
Excerpts from
SEVEN STEPS TO SOUL
The seven sections of this book represent the seven chakras. The
awakening of our chakras and the rise of the Kundalini is the process
that aligns us with our Soul. When we are aligned with our Soul, we can
begin to surrender to its guidance and to its habitation of our physical
body.
Shortly after our Soul
enters our body at birth we begin to forget our higher Self. However,
our inner child holds that secret for us until we are ready to remember.
But why do we forget? Most of us are taught to forget by the people in
our world who no longer remember.
Often, we forget because of painful
events that are too great for a child to bear, but in the process of
forgetting, we often lose the happy memories as well. We also forget
because our emotional reactions to the world around us blur our
experiences and in turn blur the memory of our experiences. Just like
low frequencies mask out high frequencies, pain and fear can mask out
love.
However, if we can learn to hear and
express our emotions without judgment or criticism of ourselves, we can
release the pain and fear that covers love and lessens our ability to
accept it. Learning to be honest with, accepting of, and loving to
ourselves can take years.
Most of us have learned in our
childhoods that it is not safe to be completely open and honest. Too
often fear taught us to judge rather than to accept. These judgments
make it difficult to love ourselves and to love others.
Our Self is the portion of our
consciousness that has NOT fallen into fear, criticism, and judgment.
When we can become our Self, we can regain our conscious connection with
our Soul. This journey begins with remembering the treasures of our
childhood that are hidden beneath the pain.
CHILDHOOD
A Life Begins and Soon Forgets
She saw the first step before her.
It seemed very familiar, like something from her childhood. Yes, that
was it; this was the first step on the staircase that leads to her
Grandmother's house. Something had happened by these stairs because for
years and years she had a recurring dream. In this dream, she was lost.
She had wandered around trying to find her way until, at last, she could
go no further. Then, she would see the stairs leading to Grandma's front
porch. But did she climb them? No! Instead, she lay down on the sloping
lawn next to the stairway and went to sleep-went to sleep in her dream.
Why she never climbed the stairs to receive from her Grandmother the
comfort that she needed, she did not know.
Perhaps, she
wasn't ready yet.
THE
FIRST CHAKRA AND CHILDHOOD
The first chakra represents our
survival consciousness. We first learned to survive when we were
children. We had to learn to adapt to our environment-no matter what.
Often we used survival mechanisms that functioned like training wheels
to assist us during times when we could find no better way to adapt to
the world around us. These "training wheels" worked while we were
children, but what held us up as children, holds us back as adults. If
we can explore our childhood from our adult perspective, we can begin to
release what is no longer needed and remember what we lost.
REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD
Remembering our childhood allows us
to regain the memory of our multidimensional self that we lost as we
"grew up". Our memories of Home in the higher dimensions became dimmer
and dimmer as we tried to make a home in our physical world and physical
body.
Our first chakra represents our first
impressions of life. These impressions became the basis of our beliefs.
In turn, our beliefs directed our expectations to perceive a world that
was consistent with the world we were trained to experience. In this way
we felt safe because we feel like we fit more into our world.
Therefore, bit-by-bit, the UNLIMITED
knowledge that was of the higher worlds was constricted into knowledge
of the LIMITED physical world. Unfortunately, far too often our physical
world was filled with fear. The fear that we experienced as a child
walled us off from the love that is innate within our Soul. Our Soul
became the portion of ourselves that we forgot a little bit more each
day.
CHILDHOOD
The
small child longed to go Home,
but she did not know the way.
She could remember the
sights
and fields of Home and
she could remember her wonderful friends.
She was lonely here,
in this strange and barren land.
She longed so to face the presence
of all that was Home -
True love,
Complete Acceptance,
Divine Beauty,
and Total Union with all life.
Here she felt
separate.
There were great walls dividing
each portion of life.
And there was a smaller wall around her.
When she first came to
this place
she was afraid.
She did not understand these
strange people or their strange ways.
Flowers, trees, and
animals
did not speak to her.
And if she tried to speak to them,
others laughed.
Therefore, she began
to build
a wall around her.
With every laugh and
every condemning thought
a new brick was laid.
She could no longer
speak to her
plant and animal friends,
no matter how hard she tried.
The wall became so heavy and high that
she could barely see the sun
or feel the breeze
or view the world around her.
Then she decided that
it was time
for the wall to come down.
Even if they laughed,
she could feel the sun.
Even if they condemned her,
she could see the flowers.
So she began.
Brick by brick the wall was crumbling.
At first, it was very difficult.
The bricks were cemented fast,
and it took great effort to
remove even one.
However, the bricks
were
somehow connected and
as one was released
the others were weakened.
With the release of each brick,
the process became easier and easier.
As the wall became
smaller
the sun was brighter
and the breeze more refreshing.
She had forgotten that
the world was pretty after all.
She had not realized
that
for every one who laughed --
there was someone else who cared.
She had not realized
that --
if she ignored the ridicule of others,
she could then hear the plants and animals
hungrily returning her call.
As she gained the
courage
to begin removing her wall,
she gained the courage to face
that which was behind it.
Eventually, the wall
seemed very small.
Or, perhaps she had grown.
It had seemed that,
as she removed each brick,
she had grown taller.
She wasn't sure of
this, of course.
It had just seemed that way.
In fact, she wasn't
sure of much.
She only knew that life was better.
She did not know what would happen
when all the bricks were gone.
But she did know
that fear had built the wall
and only LOVE
could totally remove it!
TAKING CHILDHOOD'S GIFT
Our childhood memories of the higher
worlds are a gift that we may choose to deny. We have become very
comfortable with our perceptions of limitations and separation, which
function like a fence to separate us from our fear. However, no fence is
high enough or strong enough to ward off the fear that lives inside. The
only protection against this fear is love, love for our selves. Love is
the ultimate present that we ALL deserve and we CAN accept.
THE PRESENT
The small child very
much wanted the
brightly wrapped present.
But somehow she felt she didn't deserve it.
Each time it was given to her
she retreated in shyness and lowered her eyes.
How could that lovely
prize be hers?
How could she accept it?
"Just take it," came a
kindly voice.
"There are others who know more than you.
Even though you cannot see
all that has brought this to you,
know that it is yours."
The child did not
understand.
But she trusted the kindly voice and
timidly reached for her prize.
But, as she touched it,
it disappeared.
"Where has it gone?"
cried the child.
"Why, it is yours
now,"
said the voice.
"It is no longer
something
that you must reach for.
It is something now,
which you must own."
GROWING
UP
As we are "growing up", it is the
impressions of others that are first imprinted into our consciousness
because our parents and those who raise us define our world through
their perceptions. As children we are dependent upon our parents to
explain our world to us and to protect us from its dangers, but,
eventually, we must take the leap to see the world though our own eyes
instead of through the eyes of others. This change in perception, can
feel like a death.
CHANGE
Once there was a baby
bird.
He could not fly nor feed himself.
Helpless, he lay in the nest and
waited for his parents
to bring him nourishment.
Because the bird was
so dependent
he grew to worship those who cared for him.
After all, without them, he would die.
However, over time,
the bird began to change.
The fluff about him began to drop away
and something else took its place.
Of course, when the
bird
began to lose his fluff
he became very worried.
"What is this
'something else'?
What if this 'something else'
is not as good as my fluff?" he cried
Also, to make matters
worse,
the growing bird's parents
did not come as often with food.
And, they left him alone in the nest
for what seemed like a very long time.
And now the "something
else"
began to itch.
The bird wanted to shake himself
and spread his arms.
But, alas, the nest had gotten very little
and, if the bird were to move at all,
he had to stand on the very edge of it.
One day, when the nest
had gotten very small
and the bird felt very itchy,
he stretched out his arms.
Just as he did so, a gust of wind came up
and blew the terrified bird from his nest.
Oh no!
The parents were gone again
and the ground was very far away.
Surely, he would die.
Whatever could he do to save himself?
Clearly, he was alone with no one to help.
And oh, he itched so terribly.
But, at least now, he
could stretch himself,
if only for a few moments.
But something happened
when the bird stretched his arms.
The very evil wind
that had
blown him from his nest
seemed to catch him by the "something else"
that was hanging from his arms.
"My, this is
wonderful,"
thought the bird.
"Even if my end is near, at least I can enjoy
what time I have left."
Then, just before the
bird
reached the ground
he thought to look up to where he had been
and to where he would never return.
Surprisingly, as he
did so,
the wind carried him in that very direction.
The bird became so very excited
that he rapidly moved his arms
with the something else hanging from them.
For the first time, he
really looked at himself
and found that he was just like his parents.
"Why, these are
wings," cried the bird.
"And I am flying."
So the end was really
the beginning.
And, what the young bird
had thought was his death,
was really a new life.
KEEPING
THE CONNECTION
Once we have regained our connection
to childhood's lost secrets, we must learn to keep it. Our child can
assist us in remembering our Soul, and our Soul can teach us to see the
world through our own eyes instead of through the eyes of others.
However, sometimes we must go far away from ourselves before we can
appreciate what we have always had.
THE GOLDEN CORD
"Where
are we?" said the young child to the large, golden Lightbeing who stood
beside her.
"We are Home, my dear," was the
simple reply.
"Is that why my heart tickles?"
giggled the girl.
The golden being reached out a long
arm and, with a pointed finger, touched the exact point of "tickle". The
girl was than transformed into a young woman.
"Where is the child?" was her first
question.
"The child is inside where she has
always been," answered the golden being. "Can you feel her?"
"Yes, I think so. It feels like she
is within me, but also somewhere else. I mean, she is here, but she is
also playing in a beautiful field filled with flowers, butterflies, and
fairies. How can that be? How can she be in two places at once?"
"You are on the fifth dimensional
plane now. You can be in as many places as your mind can remember. The
trick is to feel the unity of each of these realities. Feel this unity
as a golden cord. Do you see where it is attached to the life-spark in
your heart?"
"Yes," replied the young woman. "It
feels like a deep longing for someone. But who?"
The long arm of the golden being
reached out and, again with pointed finger touched the exact spot of
"longing".
The young woman was no longer a
woman, nor a man. She was both.
"Thank you so very much," replied the
androgynous being who now stood as tall as the golden one. In fact, it
was also golden.
"Your touch reminded me of who I am.
I am Kepier. I am fifth dimensional as well, and I am welcoming a third
dimensional portion of myself who is awakening. Her child never forgot
me.
"And who am I?" asked the golden one
with the sacred touch. "Can you remember me?"
Kepier looked inside, knowing that
that was where all answers were found.
"You are a portion of "my self" that
resonates to the sixth dimension. Are you Wolal?"
Although the being's face was barely
perceptible through its beaming aura, Kepier "felt" the response of a
warm smile.
Wolal wrapped itself into a whirling
vortex and extended one arm.
"Touch your heart to my finger and we
shall take a journey."
Kepier bent its long, lean form over
to allow the tip of Wolal's finger to touch its heart and was instantly
pulled into the vortex.
In the vortex there was no form, even
for Kepier. Kepier saw itself as a speck of light swirling with millions
of other lights. Faster and faster the vortex swirled until the million
lights were One.
"Let's go down into that patch of
darkness from which this light radiates," spoke Wolal.
Kepier was not sure that it wished to
leave the light to explore the darkness, but it was now in total unity
with Wolal. Like the finger follows the hand, Kepier followed Wolal into
the darkness.
The spin of the vortex slowed as they
descended. Kepier began to feel itself separate from Wolal.
At a vibration much lower than its
own, Kepier could perceive the child and woman that it had just been.
Kepier knew that they were other components of it's self. The child
appeared to be crying about not wanting to leave Home. The woman was
clearly angry because she did not want to leave either.
Then Kepier felt a pull at its heart.
The long arm of Wolal again touched
Kepier's heart at the exact point of the "pull". In that place was the
golden cord.
"Connect this cord through your
heart. I will hold it here, as I can descend no further. Go down as far
as you can and give the other end of the cord to the woman. Tell her to
give it to the child."
"I will obey," replied Kepier,
understanding the reason for the command.
Kepier traveled down, down, down into
the darkness until the density pushed against it so that it could
descend no further.
"This must be how Wolal felt when it
came to touch me," Kepier spoke to itself.
The golden cord vibrated in
affirmation.
Kepier smiled. Now it must find the
woman.
There she was, sitting on a couch and
writing in a small golden book. The woman could not see Kepier except in
her imagination.
"Take this golden cord and connect it
to your heart," the woman wrote upon her page. "Now give the other end
to your inner child."
"Can I find my child?" the pen
expressed.
The golden cord vibrated in
affirmation. The woman smiled. I must descend down into the vortex as
did Kepier and Wolal, wrote the woman.
The woman's imagination displayed the
vortex upon her inner vision, but the darkness was not inviting.
"I must be as courageous as the other
portions of myself were. I cannot abandon my child. She needs me and I
greatly need her."
The woman descended into the vortex
and felt an ever-growing density pushing upon her form. At last she saw
a child growing smaller and smaller, younger and younger. If she did not
reach the child soon she may never have been born.
When at last the woman reached the
child who was quickly moving backwards in time, the child was an infant
just leaving her mother's womb.
"Quick, grab this golden cord and
attach it to your heart," spoke the woman to the newborn.
The infant was partially through the
birth canal extending a tiny bloody arm. The tip of her finger touched
the tip of the golden cord.
Within that moment of contact, a
blaze of light filled the delivery room.
Time stood still.
The infant's form was frozen in time
with an outstretched arm touching the tip of a golden cord that only she
could see.
Gradually, the light took on a
vaguely human form. It was not a body though.
It was a Soul. The infant's Soul.
The Soul took the cord that the
infant had chosen to touch and connected it to the small beating heart.
"Now," beamed the Soul,
"You shall never forget
who you really are!"
CONTINUE TO THE SECOND STEP

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