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The River of Time – The Discovery

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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

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

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The River of Time – The Discovery

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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.

Are You a Transcendent Leader?

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Are You a Transcendent Leader?

An Inner Word Exploration

“Transcendent leader” is a new phrase for me, and I wondered if I was one.  I want to be.  But what does that look like? Feel like?  Act like?

Transcendent means spiritual, metaphysical, above the range of normal or physical human experience. 

Leader – well, to me that means a guide, way-shower, path-finder.  

We can do that. 

If we are Transcendent Leaders, it means we are aware of the oneness of everything – of our interconnection with All That Is. It means we are aware of everything as vibration – merged, interactive, one vibration.  It means we have an ever-deepening, ever-evolving spiritual practice that permeates and influences all we do. 

There is no separation in transcendent leadership.  We are all one.

What is my job as a Transcendent Leader?

To me, it means to continue to raise my vibration so that it, in turn, raises the vibration of whatever and whomever it comes in contact with.  

I do that in my spiritual practice, my shamanic journey work, my vibration healing work, my thoughts and beliefs, and actions. My choices.

Not a leader – a way-shower

A way-shower says, “Here’s one way if it calls to you.  Hers’s a path I explored that really resonated that I’d like to share with you.  I learned this way to deepen my spiritual practice, or raise my vibration or….” 

You simply become a living example of the energy you cultivate and embrace.  Others see it, experience it and adapt it or not to their own way of being. 

In my case, I write to figure it all out and share what I discover with others. They in turn resonate or not.  Act of not.  I have simply said, “Here’s one way.”

A Transcendent Leader walks beside others

A Transcendent Leader is always conscious of his or her vibration and its impact  We are also aware when someone comes alongside to walk a similar path beside us.  Then we engage in an exchange of energy.  We listen. We share.  We encourage.  And at some point we part ways.  That’s simply the nature of walking your own path.  For it is the purpose of each of us to cultivate and walk our own unique path.

How can I be a better Transcendent Leader?

First, you have to realize that you are a Transcendent Leader.  Whatever you are doing, however you are doing it, you are also impacting others.  Perhaps by guiding them, perhaps by encouraging them, perhaps simply by showing them by example.  

The cornerstone of  being a Transcendent Leader is to know that you are one.  And accept that responsibility and choose and act accordingly.  

Well, fellow Transcendent Leader,  what shall we do to transform the world today?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I accept and honor my role as a Transcendent Leader.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Sit with the idea of being a Transcendent Leader. What does that mean to you?
  • Think about and identify those whom you consider to be Transcendent Leaders.  What do they do?  How do they act? What are the qualities that draw you to them?
  • It begins by accepting your role as a Transcendent Leader.
  • Do that.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root

The Transformative Sphere

Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice 

The Power of Being in Intentional Space

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence?

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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How to Transform Energy Before You Release It

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How to Transform Energy Before You Release It

Adventures in the Unseen World

Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be repurposed.  So it makes great sense that before you release energy that is blocking you, you must take steps to convert it into a form of energy that will be useful elsewhere. What?! How?

Begin from where you are

I only have one example to share from my own life so far since this is a relatively new idea for me.  I was doing a ceremony to release a blockage, which in my case was my reluctance to exercise (I’m 87 and was never a fan of exercise when I was younger).  Along with this was a reluctance to take better care of my home.  Was that laziness? Or that it’s a bit harder?  Or simply that I don’t care? How can I release what I cannot identify as the cause of the problem?

Actually, I don’t have to know.  I can  use the phrase “I release what no longer serves me.”  Or “I relate what is keeping me from moving forward.”

However, that doesn’t address the idea of transforming the energy into something useful before sending it on its way. 

Change the energy into a positive form before you release it! 

[Read more…] about How to Transform Energy Before You Release It

Your Home Within

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Your Home Within

An Inner World Exploration

The more you go exploring in the Unseen World, the trickier it is to find words to describe it.  All-That-Is, the Emptiness That Holds Everything.  Kahlil Gibran says,  “Live in the Nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here.”  

So what is nowhere like?  How do I relate to the unseen world?  What does it feel like to be part of the Web of Life or the Cosmic Ocean?  

These are all metaphors for things that we cannot describe from our body suits.  We sense this energy.  We know there is something a great deal larger than we are in our body suits.  And we also know that we are part of it.  In fact, we are it. 

So how do we feel that, embrace that, understand that?

The Home Within

[Read more…] about Your Home Within

The Transformative Sphere

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The Transformative Sphere
An Inner World Exploration

I was on a shamanic journey. My guide and I were floating on our backs in an iridescent void of white light. 

I turned to my guide: 

“I would like to release my fear about the current world chaos.”

My guide holds out his hand. I take a large red fiery ball of energy from my body and hand it to him. He holds it in love and it turns pink, then it becomes the green light of healing, then it turns to the power of indigo light.   

He gives it back to me and I accept it. 

I feel better. 

My guide says: “You can do that too. See yourself remove the energy you do not want from your body, hold it in your hands and send light to it until it changes color.” 

I had gone on this shamanic journey looking for actions I could take in my body suit life that would allow me to help the planet and help me. 

“I’m carrying a huge amount of fear and apprehension over the way the world is going.  Can you help me shift that?”, I say to my guide.

We were both lying on our backs.  And he said, “Remove the energy of fear from your body.” I do and hold in my hands a very red ball of anger and fear.  

“Now,” my guide said, “Release the anger. Release the fear.” 

I do.  I see it floating away, I see the sphere I am holding cool and change coolers – from red to orange, from orange to blue, from blue to green – the color of the heart. I felt calmer and more centered. 

“You can put it back now – your love of the planet,” my guide suggested.

I held the glowing globe in my hand and watched it turn into the same white iridescent color of the void that surrounds me.  Then I gently place the glowing sphere back into my body suit.

“You can do this any time,” says my guide.  “Bring out what troubles you and focus light on it until it changes colors.”  

The Transformative Sphere

I call this the Transformative Sphere. You can do it any time. First, become aware of an un-ease.  You don’t even have to define it, you just need to be aware that something within you needs to be balanced. Set an intention to place both the known and unknown that needs releasing into the Transformative Sphere.  See  yourself energetically remove it from your body and work with the colors of the rainbow, in whatever order or form they show up, until the sphere you’re holding, which is an unbalanced section of your body suit vibration, become iridescent, or translucent or clear or whatever color lets you understand that what is no longer needed or wanted has been released. 

Then metaphorically return the transformed sphere to your body suit.  

Repeat as needed. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I have the ability to transform any negativity through my intentions.  

Deeper Song Process

  • Look at a situation that bothers you.  It may be a really deep undefined fear, or it may be something you would simply like to shift in your life.
  • Place yourself in a quiet atmosphere, sitting or lying down. In your mind, gather up both the known and unknown energies that do not serve you. See it as a transformative sphere.
  • Remove that sphere that holds what you no longer want or need – known or unknown – from your body. 
  • Notice what color it is.  Perhaps it takes a different shape. 
  • As you hold the sphere of vibration, allow it to change. Perhaps it takes a shape that offers you a metaphoric message. Allow it to change colors.  Allow yourself to envision whatever form of releasing that shows up – evaporating, turning away, dissolving, fading away. Watch the sphere you are holding gradually change colors. 
  • Keep working with it until it becomes a color or shape that feels comforting to you – a color and shape that you are willing to accept back into your body. 
  • Play the newly attuned transformed sphere back in your body and notice how it affects your body suit life.
  • Repeat as needed and desired. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Why We Need to Raise Our Vibration

You Are Vibration and Why it Matters

The Power of a Ceremony of Releasing

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

How to Interpret the Messages For Within 

Broaden and Deepen Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others. We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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