Ancient cultures believed that our home was a spiritual place and developed rituals for attracting positive deities, dispelling evil spirits and maintaining the harmony of the home. The trend towards rekindling ancient traditions and beliefs has increased awareness in our modern society as to the importance of sacred space and the importance of the spiritual atmosphere of our homes and places where we spend a lot of time.
In our busy, technologically modern world it is easy to forget that we are animals and spiritual beings who are influenced by the energy around us. Our ability to perceive the mood of the atmosphere around us occurs at a subconscious level and is probably connected to our innate survival instincts that protect our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Most people can remember a time when they have entered a building or an area and sensed an uncomfortable or unwelcome feeling. We may say that the place gives us ‘the creeps’. This is because we have picked up the energy left behind and lingering in the atmosphere, dust, walls and other aspects of that building or place. There may have been much unhappiness, illness or even violence occur in the history of that place or it could be that an argument or violent incident has only recently taken place. Can you remember entering a room after two people have been arguing or after some other negative social situation? The term ‘you could cut the atmosphere with a knife’ refers to an atmosphere heavy with negative and hostile energy. In this situation the energy has been left behind by the people - their words, actions, thoughts and intent.
In other situations, we may enter an area that has a vibrant and happy atmosphere which lifts our spirits. Many people who have been house hunting for a home to buy or rent will relate to sensing a different energy at each house they visited. Besides the physical features of the house, the energy present will often be a big determinant on whether we decide a particular house could become our home or not. Some houses have that special homely feeling. Others may fit our physical requirements but we feel there is something just not right.
The energy of a place builds up over time and contains the history of events and feelings that have gone before. This could occur over months, years or thousands of years. The Aboriginal people of Australia attach legends and beliefs to certain physical places. Some places are ‘no go’ areas as certain spirits reside there that are dangerous and terrible things can occur to people who venture into that place. Other places are only for men or only for women and the opposite gender must not go there. Some places are visited by both genders and are special meeting places. It is possible to feel this energy as you travel to certain places in Australia. In many places the feeling is very powerful.
One such place is a site called ‘the Cathedral’ at one of Australia’s National Parks, Carnarvon Gorge. My friends and I climbed a ladder up to a rock ledge and then walked through a small and narrow rock canyon. On emerging from the other side of the passageway we came across a large opening protected by huge rock faces all around which formed a circular cathedral-like area. On entering the Cathedral I felt an intense sense of reverence like I was entering a sacred zone where it would be rude to even utter a sound. There was a peacefulness in the atmosphere that made me want to sit down and absorb the silence. I noticed that my two friends, who had been engrossed in conversation, stopped talking just after entering the Cathedral and they were also walking carefully and looking around as if in awe. The feeling was intense. I was told later by the Park Ranger that there is no available information about the significance that particular place had to the Aboriginal people. The information may not have been available in a written or verbal form but it certainly was there, in the atmosphere, the soil, the walls. The energy indicated great significance, and was probably like many such sites in Australia, due to thousands or tens of thousands of years of special meetings in this particular place.
Some may relate to sensing this feeling of reverence in churches or other buildings of sacred ceremony. A similar situation occurs on a much smaller scale when we put aside a place in our home for meditation, ritual, relaxation or other peaceful activity. We can create areas of good feeling, harmony and peace in our home by continually using a particular room or area in the same way. Relaxation and peace then comes more readily to us when we are in an area that has been set aside for such activities as meditation, reading a novel or sleeping. Many people go so far as having specific rules about what activities take place in different rooms of their house such as ‘no work related reading in the bedroom’. This is because a different level of concentration and a different energy is required for technical or work related reading and this is not necessarily conducive to the tranquil energy that most of us desire for the room in which we sleep.
There are many other ways we can influence the energy in our own home including light, sound, colour, scent, plants, flowers and crystals to name just a few. These will be discussed in a separate article. Though, a very powerful way we can keep the atmosphere in each room of our home is by continually practicing the behaviour or activity that will be conducive to the purpose of the room and adding the emotion that we want to linger. Of course, there are some general feelings and energy we may want to persist in every room and area of our living space. A house filled with laughter, fun, love and happiness will radiate that back to the occupants and to everyone who visits.
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JUMPING WATER IN WINTER
After a very difficult year for many people, we are sending out our prayers and positive thoughts that this year will be a year of prosperity, growth, and joy. You may notice some changes in the store over the next few months. I have decided to streamline and only offer gifts from one source that I have found to offer a beautiful assortment of gifts and tools for spiritual growth. I am also updating this newsletter less often. I am finding that I want more time to spend and play with my two beautiful daughters! Namaste!
Can The Existence Of Life After Death Be Proven? by Bob Daulby
If there is a problem at all when trying to establish the existence of a life after our passing here, it is proof. In having read many articles concerning this topic, it can be easily seen that so many of us have ideas - and often, very different ideas at that - but that I have yet to come across just one that will bring each of us this much needed proof.
Although most of us will go through life not giving another thought to our sure passing yet, there comes a time in all our lives when we are suddenly confronted with death in such a way that we cannot ignore it any longer. And so, we will ask ourselves then, "Will I live on after this life?"
As far as I am concerned, death is not something that we should push aside out of dread or ignorance but is something that we should study as soon as we are able to. This is so that, when - not 'if' - we are confronted with death, it will not come as a shock and, more importantly, it will also not be a source of grief either but rather, one of joy.
Through instilled religion, society has taught us to be afraid of death. To compound this fear, we are also taught to 'pooh-pooh' or deride the possibility of life existing *after* death - whereby we continue forever onwards *anyway* - as a topic for the 'ill-advised' or the 'ignorant'. To make matters even more fearful and confusing for us, experts, psychics, shamans, priests, ministers or whoever, can not only not bring us this much needed proof but that, should proof ever arise at all then no one agrees that it is. It is because of this lack of agreement - the need to reach common ground - that, we, the public at large, lose out. In short, if there weren't quite so many egos and wannabes out there believing that they are the only ones who hold 'the truth' then, we would not suffer as we do as far as death and a life after death is concerned.
And so, in bearing these in mind, it becomes all the more necessary to not only find the existence of life after death but also to be able to prove it leaving us in no doubt that we too - *shall* live on.
Proof?
In having now been in actual contact with Our Worlds Beyond for a very long time now, from my own experiences, I can now reveal that an all-round, generic proof, of a life existing after our deaths is a long way off if not nigh impossible. Until science itself can reach a general consensus - which is highly unlikely (and this because 'they' can't agree either) - then the very idea of finding this irrefutable proof that will cross all boundaries regardless of their origins - is but a distant dream. And so, when skeptics use this angle - the need for the irrefutable - is already a lost argument and so, as they gain, believers lose. Most of all, we ALL lose.
So, what is to be done about this?
During my many years of experience with our so-called 'unknown', along the way, I have brought even total strangers to my sessions to note, not only their reaction but also as to what they say is 'proof'. It was during this period of my research that I have discovered that, although generic proof is not yet available yet 'personal' proof is. Not only is personal proof available but it has been available since Man first walked upon this planet.
Let me give you an example of personal proof.
When I first made friends with computers, got myself on the Internet etc. to be in actual contact with someone from Peru to me, was an out and out miracle. But what compounded that miracle was that, after only a month, I received a letter from him which proved to me that he existed and that he did indeed come from Peru. To me, this was personal proof of someone I met through this new fangled means of communication.
The above is personal proof - for me and only me and yet, to you, this is all a fairy tale. Why? Because YOU were not there, YOU didn't speak to him, YOU did not experience any of this and YOU did not recieve a letter from Peru. Thus, why should you 'believe' me? Had you not been taught Geography at school then, to you, even Peru would not exist would it?
Unlike me, you have not been taught about the true existence of life after death and so, to you, until you are taught then, you will always doubt and you will always require proof. Until you are taught; until you receive your own personal proof, this proof will always elude you.
It's time to learn isn't it?
I Thank You For Your Time.
About the Author: Bob Daulby is a world renowned, global expert on matters of life after death, the greater life and Our Worlds Beyond. He has contacted and communicated with all kinds of entities from the spirit world, and can teach you to do the same at http://www.ourworldsbeyond.com
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“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
WEB DISCOVERIES
Sacred Geometry
The strands of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, flower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes. The designs of exalted holy places from the prehistoric monuments at Stonehenge and the Pyramid of Khufu at Giza to the world's great cathedrals, mosques, and temples are based on principles of sacred geometry.
Our intention with lightSOURCE Arts is to provide a deeper undertanding of, and a bridge to the exquisite beauty of sacred geometry.
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