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Pathway for the Spirit

The Butterfly and the Flower

We want to remind you of two of the most beautiful expressions of creation.  One is the flower and the other is the butterfly.   These two remind us of how vulnerable both of these creative forms of life are in different ways.  One grows in the earth and the other flies in the air.  Both the flower and the butterfly are extraordinarily beautiful, one might say perfect; their colours, the fragrance of the flower, the texture of the butterfly’s wings - so beautiful.  Yet if you were to touch a butterfly’s wings you would easily destroy it.  If you were to tear the petal of the flower there would be no resistance. 

So how do these extraordinary, beautiful, evolved spirits cope, withstand this Earth?  They are here; they are perfectly evolved because they are comfortable with, indeed celebrate, their vulnerability.  The butterfly flies with the wind, not against it.  It uses the currents of the air to take it to the flower or the plant it needs to land on.  It does not fight the elements that it finds itself in. 

Likewise, the flower; it grows wherever.  Some can just as easily grow in a crack in a busy street of a city, as flower in a garden tended most lovingly by a gardener.  The flower, too, grows with and is surrounded by all the elements of earth and air, fire and water.  It too has its own rhythm and being, opening its petals at dawn and closing them at dusk, aware of its own rhythm.  It too moves with the wind, opens its petals to the fire of the sun and yet is not burned, allows the gentle rain to fall on it, nurturing it, feeding it, nourishing its roots in the earth; so that the flower’s bloom becomes ever more beautiful, its colour deeper, its fragrance so pure that it spreads far beyond the place where it sits rooted into the earth.  You will notice as you go past a garden, that the fragrances stay with you, yards away from that garden, do they not?   The fragrance itself is vulnerable and yet somehow it travels on the air, it nourishes you, it lifts you. 

Vulnerability and Fragility

Think on the idea that it is the very vulnerability and fragility of these two beautiful creations that allow them to be so perfect.  Allow them to uplift your human soul to a place where you also can see the wonder of your own spirit, the beauty of yourselves.   

The flower and the butterfly are reflections of your beauty, but sometimes because you see your vulnerability as a problem, as a burden, as a weakness, you do not see your own beauty. And how can you see your own beauty when some of your spirit does not enter this plane with you?  You see, vulnerability is the softness that allows your spirit to enter.  If you are covered in a hard shell then that is a barrier to the light of your spirit.  

Human beings, feeling themselves to be fragile, to be weak, cover themselves in a kind of shell for protection, feeling that this is the way to cope with Earth life.  But of course what happens is that that shell, far from serving them, becomes not only divisive between one human being and another, but it separates the person, the human being from their own spirit.  Think about that!   

This entire planet is full of needy human beings who need love, need warmth, need nurture; all are needy.  But the way to receive what is needed is not to hide beneath a shell, a protection, to create some kind of a barrier.  That is a false protection.  The way to receive what is needed is to be acknowledged and to feel the vulnerability - that is like the snow that falls from the sky.  It is so soft it comes into all  the cracks and moistens the earth.  Vulnerability is that softness, the delicate bloom on the butterfly’s wings, the petal that allows beauty to come into form.     

For your beauty to come into form there needs to be no barrier.  There needs to be a pathway, if you like, whereupon your own divine spirit can flow down into this incarnation.  It needs not to be impeded.  It needs a soft way.   When you weep you allow yourself to soften.  Your tears create a smooth watery pathway for spirit to enter.  Your tears release some of that hard artificial shell that serves you not.

You may wonder how you can survive in a world of turmoil and turbulence.  The way to survive is to work with your environment, in the same way that the flower and the butterfly survive in their environment, by being with it, flowing with and being a vulnerable expression of the Godhead. It is quite hard for many human beings to realise that their softness and their vulnerability is perhaps the greatest way to reach soul consciousness.  They shut their own soul away, using an illusionary strength, a toughness that becomes hardness.   

So, dear friends, we ask you not to condemn your needs, but to acknowledge that all forms of life need input and food on many different levels.  All need nourishment, but there has to be a way for that nourishment to come through; and this is that very aspect that you sometimes despise and find awkward.  It is your vulnerability that allows your own soul to flow to every part of your being and become soul consciousness.  Then like the butterfly, you can withstand the gales, the storms and the brightest of the sun’s rays.  Like the flower, your fragrance can spread far beyond your own self, as soon as you stop fighting yourself.  

Flowers are indeed a very highly evolved kingdom.  Their very perfection shows us that evolution is not about being separate from all that you find yourself in.  It is about co-existing and co-creating with the elements and with other human beings, whatever race or creed.  It is through the open heart, through closeness, that vulnerability allows healing.  You know, the vulnerable part in you allows another to approach you.  It is your softness and vulnerability that will allow another to recognise in themselves their vulnerability, their softness; to welcome it and be glad of it.  It will also allow another human being to come close to you and nestle in your aura, and to recognise their own vulnerability, their own need to be healed.   

Simply, it is by celebrating something in you that you create a pathway for your own spirit.  So look upon your vulnerability as a softness around you that allows more and more of your own spirit to gently come in without effort, without struggle.  You are indeed like the butterfly whose colours will become much brighter, whose being is extraordinarily light because it has no fear of being weak. 

Fear causes fragmentation of the being and makes you want to hold on to keep your balance. You dare not do anything other than hold on because your very being is spinning all over the place.  Love, however, brings everything into alignment and balance.  So you do not need to hold on and you literally begin to become lighter.  You become like the butterfly, able to rise on a current of air, able to be taken to another level of understanding, another plateau of perception, where you can decide what is your truth while on this journey in physical life and no longer feel bound by rigidity and old worn-out beliefs.  You will see with your true self, unfettered by others’ beliefs and mindsets, where you will be light enough to float to another place of seeing and be more in touch with universal energy.  Just as the flower and the butterfly are constantly in touch with the fire and the water, the air and the earth. They need to be here, able to express the beauty of their creation.  So also you need to be able to adjust, in the moment, to where you are in any event or situation, to see from the truth of your own being.  You are coming to a place of manifesting your own reality.   

This is challenging is it not, the very thought that you create your own reality?  And in order to do so, you need to be light, free floating.  Some of the belief systems in this age of Pisces are worn out, they are no longer relevant.  But you are coming to a new age of perception and understanding. It will mean that each moment you step into an experience and extend the whole of your being – for you are a great being, much greater and more expanded than you are aware - as you align yourself with love, letting go of fear, as you discover your love, you expand and your conscious- ness connects  with other consciousnesses that can enable you to see the event or the experience from your own perspective.  You may experience a place, a person, a country, a teaching from an entirely new perspective.  And that is the gift of now.      

In order for that to be, you need no longer hold on; for if you are part of the fear frequency you will be spinning and fragmented, pulled down.  You cannot be light enough to float to the place of this new consciousness.  But when you are aligned in love, your very cells are aligned.  The physical body, you know, when in the state of perfect health and well-being is weightless, so when you connect in your meditation with your own spirit, or when you connect with another spirit who comes to guide you and you feel a state of lightness, that is not imagination or illusion; it is reality.  Indeed you have lifted yourself up, you have become ‘enlightened’; it is a reality.      

So you can fly like the butterfly and sway in the breeze like the flower.  But it means, does it not, taking the risk of being vulnerable as you walk this Earth.  For then your heart opens, opens to yourself and opens to others. In order to enter the world of the Godhead, you could say that vulnerability is your key, is the password.  So let fall your shell; it is an illusionary form of safety.  Welcome your vulnerability, your needs.  Call down your light and be the beautiful expression of creation that you truly are.   

Q:   I’ve heard what you’ve said and thank you.  I think, what it’s made me think is how difficult it is sometimes to recognise the shell and to notice when the shell is put in place, because it has become such a habit.  Also, to really recognise my vulnerabilities and get to know them. 

You shut yourself out of your life, do you not?  You shut out the very aspect of your life that needs to be welcomed into your heart.  This happens and this is why we say that when the shell is battered down by exterior events, it is so much more painful than if you allow the shell to dissolve from inside.   When you can acknowledge that there are parts of you that may be shut outside in the cold, that cannot reach you, that is the moment when from the inside you can find the part of you that needs your love; and there is in every human being always that ability to receive love. 

 Love is such a powerful energy and it is indeed like the snow, so soft it can get into the smallest crevice.  So, from that tiny part of you, you can allow love from the inside to radiate and dissolve the shell around you, thereby bringing in from the cold all these aspects.  It does not have to be a difficult exercise.  It is just a matter of acknowledging that perhaps you unwittingly create some kind of defence.

It is important, also, to forgive yourself and say, ‘This is something that human beings do on their journey.  They forget that they can be like the flower or the butterfly.  They feel they have to be strong and put a shell up.’  Let that go, forgive it and sit in the garden of your own being, as it were.     

Allow yourself to become soft from the inside.  Imagine the radiance from your heart, warming, melting this shell, exuding an energy that dissolves all that stands between you and the light of your own spirit; for those aspects that are shut outside will see the light and be drawn in.  Sometimes the vulnerable aspects travel so far away from you that you cannot access them.  You know there is something wrong, and yet you cannot bring them back, even to identify them.  Sometimes, dear human beings become catatonic like the living dead, for they are so far from these aspects of themselves.    

So, you see, you can help yourself enormously when you acknowledge your vulnerability, because you then allow your spirit to show the way for all these lost aspects to come back in.  And sometimes they are a long way away in the dark, hidden, afraid, alone, isolated.   Do you understand what I am saying?

I think so.  I think I need to meditate on it a bit more, on the shell and the vulnerability and the dissolving of the shell. 

Meditation will allow your creative spirit to work with you, to be fully present and to teach you how to dissolve the shell, for you are your greatest teacher.  Allow, also, your body to teach you.   Feel in your body where the shell may be pressing hard against the flesh, resisting.  Those moments of stiffness, of pain, can be your body reminding you that you are in a suit of armour that is not appropriate.  So listen to that part of the body; it can teach you.  Use all that you have brought with you.  You have brought an extensive bag of tools to this incarnation.  You have all you need.  You did not descend into this incarnation leaving anything behind. But sometimes you forget you have these tools and the greatest tool is the vehicle that you inhabit with its extraordinary senses, extraordinary imagination.  You have it with you.     

Your body has already perhaps indicated something of the flow of the watery aspect.  We have indicated before that the water in your body holds the memory of everything that you are.  So when your water releases, it releases memory, it can heal memory. Sometimes the water gets stuck and there is an impossibility even to weep, you understand?  Let it flow. . . . . . . .Thank you.

Q:  I would like to ask a question about letting people live their own lives but still maintaining some sort of relationship.  If I could use an example:  I have a friend who is an alcoholic in her early 20s with an only child and we’ve several times been through the loop where she will come screaming to the door saying that she can’t handle it.  She’s drunk.  We start from scratch, we get her off the booze into a routine and within a couple of months she wants to drink again and things turn very nasty, because I’m then seen as controlling or interfering in her life.  She’ll go off on a binge and the cycle repeats.  I’ve cut myself off now after two years of the repeating cycle.  I’ve just not picked up the relationship again, mainly because I think that I can’t handle the continuing responsibility and the constant what I see as ‘my failure to help her.’  It’s a solution but I feel it’s not the right solution. And I’m torn between that and feeling that she has to live her own life, make her own mistakes.  I feel this is a failing in myself but I just can’t see through it.

It is not a failure because you are asking questions that will allow for something new to enter.  First of all let us say that she is not living her own life; there is an influence with her that is pushing her into this problem, deeper and deeper.  Your teachers have this weekend touched upon it, have they not?  Some spirits need to feed their addiction, whether they are in the spirit world or are still in a vehicle of the flesh.  This is not something that your friend can deal with because she is unaware of that. 

First of all, she has to express the need to be helped.  That is an important part of the journey of addiction, to recognise that there is a life that is not being lived to fulfilment.  And so from the deepest part of herself she needs to ask for help.  That is the first stage.  Then from the other realm help can come.  From the spirit world help will come to encourage the influence, the spirit around her, to go.  But it is a two-way process: as above, so below.     

On the physical plane she would need psychological help to release the need to encourage this attachment.  She would need to acknowledge her problem, her vulnerability.  There are ways in which a spirit can be helped to move on, but it cannot happen when there is no acknowledgement on her part that she needs help. Perhaps she has expressed something of that to you and you have not felt able?

I will admit it’s a difficult one for me because, for example, I feel that some sort of spiritual involvement in her life would help, but I am very wary of pushing my beliefs on. . . of encroaching my beliefs on other people, in case I haven’t got it right. 

So this involves you trusting. . .                                                           I think it probably does. 

All that you can do in that case is to be with this person and allow your own radiance to flow and she will take something from that.  But if you feel that you can take a further step, take a little risk and trust, and offer her the idea that there is another kind of way.  How would that be?                                                                                                     Yes, I think that is possible. 

It’s step by step, you understand.  Sometimes, as we said earlier, the darkness is so great one cannot see even a pinprick of light.  Your deeper understanding of how such spirits can attach themselves to a human being could be a great help to your friend, for she is so far away from the light.  But it takes a risk.  It means you showing your light, encouraging her to come into that.  Even so, until she wishes from a very deep level to be released, it will not happen. 

I think that may be the problem.  The desire to get away from the drink is only momentary. 

But bear in mind that she is not completely living her own life.  She has an influence that will encourage her to drink.  So you can step back.  You do not need to take responsibility for her journey but you can offer the light of your understanding. That is not manipulative; it is enabling. Then it is her choice if she wishes to go to those who could help her release this influence around her. That is the difference. . .                                                            Thank you. 

When you are fearful of whether you are doing the right thing or not, allow yourself to become very still and ask the question within, ‘Am I right?  Am I misjudging?’  and then listen with every fibre of your being to what is in your body and what maybe beyond.  And the answer will come through a feeling, through a movement of your energy field.  The answer will be there, for you will be expressing your vulnerability.  You will be saying ‘I do not know.’  You will be knocking on the door of your own soul, and the door will open.

So It is really a question of trusting one’s own spirit within.. . . . .  Thank you.

Indeed.   But it is also about being aware of an answer coming in a way that you may not expect. Sometimes the answers are there but you do not recognise them.  The body will indicate where your armour is pressing against you, where your shell is rubbing, as it were.  So you have other ways to receive answers.  Sometimes you look for them in the intellect but answers do not come simply through the intellect.  Of course you need your brain, but you have a mind – you are a mind, a great mind, a great field of energy.  So you will get answers that may be beyond the intellect.                                                    

The answer comes first into your energy field, then it becomes an idea or concept.  This is why it is important to be still when you ask your question, to be like the flower, the butterfly, to allow yourself to float to a finer level, because it is in that floating, weightless state that another perception can come into your field.  This you may not be conscious of at the time; it has not reached your physical software, as it were; but it can a little later.  You understand?                                                                                 Yes, I do, I will try it. 

Q:  I have a personal question.  I felt the need to move in my career to something completely different.  I have no idea what this is but it has been lingering for a long time.  I feel frustrated that I can’t move forward, yet there’s nothing to move forward to.  I cannot see the next step. 

But that is important because it is allowing you to be more free-flowing.   If you wish to have a fixed point then you must go back in evolution, back in consciousness.  This is not about fixative, this is about flowing, creating your own reality moment by moment.  So if the next step is ready and presented to you it is not nearly so exciting as if you allow yourself to be in the moment, willing to move but not being sure where to go.  In other words you step off the edge into the unknown.  Because until you step into the unknown you will never know, will you?  You limit your potential when you want to know the next step before you have moved your foot.  When you feel the need to move, first allow that feeling, allow your wings to begin to flap a little. Allow the idea of freedom of movement to come into your life in some way.  That may be walking, dancing, running.  It may be choosing a different colour in your clothes - a freedom, a flexibility.  So you start to accustom yourself, your whole being, to the idea of something new, of flowing, of being able to take one step, another step, and at some point perhaps both feet off the ground at the same time!  You become accustomed to the freedom of allowing yourself movement.  Are you with us?                                                                                                 Yes.

So that comes into your whole vehicle; it starts to speak to every cell in your body - your intent to be free, to move. Your wish communicates itself to every part of your being and to your brain that makes concepts, ideas, thoughts.     

Then one day, when you have almost forgotten about your next career so freely are you dancing in your meadow, choosing colours that you wish to wear, going down this road instead of that road just as you please, when out of the blue comes this new direction.  It is a very different way of going about it, is it not?                                                                         Yes.      

It does involve truly a freedom of your spirit.  You are free spirits and there needs to be a time of free floating.  A butterfly does not decide a week before it flies that it will go to this flower or this tree.  The butterfly knows it will fly.  You see?  It knows it is a being of flight, so when the wind comes it allows itself to be borne on the current and is taken to the flower that it needs to go to.  You see the difference?                                                                               Yes

It does not concern itself before it has reached the flower.  It has no preconception.            Can you do that, can you bring a little more flexibility into your life, for you do tend, and we say this lovingly, to be quite a harsh task master, do you not?                              Yes, I do.

You set yourself rules and demand a great deal of yourself..  So bring into your body a softness and flexibility.  Bring into your emotions the freedom to love, to cry when you wish and, above all, bring in flexibility for the next choice that you make, that it is the one that fulfils you.  Transition is a wonderful opportunity.  You have so many different choices and this period of transition allows for you to transform.  A transition period is a kind of transformation.  How can you discover your beautiful colours if you do not come out of your cocoon.  You have placed yourself in quite a tight cocoon and yet you want to stride out and know exactly where the next place is.  You have to fly there, do you not?  Be free!  Does that help you?                             It does, thank you

You can begin now, by twitching your little toe.  And that little twitch can travel all over your body.  You can say, ‘This little toe is free.  This little toe can go anywhere in the universe.  This little toe has no limits.’  And that little toe speaks to every part of your body. You throw off even the need to make the decision. You understand?                                           Yes

 Your little one teaches you this, doesn’t he?                                             Yes.

 He doesn’t worry when he will walk, or speak or go to school.  He simply takes one step of experience after another, and enjoys does he not?                                  Yes he does.

 You have a great teacher so close to your heart, do you not?  And perhaps through the joy of that relationship there will be the freedom to discover how you wish to relate to others.  For finally we would say that an open-hearted way of relating to yourself and to the human beings that you are with, is important for you and may indeed connect you to a new way of working, a new career, if you like.  We leave that thought with you.

 And so, thank you each and every one.  May your journey be light, beautiful and free.  Many blessings and thank you.

 Thank you. . . .