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

May 1, 2021 By Cara Lumen

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

Creating Conscious Connection

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

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

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

Shift your point of view

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

Open up new vistas in the unfolding new era

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

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

Come from the energy of collective oneness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deeper Song Process

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

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider: 

Trust Your Inner Answers.  

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Join the Circle of Light Beings

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to the unseen world…

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

In this episode we explore

Journey to the Red Ray,
A Deeper Song Guided  Adventure

(29 minutes)
(Listen) 

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 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.
Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

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

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

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

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

Shift your point of view

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

Open up new vistas in the unfolding new era

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

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

Come from the energy of collective oneness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

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

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Join the Circle of Light Beings

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to the unseen world…

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

In this episode we exploreJourney to the Red Ray,
A Deeper Song Guided  Adventure
(29 minutes)(Listen) 
Listen to 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 

Apple / Spotify /Google
and the Deeper Song Website
To Sing a Seeper Song Consider:

Prepare to Journey 

Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Deeper Song Guided Journeys to the Seven Sacred Rays:

Journey to the Red Ray

Coming Soon

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

Trust Your Inner Answers.

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

How to Open Space for Change

===INNER WORK===
Organic Universalityy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Insights will Develop with the Doing

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

===OUTER  WORK===

Getting Started Changes Everything

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

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

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

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

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Ask the Right Question

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

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

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

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

===DISCOVERIES ===

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

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

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

===OUR EOCING FUTURE===

The Higher Path

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

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

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Ready but Waiting

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

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

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

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

From Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Magical Time

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

There are two paths.  I have a choice.

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

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

– Cara Lumen, May 2012 

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

Namaste,

Cara

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

Filed Under: Future, Newsletter, Transcendent Leadership

Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

September 13, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

Insights oF a Deeper Song


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

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

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

This is a time for deep introspection. 

This is a time for expansive creative exploration. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

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

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

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

In this episode we explore why
The Unseen World Needs Us
(15:00)
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Inner Work
UNDERSTAND YOUR CALLING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Outer Work
MONEY MANAGEMENT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW DO THE GEESE KNOW?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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OUR GLOBAL DEPER SONG

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

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THE POWER OF PERSISTENCE

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t give up.

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

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

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

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

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CARA’S CORNER
THE POWER OF BEING ECLECTIC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go do that. 

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A DEEPER SONG

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

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

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

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Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

August 26, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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

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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.

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Change Your Thinking

April 24, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Change Your Thinking

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them.”-  Albert Einstein, scientist

We resist change.  There’s too much unknown about trying things a new way.  But if we have a problem – no, when we have a problem – we need to look at what we did, what we said, what we thought. Because that’s what brought us to this exact place.  Unless we want to keep going in the same direction and attracting the same results, we have to change. 

What beliefs are you holding that brought you to this particular place in your life? I’m not good enough?  It can never happen? I’m afraid to try? Shift those limiting beliefs to positive affirmations and watch the doors swing open. 

For more Deep Listening consider

One Powerful Way to Change Our Future 

How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World

Follow Your Personal Drumbeat

Build on the Distance you have Come

Does Your Path Have a Heart

Filed Under: Deep Listening, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: deep listening, self-awareness, transformational thinking

Have You Raised Your Sails?

April 17, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Have You Raised Your Sails?

“The winds of grace are always blowing, but we must raise our sails.”
– Sri Ramakrishna.

It’s so simple. Just raise your sails. Catch the winds of change.  Accept the opportunities and lessons that cross your path. Walk through the doors that open. Go exploring. Let the new path expand your awareness of the myriad of possibilities that await. 

Look around. Feel.  What is calling to you?  What tugs at your heart?  Learn to interpret the messages of your intuition.  

Follow them and lift your sails.

More Deep Listening:

Does Your Path Have a Heart? 

What Wave Are You Riding? 

Build on the Distance You Have Come 

Join the Circle of Light Beings 

 How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World 

Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

Filed Under: Deep Listening, Positive Change, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: change, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

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