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The River of Time – The Discovery

September 23, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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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TRANSCRIPT

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.

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

July 1, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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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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.

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

April 10, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work
An Inner World Exploration

Ninety-five percent of the world is unseen. If we want to go exploring, we have to build a strong launching pad. How do we do that?

Where are you going?

First, we have to build our launching pad.

Deepen your roots for stability

Get a clear idea of your personal spiritual belief system. Look closely to see if you have developed your own spiritual belief system or if 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 is a core belief for you today. Adjust your beliefs as you expand your consciousness.

I have a strong foundation in metaphysics upon which I have layered Taoism and more recently 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.

Broaden your horizon by broadening your awareness

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. Along with that was added a deep awareness of the power of my own words and thoughts.

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

The launching pad for work in the unseen word that I currently use is shamanic journeying. This is a form of meditation – visualizing, intuitive, receptive meditation. In my imagination, I create a Sacred Garden where everything is a metaphor that only I am to interpret.

Each element in the garden represents an aspect of me. I journey with a specific intention and interpret whatever metaphors shows up – 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 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.

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 the mind is simply your body suit mind, stuck in its humanness. What you can do is be willing to explore.

You may know what you want to learn or you may need to ask your helping spirits to guide you. I’m currently asking for guidance on how we, in our body suits, can raise our vibration to help lift the vibration of the physical plane planet. You know; a small project.

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 also draw a picture of the journey that helps me understand the message and serves as a reminder of what I learned.

I get an 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 on going. I can also come back and explore another path.

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 my newsletter. Sometimes I compile my ideas in a short book. Sometimes I don’t have a complete answer, I simply have a new step to take which invites more questions.

Begin by exploring yourself

Begin with a simply 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.

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.

Deeper Song Affirmation

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

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

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

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join the Deeper Song Community.

Embrace The Power of Your Inner Life

August 31, 2017 By Cara Lumen

Your inner life has the power to heal you. It has the ability to give you answers, to direct and to guide you. All you have to do is learn to listen and interpret.

How to listen to your inner voice

You hear your inner voice all the time. It’s the voice you seem to hear in your head. It’s the full-blown picture you see in your mind. It’s the intuitive nudge you follow and find is correct.

You can take specific steps to access your inner life, those voices within the wise part of you, your All–That–Is.

Begin with breathing

Sit in a quiet place and simply begin to follow your breath. When I do this, I find myself yawning, taking in large amounts of air and in the process, relaxing more deepening into the moment. Focusing on your breathing is a powerful way to shift your focus from outer to inner.

You may call it meditation or journeying. It’s when you totally zone out, when you fully immerse yourself in some task. It’s your dreams that help you sort out your life.

For me, shamanic journeying is the most powerful method of talking to the inner self that I’ve found so far.

Is it your imagination? From our body suits we call it that. I believe that as we’re all one energy, when we move beyond our body suits into our invisible self we experience a whole new “population” of helping spirits, along with visions and dream experiences that we are to interpret.

These are all subtle nudges and invitations from the Nowhere That We Came From that we can learn to interpret and apply to our human body suit life.

All we have to do is ask

I wanted to release the unknown “cause” of the appearance of an age-related deterioration in my eyes. I have no idea if it’s a past life or a lesson I am to learn in this lifetime but I wanted to do my part in helping it reverse by releasing whatever it is I need to release.

So I went within and was shown a very powerful process. I’ve used it many times.

Another time I asked to be shown a process that would allow me to absorb and accept what I needed in my life at the moment. Again, in my inner life I was shown a very powerful process and at its completion felt very peaceful and balanced inside.

This is inner work. All you have to do is go within and ask.

Your helping spirits will appear in many forms

Because you are limited by your body suit, your inner life will probably offer you some recognizable shapes – power animals, spirit guides, talking trees and rocks, etc. But don’t limit yourself by what you know about those omens and symbols on the physical plane. Ask them what they bring to you and learn to see them as metaphors with a message for you.

A fellow shaman journeyed for me and my sight and found a sighthound. I never knew that was a category. This one happened to be a greyhound, a breed I’ve never been drawn to, but now, in my inner journeys, I keep her with me often.

You’ll find guides from the past and the future if you but ask. You’ll get hunches and sudden insights and simple knowing when you open to it.

This is your inner life talking and it’s very, very powerful.

Establish communication

Ask and then listen. Question and then evaluate the response. Interpret the unseen nudges and know that are always present.

Finding the power of your inner life is as simple as being still to listen.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Language of the Stubble Realms

Magic is Simply a Change in Consciousness

Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery

Abracadabra! I Will Create As I Speak

How to Explore Your Invisible Self