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When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  So I went exploring. 

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. I will help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

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The Space of Inner Knowing

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Unseen World Needs Us

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Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

An Exploration of the Unseen World

When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  

If just 5% of the universe is known to us, the other 95% can only be explored through our Invisible Self. What a great adventure!

I’ve done a lot of exploring with and through my Invisible Self and I continue to find new ways to connect with and understand and get messages from the Unseen World. I use the meditative practdice of shamanic journeying and I go on amazing adventures.  I have learned over the years to move out of the way for automatic writing as I sit at my computer and let my fingers do the talking.  I trust those messages. I share those messages. I learn from those messages. 

My job is to interpret the ideas and insight and metaphors I receive and bring back their messages to share with you. Now I want to help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self so  you too can go adventuring!

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.  

Reflections of a Deeper Song helps us:

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

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections o a Deeper Song we help you e  Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self.

The more I explore the Unseen World, the less alone I feel and the more empowered I become.  We have a LOT of help in the Unseen world, we just have to connect wit it, to learn to listen  to its message and interpret the nudges and hunches, the sudden knowing and the metaphorical messages it gives to us. 

The exploration of the Unseen World is an ongoing process.  As I continue to explore I find new ways to explore and discover  new realms to investigate.  

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. 

But we need to begin by understanding the difference between our body and our invisible self and how to listen to both.

First we are going to explore 

  • how our body communicates with the Unseen World. 
  • Then we will help you identify your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.
  • And finally,  we will discuss how the  Invisible Self can guide us and guard us. 

So how doe s our body communicate with the Unseen World?

I see our physical expression  ia necessary but restrictive aspect of ourselves.  It is the tool for communication that we use with others in a physical expression, but when we move within, we can hear and experience much, much more.  We can begin to communicate with the Unseen World

We are very familiar with our body. It lives within the restriction of time and space. It is guided by emotion and our busy but limited mind. It goes through a cycle of aging. It’s how we identify ourselves. Yet, it’s only a small part of who we are: only 5%! We want to explore more than that!

The Invisible Self is the all-encompassing energy that’s in and through and of everything. We first begin to know it through our imagination   intuition and our dreams. We can learn to consciously go exploring through our meditation, our  visioning and journeying. All are forms of inner awareness that lead us to the Invisible World.

Both our body and the Invisible Self are part of our whole but they use different ways to communicate.

One of the ways the Invisible Self communicates is through our emotions and thoughts 

We rely on our mind and feelings for most of our awareness and understanding. Our mind and feelings are how we interpret the signs and signals from the Unseen World. And remember, this communication is limited because it is all our body is capable of doing.

Our intuition and hunches are the first way we experience our Invisible Self speaking to us from Unseen World. 

Fist we acknowledge that there is an unseen world. Then we work to free ourselves from the limitations of our mind and emotions.  Then we can learn to explore our Invisible Self.

So what is our Invisible Self and how can we intentionally deepen our relationship to it?

We are more familiar with our body than with our invisible self.  

So what is this Invisible Self?  Where is it?  How do we access it?  Wha does it do?

Since 95% of the world is unseen we, here in the confines of our body, get glimpses of the Unseen World but then we limit ourselves by  interpreting what we experience from the limitations of our human body. We just have to learn to communicate with  our Invisible self, our presence in the Unseen World and we have to ask the right questions in order to get the answers we seek. 

The Invisible Self is eager to expand our relationships with it.  It has much to show us and tell us.  

Think of a time when you acted on intuition alone – you simply had a strong sense of “knowing” what the right choice was in that moment. That was the Unseen World nudging you.

My new wise saying is “The more you listen the more you will hear.”  We need to practice listening and we need to learn to interpret the sometimes subtle messages we receive.

Any time you find a way to tune into your inner voice, your inner knowing, it will speak to you. You could do this through mediation, dreaming, journaling, visioning, sound, automatic writing – any way you find to free yourself up from the confines of your limited human body so that you can hear and begin to interpret the Voice Within. 

I’m a writer and I’ve been listening to my inner voice for a good portion of my life but a few years ago some really outstanding phrases begin to show up as I typed.  They were so stunningly eloquent I just knew they were not from me. They seemed to come from nowhere and they surprised me.  I imagined a trio of bearded Shakespeare-type men sitting with quills pens over my right shoulder giving me these awesome phrases.  

Gradually I realized it was only me, me and my inner voice. I had made room fo my inner voice to speak though my body by listing and writing down what it was saying.  My Inner voice  is very wise.  And comes up with some great writing! I welcome its messages. And the more I listen the more I hear and the better I am at interpreting it. 

It might be considered a form of automatic writing, when you get your human self out of the way and start writing whatever shows up.  I se it as listing to my Inner Voice.

Because I am used to capturing my ideas by typing, even when I do Shamanic Journeying, I type in what I see.  It is in metaphoric form and also provides actual messages of wisdom that I receive. I really, really like to journey.

Shamanic journeying is the earliest form of meditation. It is a doorway to the Unseen World and it communicates by offering images that are metaphors only you are to interpret.  If you find a metaphor you do not understand, simply ask for clarity. 

Since we’r going into the Unseen World, the first thing you do is set up your Transformative Shield. How to do that it in a previous podcast that is lined to in the show notes. 

Then we go to our Sacred Garden in which everything there is an aspect of ourselves. We begin by asking a question of the Helping Spirts and Guides that await us. Make it an open ended question, not a yes/no question.  How would I…?  Why is…. in my life now? May I have clarification on…

Move into contemplative silence to receive the answer. It might come as a symbol or internal words or even a simple certainly.

Sit in stillness and ask a question you’d like guidance on. Allow yourself to move into a state of stillness and receptivity. Quiet your mind and see if you “daydream”. You may see images or experience a strong sense of knowing, or hear voices, or see forms.

Those images are guides and helping spirits and messengers in metaphorical form. 

Your job is to observe and interpret

Trust what shows up. It may be in the form of am animal or an element of nature. It may be a talking rock or a talking butterfly, or a knowing look from an animal.  Go with what shows up. 

Everything that shows up  is there to guide you and guard you and teach you.  These are all helping spirits just for you. You guidance may be a voice in your head. It’s you talking to you, so listen. It is your Invisible Self speaking to you.  

I love to journey.  I am often very surprised at what shows up and I am definitely reassured by what continues to appear. 

In my daily human body-confined life, I often get a loud voice in my head identifying an idea that resonates deeply. The minute I do, I immediately turn to my Invisible Self, my inner voice, my Inner World, and begin exploring – usually through writing – typing actually. I write to figure out what I hear, how I might interpret that and apply it to my life. And maybe how you might apply it to your life, too.

Sometimes I explore the unseen world by holding a crystal,  experiencing its energy and in a meditative state, I simply flow where it takes me. I experience the  feelings and sensations that show up and notice how my Invisible Self interprets the signs and signals that appear in these meditative states. 

Your Invisible Self will speak to you on many levels.  When I open myself up to choose a crystal, I get strong “crystal voices” saying, “Today it’s me.”  And when I choose it and sit with the crystal in my restiving hand, m left hand, I am inundated with powerful feeling and awareness of its power and its message. It may manifest as a sensation in my body or a thought or as simple knowing. The crystal is speaking to me.

Learn to listen to the Inner Voice that is the Gateway to the Unseen World and trust what you hear.

So we have explored how our body communicates with the Unseen World

We have identified your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.

Now let’s explore the many ways our Invisible Self can guide us and guard  us.

We now understand the difference between our body’s communication through emotions and thoughts and the more subtle inner knowing messages of the Voice Within. We know that metaphorical images is one of the ways our Inner Voice communicates from the Unseen World  And we have explored using Shamanic journeying to move more deeply into the Unseen World.  How do we interpret what we find? 

The Invisible Self moves within the Great Mystery, the All That Is, The Vibration of Wholeness.

Our human mind is limited by what it sees and feels and hears. It is limited in its ability to interpret because, well, it is interpreting though our body using only our emotions and our thoughts and our beliefs.

Our Invisible Self lives in the Unseen World where there is no limitation – where all things are possible, where everything is connected, where we’re all one. We are to learn to know the difference. We are grateful for the miracle that is our human body and at the some time understand its restrictions and limitations. 

When we go to the Inner World, the Unseen world we tap into our subconscious and we begin to experience our inner world as being more representative of what is possible.

Trusting your inner voice will change your experience or being limited to the confines of a body. It is your portal to the Unseen World.

Introspection is the beginning of hearing your Inner Voice. 

Listen to your Inner Voice and learnt to  interpret how it speaks to you. Insights, hunches, words, images.  Learn to pay attention and interpret the subtle messages.  

Become conscious of how you feel, what you want, where your passion lies, and follow that awareness. 

Learn to hear and trust your inner voice – your hunches, your intuition, simply knowing the next move. Experiment with the guidance you receive in order to understand and accept the power of its messages from the Unseen World.

Let your inner voice guide you to choices that are aligned with your Invisible Self, your Soul’s Purpose. Listen to your Invisible Self with you whole body and pay attention to the many ways you are guided.

The Unseen World reveals itself only as far as we are ready to listen and to understand. 

Whatever your experience it is exactly right for you in this moment. 

Only through a gradual unfolding can the true depth of the insight be revealed. Allowing your life to unfold is an open invitation for your Invisible Self to send you subtle messages – the unexpected opportunity, the great idea that suddenly pops into your head. The unexpected encounter on the street. 

This is the Unseen World guiding you. 

Even barriers that show up are a way your Invisible Self tells you it’s not time for that step or it lets you know that particular action is not a good choice for you.

When we focus on planning and setting objectives, we use only our limited bodies. AMake more more time for inner work. Learn to leave space for your Invisible Self to guide you with hunches and inner voice phrases. 

So we know the difference between the limitations of our body and the broad reach of our inner voice. 

We know that our inner voice comes form the Invisible world.

And we know that when we listening to our inner voice it will guide us and guard us.

What action do we need to take to bring that inner wisdom, that inner guidance into our limited body experience?

We have to be willing to listen and we have to be willing to change.

Think about it. If our body understands only 5% of what is possible, what happens when we let the 95% that is our Invisible Self have more of a say in what we do?

Begin to consciously communicate with your Invisible Self

For instance, you might have a Power Journal. Record your journeys, your feelings and the lessons learned from an experience or circumstance.

By all means establish a time to Journey/meditate. Move into a meditative state with an intention or a question and learn to interpret the guidance that shows up.

Become aware of the subtle nudges. Look for the unexpected circumstance, the sudden direction-changing thoughts and the voice in your head that offers guidance.  They are all messages from your Invisible Self.

There’s much to explore in the Unseen World. I meditate with rocks and crystals and receive their message. I love to take my Spirit Guides on healing journeys in a mediative state. I am overjoyed with how ideas pop into my head, which I immediately explore. And I’m amazed at the sudden knowing that shows up, the certainty that this is the right step or direction. I accept that powerful guidance from my Invisible Self. The more I listen the more I hear.  Keep listening. …

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Begin to notice and listen to your inner voice 
  • Take one of the actions it suggests and notice what you learn. It may be yes do this or not don’t do this.  
  • Listen to the inner voice that speaks to you in your mind, your dreams or in simply knowing. 
  • Learn to interpret them. They will open doors for you.

The more you listen,  the more you will hear.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore different ways to hear my Inner voice and learn to listen to the messages of the Unseen World. 

  • 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 Cultivate Deep Listening

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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

An Exploration of the Unseen World

You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening.  It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.  

It’s a journey of learning to trust.  It’s a skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal 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

How to Cultivate Deep Listening

(12 Minutes)

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The Space of Inner Knowing

How to Hole High Watch for the Planet

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

The Cloak of Empowered Service

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

An Exploration of the Unseen World

You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening.  It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.  

It’s a journey of learning to trust.  It’s the skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal to the Unseen World. 

95% of the world is Unseen, and even using hunches and visioning and inner voice listening, we’re going to miss a lot of the guidance being offered to us.

We just need to begin and once we cultivate the capacity for Deep Listening, the unseenWorld will find other ways to communicate with us, to offer us its gifts.  

But we begin with cultivation Deep Listening. 

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 discuss How to Cultivate Deep Listening

A number of years ago I became aware that sometimes when I wrung. some really great ideas seem to be coming in from someplace other them me. I pictured a trio of Shakespeare type men with feather pens over my right shoulder telling me what to write.  Ultimately I came to understand that it was only be listening to my inner voice and I was just writing some really good stuff. 

Give yourself credit for the guidance of your inner voice.  I’s you talking to you.  

It is important to cultivate the ability to listen deeply because the more we listen the more we hear. We just have to practice more 

There seem to be three levels to developing a Deep Listening practice. 

– First we have to learn to recognize the Hunches and Urges that seem almost accidental in nature. But they are not. 

– Then we begin to do more  Intentional Listening. Nut just trusting your intuition but actively calling on it for guidance.

– Ultiantely we begin to Cultivate a Deep Listening Practice and we come to rely on our inner guidance and wisdom  That’s the really fun part. 

The first step in developing a practice of Deep Listing is to learn to hear your inner voice. 

Think of a time when you had a hunch, followed it and it turned out to be right.  Were you surprised?  Were you pleased? Were you a bit amped?

Intuition is one way you Inner Voice speaks to you. 

Think of a hunch you had that turned out to be true.  That’s your Inner voice giving your nudge. Notice how many times your intuition or hunches are right and begin to trust them and follow them.

Years ago, I began getting flashes of ideas that I began to immediately write into fleshed-out articles. It would be a phrase on television, a phrase I read. I just suddenly knew I was to expand on that and share it with others.  So I did.  

Those flashes of inner knowing that I am to expand on a specific topic continue today and I pay attention. 

Flashes of Insight are a form of your inner voice speaking to you. 

As a writer, I listen to my inner voice and write down what it says. I am at the point that I literally feel myself get out of the way and let the words flow through my typing fingers. 

I consciously get my human mind out of the way and let her rip.  No human mind in there, only trust and deep listening to my inner voice. 

The unexpected flow of phrases and ideas grew until I knew I was generating them from a place of deep awareness –   far beyond the limitations of my human self.

Unexpected Inner Nudges are part of Deep Listening

How, then, do you cultivate Intentional Inner Listening? How do you purposefully talk to Your Inner Voice?

You begin to cultivate a habit of Intentional Inner Listening

You can begin with journaling.  When you write things down, your mind believes that information is safe and it moves on to access another layer, a deeper layer. So journaling is like peeling layers off to get to the core.

When I learned shamanic journeying,  a whole new world of intentional inner listening opened up. It is a form of meditation in which you set an intuition for your journey, go to your Sacred Garden within and wait to be given your answers in the form of metaphors – figures, natural objects. Whatever shows up is a metaphor that only you can interpret.  It’s rather imaginative with talking animals and shape-shifting rocks and helping spirits in many shapes.  

You begin with an intention and see what shows up.   

Once I learned that 94% of our experience is in the Unseen World I began to use shamanic journeying to intentionally go to the unseen world.  It is not a rapid process but I am persistent in my quest. I find myself sitting outside portals waiting for an invitation to enter, That may go on for several journeys before I am invited in.  

In order to receive guidance from the Unseen World, you wan tot develop a  practice of Deep Listening.

When I mediate, my body gradually disappears until I experience myself as pinpoint of consciousness in my third eye  I am no longer limited by the physical realm, I am in the unseen world and all things are possible  

Listen an you will receive answers.

Begin.  Perhaps you journal your thoughts because writing things down allows you access to a deeper layer.  Perhaps you draw with an intentional question to be answered and see what shows up.  Definitely meditate – use a mantra to quiet your mind.  Learn to do shamanic journeying if your like but as part of your spiritual practice is to give yourself space and time to explore the inner unseen world.  Listen deeply. There are messages just for you. 

I love my Inner voice.  I can be watching television and one phrase comes leaping across the room to me and I quickly write it down and later explore  it though writing for my newsletter or my podcast. 

I have Leonard to go even deeper in my shamanic meditative journeys. 

I continue to be amazed at the clarity and wisdom and insight that is offered through my inner voice.

There are more things I am going to do to cultivate a practice of Deep Listening. I play my native flutes every day and have begun to use them to talk to nature, the weeping birch outside my window, and her swaying branches. I use an intentional hum to move vibration throughout my body and listen. When I exercise, I notice what muscles need and compliment hem on the good work they are doing and how much stronger they are dieting. 

I journey every day and end up in amazing places in the unseen world. 

I am working to cultivate easier access to a Point of Deep Stillness

I listen to my inner voice as I begin to wake up.  I try to remember my dreams  

The Unseen world has many ways to speak to us.  We just have to learn to listen.  Speed time each day listening deeply.

  • 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.comto 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 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.

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are so much more than our physical plane expression.  We, as transformational leaders, are to raise our vision and listen to the guidance of the 95% of the world that is unseen.  That is our job  To listen, to hear, to bring back what we learn and teach others.  

There are Metaphorical Messengers in the Unseen World ready to guide us and inspire us and yes, motivate us to new actions here within our planetary persona.  

We have only to listen…

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

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

(10 Minutes)

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Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

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

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

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star (16 mints)

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Space of Inner Knowing (16 minutes)

How to Hole High Watch for the Planet  (16 minutes)

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work(16 minutes)

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness??  

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

TrANSCRIPT

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

95% of the world is unseen.  But it wants to communicate with us here in our physical container.  How do we contact it? How do we understand it?  Is the Unseen World an “it” or a” we” or a “them”?

I have used the meditative form of a shamanic journey for a number of years to explore the Unseen World. And the more I listen the more I hear. The Unseen World speaks in metaphors and we must learn to interpret them. 

I think of them as Metaphoric Messengers and I value their guidance. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am acosmic 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.

Our inquiry in this episode is  about Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The first time I tried to take a Shamanic Journey I only had the sense of sitting around a campfire with others but I could not see them.  I just knew they were there.  It took me several journeys before I began to recognize the metaphoric messengers that were to be and are my guides.  They bring me answers and insights and nudges from the Unseen world. You have your personal Metaphoric Messengers waiting for you too. 

The unseen world needs us to do their work. We need them to point out the way we are to move forward. We need each other to communicate. We just need to be observant. 

So immediately we have a few questions

  • Why do I want to explore the Unseen World?
  • How doest that change my experience here my planetary experience?
  • How do I access this Unseen World?
  • Let’s get to it.

Why do we want to explore the Unseen World? What’s in it for us?  We’ve got enough going on here on the physical plane…

We are in an unprecedented period of change.  What better time to access the overview, the guidance we need from the Unseen World. It Is 95% of everything so surely there are some helpful insights and guidance available there and a whole lot of overview….!

We search for an answer in the unseen world. We search for guidance and clarity and insights we don’t even have the questions for. 

Here’s the challenge – and the opportunity.  When we receive this guidance from the Unseen World, we have to be willing to examine our past choices, develop new approaches, and recreate ourselves to respond to the new message. Perhaps choose a new platform, a new form of service, even a new foundation.  We are creating our future in the here and now and our choices in the present are molding what we manifest in the future.   We need to make thoughtful choices.

That’s why we want to explore the Unseen World – to get guidance and insight and overview.

So if we go exploring in the Unseen World and gain new insights, what does that change in the present?

You know how limited we are here in our physical presence with the restrictions of our emotions and mind.  When we begin to open ourselves to the unseen world it begins to raise our energy into a higher vibration that enables us to live in and manifest higher good, greater clarity, more compassionate choices. We become a raised vibration that will positively and consciously affect our entire planet. 

That sounds rather good.  Exciting actually. So how do we access this Unseen World?

We access the  Unseen World in meditation. We begin by setting up our Transformative Shield and Connect to our Gaia Gate and our Soul Star. Then we set an intention in the form of guidance we wish to receive and go to our Sacred Garden and wait.  Your Sacred Garden is a metaphor for you.  Everything in it is you and when something in it changes that is a change within you. 

The Metaphoric Messengers shat show up are just that – 

they have meaning to you and they bring messages only you can interpret. If you don’t understand the message, simply ask for clarity.

Accept whatever Metaphoric Messenger shows up. It may be a guide or a guardian, or simply an awareness you need to experience. 

It may be an animal or a place in nature or a person.  What does that image mean to you right here and now and what is their message? See what message is given just to you – only for you. If you need more clarity ask for it.  

I have a fairly wide variety of helping spirits. Many are animals but there are people-shaped metaphors too. Trust that what shows up is an insight you are ready to receive.

Now that you have messages from the Unseen World, what are you going to do with this powerful awareness? 

Each time we visit the Unseen World the vibration of our body energy is raised. Our light increases.  Our effect on the collective continues to expand.

We become a bright light of Being. Our vibration raises and we experience new responses from those around us. We become more aware of the subtle nudges of the Unseen World that come in the form of thoughts and unexpected awareness. A knowing.  As we expand our journey practice, we visit the Unseen World more easily and our answers and insights become clearer and more profound.

Our raised vibration becomes a bridge, a bridge from our physical pane expression to the higher vibration we all share.  Our awareness increases.  Our sensitivity expands. We are in deeper connection with the Unseen World more of the time. And the messages we receive place us in deeper and more profound service. 

This inner work places us in the space of our Soul Star where we exchange messages with the Unseen World.  Where we hear the messages of agreements that were made before we came to earth.   Messages of our Soul Star.  Guidance from our Soul Sta.  Insights from the overview of our Soul Star.  Messages from the Unseen World in the form of metaphors we alone are to interpret.

Take time to seek your metaphorical messages each day.  Sit quietly with a question or an intention and then journey to your Sacred Garden to gain deeper clarity and guidance. 

The Unseen world awaits us  Will you open up to the Metaphorical Messengers that are ready to guide and heal you?

When?

CALL TO ACTION 

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 Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

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How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We have access to an unbelievably vast world of knowing.  The Unseen world makes sup 95% of everything.  there is great wisdom waiting for us.  How do we reach it?  How do we tap into its depth of wisdom?

We connect from within and learn to interpret what we are shown. We build a launching pad that propels us to the deer work we are to do, the deeper wisdom we are to understand. 

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 Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

(16 minutes)

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Listen to
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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Space of Inner Knowing

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

The Power of your Imagination

What Core Beliefs are Guiding You Today?

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice?

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Transcript

How to Build a Launching Pd for Your inner Work

95% of the wold is Unseen.  Think how much we have to learn when we figure out how to go exploring there.  

We can, you know.  We can go exploring, we can learn, we can bring back ideas that will enrich our planetary life.  

We do that by developing a platform of listening, a foundation for understanding and a launching pad for  exploring. 

If you want to understand the increased creative power that lives in the unseen world, you need to build your own launching pad Then you can go exploring.

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.

In this episode, we’re going to explore ‘How to build a Launching Pad for your Inner Work.”

I learned Transcendental Meditation in my 30’s. (I’m 87 now.)  Yes, I did it because the Beatles did it, but it was a rather amazing experience.  That was probably my first foray into the Unseen world.  There have been many since then.  

The more I explore the Unseen World, the more I am shown.  I think we are taken to the next step when we are ready.  But here are several steps you can take to build your own launching pad for exploring the unseen world. I have a few easy ones to begin with. 

Because working in the inner world is unseen work, we can’t exactly make any plans.  We must simply learn to open ourselves up to unexpected possibilities.  We can develop techniques to take us on the inner exploration but where we go is, well, simply where we go.  Our job is to stay open and learn as much as we can when we do journey to the unseen world.

First, we have to build our launching pad.

There are three foundations steps

1- Deepen your roots for stability.

2- Broaden your horizon by expanding your awareness.

3 – Listen to your inner guidance

Roots hols us in place 

Roots are our foundation.  We get to build roots, but we also get to examine what we already have in place to be certain they are creating the foundation we want and need.

So how, exactly do we Deepen our roots for stability?

Let’s begin by seeing what foundation you are standing on.  Take a close look at your personal spiritual belief system.  Have you gradually and organically developed your own spiritual belief system based on an exploration of – whatever spiritual practice called to you?

Or are you are still caught up in what you were taught by someone else along the line that were really their beliefs, not ones you want to embrace

Question your beliefs. See what core beliefs are guiding you today and if, in the light of where you are in your life at this point in time, they are still valid. Release those no-longer-true-for-you beliefs. Question all of them. Expand your beliefs as you expand your consciousness. 

I took a comparative religion class in college.  I had never heard of many of the ones we studied. I came away wondering how am I to know if what I believe (as a presbyterian encouraged by my mother) is right?  It’s a question I’ve been exploring all my life  The answer is there is no right – there are only variations of our human core longing for oneness. 

I have built a strong foundation in metaphysics upon which I have layered Taoism and Shamanism. Each one of those conscious explorations has given me insights and tools for inner growth.  I have adapted and selected what called to me, what I wanted and needed. I continue to select and adjust every day as my awareness of the unseen world expands. 

You deepen your roots by examining your spiritual foundation and making certain it is relevant for what you feel and think today.

The second step is to broaden your horizon by broadening your awareness  

Look up . Look out  Look under.  Look over…Keep looking. 

First, you have to believe there is an unseen world and then you have to believe you can get there.  

Affirmative prayer was one of the first tools I used to have a conscious effect on life.  I spent a lot of time taking the negative thoughts and beliefs out of my vocabulary. It made a big difference.

Along with that was added a deep awareness of the power of my own words and thoughts.  One of the most life-changing phases is “you get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible.” 

Change your thinking, change your life.  Change your words, change your life.

I retrained myself to speak and think in positive phrases.  It transformed my life. 

So one of my early awareness was that my words and thoughts and actions created my life experience. 

That was a form of working with the unseen World but at that time I did not see it as that. 

The launching pad for work in the Unseen Word that I currently use is shamanic journeying. It is a form of meditation – visualizing, intuitive, receptive meditation.  

From a still and contemplate place within, I create a Sacred Garden where everything is a metaphor that only I am to interpret.  And everything in the Sacred Garden represents some aspect of me. 

When you ask questions of the Unseen World, you get answers. Some very obvious, some rather subtle. 

I journey with a specific intention and interpret whatever metaphors show up – a guide, a protector, a helping spirit, an object, an element – that is meant for only me to interpret.  The unseen world speaks to me through my meditative openness.

The amazing power of what is thought of as “Energy Work” is in direct contact with the Unseen World.  

The foundation I’m building includes an expanding use of sound healing and deepening my Qi Gong practice so I can create a strong launch pad on the physical plane for these inner explorations.

You deepen your roots by creating ceremony and ritual that speaks to you, that centers you, that deepens your connection with the unseen world 

So we’ve deepened your roots for stability by expanding our connection with nature.  

We’ve broadened your horizon by deepening your awareness and connection with the Unseen World.

Th this step is to listen to your inner guidance and learn o interpret what you discover in the Unseen World. 

What do you want to explore in the Unseen World?

Your mind can’t tell you what you want to explore because, well, the unseen world is invisible and our mind is simply our physical planetary mind, stuck in its humanness.  

To access the Unseen World all you have to do is be willing to explore. 

Set an intuition, go to your Sacred Garden, and ask a question.  Then see what shows up.  

You may know what you want to learn or you may need to ask your helping spirits to guide you.  I spent many journeys asking how to raise my vibration in order to help lift the vibration of the physical plane planet. You know – a small project. 

Once you ask a question simply listen to your inner guidance.

Once I ask a question, the answers begin to appear. Show me. Guide me. How can I?  Please make that metaphor clearer.

Trust what shows up.  Trust that it’s the perfect message for you.  Trust that you’re interpreting it in the most supportive manner. Journal what you discover in order to give yourself more clarity. I sometimes draw a picture of the journey that helps me understand the message and serves as a reminder of what I learned. 

I get an unexpected compelling idea and go exploring in a journey and that gives me a response that – of course – raises more questions or offers a wider variety of solutions.  So I choose one aspect and keep ongoing. I can also come back and explore another path.  

I journey every day. 

How do you interpret what you learn in the invisible world?

That’s up to you and what’s calling you.  I explore an idea that calls to me, figure out how to apply it, and write my ideas in posts and podcasts and my newsletter.  

Sometimes I don’t have a complete answer, I simply have a new step to take which invites more questions. 

Begin by exploring.

Begin with a simple meditative journey.  Set an intention, close your eyes, listen to a shamanic drumming track if you like, and see what shows up. Journal what you experienced and perhaps draw a picture. 

Repeat as often as you like. 

Explore your ancestors.  Explore your future self.  Explore nature and learn her lessons. Explore your Soul Star.  Explore the Unseen World. Trust what shows up. Trust that the lesson, the ideas for usage are just for you and it is time for you to hear it and understand it. 

Deepen your inner work and go exploring in the Unseen world. 

What’s your foundation? 

What’s your spiritual launching pad?

You’re already a launching pad for your inner world exploration.  Know that. 

Deepen your intuitive foundation and take off. That’s how you build a landing pad for your inner world 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • What is the form of your current exploration of the inner world?  Meditation, visualization, shamanic journeying, writing, singing? There are many ways.
  • Can you identify a question you would like to explore in the invisible world?
  • Go explore that.
  • Journal what you discover and create a line drawing of what you discovered.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

Each day I expand my ability and my willingness
to explore the unseen world.

You are now well on your way to exploring the Unseen World. 

CLOSE

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 my weekly Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.