hands.  She is expanding her reach by deepening her roots and broadening her reach.  Part of stretching is about exploring and another part is about nurturing what we have going for us.  I might expand my reach through an action I take and I might deepen my reach by deepening my inner work.  

There is an element of being flexible when we stretch.  We must know how far to reach and when to pull back.  

What area of your life are you ready to expand? How far are you willing to stretch in order to grow?

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

I am a Happy Rebel

I am such a rebel.  I keep choosing and using only what resonates with me in the way I want to use it. 

I just signed up for a three-month online course – “Andean Shamanic Journeys and Rivals to Align with the Divine Feminine for Strength and Purpose” and I already know I do not want some of the details I will be taught, I what the overview, the insights that I can turn and creatively apply to my own life and explorations. 

I’m not a rule follower.  It’s not that I’m a rule-breaker, but I am a major adapter.  I take a core idea and shape it into what works for me. It’s great fun and is very freeing.  

I am an over-view person, not a detail person so that’s also part of my free-wheeling response.  

For instance, in the intro to this new course, there was a detailed ceremony.  But what drew me were the intentions of some of the steps. I know I will find a way to add those intentions to my own spiritual practice in my own way.  I would work with the intention and let the “how” part simply evolve.  

Perhaps not so much a rebel as an individualist.  I can work with that….

My DEEPER SONG

My way.  My creative way.  My personal way.  

My way, my creative way, my personal way unfolds before me like a golden beacon of adventure.   

My way, my creative way, my personal way unfolds before me like a golden beacon of adventure, bringing deeper understanding and broadening views.   

I go exploring. 

– Cara Lumen 

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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