Walking with Johanna... A Spiritual Journey Home

RESONANCE The Shaping of Reality
- Julie -

The patterning of energy emitted by each soul as a result of choices made in thought, word, or deed, brings into proximity energies from the surrounding spiritual environment that resonate with the energies being sent forth.

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THE PROCESS OF PURIFICATION
Writings by Julie

Purification is about the remembrance of God and the origins of the self.

http://lightomega.org/Ind/Purification.html

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From time's beginning the path has been laid down
for the opening into individual expression
and for joining with all.

These two things, seemingly opposite,
are not truly opposite,
for in becoming most deeply yourself,
you liberate the love that joins you with all.

BOOK OF UNITY
- Voice of the Oneness -
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It is not the suffering itself but the fear of suffering that keeps us locked into karmic cycles.

We must be willing to surrender our fears in the presence of that which we fear - often, behaviors and the unloved aspects of ourselves and others - which must be consciously seen and loved back into wholeness.

Only we can do this for ourselves. Others can be supportive in the process once it has begun, whilst the greater work must be endeavored by the self and the awakening soul.

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ANCHORING IN LOVE
-Julie-

Anchoring in love is founded in the perpetual commitment to remain faithful to God's Covenant, no matter what reasons may appear not to uphold such faithfulness.

This anchoring is the greatest protection against forces that would take one away from sacred reality, and it is also the greatest protection against those same forces that would take one away from recognizing, feeling, and knowing one's own Divine self.

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Separation from God's sacred reality can happen in obvious or subtle ways. It can happen because of thoughts and beliefs that one begins to hold on the mental level, and it can also happen because the heart begins to contract and close down to its own intrinsic capacity to love. Often, these two go together.

The presence of an energy of darkness which removes one from sacred reality is not always known to the conscious self. Commonly, feelings of rejection or judgment toward others, of irritability or criticism, seem to be justified by external circumstance. It is this justification which departs from love that is the terrain in which the energy of darkness takes hold. Such justification perpetuates the behavior that is angry, judgmental, critical, irritable, or avoidant, and does not allow one to notice that there is a choice that is possible in such situations.

One can choose to return to love and to leave the terrain of darkness.

In order to make this shift, two things are needed: the willingness to let go of emotions that are not loving and supportive to others, and the feeling that God will support one's own life and being if these emotions are let go of. As a fundamental part of this shift, self-protection which is largely maintained through emotional attitudes, becomes replaced by a turning to God for all protection. In the place of trust, emotional defenses can be let go of and a choice can be made for love.

It is a signature of energies of darkness that they are incompatible with love. Where love exists, darkness must withdraw. Similarly, where true feelings of holiness exist, darkness must also withdraw. These two avenues of feeling open the heart to the inflow of the higher dimensions of light and prevent one from responding to the pull to leave God's sacred reality without being aware of it.

For this reason, it is important to notice when and where love departs, and to know that one's own heart is committed to remaining faithful to love even though external circumstance may not appear to warrant it. Such is the mandate given to each human soul by the Divine Father and Mother. This mandate to love is an intrinsic part of the sacred Covenant that souls made at the beginning of time, and its anchoring is part of what frees the soul to become its own Divine nature.

Anchoring in love releases the embodied soul from darkness and prevents the kind of rancor, conflict, and separation that so often occur where darkness is operating.

http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Anchoring-in-Love.html

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The deepest layers of the heart are connected to both the source of inner truth and to the soul. They are connected to one’s inner being. Though emotional states that are difficult or painful can also reside in the heart, these do not live at the deepest level.

At the deepest level one finds love – the pure goodness that is part of one’s eternal being. Connecting with this love can help refocus a distressed state of mind. It can create a foundation upon which to stand. Such connection may then become a way of life, holding the truth of one’s being in the presence of blessing and in the presence of adversity.

CONNECTING WITH THE HEART
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Connecting-With-the-Heart.html

FALSE GUIDANCE AND TRUE GUIDANCE
- Julie -

There is a need today for discernment regarding the source of guidance that comes to the embodied self, for energies that can represent themselves as emanating from the light are not always coming from that source, and the effort to lead astray those who are devotedly and with great sincerity trying to follow a true path of service to God, remains strong.

Often, guidance that seems to come from the light but does not will create a feeling of apprehension or confusion. It will arouse anxiety rather than calmness and peace. Yet even when anxiety is not present, one can tell the difference between what is false and what is true by the presence or absence of love.

Love does not declare, it invites and encourages.

Love does not intimidate, threaten, or judge. It supports and nurtures.

Love does not suspend the rights of others to hold different points of view or to disagree with the guidance altogether.

Love does not appropriate to itself the rights of others, even when guidance seems most compelling.

Love is gentle, it emanates from the heart with gentleness and remains humble and respectful, observing the right of others to pursue a different path.

Love does not force anything upon others without their permission. In its humility it requests an audience but does not demand it. It respects the Divine and human right of each one to govern their own existence. It does not trespass where it is not wanted.

There have been many, both past and present, who have, while in positions of spiritual leadership, pursued paths of service believing them to be authorized by the true light of God when in fact they were partly so authorized, and partly altered by mistaken judgments made on the basis of false guidance.

One must be very humble to recognize the path of truth.

One must be very respectful of the rights of others to recognize the path of truth.

One must hold love as an essential on all levels of being, the human as well as the Divine, in order to not justify trespassing on the rights of others because one believes oneself to be 'right' or 'righteous'.

These are the measures that call out to be recognized by those who seek to lead humanity in the direction of the one true God. They call out to be recognized in loving humility toward all, recognizing that all are one, and that all are pursuing their own path to God to the best of their ability. Therefore, overriding their freedom to do so, or forcing some edict, prescription, or advice upon others because it seems correct, can leave one vulnerable to false guidance, and remove one from the true path of light. In this way both arrogance and self-righteousness can be recognized as temptations that lead one astray through the very belief that one is right.

Light always serves all.

It remains wedded to love.

It is gentle and in service to the One.

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PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND PURIFICATION
- Julie -

Principles of Light

1. The light of God is the most powerful force in the universe. It is the force of Creation that moves through time and space, creating the transformation of the Earth into the next higher level of her evolution and consciousness.

2. There is nothing solid in the universe. Consciousness creates energy, and energy creates matter. The consciousness of the One contains all and has created all.

3. It is through our beliefs about reality that we co-create reality. Beliefs are not conscious thoughts. They include thoughts but are deeper than these.

4. The movement of growth of the human embodied self involves the completion of a circle. In the first half of this circle is a movement toward greater individuation. In the second half, a movement toward greater unity. Both halves are needed to fulfill the human potential

5. At the highest level of God's emanation, light and love are One. At the lower levels, light may become separated from love.

6. In order to contain the spiritual light coming to the Earth today, a body of light is needed. For this, purification of mind, body, and emotions must take place on multiple levels.

7. The path of purification leads to knowledge of who we are. The steps of this path are formed by knowledge of who God is. The relationship of God and self is the subject of purification.

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Principles of Purification

1. Light amplifies light and activates darkness. This is the liberating function of light. It releases all that is not light from body and mind in order to set beings free.

2. Darkness is not the absence of light but the cover for light. Light remains at all times.

3. Light brings all things into greater wholeness through a process of continual expansion.

4. Thoughts and feelings are not who we are. They are energies that we carry.

5. The healing of darkness through light happens through the absorption of the darkness back into the light so that it goes out no more.

6. What is released in the process of purification does not return unless one holds onto it.

7. Purification releases from the embodied self all that is not of the light. What remains is a transformed self that is joined to the purposes of the soul.

8. The test of darkness is whether it emanates love. Darkness and love are incompatible. Where one is, the other cannot be.

9. Where doubt or fear infiltrate the mind, one must move to the heart. In the presence of the heart's love, darkness has nowhere to stand.

10. The victory of light lies in the ascendance of the soul over the personality and of God's reality over all that has become separated from it.

http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Principles-of-Light-and-Purification.html

THE PRACTICE OF PURIFICATION: RELEASING
- Julie -

'Releasing' is one of the basic phenomena of purification. It is what happens when darkness contacts light of sufficient strength and begins to be drawn toward that light, releasing its hold on the hidden places within the body or psyche that it may have dwelled within for a long time.

This separation of darkness in the presence of greater spiritual light is central to the process of purification, causing changes of various kinds to occur, some having to do with new experiences of a sacred and expansive kind, and others having to do with the movement into greater awareness of thoughts and feelings that may be of a disturbing nature. The increased presence of these thoughts and feelings can seem to indicate that instead of progress taking place, that one is moving backwards into a less healed state, but this is not the case.

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The resurgence during purification of unwanted or painful thoughts or feelings is part of the releasing process that spans the life of the soul and that sets free the self from darkness and limitation, enabling it to move into a life of greater freedom, within and without. By bringing to awareness what has previously been hidden and therefore has remained unhealed, it causes a change which is simultaneously an releasing, looked at from the standpoint of the feelings arising, and a transformation, looked at from the standpoint of what is being achieved. The upsurge of releasing can be greatly disturbing to the one experiencing it, depending on its intensity, and therefore a way is generally sought which permits greater ease in enduring the feelings that are arising. As part of this way, it becomes important to understand the principle of releasing so that the time in which it operates can be experienced with a measure of patience. The principle of releasing states that:

In order for healing of previously held attitudes to take place, the content and energy of such attitudes must pass through conscious awareness before being set free.

The idea here is that within the purification process, darkness must be brought to the light of awareness before it can be let go of. Indeed, the healing lies in one's ability to sustain awareness of the negative emotions or energies without acting them out and without sinking into despair or feeling alienated from God, thereby creating new issues of consciousness. This is the work of purification. It does not eliminate acts of grace or the effect of collective transfusions of light which can also advance healing and eliminate several stages along the way, but it is the essence of what is generally true.

Releasing of energies requires bringing darkness to light in order for the alchemical process of transmutation to occur. When this occurs, the darkness is released into an energetic matrix which is stronger and more cohesive than the dark energies. When this light is held around whatever painful feelings may be occurring, it slowly but surely dissolves the darkness in the light, never to be heard from again.

http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Practice-of-Purification-Releasing.html

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The gift of self-knowledge is freedom.

The responsibility of self-knowledge,
the need to choose wisely.

-Julie-
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THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTAINMENT
- Julie -

One of the primary principles of purification has to do with containment. To 'contain' means to hold back, to hold within, or to carry something within a vessel, enclosure, or organism. In relation to purification, what we contain are energies of darkness that we do not wish to go out into the world. We hold them within our bodies until they pass from our consciousness. The principle of containment relies on two more fundamental principles that are at its foundation: that of energy, and that of identity.

Energies that are not love and that are not light are carried within each human being. They pass through us as emotions and as thoughts but they are not who we are. This is a fundamental tenet of purification. We feel and think often in negative ways, but our feeling and thinking is reactive to the world of events that we have lived with since childhood. Our feeling and thinking are conditioned by these events and form our personalities. These personalities are not us. They are emotional vehicles available to us for our learning. They are not our souls which have a positive nature.

Any person who thinks and feels can learn to make this distinction. They can learn to perceive energies passing through themselves and to not identify with them. These energies are in our bodies; they are also in our subconscious minds. They come and they go. They sweep through us in waves of emotional intensity, but eventually they subside. As souls, we can learn to observe the movement of energies within ourselves and to wait for them to pass without acting them out in words or deeds. This is a great help to others with whom we are in relationship. It is also a great help to ourselves since what is acted out comes back to us and we once again have to deal with it, while what is contained eventually sets us free.

The second principle of containment has to do with identity. For most people, identity is connected with the personality - with our personal tastes, preferences, hopes, fears, and goals. These are all real and valid on the level at which they occur, but they are not the highest or truest part of who we are. Our personal self is based on the life of our ego, the life of our feelings. It is not our soul-self. It is not our pure spirit. Our soul has a goal of its own and that is to become what it is meant to be - the Divine pattern with which it was created.

Our soul represents our reason for existing on earth; it reminds us of our true purpose for being here. When we identify with our personal self or personality it is hard to contain negative energies, first, because we believe in them - we believe that they are us - and second, because there is no reason for doing so. It is only when we see and feel a higher value in not acting in negative ways, ways that are separated from love, that we can begin the hard work of containment. Only then can we strive to find ways to separate from our negative feelings and to eliminate the acting out of these feelings. This is because there must be a purpose for doing so, a purpose that is important to us, a purpose that our soul strives for such as purity, God, truth, love, a better world. We must hold an ideal within us that fuels both the process of purification and the specific effort of containment.

To contain something does not mean to deny its existence. If we feel sadness, grief, fear, or anger, then these are the things that we feel. We can know and feel these feelings without acting them out. We can do this, because we are identifying with our soul-self that believes there is a better way to be in the world, a way based on love and on God's truth.

But what is God's truth?

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There are many levels to this question, yet the one that concerns us here is the truth of how we are meant to live with each other, the truth of who we are. God has created each of us to become instruments of Divine love. We are each here to participate in the healing of the world and the upliftment of life. It is our choice whether we do so or not, but our fundamental identity tells us that we are meant to do so as the pure spiritual beings that we are.

READ THE ENTIRE TEACHING:
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