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The River of Time – The Discovery

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Shamanic journeying is a form of meditation that is filled with metaphors that only we are to interpret.  The River of Time appeared in one of my journeys and has led me on many adventures.  Here is the story of my first encounter and the adventure it took me on. 

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 River of Time – The Discovery

(11 minuts)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Space of Inner Knowing

Curiosity Alone is Transformative

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

The Path We Choose

22-Create Your Own Spiritual Journey

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

I was on a shamanic journey and I had a very powerful healing experience that opened up great opportunity to return and do more deep healing and discovery.  I want to share that experience with you. 

I have returned a few times to this healing place and each time more has been released.  I am not clear what has been cleared and cleanses, I simply know that it has.

Granted, each metaphor in a shamanic journey is for us to interpret, but this is a powerful concept that I know will guide you into an amazing experience.   

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song I shay my Discovery of The River of Time.  

Shaming journeying is a form of mediation.  We go to our Sacred Garden, which represents aspects of us, and are given metaphors as messages that only we are to interpret. 

The message of the River of Time is for all of us.  

It’s always a powerful experience when we learn to release an unknown blockage – an unknown belief. 

And because you do not know the specifics, you lean to trust – trust the process – trust the healing – trust that the necessary blockages and beliefs will be released – and trust your interpretation of the metaphors.

You become very observant of the sublet changes that manifest from this experience of releasing. 

This particular journey does all of that. 

I did not know this was a healing journey until it simply was.  I don’t ever remember my intention but it turns out this journey was about releasing and clearing and clearing.  Here was my experience.   

I went into the meditate state of a Shamanic Journey. 

I found myself by a river.  It was flowing from my left to my right.  It was not deep. It was clear and I could see the smooth water-worn rocks beneath the gently moving water.  I stepped into the shadow part of the river.  Immediately I saw dark colors move out through the bottom of my feet. I felt nothing, no emotion, no sense of release, I just saw it go.  Something was leaving me, something no longer wanted or needed.   I mentally reached out through the bottom of my feet and content with Gaia, earth, the molten cleansing core, and brought that powerful energy to help continue the exodus of whatever was leaving my body through the soles of my feet, streaming into the shallow water.  I stood there for a long while. The black color I was releasing though my feet became grey, and then a more smoky in color. 

Still standing in the shallow water, I opened myself up to my Soul Star.  Immediately powerful energy came in through my crown and gradually moved from my head through my body and out my feet, Again clearing and cleansing and releasing as it went.  I did not know what it was clearing out I simply stood there and accepting that release of what was no longer needed in m life and in my body.. 

Then I was moved to sit down in the water, up to my neck, my arms around me knees.  Immediately more blackness came out of the right side of my body ,being carted away by the water that was flowing from my left to my right.  I felt nothing.  I just watched it move out of my body and knew I was being cleansed and healed and rebalanced.  The color went form black to dark blue to ever increasing lighter colors until it was iridescent – fun of rainbows.  

Now here’s the part I have not yet interpreted.  A very large fish showed up to my left, she was gold and she simply smiled at me.  I have no idea what that meant.  I have a feeling she is a new helping spirit but I do now know her role.

And at that moment I knew I was in the River of Time and I was releasing stuck energy from the past and the present and was clearing the way for my next, my future.  Clearing cleaning, releasing. All from simply sitting in the River of Time. 

What powerful gift. A way to let go, to make room for.  How extraordinarily freeing.

I have been back to the River of Time several times since, sometimes with a specific request, sometimes just to offer myself for a clearing of whatever needs to be released at this moment.  It is a very powerful journey. This is a very powerful healing metaphor because it lets you release the unknown – the unknown blockages, or wounds or…  It just lets you – let go.

This journey allows you to trust.  To trust that whatever is rebased is what needs to go and you don’t have to know exactly what it is.

I did not have a plan for releasing anything.  It just happened. What I released is still unknown to me but because of its color and how the color gradually lighted in color, I interpreted that to be healing.  A release.  A cleansing.

I have never gone to the River of Time with an intention to heal a particular experience or wound, but I could.  I could set an intention and go to the edge of the river and see what I was invited to do.  I may be invited to toss in what I want to release into the River of Time.  I may simply put my fingertips into the river.  Or I may dive clear in over my head.  Whatever happens, it is a metaphor for change, a metaphor for releasing what is no longer needed or wanted or even releasing blockages that are unknown.  

I still do not know what the big gold fish as about, but she defiantly smiled at me. 

So we have a metaphoric healing process that lets us release the unknown, that encouraged us to trust that what is being released is beneficial. 

Ans we get to trust the process, the experience and notice what changes manifest.

I have been back to the River of Time in a journey several times. I have gone with a specific intention to release a blockage in my body.  It is a welcome place, a soothing place, a clearing place and place of change.  My River of Time has fluffy cumulus clouds reflected in it. There are birds singing in the surrounding forest, there is sun shining on its surface.  When you journey to the River of Time notice the landscape around it, the direction the river flows, what you are called to do.  Let the River of Time lead you into this clearing process that will be unique to you.   

I like the idea of the River of Time. It means I can go back into time and heal from a timeline of the past. It means I can take positive action in the present moment that will clearer the energy for my future timelines.  

Use your imagination. Remember that everything in your journey is a metaphor that only you are to interpret.   Let the River of Time guide you  and heal you and use it often. 

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

The Path We Choose

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The Path We Choose

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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

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

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 Path We Choose

(14 minutes)

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Walk the Sacred Path Within Surely and Steadily and Leave a Trail  

Raise Your Sails

When I See Myself As Light

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

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The Path We Choose

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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

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

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

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

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

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  Thank you for being a part of this journey

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

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

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

Let me read it again: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is our read made of?

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

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

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

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

How do we make our road? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Unseen World Needs Us

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The Unseen World Needs Us

An Exploration of the Unseen World

The Unseen World needs us – it needs us to translate, to pass along their messages and teachings and guidance.  We need to learn to pay attention.  We need to learn to understand. Are you ready to become a messenger, an interpreter for the Unseen World?

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

In this episode we explore why

The Unseen World Needs Us

(15:00)

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness?

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Are You a Transformative Leader?

Curiosity Alone is Transformative

Transcript

The Unseen World Needs Us

An Exploration of the Unseen World

I was surprised when I realized that The Unseen World needs us – it needs us to translate, to pass along their messages and teachings and guidance.  We need to learn to pay attention.  We need to learn to understand. 

I use shamanic journeys to explore the unseen world.  I know that the objects I see are metaphoric messengers and that is one of the ways the Unseen World communicates.  How it guides us,  how it teaches us.  The Unseen World needs us in order to share its wisdom. We are their translators and interpreters of the Unseen World.

95% of All That is is Unseen.  Not only do we need to go exploring, but we need to learn to bring back the message we are given. We can help the Unseen World communicate with us here on the planet?  One of the ways they guide us with their wisdom is when some of us go to the unseen world and learn to interpret what we are shown.

That’s why we are seen as transformative leaders.  We are to go to the Unseen world and bring back guidance and insights and interpret them for our planetary experience.  We can do that.

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we give some thought to Why The Unseen World Needs Us

I was very surprised when I heard the idea that the Unseen World needs us.  It was in a shamanic group I am in lead by international Shamanist Hank Wesselman. He shared the idea that there is a vibational force that is huge but it is largely ignored by people on the planet. But it has major, important, valuable guidance to give us, that we must learn how to gather and how to share. 

We are messengers.  We are interpreters of the Unseen World.

We have work to do. 

I don’t know where I heard that 95% of the universe is unseen.  In fact, I think as actually 94% and who is measuring and how? But the fact is there sure is a lot we have to explore and try to understand.

It begins with our intuition, that subtle but powerful “knowing” our next step. That hunch that turned out to be right on.

We have all daydreamed or visualized at some point.  That is the Unseen World speaking to you. I use shamanic journeys to visit the Unseen World and know I am to interpret the metaphorical messengers from the unseen World to receive the messages from the Unseen World. There are many ways to explore the Unseen World and our charge is to interpret it.  To be one of its voices, if you will. Then we are to live hat we learn and also turn and share what we understand. We become messengers, interpreters. We are to be a voice for the Unseen World.

What can we do to turn the wisdom we receive from the Unseen World into an individual awareness, individual understating, individual application here in our body personal? 

Let’s explore what the unseen world is and how we know it is there.  What kind of messages it may want to offer us and what we are to do with those messages?.

What is the Unseen world and how do we know it is there?

What makes things grow?  What makes the weather change?  What makes the stars in the galaxies?  What is beyond what we, here in a planetary presence can even imagine?

My understanding is that we are all part of a vast Oneness.  Call it the Great Mystery, The Void,  The Nowhere That we Came Form, All-That-Is, Tao. The name of it needs to be non-human, it needs to be so indescribable that we cannot restrict its power and capability by trying to describe it in the limiting vocabulary of being human. 

We do it though open stillness. 

The more I listen to the Unseens World, the clearer the messages become.  My best writing comes when I close my eyes, listen to the words I hear from my inner voice, and type what I hear.  I listen to the words that are being moved through my fingers knowing that I am being guided by the Unseen World as a messenger from them – to you, to us,  to whoever listens.  

Of course, none of this is provable to us here in our limited physical presence.  But, we know.  We know there is more.  We know that we are limited here on earth.  And we know that a major core part of us is part of something greater, more inclusive,  more unknowable. We are not separate, we are elements of a greater whole.

So we start here, where we are, and move inward. 

We need and welcome the wisdom and guidance of the Unseen World  What do we offer it in return? Why does it need us?

We begin to explore the unseen world by first listening to our intuition. As we listen more closely to our inner voice the more we trust it and respond to it. The more we listen the more we hear. What kind of messages does the Unseen World want to share through us?  How do we help it be heard?

We have a body  We have a mind, we have words, we can communicate with other humans.  The unseen world has none of that so we are truly messengers, interpreters of the Great Vastness.  We just have to learn to listen.

The more I listen the more I hear.  I did not plan to create this particular podcast script  I just knew I needed to write it down so I could figure it out.  So there I sat, typing away, listening as hard as I could to my inner voice and wondering what would show up next.  I listened. And I was given what to say. I, Cara Lumen, sat there in my body, with my eyes are closed and my fingers transcribing as fast as the ideas came in.  I was listening to and hearing the Unseen World share with both of us, with me, with you.  I am a translator, an interpreter as I figure out ways to apply what I learn. 

You can hear the Unsend Word   when you pause and listen. 

I think the Unseen World speaks to each of us a bit differently because we are sitting here in our individual personas with different skill sets and interests and callings.  We are looking for different things.  We are given different insights.  So when we ask, we are given work that fits with what we are capable of doing, what we are called to do. We get to choose if we help or not but it’s exciting when we do choose to become the voice of the  Unseen World.

What are we to do with these messages we receive from the  Unseen word? That depends on who they are for. 

I listen because I am a passionate learner.  I am curious. I am excited about what I am finding.  When I am given a message fro the Unseen World, I love to turn and figure out what it means for me, for us,  and then I turn and share what I learn with others.   In a way, I’ve been doing that most of my life – the exploring part at least.  But I’m 87 now and have a lot of stored-up experience and insights and can make some very interring connections from one point to another.  It’s great fun actually. So we serve where we are called.  You may be called to focus on one particular aspect.  Do that.  You may be called to explore a lot of pieces and figure out how to put them tougher.  Do that.  I just keep going deeper, being drawn to explore and interpret what I am shown, the insights I am given. 

You will know. The unseen world will tell you how you are to serve. 

There are many ways to explore the unseen world mediation, dreams, journeying, chanting, dancing, art, whatever form, it takes you to a vibration higher than your body so you can experience and recognize the part of your that is Unseen, the part of you that is being shown and taught and guided by the Unseen World. 

How do you do that?. How do you explore the unseen world?  Begin with your intuition.  Begin to notice unusual circumstances that show up.  Do an intentional shamanic journey and ask what your role is, what you are to share, how you are to share  How are you to serve as an interpreter of the Unseen World?  Then figure out how you, in your individual planetary expression are to turn and share what you have learned with others.  Perhaps you teach, perhaps you simply live what you have learned as an example.  Perhaps you simply absorb what you learn and build on it for another time. 

We are messengers.  We are messengers that the Unseen World needs.  Be in service.  Go listen.  Interpret what you are shown. Figure out how to apply it to body being and then teach it share, it, live it by example – whatever you are called to do in your own self expression. 

The Unseen World needs us.  We are its messengers.  Let’s go exploring and learn to interpret and share its messages.

By the way, I just got a message from the Unseen world, it said, “Good job, Cara, thank you o for listening. Thank you for sharing. Ashe.

Think on that and see where it leads you.

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

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Changing your life is totally in your control and it is easier than you think. In fact, changing your life is done  simply by changing your thinking. Your thoughts have great power. Your thoughts create your reality. 

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 how to 

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

(17 Minutes)

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The Space of Inner Knowing

How to Hole High Watch for the Planet

TRANSCRIPT

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Explorations of the Unseen World

Our thoughts create our reality. When you change your thinking, you change your life.

The second that we change our thinking is the exact second our life changes – for better or worse, depending on what we just thought. There is great power in knowing that. 

Our thoughts create our reality. We create our life by our thoughts and our expectations.  When we learn to examine what we are thinking, what we are expecting, we have more power over what act ally manifests. 

If you are in a situation you do not like, examine the thinking and the expectations that got you there.  

If you love where you are, do the same – examine the thinking and expectations that got you there so you can repeat them.

Here’s the primary key to changing your life:  Your life is determined by what you think you deserve and what you think is possible.  Let’s talk about that… 

Welcome to Reflections of a Deeper Song.  I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

This is an important episode. It’s about how to  Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life:

Within a few weeks of having moved from New York City to Santa Rosa, California I was invited to attend the Center for Spiritual Living. I had not been to church in a very long time but I am very spiritual and metaphysical. As I sat there on that first Sunday and listened to the sermon, I kept thinking, “I believe that.  Oh, I believe that too”  and when we all joined hands at the end and sang “We are one” I knew I had indeed found my spiritual home. Five years later I was a practitioner, a member of the clergy, a licensed spiritual counselor. 

But someplace early in that journey, I was sitting on the front row when Reverend Edward said. “Your life is determined by what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible.”

I stoped cold.  Is it really that easy?  Just change what I expect?

I’ve been working with  that idea ever since…

There are thee thing to consider here. 

– Your thoughts create your reality. 

– You get what you believe your deserve and 

– You get what you believe is possible 

Change your thinking, change your life 

As I began to work with this idea that our thoughts create our realty, I was taught to pay close attention to my words – the affirmations I was giving myself.  “I can’t do that – That’s too hard.”  And I was also taught to always say positive things because our words become what we affirm to be so.

An affirmation is said in the present tense as if it were so. I am whole, perfect, and complete. 

Your thoughts create your reality.  Begin to monitor your thoughts.

Your thoughts create your life experience. Your thoughts create how your life unfolds. That’s a very big responsibility – to know that we create our lie eserine with our thoughts.

If you can imagine it you can make it happen.  Now it may look a little different than you thought.  For instance, if I really, really, really wanted to become an astronaut I may end up as an astrophysicist or I may discover a new galaxy through a telescope. Or I move deeply into Astrology.  Let your intention unfold and prepare to be surprised! Just remember your thoughts create your reality, your life experience 

Your life is unfolding along the path created by your thoughts and expectations. Look for your individual path and see what is manifesting there that will guide you to the most aligned goal. 

It’s vital that we monitor our words – notice what we are saying – what we are thinking – what we are expecting – the affirmations we are giving ourselves – both positive and negative. 

As a spiritual practitioner, I was really seeped in monitoring my vocabulary to only say positive, affirmative things.  One day in a group setting I was asked how I liked a particular rug.  I didn’t.   It was obviously new and pleased the owner greatly. And I had to really work hard to find something positive to say.  I don’t remember what I finally commented on – the color perhaps or “it suits the room” but there was a distinct pause while I changed my negative thoughts to positive ones.  Work with that idea – monitor your thoughts and make sure your words are positive and affirmative. 

In today’s rapidly changing world I a consciously working to focus on what I am FOR, how I want it to be, what values I want to incorporate into my life, how I want to express myself in this new world that is evolving. You don’t have to be against anything, just work to create the change you would like to see manifest. And that begins with changing yourself. 

Our thoughts create our reality.  Now it so happens that our thoughts about what we deserve are sometimes very sneaky.  We need to learn to identify them and monitor them. What do you believe you deserve? 

Remember, our thoughts create our reality.    That gives us great power. Change your thinking, change your life.

Your life is determined by what you believe you deserve.

This is such an important concept to understand.  It is very subtle and we really have to work at monitoring our thought to keep ourselves from letting any negative thoughts in. 

Perhaps you begin by making a list of all the positive things you see about yourself. Then add the positive things others say about you.  Write them down so you see them. Perhaps you even have two columns in case a negative thought comes in – write it down so you can work to change it.  One quality might belong in both the positive and negative columns.  For instance, my enthusiasm gets a lot done and often motivates others, but and it can make me a bit pushy at times. 

What do you believe you deserve?  Do you deserve to be loved?  Do you deserve to be safe?  Do you deserve to love your work?  Do you deserve supportive friends? Do you deserve to be healthy?

When you start going in the direction of “Do I deserve to get rich” – you might want to think about what “rich” means to you – safety, travel, freedom to follow your passion – don’t make it about being a consumer of items, what qualities do you want in your life – love, companionship, self-expression, satisfying work.  Those will make you feel very wealthy.  What exactly do you think you deserve?  

Change your thinking, change your life .

Here’s a big one.  You get what you believe is possible.  This can be very subtle.  It can pull you down without you evening noticing.  Look closely at what you believe is possible. 

I’m 87 and there’s no going back in physical age, but my curiosity is greater than ever, my creativity is on fire, and I am doing exactly what I want to do and loving it.  That’s partly because I have followed my heart, my calling with a great deal of energy, commitment, and enthusiasm!

So let’s talk about our belief in what is possible.  Sometimes it’s a matter of reframing the belief. Let’s say I want to become a famous author.  Why?  To change people’s lives.  I do that all the time with my posts and podcasts.  

Do I want to be an influencer?  Only to those who need to hear what I offer and I am doing that.  You may already be doing what you want.  Look at the core reason you want something to be possible. What if your thoughts are  “I don’t think I’ll ever find a mate.”  What if you change that to “I choose to accept and experience love in my life” and the next thing you know you have a rescued cat cuddled up next to you in gratitude and affection and unconditional love. Look beyond how you are phrasing what you want to attract into your life and find the emotional or spiritual gifts you are seeking. 

Something there are specific steps you need to take in order to make something possible.  

I have some work to do on my physical body to make it stronger.  I’m sure running a marathon is not on my possibility list because it never was, but I have some choices I can make about movement and exercise that can modify and change the strength of my body.  So my switch has to be to change my thinking about what is possible (like standing up straighter or walking longer distances) and I simply start working on the steps I can take to move me from where I am to where my strength and stamina are better. Take actual physical plane steps towards what you want to manifest. Be persistent.  Be focused.  And watch for your wins.

Our lifetime of beliefs and choices have brought us to where we are today.  But this may be the moment in which you begin to make active, conscious, mindful choices to change our life.  Change your thinking, change or life 

So the premise here is that your thoughts create your reality.  That means you have great power to change your life simply by changing your thoughts. 

You get what you believe you deserve so you have great power to change your life by changing your expectations of what you deserve.

You get what you believe is possible so spend some time looking at those subtle or not so subtle expectations you have about what is possible. 

Change your thinking, change your life. Every thought counts.

We have a great deal of control over our lives – through our beliefs, our choices, our thoughts, our actions.  We are not at the effect of anything – except ourselves – and our beliefs and expectations. So get busy.  Whether it’s to expand your spiritual practice, take more shamanic journeys, or add more affirmations, consciously monitor your own thoughts to make sure they are positive and supportive to your life. You have a choice. You get what you believe you deserve and what you think is possible  – Change your thinking, change your life  

Here’s an affirmation for you;

I am whole, perfect, and complete  – all is well in my world. And so it is.

Think on that and see where it leads you.

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

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

An Exploration of the Unseen World

If you have ever felt powerless, you need to understand how to send energy outside of time and space – to the past – to the future – to the present – to pave the way or heal the wounds or simply gain clarity in the moment.

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

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

An Exploration of the Unseen World

As a Reiki Master Teacher, I know how to direct energy outside of time and space. We use symbols.  

But why do I need symbols?  Those are human tools.  Energy is everywhere. Energy is all there is. We just want to figure out how to focus and direct energy to expand and deepen our insights and awareness. 

We do it through our intention.

We have much more power than we realize. There is power in our words,  there is power in our thoughts, there is power in our actions. We can change the trajectory of our life by working outside the limitation of time and space. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode we’re going to explore How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

I need to feel empowered.  I need to feel I can contribute to the calming of the chaos of the world. I don’t mean to keep bringing up my age but at 87 my form of activism needs to be a bit subtle.  Powerful, of course, but distributed in a more serene manner.  So I work on the inner plane.

There is nothing between me and all Energy. Everything is energy.  I am, you are, we are, it is, they are.  All one energy. So it’s easy to embrace the concept of sending energy outside of this human restrictive concept we call time, this restriction we call space. 

We have immediate access to the Unseen World and its gifs and guidance.   

First you see the need, 

Then you set the intention

Then you personalize your  way of sending energy outside of time and space.

Let’s start with the belief that this is possible. I have dry macular degeneration which means there is gradual cloudiness building up at the back of my eyes.  Western medicine says it can’t be healed.  What they are actually saying is they don’t know HOW to heal it.   Be careful of the beliefs that can limit your self-healing and your belief in your own power. 

So I have gone through the human process –  why me, I’m a writer,  I need my eyes to do my work.

But the bottom line is that I have to find a way to BELIEVE that my eyes can be healed.

I believe they can be healed.  I just don’t know how yet. 

I have some work to do.  I have to change my own belief system  I have to believe it is possible and I have to do some energy work.  

Once you identify what you want to change, you set about change it.  Now here’s the caveat.  You send energy for the highest good, the best outcome, and leave it to the Unseen World to do what is needed. 

I don’t know what that is regarding my eyes.  But I can begin by working on myself.  

Begin by releasing the blockage you have consciously or unconsciously created. 

Whether you can identify the cause of what is manifesting or not, you want to metaphorically and metaphysically release the blockage.  Dissolve it  Eliminate it.  That alone will create change. 

You don’t need to know where that blockage is, or the cause of what is manifesting in your life. You don’t need to know if it is from your ancient lineage or if it is a part of what you agreed to do during this lifetime.  Your intention is to release it.

In shamanism, there is a process called cord-cutting. It is a metaphorical releasing of known and unknown cords that are holding us back or keeping us from rising higher.  

I have had shamanic sessions in which there was a lot cord-cutting – cutting the energy brought forth from past lives, past experiences.  I don’t need to know what the cords stand for, I just know that the Shamanic practitioner saw them and cut them.   And I got better. 

We’re talking metaphors here, human-based metaphors for releasing energy or clearing energy, for changing the manifestation of energy in our human form. 

I believe my words create my reality so I am very careful about what I think and the words I speak – they must be positive, affirmative so that what I create is what I want. 

The first step in directing energy outside of time and space is to set an intention

What we focus on we get.  What we believe will happen happens.  So the very first step in sending energy outside of time and space is to set an intention.  Not for a specific outcome, but for wholeness and balance or even guidance.

Think about a time you set an intention and it happened.  I have an odd share around setting an intention and having it manifest.  In college, there was a cute blond boy I wanted to date.  I set that intuition and it happened.  The bummer part was that he was cute but not very interesting…

Be purposeful and specific with your intentions…

We get hints from the Universe about the steps we are to take. When we act, when we follow that guidance from the unseen world, interesting opportunities begin to manifest – more doors open or unexpected ideas show up that take us to levels we had not even dreamed of.

Focus on change. Choose change, act as if that change has already occurred, and watch it happen.

You send energy to raise the vibration, to bring the object of your focus to wholeness – or raise it to be closer to wholeness than it was.  You do not try to manipulate or even manifest a specific outcome  You send in the vibration of wholeness and let the situation balance out in the most wholistic manner for the greater good of all.

After you set your intention  you personalize your way of sending energy outside of time and space.

You can send whoiling energy to the present

I remember a time during my Reiki training when I had a test.  I had gone to great pains to send positive energy ahead to that test experience.  Then the test got moved up in time.  I happen to mention to a fellow student that I had sent the energy for later that day and she said, “Don’t worry the energy will find you.” 

There is no time or space in the world of Energy. There simply is. All energy is s always available in the present moment  

Yes, send intentional energy ahead to a surgery or birth or a situation or….whatever… even if you don’t know where or when it will take place, – the energy will be there because there is no time or space in the Unseen World. 

That means you can also send energy to Past

Sending wholing energy to the past is an interesting idea. It opens up all manner of possibilities. I remember teaching an online class in which there was a five-minute segment on forgiveness mixed in with an hour of other ideas. But that 5 minutes on forgiveness resonated with one of the students and the next week in class she shared that she had contacted her father whom she had not spoken to in 15 years and they had even made arrangements to meet. 

When the time is right the answer will appear. And you just may be the one to provide it.   

Forgiveness is probably one of the more impactful things you do to change the present.  You can send energy back in the past to help heal the present.  I sometimes had a hard time with my other – she was very critical of some of the choices I made as an adult.  I have a theory about that – I did things she would have liked to do that her generation was not taught to do or allowed to do. But I also realized that in that same desire to break out of the stenotype of her time, she gave me some very awesome opportunities.  

We all try.  Sometimes it is more impactful in ways we did not expect. Perhaps it is not so much forgiveness that is called for,  but understanding. 

I made some choices that were very unusual and slightly dramatic in my 40’s and I know they definitely impacted lives ower that mine in terms of what and who I left behind and what and who I tried to impact.  I also know it was the best decision I made in my life and is the reason I am who I am today and as deeply in service as I am.

But I can send energy back to that time to heal and balance and release, but I can’t change it.  I can only trust that intentional energy sent to the past will heal the wounds I may have caused by the choices I made, or the experiences that manifested because of my actions,  Lives were changed – including mine. And I would not change that choice one bit.

Send energy to the Future to unblock the way forward or even affect the outcome. 

There is an understanding that timelines are parallel so we can easily send energy to the future.  I sent energy ahead to the future me ten years from now and when we connected, she was doing jumping jacks!  Now I’m 87 and have not done jumping jacks for a very long time so what’s going on ten years from now!!!  But hey, I have a relationship started with my future self. And jumping jacks as a metaphor for what is possible.  

You can send energy ahead to something you are going to experience in the future – a surgery, a test, a job interview.  It’s as simple as sending forth positive vibrational energy – visualizing the situation surrounded by positive energy. There’s no ready you can’t put up a Transformative Shield of Protection if that seems appropriate.

In New work City in the 60’s I  remember coming out of an EST seminar at 1:30 in the morning. There were no cabs so I decided to walk the 12 blocks to my apartment. I started out and then I realized that it was a really dumb idea – to be walking home alone in the middle of the night in NYC even if it was the Upper West Side.  But I started sending energy ahead – I saw myself walking through a protective tunnel of light.  I saw only one other person on the street and he was walking on the other side of the street and going as fast as I was.  

I have been known to prepare to take a road trip and set up a safe tunnel of light for me to drive through all the way. Or fly through.

Personalize your  way of sending energy outside of time and space.

Your intention is the cornerstone of directing energy outside of time and space.  But you can make it more tangible for yourself in many ways.  If I see some disturbing news on television I hold my palm toward the set and set an intentionally send whiling energy to the highest good for all concerned.  

If I see a person in distress, I may put my hand on my heart thought my intentions, and send him or her heart energy.

I can create an intention that my focused look carries with it positive energy.  

Get creative. Know you have the power to send energy outside of time and space and get to work!

You can use the Law of Correspondence to focus your intention. 

The Law of Correspondence says you can have one thing represent another.  For instance, if I want to send restorative energy to my eyes, I can put my hands to my face.  Or, I can choose an object to represent my eyes and simply hold that and direct my intentions there.  I can choose to use whatever calls to me to apply the Law of Correspondence.  It could be a round rubber ball, it could be a piece of string, it could be a place on my ow knee that I hold to represent my eyes.  It can be a crystal.  You choose. I have a fabric hug-a-planet that I can cradle or put my hands on a particular country to send energy.  

If I were in a difficult conversational exchange with someone, I could create a subtle gesture of correspondence,  like wrapping my finger around my thumb to send positive, uplifting energy to the situation.  Or I could just sit and send the energy with my intention. 

Use your intuition and creativity to direct energy outside of time and space.

Be aware that it can be done.

Star looking at what you want to send energy to.

Start doing it

Do not direct the outcome

When you send energy ahead you send to the highest good of all.  There is a MUCH greater plan than we can even begin to comprehend, so a situation here on earth may seem like it is going the wrong direction, but we, here in our limited body expression have no idea what that grander expression is going to be or is mean to be.  

Send e to the highest good.  The most positive outcome. And trust.

First, know that you can direct energy outside of time and space.  Then do it  – for the highest good of all. 

Then trust. 

Repeat as needed.

Think on that and see where it leads you.

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