Winds of Change

New vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon

Full Moon Newsletter - February 2008

February 20, 2008, Full Moon Eclipse in Virgo
Moon full and eclipse at 10:30 pm Eastern Standard Time

Wild winds of change
Blow through branches of my life
Uprooting shadows

Don't go back to sleep!
Wake to this joyous new day
Beauty awaits you!

What's Happening?

The Full Moon in Virgo insists that we find a way to solve our problems and challenges by working together, inspiring each other, and visioning solutions. The eclipse heightens this message calling us to go inward to find outer solutions. The old patterns of feeling we need to do it all alone, that we can do it better than anyone else, or that there are no solutions cannot exist in the new higher vibration of unity. Release these patterns and return to your original nature and connectedness with all things.

The opening of the Linnean Stargate just prior to the Full Moon Eclipse (Feb 16-19) creates an opportunity to come into good vibration with what you wish to create in your life with a focus on co-creation with the divine and each other. The energy that will pour through this stargate is ancient and will help us remember how to truly live in a sustainable way on this Earth. It will also energize anything that resonates with love and unity. Use this time period to focus clearly on harmonizing your creative energy for the highest good of all. Live for this brief time as if the world that you dream of is already here!

Eclipsing patterns
To live more authentically
From the inside out

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Pathway to the Stars: Entering the Circle of the Soul

Mystery School takes us on a journey to higher consciousness and the embodiment of the divine energy that we are. A prerequisite to using the laws of the universe, such as the Law of Attraction, in a conscious and deliberate way, is to be in alignment with your Higher Self or Soul. Manifestation from a lower level of consciousness usually brings us more lessons on mastering ourselves rather than the result that we desire. This course helps you to master each level of consciousness so that you may become a more conscious creator in your life.

This Mystery School course consists of five lessons. Each lesson includes written material with illustrations for study, a lecture, meditation exercises, homework that is emailed to Heron, and discussions questions for the discussion board. Everyone taking the course has access to the Discussion Group so opportunity is available to connect with others who are studying the same Material. You may work through the lessons at your own pace.

Lesson 1 - Circles of Consciousness
Lesson 2 - Mastering the Circle of the Mind
Lesson 3 - Mastering the Circle of the Heart
Lesson 4 - Mastering the Circle of the Soul
Lesson 5 - Living from Awareness

Stalking awareness
Is like looking for water
While swimming in it

Ritual

Directing Energy - When a portal opens and energy pours through, it is important to be aware of how you are directing the energy. It will magnify whatever is held in your intention and mind. You can do this exercise by drawing, creating an altar, writing or any other art form. The idea is to create some symbol that can serve as a focus for you during this time of high energy from the opening of the portal on Saturday Feb 16th through the Full Moon eclipse on the 20th. If it is an altar you can arrange things on your altar that represent what you would like to have energized in your life. You can draw using colors and images, or create a collage or vision board. You can write, feeling the vibration of the words you choose to be sure they are consistent with what you want to create in the world. Be certain that whatever you energize is in harmony with the circle of life around you. Then with whatever representation you have created, light a candle each day to attract the energy there and think often during this time period about the symbols that you have created.

Energy flows through
The portal of love feeding
My authentic self

Meditation Exercise

Stepping through the portal - Get comfortable and take a few deep breaths, grounding your self with a root from your tailbone and extending branches through your crown to the sky and stars. Imagine that before you is a pyramid of light. As you walk toward this pyramid, feel the radiance that is flowing out toward you. Begin to walk up the steps, noticing that as you climb higher, you feel lighter and more expanded. Finally you stand on the capstone of this pyramid and you look up at the sky. Above you there is a round opening in the sky and through it you see stars in a deep cobalt blue. As you fix your gaze through this portal the energy begins to flow down, ancient energy of love and unity, of connection and wisdom. Feel it flow down into your crown chakra and down through your feet into the pyramid and from there out into the world. As it flows you feel yourself changed as you look back out into your life. Problems are now viewed from the perspective of unity and wholeness, where solutions are inherent and obvious. Try looking at some challenges in your life. What do you see? Know that you can stay as long as you like and return whenever you wish to renew your vision of unity if you begin to slip back into the feelings of separation. Return to your body and come into the present moment.

The stargate opens
Light is flowing once again
Bathing Earth in love

Article

The Unified Field of Awareness

by Linda Heron Wind

Harmony wondered about nearly everything. Why are people so different and why do some people do bad things? Why don't people care more about the environment and each other?

She was also wondering who might know the answers to these questions. She had already asked her parents and they were no help at all. I know, she thought, I will ask God. I have heard that God knows everything.

Then she contemplated how to find God so she could ask all her questions. She looked out her window into a beautiful field of wild flowers and thought - well, if I was God and as smart as everyone says, I'd be in that field of beautiful flowers.

So she went to the field and lay down beside a beautiful clump of daisies. She could see the flowers dancing around her in the breeze and felt like one of them.

"So," she said out loud, "God, I know you are here somewhere and I have a few questions to ask you. I want to know why people are mean to each other sometimes and why they don't take care of the earth and the animals. How can two people each think that they are right when they disagree? Why do good people get sick and die and why do bad things happen even though you're doing all the right things? I probably have more questions but that is all I can think of right now."

It was quiet when she finished - even the breeze seemed to stop. Then she heard the flowers whispering, "She's talking to God, shall we answer?" Then the grasses whispered, "She's talking to God, shall we answer?" And the trees, "She's talking to God, shall we answer?" and the clouds, "She's talking to God, shall we answer?" The squirrels chattered, "She's talking to God, shall we answer?" And the sun, "She's talking to God, shall I answer?"

Harmony sat up and said, "Wait a minute - you can't all be God!" Silence again and she lay back down in the daisies. Then she heard a different voice and she couldn't tell if it was coming from inside her or outside.

"I will speak to you in the voice of the Unified God," it said.

"What is a Unified God?" responded Harmony, looking around to see where the voice was coming from.

"Close your eyes - you will be able to see me better," said the voice.

Harmony closed her eyes and saw beautiful colors shimmering like the Northern lights and the voice continued.

"The Unified God is the consciousness that includes everything and that is present in each thing. Everything has both an individual consciousness and a unified consciousness, which, of course, is why God can speak to you through anything and everyone."

"I see," said Harmony. "Can you answer my questions then?"

"Yes. The opposites of the physical dimension are the loom upon which the tapestry of wholeness is woven. When you experience this with your individual consciousness it appears to contain many differences that are contradictory with each other. But when you experience the tapestry from a unified consciousness, you can see that each part makes up the whole and, thus, is part of the same thing. Humans are now evolving from polarity consciousness into unity consciousness and that will change many things in the Universe."

"I'm not sure how that answers my questions," said Harmony.

"It will become clearer as we continue," said the voice of the Unified God.

The voice of the Unified God continued. "Polarity as we experience it on the physical level says that some things are good and some are bad, that some things are right and others are wrong. What we experience as good or bad, right or wrong depends on where we stand in the beautifully woven tapestry of the physical dimension. If you are on one side and someone else is on the other, each of you have the perception of being right while the other is seen as wrong. On the other hand, when I look at both people from the point of unified awareness, they are simply looking from different places and each person sees only a piece of the whole. There is no right or wrong, it simply is. Whenever you find yourself in judgment you are enmeshed in the tapestry of individual consciousness, polarity consciousness. The task then is to move to unity consciousness."

Harmony had been listening intently to what the voice was telling her. "So, if something looks bad from my perspective, it isn't necessarily bad from your perspective? Can you give me an example of that?"

"Sure," the voice answered. "You had a question about good people getting sick and dying. That might appear bad from your perspective, but from the unified field of awareness, life and death are both parts of the whole. Death and birth are really quite similar, even though from polarity consciousness they seem to be opposite. Perhaps that good person was needed somewhere else in the universe or was ready for the next step in their journey. Maybe they could be more helpful from the other side or it is possible that they graduated to the next level of awareness. Since you really do not know what their larger truth is, it is helpful to wonder about it.Wonder frees you from the strands of the polarity tapestry while judgment ties you into it."

"Oh," exclaimed Harmony, "I think I understand now. It's like I can't really know the whole picture and I am only seeing a small part of it when I look at the physical world. I like to wonder. That will be easy for me!"

"Wonder begins to shift your consciousness away from the personal into the transpersonal," the voice continued. "By that I mean that you begin to see behind the scenes of the physical illusion. The physical dimension is really a hologram and a hologram is simply an integrated light source (God) which is beamed through a mirror (your spirit) onto a photographic field (physical reality) to create a three dimensional image (your body). So, in a sense, the physical reality is a three dimensional illusion. One characteristic of a hologram is that any small part of it contains the whole. Another way of saying that is that any individual consciousness contains the unified field of awareness. One example that you are familiar with on a physical level is that any cell of your body contains the DNA instructions to reproduce your whole body."

"Let me see if I am getting this straight," responded Harmony. "You are saying that the physical world is not real, that it is just an illusion, but that any part of it contains the whole of what is real, which is the unified field of awareness?"

"Well, I prefer not to use the word real since it is confusing," said the voice. "The physical world appears real to your physical senses - we can call that the physical reality. But since the unified field of awareness creates the physical reality, it is an illusion of the senses. It appears to the senses to be all there is yet we know that it is not. You cannot see me with your physical eyes but you can with your inner eyes. The illusion is that the physical reality is like a painting, you cannot discern the feelings, and intentions of the painter from looking at the painting, but you often can resonate with the energy of it. If you can begin to wonder about the illusion you experience on the physical dimension, other dimensions will begin to reveal themselves to you, first in the archetypal form of the energetic dimension and then in the unity consciousness of the spiritual dimension."

"Sort of like creating a movie," said Harmony. "You are not aware of all the things that go into producing the final version you see on the screen and what you see is not really what happened. It was orchestrated to create a drama or theme that is universal."

"That's a good metaphor," said the voice. "In a movie many scenes are staged and created to fool your senses for a larger purpose. The physical dimension is like that. Do not assume that it is exactly the way that you experience it. Look for the underlying energy."

"OK, I think I understand about polarity and unity consciousness and how to move from one to the other," said Harmony, "but what is the purpose of all of this?"

The colors seemed to shimmer a bit brighter as the voice replied. "Good, now we can move into exciting part about unity consciousness! Polarity consciousness is full of power struggles to see who is right and who is wrong. It is from this perspective that all wars have been fought, whether they are on an international level, relationship level, or within ourselves. When humans are free from polarity consciousness and can hold the vibration of unity consciousness, power struggles disappear. The old meaning of victory - I'm right and have forced you to concede to my version of reality - is replaced with a new meaning. Victory is when we are able to embrace all in the love vibration and we use love as the tool to resolve polarities by shifting things to a higher level. We can only have victory now if we all win."

"Oh, I like that," said Harmony smiling. "I don't like it when I lose but I never like it when others lose either. That will definitely be the best if we all win. How do we do that?"

"By placing love around any issue that you wish to extract from polarity consciousness and move into unity consciousness. If you are in conflict with someone, move yourself into the love vibration by thinking of what you love and visualizing a color. Then picture the other person and yourself and the conflict in that vibration and color. Just hold it there and things will start to shift on their own."

"Wow, that doesn't sound too hard!" exclaimed Harmony.

"No, it is not hard to do, it just takes focus and the discipline of your mind. Sometimes the mind wants to jump back into the polarity consciousness because that is what it knows best. You must be firm and let it know that you are not doing that anymore and that your mind is needed to help hold your energy in the love vibration."

"Now once you have learned how to create solutions with love by yourself," the voice continued, "you can begin to practice it with others and that is where real transformation begins to happen! Excellence in unity consciousness is the ability to work with others. The competition that is so prevalent in polarity consciousness is replaced with co-operation in unity consciousness. When you co-operate, people are able to put their energy together, focused on the same thing to shift whatever they are focused on to a higher level. This is the new spiritual technology that replaces the old third dimensional mechanical technology. In the past you might have viewed this as magic or as a miracle. It is certainly neither because it is in full accordance with the laws of the universe; it is just that very few people have developed unity consciousness and co-operation to the level of using spiritual technology. In the future it will be thought of as common place."

"That is very exciting," Harmony said, jumping up and opening her eyes. When she did she realized that she could still see the shimmering colors of the unified field of awareness and it was everywhere! "How can I start doing this now?"

"First you must learn to do it yourself," the voice answered. "Each day provides you with ample opportunities to move things to the love vibration, whether it is an issue or conflict within yourself or one that is apparently outside of you. Once you have had some success then you can begin to meet regularly with others or even if you are in different physical places you can agree on a time to focus on an issue. It can be something of concern to a particular person, the community in which you live, the environment, or the world. Each of you must enter the love vibration and then focus on the issue and surround it and all involved with love. The same principle of co-operation can be applied to working with plants and animals or the clouds. If we learn to work with nature, together we can create amazing harmony in this world."

"I will start practicing right now," said Harmony. "This is the best solution to problems that I have ever heard!"

"Not so fast," responded the voice. "There is more that you need to know before all your questions are answered. In your school they focus on the three R's - reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic. These are replaced in unity consciousness with a three new R's - respect, revision, and resolution. Anyone who understands the three new R's can do the old ones. Let's look at what these mean. Respect means to look again - it is what is necessary to see through the physical illusion to the spiritual reality. When you can see God in everything you will respect everything. Respect does not come from someone telling you that you must do it, it comes from the ability to see with your spirit eyes."

"Like I was able to see you with my eyes closed and now when I look with them open I can see you everywhere?" said Harmony excitedly.

"Yes, that is exactly right. Now that you know I am in everything, how could you not respect everything? The next is revision. Re-vision means to revise your vision. If what you see with your physical vision does not feel good to you, you can find a new vision that comes from unity consciousness and hold it in your heart. Holding a new vision of the world in your heart is a powerful gift to the universe and you can give this gift anytime your physical vision reveals polarity. Just use your imagination until you find a new vision that resonates with unity consciousness."

"Now you're talking!" exclaimed Harmony. "Imagination is what I do best, and it's a gift to the world?"

"Yes, as long as what you imagine is in the love vibration. For example, you would not want to imagine a world where there is only sunshine because that would not be very loving to all the beings that need the rains to survive. The last R is re-solution. Once you have a new vision for the world, you can go about your day finding solutions to everything from the perspective of that new vision. Doing this is living the vision that you have placed in your heart. As you live your vision not only do you create a new world for yourself but you also put more energy into the shift to unity consciousness for humanity."

"Well, that's a little harder," said Harmony thoughtfully, "since the people around me don't necessarily see the vision that is in my heart. But I guess that doesn't really matter, in a way, because all that counts for me is what I am doing."

"You are a fast learner Harmony," said the voice. "That is all that you are responsible for is what you do, say, think, and feel. Let others follow their own journey. As you learn to stay in unity conscious and come into harmony with the universe," the voice continued, "it is important to learn what is called the language of the universe. This is a universal language understood by all beings both on Earth and in other places and dimensions. You have a natural ability to both speak and receive this language but it is different than your verbal language. The language of light or universal language consists of symbols that are decoded on a feeling level. For many people it operates unconsciously, but as you move into unity consciousness you will be much more aware of how to communicate in this way. The language of light allows for cross species communication as well as communication with guides on other dimensions. People who practice meditation are probably already familiar with this system as are those who spend a lot of time in nature. Begin by noticing the feeling level of things and then let awareness surface in your mind. To do this requires that your heart be open, since that is the place where the language is both received and sent."

Harmony thought for a moment. "I think I know what you mean. I think I talk to trees that way. I feel their essence as peaceful and patient and I send them love. Is that what you mean?"

"Yes, that is a beginning. You will become aware of more as you pay attention more to the feeling level in your heart. There is no way to explain it as you must experience it. It is like seeing the colors of the unified God, you cannot describe it, you must see it for yourself and when you do there is a feeling and knowing that comes with it that cannot be explained."

"Yes, that's true," said Harmony realizing that she will not be able to share what she is experiencing with anyone else.

The voice responded to her thoughts, "There will be people who have experienced similar things that you can share with, but you are right, it cannot be fully shared with everyone."

"I'm not sure you have answered all my questions but I think the questions may have changed," said Harmony. "You have certainly given me a lot to work with and to be excited about."

"All the answers to any questions you may have are already within you since you also embody the unified field of awareness," said the voice. "When you become this unified field of awareness and live from it in each moment you will have achieved enlightenment. That means that you practice harmony with everything - no exceptions - in each moment. The achievement of unity consciousness is not an ending, but only a doorway to that which you cannot yet even imagine. But one step at a time! Keep practicing and know that everything you encounter in your experience in the physical dimension is designed to move you toward unity consciousness, for that is where humanity as a whole is headed."

"I thought enlightenment was when you sat on the top of a mountain and Om'ed all day," said Harmony.

"For some people that is on the path to enlightenment but that is not what enlightenment is. It is the ability to be in loving harmony with everything in each moment of the day. That is the true test of enlightenment and the test must be passed before the next door opens so practice well!"

"Thank you so much. Will I see you again?" said Harmony.

"Everywhere you look!" the voice responded.

Step through the portal
In Unity Consciousness
God is everywhere!

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