At the end of the session the clairvoyant said to me, “The Master El Morya just appeared in the room and he’s showing me a clock. He’s saying that it indicates how much karma you’ve now balanced in this life.” She didn’t tell me the amount but drew the clock on a piece of paper, folded it up and said that when I was ready, I could open and look at it.
Now, I had had a previous karmic reading with my guru in 1997. At that time I was told that El Morya said I had balanced between 47 and 48 percent of my karma. The understanding of devotees in this community was that if we balanced 51 percent of our karma, balanced the three-fold flame within our hearts, fulfilled our divine plan and resolved our psychology, we could make our ascension at the close of this lifetime. I was getting close but I wasn’t there yet! Apparently, things “heated up” at the point of balancing between 45 and 51 percent of one’s karma. The initiations were tough and people often required help from a true spiritual teacher to overcome the deeper core issues of their past karmic debts.
I looked at the piece of paper with El Morya’s clock that the clairvoyant had given me. It showed the clock hand at just beyond the 7 o’clock line, meaning that I had balanced about 61 percent of my karma. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that in three short years I had balanced over 13 percent of my karma. My guru had said that it could take years for many people to balance even 1 or 2 percent of their karma. My belief system simply didn’t allow me to believe the clairvoyant. I determined not to have another session with her and that this may have been a psychic experience, unacceptable to me on my spiritual journey.
Twelve days after this incident I had a lucid dream. I was in El Morya’s etheric retreat over Darjeeling, India. I was seated before a giant screen and was shown my “life review”—an amazing kaleidoscopic synopsis of all of my lifetimes upon Earth. What seemed like an eternity of very personal events occurred right before my eyes very quickly, in only a few moments of timelessness. I had read about life reviews by people who had had near-death experiences. I was amazed that it was happening to me, though it all seemed natural, too! At the end of the review, I was shown the karmic record of where I was at that moment in time. Lo and behold, it was exactly the percentage the clairvoyant had drawn on paper that El Morya had showed her on the clock!
I awoke with a start and sat straight up in bed. I will never forget this experience and can recall much of it in great detail still, seeing all my lifetimes back to my first incarnation in the matter planes. I was even shown how my essence was drawn forth from the very womb of the cosmos.
Shortly after this, I went back for another session with the clairvoyant. I shared my experience with her and asked, “How could I have balanced so much karma in just a few short years?” She responded that karma isn’t linear; it’s cyclic. Sometimes our major unresolved karma is lodged in ancient entanglements with specific individuals, like those I encountered in this experience.
When I explained that I had served in a spiritual community for over 30 years, my entire adult life, she said that not all of our karma can be balanced through this type of service. Sometimes there are interactions with specific individuals that we must resolve in order to move forward on our path.
This explanation made sense and I finally accepted it as a truth for me, too. I realized that, by God’s grace, I could continue to work on purifying myself and balance a lot more through loving forgiveness of everyone and everything! This clairvoyant was a great help to me in using the spiritual tools I had already developed to clean up my act and clean up my aura for greater service to life.
EXERCISING THE AURA
and Developing
Emotional Intelligence
In that holy and mystical pause between breaths,
we find the home of our divinity and the
birthplace of all miracles.
—Dannion Brinkley, Secrets of the Light
You may never have thought it possible to exercise your aura, yet it’s true. We exercise our physical bodies to keep them trim and toned. We exercise our minds through reading (silently or out loud) and studying sacred scriptures, listening to inspiring lectures, discourses or sermons, and through silent meditation and contemplation. We exercise our emotional bodies through devotional services, including singing, chanting and praising God in all of his various manifestations. When we are engaged in the conscious use of our chakras in an energetic activity of light, we exercise, tune up and expand our auras as well.
In my youth I engaged in all kinds of sports—basketball, football, baseball, tennis, swimming, biking and running. All of them helped me to develop physically, emotionally and mentally as well as spiritually. As we create balance through harmonious physical activity, we can establish a greater foundation and ability to use our auras for higher and more divine purposes.
All the spiritual components of our lives are built on the foundation of the balance of earth, water, air and fire. We require exercise to make the heart pump, the lungs expand and the blood flow to flush out toxins. If we have an imbalance in our physical body because we do not exercise, exert ourselves, sweat and breathe hard, our body temple may stagnate and retain elements that are not optimal to the work of our Higher Self. Developing flexibility in our body through yoga, tai chi or other gentle exercises, developing emotional intelligence through working on our psychology and developing mental acuity by engaging in what I call playful mindfulness, all directly and positively affect our spirits. Through these practices, we create balanced, beautiful and expansive auras.
Have you ever experienced the rush of energy through your being when you have persisted in an exercise discipline and reached the state beyond your normal bodily limits? At that point, you are able to drink in certain higher pranic energies of Spirit during a stage that some call the “runner’s high.” You persist beyond fatigue and experience the release of endorphins. I believe these are subtle elements of the Holy Spirit released within the prana, or qi (chi), that enter your lungs, heart and nervous system. This ether-substance is an infusion of light that enters into the circulatory system through deep breathing, and you feel an ecstatic state of bliss and inner joy.
Establishing and maintaining harmony in the physical body gives us a certain momentum that we require to balance the final vestiges of our karma. I believe that, in many cases, those who don’t exercise will have greater difficulty in accelerating the balancing of their karma. The Bulgarian master Peter Deunov, who founded and named his movement the Great White Brotherhood in Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, was amazingly fit at a very advanced age. He hiked at a faster pace than many of his much younger disciples as they climbed the mountain fastnesses to the Rila Lakes in Eastern Europe where they held their annual summer conferences. Likewise, his disciple Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov continued to lead his disciples in energetic exercises as an octogenarian! Before Gautama Buddha left his father’s domain to seek enlightenment, he was a highly skilled athlete. Jesus’ long journey to India from the Middle East in his early teens was a tremendous feat that required great stamina. Walking is one of the least strenuous and most beneficial forms of exercise.
Many professional or seasoned athletes have more red in their auric field than non-athletes. Although some people consider red to be a spiritual negative that corresponds to anger, I feel it appears more in athletes because of the concentrated levels of prana that are flowing through their bloodstream due to their physical activity and mastery. Our blood is the carrier of our life force, the energy of the Holy Spirit we draw in through respiration. If you were to look at the darkfield microscopy of most athletes and advanced yogis, you would see many vibrant red blood cells coursing quickly and easily through the bloodstream. Their corpuscles flow freely through the tiny rivers of the circulatory system, demonstrating that exercise is a key to both physical and spiritual vitality.
Laughing is a great form of exercise. A couple of years ago I learned more about the science of Hasya Yoga—laughing yoga. This is a great boon for the solar p
lexus. When we laugh, we contract and release the muscles of the abdomen and our internal organs get massaged! Laughter helps those who have undergone major trauma or disease to experience a quicker return to health. An attitude of joy is infectious, yet helps to drive out infections! Laughter helps create a pranic field of joy and happiness that benefits the auras of everyone around us.
Laugh throughout the day as young children do. It is our natural state to be joyous, for this helps us maintain perfect health and a youthful outlook. Children are in the Now, uninhibited, spontaneous, playing and laughing. Levity helps us through intense times and keeps us emotionally stable.
Emotional intelligence is vital to a strong and healthy aura, and it requires that we have an understanding of the heart and of energy in motion. Being aware of the way we communicate with, treat and relate to others is crucial in establishing loving, fruitful and lasting relationships. As we choose to hold a positive image of others, to appreciate and cherish them, we build an aura of respect and integrity around ourselves that is part of our greater energetic field.
As we choose to speak words of loving compassion and kindness rather than words that demean others, we win friends and influence people. Voicing words and expressing emotions that we later regret is a sign that we have difficulty loving ourselves. Healing our self-view is a key to building true self-esteem and helps us master our feelings for others. Developing a positive heart IQ means that we value heartcenteredness and loving-kindness and helps us relate to everyone we meet on our life’s journey.
Emotional intelligence also means avoiding drastic mood swings that may be problematic for our loved ones and co-workers. We don’t get too far down in the dumps. We realize that God is the doer and our own Higher Self is ultimately in charge of our lives and of who we are. So long as we remain positive in our view of the world, people and our job or vocation, so long as we maintain a fun-loving attitude about life itself, the universe will provide us with everything we require, and our auras will shine! We’ll always be looking up!
My wife had a car accident a couple years ago. Soon afterward, our chiropractor muscle-tested her to measure the effects on her spine and neck due to whiplash. He demonstrated that when she looked down, the strength in her right arm was weaker. But when she looked up, her arm was strong. The difference was significant. I see this as an amazing spiritual metaphor. When we are looking down, we’re hunched over rather than being focused on what’s ahead of us—we are in the dumps. When we are looking up, toward the sun, toward our beautiful Source, there is a natural inclination toward presence that allows the light from our Source to make contact with our eyes and deliver a stream of light and fire. We’re buoyant, joyous and grateful. Divine power flows into us and through us.
Through the I AM Activity, Saint Germain and other masters of wisdom explained how we can bring balance and harmony to our bodies through visualization. Even if you’re not athletic, you can benefit from visualizing health and vitality flowing through you from your Higher Self. If you have a major health issue and can’t exercise easily or fully, try to spend at least a few minutes each day breathing deeply and seeing yourself in perfect health.
Visualize an energetic interplay of light within your organs and around your chakras to develop greater strength. This will positively affect your auric field and you will feel a greater sense of joy. When you have that internal balance, everyone around you will know it and feel it. The positive attitude you develop will bring you greater health and joy. Exercising your body, heart and mind builds a resilient and radiant aura, which is a blessing to you and to all life.
THE MUSIC OF THE AURA
Then I heard a new sound: a living sound, like the richest,
most complex, most beautiful piece of music you’ve ever heard.
—Eben Alexander, M.D., Proof of Heaven
Every soul has a keynote. Our keynote is a particular song of the Spirit that keys us into our Higher Self. It’s a rendition of our essence, of our divinity, that illustratively captures and expresses our true nature. It’s the musical notation of our selfhood in God. And when our soul’s music is being played within the universe, our aura vibrates with a colorful resonance and a beautiful glow.
When we attune to this divine song of the Spirit that is our keynote and do what is essential to bring it forth in a creative way, our life has purpose. We are then truly co-creators with God. Through the dynamic of this moving stream of light, through the tone and the chromatic elements of the chords, our song ascends, descends, resounds and echoes such that we become part of the greater music of the spheres. This is the song of the universe.
From the time of our conception onward, what we hear influences us. Some people are influenced within the womb and in early childhood by divinely inspired music and have the conscious awareness of their Presence at a young age. This early influence keys them into their own internal song of the soul and the greater music of the spheres. They shift easily into higher consciousness, into living a compassionate life, and this helps them to transmute their karma and fulfill their reason for being, their noble purpose in life. When we choose to hear music that is the highest quality, that expounds the virtues of God, we may grow into the benevolence, bounty and beauty of our true nature.
When in infancy and early childhood we drink in sublime music of a crystalline or angelic quality, the patterns of the soul manifest with great beauty, like the opening of a flower. You have probably seen time-lapse photography of nature and observed plants and flowers as they grow and open toward the sun, then close at nighttime. The expressive elements of these plants and flowers indicate their true essence and beauty. It’s the same with us. I believe that the sun and all the stars emit frequencies that can be heard and felt by plant life, which is very sensitive. If we sensitize ourselves, we can also feel and hear these vibrations and attune to our greater purpose through sidereal turning of worlds, which create in their movement the sound of beautiful music.
Of course, not everyone has had the benefit of hearing divinely inspired music while in the womb. Some infants experience the cacophonous sounds and rhythms of dissonant music that are not in alignment with the heart. Many forms of rock, rap, and reggae music, for example, are jarring to the soul and its divine unfoldment. Their lyrics exalt the drama of the human personality and their beats anchor souls to the lesser, carnal self. The vibrational quality of what many of these musicians emit creates a magnetic field that is in step with the astral world. When discordant sounds are continuously fed into the ears of youth and adults, their chakras are closed off and their auras washed out. The Earth’s own auric field is weakened by these dissonant wave patterns.
The darkness infiltrating the Earth and the minds and souls of her people through this music must be transformed and uplifted if we are to give birth to an enlightened age of true love and compassion. The way to prevent this from progressing is to educate people about what occurs energetically when various types of music are played, focusing on music’s influence on the soul and the auric field. As a result, we may once again create a culture of light such as those Earth hosted in ages past in India, on Lemuria and on Atlantis, to name a few.
How do we create within our worlds the music of the spheres of our Higher Selfhood so that our auras may continuously shine forth the light of God? We do it by studying vibration and the impact of various types of music on our hearts and our chakras. We become more sensitized through feeling what is happening within us as we listen. We discover what raises the light and the life force and what debases it. We learn what brings us a sense of joyous inner peace. We observe what may temporarily excite us by its powerful thrust of sound into our ears and auric fields but lacks a positive, long-lasting effect on our spirits and beings.
When we clean and clear our auras through forgiveness, love, compassion, joy and conscious works of the Spirit that bring greater harmony to the world, we provide the wherewithal for music to return our true colors to our auric fields. The rainbow
light of our Presence glows. Our investment in the work of creation with the Elohim and the builders of form provides a beautiful new world experience.
In April 2011 my wife and I attended a performance of Dvorák’s New World Symphony in Billings, Montana. While the orchestra played, the audience viewed a slideshow of beautiful nature photography. Before each of the four movements of the symphony, passages from Longfellow’s poem “The Song of Hiawatha” were projected on the screen. The conductor explained that Dvorák had come to America financed by a generous grant. He listened to the music of the native peoples and wove elements of what he had heard and seen into the tapestry of his opus.
The performance was magnificent. I used the opportunity of the audio-visual experience to see and accept myself as a crystal being of harmony, to emanate light, to feel the waves of energy from the music, and to magnify and radiate them across America for the blessing of life. The New World Symphony beautifully captures what America has always been destined to outpicture as a nation of enlightened people invested in freedom, justice and truth. I encourage you to listen to Dvorák’s work for it is truly powerful.
The conductor, who was at the very center of the release of light through the symphony, smiled throughout the performance, and I felt her spirit uplift the entire audience. Her movements were graceful and conscious. As I closed my eyes, I saw over her a great being of light orchestrating and conducting the symphony through her. The entire auditorium was filled with angelic presences, each musician overshined by a music deva, a spirit like an angel or muse. Just as there is the first chair for various instrument sections, there is a music deva that directs other angels who inspire and radiate light through the skillful and polished craftsmanship of the musicians. At the conclusion of the piece, the audience stood for many ovations.
There is an action of light between heaven and earth where these beautiful symphonies are played that brings peace throughout the world and blesses the cities in which they are performed. When they are aired on the radio or over the internet, listeners receive an angelic visitation because the angel choirs move and dance and circle the Earth to bless all who are open to it.
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