Ann's Observations

Life’s challenges offer opportunities to look beyond mainstream thinking of what is “normal.” It takes evolved intelligence to assume responsibilities for these past trials and tribulations. As we unravel our past experiences, it can provide us with an opportunity to reweave the patterns of our lives to become far more enlightened. Instead of going within ourselves to find answers, most people seek confirmation outsides of their own selves, i.e. most religions. Seeking to lean on a person or belief system outside is simply avoidance of personal responsibility. Have you lived in different physical bodies in different eras - or is it genetic memory from your ancestors? Does it matter? (Four fifths of the world accepts reincarnation.) If you dig down into the subconscious, you will be amazed at what is there and how it affects your present life circumstances. Look to find your ultimate power and enhance it by nurturing your spiritual evolution.

BALANCE was foremost in early Native Americans and others around the world. It has always been a balance between the human and nature. It is difficult to accept that the past, present and future are all one and the same. Everything that ever was, is. It takes faith to think that every word ever uttered is out there swirling in that unending energy, just as we, when leaving the physical body, return to that ever- present energy. In that in-between life, with help, we analyze our journey, recalculating what opportunities are needed to move forward again in the flesh body. We then return to Earth to continue working out our emotional threads - those threads that hold us to the physical body. We can “let go” of all ties but it is not an easy path to “fly” alone! Most of us refuse to totally let go of our emotional ties.

What is referred to as the “New Age” is not a religion, not a particular group, not a specific belief. It is difficult to grasp, since there is no structure, no rules, and no doctrine. Those who are attracted to New Age thought have sometimes been called the "church of what's happening now," a comical critique. If anything, perhaps a philosophy of finding your center, your balance, listening to your inner voice, attempting to live in the moment, moment to moment. It is a philosophy of letting go, thus, accepting, exploring past events to bring them into consciousness light to reverse any negative reactions in the past. Our greatest gift as human beings is FREE WILL. You can remain stuck in the past or clinging to religious beliefs of limitations that make you dependent rather than independent. We set the course for the challenges in each lifetime to give us the opportunity to review, revoke, relive to be free of past conditions, just as our youthful conditionings by parents and others often limits us if we choose remain in them. (Free Will equals CHOICES!) As for one that is drawn to the “New Age” thinking, one would not join a cult whether it may be an established “religion” or some far out or weird thinking, or follow any particular leader, nor continue to blame others for their present situation. It is searching for our own self-worth and connection with the Universal Energy in Oneness. The more we connect with that energy, the more we can find balance and use that energy toward healing individuals and the planet. It is achieving a place where we can look at one another and see ourselves as one energy - disregarding race, color, religion, limited beliefs, et al. It is no easy task to look at those who dedicate their lives to destroying others, whether with a bomb or stripping us of our opportunities to live a productive life and to LOVE them. This web of life is most confusing. There are many ways to kill the human spirit and it seems that rivals of good and evil are still one in the same. Do bombs and killings really resolve anything? Is it right for little children to be indoctrinated with hate and commitment to sacrifice themselves? Is it right to dedicate billions of dollars toward destruction? Who has the right to judge? What can an individual do regarding politics, horrendous waste, negative indoctrinations, etc.? NOTHING, it seems! Just think! If each individual around the world would take personal responsibility to clear their own self/soul whatever name it is given - if each focused on learning to create unconditional love in their lives, what kind of world would we have then?