Guidance and Gifts of Awareness

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REMINDER from Mano:

Everyone who enters earth comes with spiritual companions. No one comes alone. At least one Guardian/Guiding Angel, a body elemental, and elemental companions. Please look for their presence. Please talk to them and pay attention to the way your thoughts might form an answer.

REMARKS from Barbara:

This Blog was fun to write. I was grumbling to Mano that it was time to write the blog and I didn’t have any idea what to say or where to go for an idea. With that opening Mano started speaking and wrote the whole blog. Pulling together experiences in a new way for me to see.

REMEMBERING Mary Jane:

Mary Jane told me of times she didn’t know what to write in the blog and Mano would guide her with clarity and ideas that he wanted her to write.

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Guidance and Gifts of Awareness

Blog #98

Mano has asked me to tell you about my personal process to stay aligned with Spirit, Nature, the elemental and angelic kingdoms.

I know this relationship has been given to me as a spiritual gift. I know I prayed for years for this to happen. I know I have been gifted and watched over carefully all of my life.

As I look back over my life, I see peeks into the future that have been offered many times in my youth and early adult life.

Every so often a strong thought would come into my mind. There was a time I heard an audible voice calling my name, “Barbara.” I would answer, “What? What?” But no more was given. Now I see this was the beginning of being aware there may be more than my everyday self knows. There may be another dimension to life that is calling my name. In that period of time in my mid 20’s, the Council started guiding circumstances to support my spiritual awakening. It was an unusual path, unexpected and intriguing.

My Sorority was having a fundraiser fashion show near where I was living. I was married and had two children; they asked me to be a model. What fun, I immediately said yes. We met the Professional Trainer for models who taught us how to walk, how to turn, hold our head and hands. She also had the goal to have her models be as beautiful on the inside as they were on the modeling runway. She gave us a list of books to read to open to our inner beauty.

I went to the library and brought home five books. One was How Never To Be Tired. The secret is to think positively, stay in present time, no ruminating or rehashing past happenings. The other books opened my awareness to other ways of thinking. I was fascinated with the possibility of reincarnation. I lay on the couch reading In Search of Bridey Murphey, where a six-year-old girl remembered living in Ireland and knew her name to be Bridey Murphey. Her parents followed her memory and discovered that Bridey had truly lived as the child said and had died 20 years ago. While pondering this reading the audible voice returned, this time it said, “The Kingdom of God is Within You. Pat needs $20.”

I realized Pat’s husband had just died. I was not sure where I would get $20. Then I remembered I had been saving dimes in my piggy bank. I got out my piggy bank, a kitchen knife, and sat on my bed to put the knife in the slot and shake the bank, slowly all of the dimes came rolling out onto the bed. I had $18.80. I could easily get the $1.20 to send Pat the $20.

This was the same time that Mano made his entrance into my life. Three different times while out in nature I noticed a little spot of color on the ground. As I reached to pick it up I found it was a very sweet little statue of a gnome. Each little figure was around 1 inch tall. I put them on the window sill in my kitchen and started chatting with the little fellows. Prior to this time, I had no interest and truly no belief in the reality of the elemental kingdom. Slowly, slowly, year after year, a word here, a touch there, Mano and my Angel companion kept feeding me with experiences until I moved out of ignorance, to unbelief, into being a whole hearted fan and life committed believer and companion to beings in the spiritual dimension of life. 

A few years later Jim and I attended a weekly meditation group. One meditation we often used was to climb the side of a mountain to meet a Holy One at the top of the mountain who had a gift to give to us. At least three of the times I partook of this meditation I never made it to the top. Always half way up the mountain I would see a cave with elementals working inside. I always followed my heart and entered the cave with the elemental beings. I see now that they were my gift and Mano certainly has been the Wise One who guides and gifts me in my daily life. Brooks, a woman in that group, told us of the elemental companion she has lived with since she was a child. His name was Oh Den Du and he guided her to write stories to be published in a novel.

One time when I had been sick and in bed for a week, Brooks brought me a manuscript of her latest book to read. When I open the manilla envelope around 15 little elemental beings came rolling out of the envelope. They were 1 inch tall and reminded me of the colorful little statues I had put on my window sill and talked with each day so long ago. These little beings clamored all over my body. They apparently came with a mission of healing. They opened areas of my body and planted little round balls the size of a pea. Sometimes they would pull out a shriveled dry ball and replace it with a plump fresh little ball. When I woke up, I felt much better and wondered about the whole experience.

Last year, two months before my 93^rd birthday, Mano revealed the soul commitment I had made when coming to earth. I had promised God that I would personally awaken to the spiritual dimension of life, that I would interact with the angelic and elemental world of nature, and I would not hide this relationship. 

Years before, when reading all of those books, one statement stands out in my memory.

“To be honest and open and free, to let people see who I really am takes the rawest kind of courage.” This statement challenged me and I promised God that I would be that kind of woman. This statement was in John Powell’s book, Why Am I Afraid To Show You Who I Really Am?  The answer to that question is, “Because it is all I’ve got and if you don’t like it, I have nothing else to offer.”

I share these stories with you to invite you to explore your own life and find the gifts of guidance, promises you have made in your life, gifts of awareness that have been given, surprises, threads of continuity and even perhaps why you are reading the blog of a woman committed to live in the spiritual dimension of life interacting with the angelic and elemental world of nature.