Remembering the Plan

Reminder from Mano: If you live alone, after sending blessing to the food, open your inner awareness and notice if you feel a spiritual presence sitting at the table with you.

For several months I have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with this melanoma that made its presence known in early May. My first melanoma, in 2010, was in my eye; this one appeared as a nicely contained lump in my breast. Since it’s a re-appearance—even though it’s seemingly not related to the eye cancer—the diagnosis was metastatic melanoma. If you google this, you will find quite a dire prognosis. For the moment, with the removal of the lump and no other scanned hot spots, I have slipped around this beckoning toward dying, with the only further medical remediation being more frequent PET scans for awhile. I ponder: What am I to do now? I feel that something is different. Perhaps the absence of pain throughout the experience (like the first time, actually) signals another prod to attention, a message more spiritual than physical. The body-mind-spirit conversation and searching thus continues, with a new shade of urgency and also a forgiving softness.

The idea I get is that this is about tying things together—the meditations and aha! moments of a lifetime, the molecular disturbance in my body (inclining toward melanoma-cell production) and my body’s high good health through the years; the material practicalities and the spirit realities; good communication with those I’m aligned with and those I’m not, with those on the physical plane and those in other realms. And more than that: within all the categories are other layers. In the physical health category, for example, how do I figure out what to eat in light of all the cancer diets in the air? What alternative treatments do I want to engage in and how can I manifest these from outside the medicare system? Which of my daily activities shall I faithfully continue and which need to shift, and how many can I actually fit in? How do I chart my unique path in the midst of dozens of “Truth About Cancer” alternatives and a medical establishment that at best skirts around most of the “integrative” treatments, opting for vigilant, radioactive check-ups?

I go back to the Talking with Angels quote in last month’s blog, and to the angel’s constant reminder to “ask.” Mano and the elementals in Barbara’s dialogues keep saying “ask” as well. I think: yes, ASK!; expect a response, and be infinitely patient in waiting on the response. Both. Also, pay attention to what grabs, and holds, my attention, the passions that show me each next step.

After my post-surgery doctors’ visits to Stanford in early August, I drove to Ben Lomand to spend some time with Barbara, the amphitheater, and Mano. Mano had cooked up some good questions for us, mostly about what we think the blog has accomplished, where it can go from here, how doing it has changed us. We spent some lovely hours writing and comparing notes. And then it occurred to us to ask readers to contribute to the discussion as well. One of Mano’s questions was: What feedback have you received? We don’t have a very complete picture of who is reading the blog, or of whether it wants to become more of a dialogue with readers, or how it can become more compelling. Neither Barbara nor I regularly check the mailchimp site to see if those statistics would enlighten us. So we have decided to ask people more directly about how they resonate with the blog. We are grateful for those of you who have written comments and talked with us personally, and we invite more of both!

In his reflections, shared with Barbara before our meeting, Mano assured us that he, as Spirit, is guiding us each step of the way and that our responsibility is simply to be open, follow our hunches, and notice what is brought to our doors. “My vision is clear,” he said. “My intention is for the blog to open the way and inspire others to explore their own connection with nature, with the non-physical world. I also wish to acknowledge that without you I could not bring my message out of my heart to the world. I live in gratitude for your willingness.”

Mano again explains the original earth plan. “In the beginning, when the planet was first inhabited, people, angels, and elementals were intended to work together to create a world of perfection—one that gave pleasure to everyone, equally. No one was more important than anyone else. The people were to envision what they needed in order to live in the third dimension, the angels were to take up that need and create a plan for fulfilling it, the elementals were to work creatively with substance and form to manifest the desires of the people, as pictured and held by the angels.”

“The blog has been opening consciousness to elementals; now it is time to open consciousness to the reality of angels and to encourage a working relationship with them. I orchestrated Mary Jane’s friend to give her that Talking with Angels book. There will be more information from that source to help people explore their partnership with the angelic realm beings, and with the world.”

“The needs of the planet have intensified. The angels need help. They need people to remember their part in creating the Perfection by naming what they see needs to be done—to communicate with the angels who then create the plan and pattern and give that blueprint to the elementals who work in substance and create the form.”

“I have said this so many times and it needs to be said again. God has given the people of earth free will, which limits the angels and ascended ones who desire to help. They need to be asked and given an open door to work through. You and Mary Jane have become my open door. Each person has guardian angels and elemental beings just waiting to be recognized, loved, and talked with. This love, gratitude, and appreciation give them substance and fuel to work with. In this way they can create change.”

While I was in the Santa Cruz area, thinking about this idea that we will bring the angels more directly into the blog, I read Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne. All her life Byrne, living in Ireland, has seen and talked with angels in a naturally matter-of-fact way. Yet I was interested to notice, especially after reading the reminder from Mano of the “original plan”, that she doesn’t mention nature spirits or elemental beings, even though she’s smack dab in the land of leprechauns. The veils in Ireland, I’ve always thought, are thinner. It floods through me that this plan, which I’ve attended to only lightly, is precisely what will link all the searches and pieces and strivings of my life together: the rightful alignment of angels, humans, and nature spirits—as a realization of the whole and a weaving of the physical, palpable, linear with the spiritual, etheric, invisible.