TR Intentions

When you become a TR, (Transmitter-Receiver), what will your intentions be?  Will you want to save the world, become a famous guru, help people, aspire to recognition by your spiritual helpers, or some other intention?

If you are a TR for a Co-Creative Design Team, the agenda (intentions) you have on your mind will surely be an additive to the workings and outcomes of the Team.  As the TR you will have an inordinate potential influence on both the process of the Team and the outcome of what is developed each time the Team meets.  The best quality of TRing occurs when you personally have NO input (influence) in the content of TRing.

As the Team TR, your first and only intention is to be totally empty to allow the questions of team members, and the responses by the Spiritual Consultant, to flow through you without thought, belief, conviction, impression, notion, conclusions, estimate, reaction, conjecture, speculation, supposition, theory, judgment, opinion, point of view, or any other form of bias.  To coin a metaphor, you are the “WiFi Router” between the Source and the audience, much like exists between your connection to the Internet and your laptop computer.  The router does not affect or influence and accuracy of the data/messages coming through it.  It simply enables the data to come through to be received in a form that your audience recognizes.

Not too ironically, the work of the TR takes the form of an active meditation.  That is, the TR must become still in body, mind, and emotions before the message can come through without “static”.  Just as a “good meditation” is one in which there is “no thought” but the sole intention of receiving a clear “down-load” from spirit in the form of insights and an occasional “ah-ha!”, a good TR session is one in which there is “no thought” but the sole intention of receiving a clear “load-through” from the spiritual being who is speaking through you.  I hope you can now see why meditation, and its deeper developed form in the Mystics Circle, is a necessary foundation for TRing.

Meditation and TRing are both immensely educational.  As you TR, the messages that come through you have a profound developmental effect upon your mind, personality, values system, beliefs, expectations, and your own personal thoughts, words, decisions, and actions in all of your life.  For myself, the last 10 years of active TRing in which perhaps over 1 million words have been TRd through me has had an immense effect in my life.  This can only occur when you hold “no thought” about what is coming through.  Having opinions, etc., about the message causes an impediment in the flow of the message coming through — it affects both your reception of the deeper aspects of the message and garbles the quality and content of the message received by listeners.

What is usually not revealed by TRs is that they have access to a tremendous amount of information from the spiritual Team Consultant that did not come through in the form of words!   Questions from team members about these “meta-messages” will give the Team valuable insights into the message that came through the TR.  For myself in my role as Team TR for the Evergreen, Colorado developmental CCDT, I “saw” many metaphors for the message that came through.  I also “saw” a great deal of the lesson plan that the Consultant was using to guide the Team.  Often that information was not revealed because the Consultant had its own agenda for the development of the team process.  Had I revealed that too early, I would have “let the cat out of the bag” and the deeper lesson(s) would have been lost to the Consultant.  So, discretion is needed/useful when deciding what to reveal about the meta-message, and when.

There is one central value that must be held as sacred to the Team TR:  HUMILITY!  Team members should use their powers of DISCERNMENT to estimate whether there has been a lack of humility, or not, in the message brought through by the TR.  (Reference, an earlier POST re Discernment.)   As a team member, you will discern the values and biases of your Team TR from observing and interacting with him/her inside and outside of the Team’s activities.  One simple truth of anyone on a spiritual quest is that they will be consistent within and outside of their spiritual practices; and, if they are not, they will readily admit their inconsistencies.  No one is perfect, no one is totally consistent in their spiritual practices in every minute of their life.  It simply takes self-revealing HONESTY to become AUTHENTIC with those discrepancies, to become a credible TR.  //Daniel Raphael

Non-Denominational and Then Some!

DISCLAIMER:      The work of “Continuity Beyond 2012,” the Co-Creation Design/Working Teams, Mystics Circles, Teaching Mission, Magisterial Mission, and all other activities of this blog and related sites (www.starbridgetrust.org, etc) are non-denominational.  That is, they are not based upon or use any authority derived from the religions or related books.  Though The URANTIA Book was mentioned as a reference for its excellent and comprehensive cosmology, it is not the ultimate authority for guiding the work of this blog or related activities.   These sources are tertiary.

The first source of our co-creative work is direct mortal-Divine contact.  The second source includes conscious contact with other beings of light in the grand hierarchy of God’s universe management, administrative organization, and ascension programs.  The difficulty with using the primary and secondary sources is that most who bring through revelations do not apply the rules of discernment for determining the validity of the source, the message, and the messenger.  Too many people who have contact with the Presence of God, angels, or other celestial and divine personalities do not take the necessary step to discern how and what they received through this mystical contact. (The art of discernment was discussed in detail in an earlier post.)

Another problem arises in the art of discernment.  When people begin to explore and progress into the realms of mystic practices, they are often unconscious of the influence of dualistic thinking.  (See Wikipedia: dualism)   For this blog, dualistic thinking refers to using two sources of authority, God and their religion, in one’s thinking.   This is no small topic, but has consumed theologians for centuries.  However, this does not cause a great deal of conflict for many people because they have not examined and carefully discerned their own thinking, or the beliefs of their church.

For traditional religionists, accepting God and their church’s authority does not cause any conflict because they almost always consider the church as the proper authority for understanding the authority of God, based upon ancient texts.   Rarely, do major churches examine contemporary revelation from their own mystic sects and rarely do they update the authority of their ancient texts or revise erroneous theological concepts. Thus, these religious authorities are caught in circular thinking that becomes even more antiquarian with time.  God-centered religions are supposed to be evolutionary religions — evolving to match the maturing development of its believers so that they may accept more advanced and evolved concepts of their Creator.

It is understandable, then, that so many thinking and believing church members have been dropping out of their religions:  Because the faith of their church is unable to grow and mature, some find themselves compromising their integrity. There is then a disconnect between church doctrine or practices and what they truly know about their relationship with God, the Creator and they must leave!  In some mysterious way, these people have already begun a personal, mystical God-relationship, and now yearn for more.  They are ready to become conscious and engaged mystics, candidates for participating in the Mystics Circle.

Further, I believe that there is a huge population of these drop-out God-believers who are yearning for more.  And, further, they would probably become some of the most eager individuals for participating in projects of sustainability guided by a spiritual consultant.  Mystic contact and a working God-mortal relationship is at the heart of the co-creative process and will provide the energy needed for designing and implementing projects of social sustainability.  Doing so, we can be assured there is a continuity beyond 2012 for our societies and civilization.

You will find a wealth of similar thoughts about traditional religions and “the church” from the writings of John Shelby Spong and other controversial thinkers.    //Daniel Raphael

Millennia of Prophets

What is TRing?  Is it the familiar psychic-spiritual phenomenon we have heard about all of our lives from the ancient texts of god-centered religions?  Or is it something different?

The similarities between the conscious clairaudient TRs mentioned in this blog and at www.starbridgetrust.org and www.tmarchives.com and the prophets of god-centered religions are too many to disregard.  The prophets of the ancient Hebrew tribes and American Indian tribes, for example, who ascribed to a creator-originator of the universe, served a very familiar role in their societies.  They were there to reveal the nature of their creator and to guide their clans and tribes into a future they did not fully understand.

Our whole world, not just this nation, has already moved into an expanding era of great turmoil and confusion.  Little of the future seems to be ordered, predictable, and friendly.  What are needed are already established contemporary TRs to help teach and prepare our families, communities, and nations for a future that is guided by great vision and compassion.

When I think of a “prophet” I think of someone who represents the critical conscience of their society.  When I think of a contemporary prophet, I think of a conscientious TR who brings through wisdom in the form of personal, relationship, and social lessons for living from spiritual sources — the necessary beginning of a sustainable society.

When I think of a “prophet” in contemporary terms, I do NOT think of someone who predicts either-or scenarios of either survival and abundance or death and loss emanating from a wrathful creator who must be appeased.  (Ref. What Was God Thinking?! , the author, NBH Co Publishing, 2002).  Rather, I think of a TR as someone who brings through known facts of the progress of a society from the spiritual Caretakers of our world who are thoroughly knowledgable about its history and predictable future.

TRs are not anything new to our global civilization, or to any god-centered religion.  Sometimes they have had to be socially invisible during eras in past centuries.  Now, however, the spiritual Planetary Managers, Administrators, Caretakers, and Teachers have come forward to speak freely through these contemporary prophets to teach our global population how design, then live with sustainable peace in sustainable societies.  Doing so, they have revealed the true nature of the Creator by showing us the options for our future to encourage us to take responsibility, individually and as communities and nations, to choose which option is best for us, decide to act on that choice, then to take action to fulfill that choice.

Now, consider the necessity of cross validating TR messages from our spiritual companions.  This was the topic of a recent post to this blog.  And consider, too, the necessity of practicing the art of discernment by each individual who is invested in this co-creative project, who may participate in an operational Co-Creative Design Team.  This, too, was the topic of a recent post to this blog.  Now, ask this question, “Would it be helpful to our world if there were thousands of competent TRs regularly bringing forward cross-validated messages across the globe in every society?”  Can you imagine an international association of thousands of modern day prophets who cross validate their revelations?  //Daniel Raphael

Cross-Validate Your TR Messages

Today we are going to discuss another facet of discernment that is not so obvious — “cross validating” the messages you receive as a TR with another TR source.

Cross validation is crucial to sustain progress in the co-creative work that we do with beings of light.  Cross validating is much like carpenters and masons putting up a building — they check the level, square, and plumb of every new floor, wall, and corner.  Cross validating is our check on ourselves to ensure that we are square and plumb with God’s and Christ Michael’s plans for bringing our world into an era of sustainable peace and prosperity.  As co-creative partners, we want to ensure that our work is accurate and productive.

Let us propose that you TRd a session at home on your own, that you have recorded the session, and have discerned that it is reasonably  consistent within itself.  What is the next step?

The next step is to cross validate the message with a credible TR locally or globally.  You will want to ask another TR who is neutral – one who neither parallels the topics you TR, nor one who is always divergent from topics you TR.  You are seeking an independent, neutral, unbiased validation.

How you pose the question to the other TR is crucial for them to receive a clear, uncorrupted answer.  The question you ask must not reveal the details of your TR session that you are trying to validate.  Obviously, never ask a leading question!

The “Why…? question” and the the “How…? question” are both “rabbit hole” questions because answering them almost always will lead you to places that are unproductive; and, because they are too revealing.  The best question to ask is an open-ended, intuitive question.  For example, you might ask, “Daniel, would you please check-in with Spirit to find out what they have to say about (yada-yada)?

In the past, several of us have gotten messages about earth quakes and other disasters.  When that happens, I call up one of the TRs I deeply respect and ask, “Hey John, has Spirit said anything to you about an impending major earthquake in the next 6 months, anywhere in the world?”  John might reply, “No, not recently, but I’ll check with them and let you know in a few minutes.”

My personal experience with cross validation is that It Works!!! Numerous times I have gotten messages that seemed preposterous, impossible, or unbelievable, and when I cross validated them they were either validated as accurate, or the other TR said they didn’t get any answers concerning the topic in question.  Cross validating your TR messages is a remarkably easy and accurate way to validate the messages that come to you.

Some of you may already have an idea of where this is leading.  Think about it.  //Daniel Raphael

DISCERNING: The Message

You may become tired of me hammering away at maintaining the credibility of TRing, but it is central to all that revolves around that activity, and revelation by Spirit.

The preliminaries of discerning the message begin with recording the message.  This provides an historic record that can be examined for inconsistencies later when the immediacy of the TRing session has passed.  Often the energies in the session will cause a euphoric atmosphere among the participants that can have a biasing effect.  It is best to wait until the next day, at the earliest, to review the session, when everyone is grounded.

Also, if there is more than just the TR present who wish to discern the session, it is best to have the recording transcribed and distributed.  Group discernment of a session is an excellent method to quickly train participants in the art of discernment.

As you examine the message, keep in hand a printout of a prior Post to this blog that had to do with the characteristics, behaviors, and traits of Beings of Light.  This will help you quickly sort out and discern the statements that “are of light” and those which are “not of the light”.

Let us look at the gross errors of TR sessions that are the easiest to discern: First, does the message contain any commands?  Does the message command you to give up your earthly possessions, for example?  Are there any “either-or” requirements made in the message?  That is, does the message force you to make decisions?  Does the message require you to make allegiance to someone, a philosophy or creed?  Does the message require that you obey someone, whether it is the person bringing through the message, the source, or some other person/entity?  If any of these developments occur in a transmission, you can be very sure that the message did not originate from a Being of Light.

Early in my career as a TR, I was curious to know who the dark energy being was that had spoken to/through me.  That curiosity never paid any dividends of greater clarity, understanding, love, or compassion.  During the era that followed  in my career as a TR, I sometimes had dark beings come to me, who I rejected.  I found that asking the question was unproductive, so I just began rejecting dark sources.  Since then, I have not been plagued by these energies as I have walled-off (psychic firewall?) my consciousness from them.  Some young TRs whom I have trained, have had this problem, which can be addressed.

Hmmmm, I guess it is timely and appropriate to discuss consciousness as a personal, energetic portal to the universe.  Using the Ouija Board,TRing, and meditating are not activities one should ever enter into without first invoking the presence of the Creator, surrounding yourself and group with the light of the Creator, and filling every aspect of your being and consciousness with Its light!  Meditating, TRing, using the Ouija Board and similar activities open your consciousness as an energetic portal to all of the universe.  Your unsuspecting mind is at the narrow end of this energetic funnel to receive anything that answers addresses the projection of your consciousness into the universe.  (Not good!)

It is best to use a proactive approach rather than an antidote to this psychic infection of your consciousness.  First, surround yourself with the energy and light of the Creator, as described above; and second, powerfully command any and all beings and energies of darkness to move away from you.  Tell them that they are denied access to your consciousness!  This second part is recommended for beginners.  All who meditate and TR should always invoke the energetic presence of the Creator, or other known powerful being of light.    Now, back to the lesson.

Second, does the message try to manipulate or compromise you, your integrity, your existent beliefs, associations, friends, co-workers or others?  If so, this is not a message of light.  Beings of light have no need to coerce, obligate, compromise, manipulate or command you to do anything!  The mechanics of the ascendant career of us all does not work that way.  You see, the universe is an incredibly benevolent and generous place to live, and the decisions each individual makes are their responsibilities.  Your way forward is assured without obligations.  Simply make decisions that contribute to the integration of your life with all of the universe and you will progress from one step to another.

A finer point of discernment is to consider whether the direction of the message leads you into integration or separation with the rest of the universe.  Manipulations of the message will try to sidetrack this very simple insight by saying that it brings you into integration with a special group of individuals within the universe.  Well, that just isn’t good enough!  If it doesn’t lead you into integration with the whole of the universe and the energies of the Creator and Its hierarchy of universe management and administration, then you have discerned a message that wants to lead you astray.

When you become a competent student of discernment, you will become astute enough, aware enough, and quick enough when you are listening to a message that emanates from an unseen spiritual being to engage them in a discussion of their intentions.  And if  they use “weasel words” to skate around the question, you will know to ask them to whom they give their allegiance:  to God, to themselves, or someone else?  There is no compromise for the answer to this question.

Good luck discerning.  Thoughtful discernment is the most powerful facet of living in a benevolent universe, society, democracy, or family.  Remember, “No questions, no answers!”    //Daniel Raphael

The Zen of TRing

When novices begin trying to TR, as I remember so well from my own experience, they try very hard to hear their spiritual companions.  But in trying so hard, concentrating so much with focus for any and every little disturbance in their mental activity, they are actually thwarting what they are trying to accomplish.  The act of trying is a conscious process to force the end result, forgetting that the process must be allowed to occur.

You see, TRing, whether it is a silent conversation in your mind, or an aloud, clairaudient conversation is NOT a conscious, directed mental activity!  In the activity of TRing, the mind is actually only an instrument, much like a WiFi router — it is simply an instrument that facilitates the conversation, rather than manipulating the input for the conversation.

For example, when adding the two numbers, 2 + 2 = 4, your mind grasped the concept of 2 and coupled it with the like concept of 2 to complete the process of achieving the concept of 4.  But with TRing there is no conceptual manipulation.  Try as had as you might, you cannot make your mind TR.  You have to LET it lie waiting, a passive hoop much like a basketball hoop that does nothing but let the message through, without affecting or making the passage occur.

People who have exceptionally competent linear processing minds, such as laboratory technicians and engineers are often unable to still their mind to let this phenomena occur.  Their mind wants to do something with the process to make the end result come into being.  The Zen of it is that it will occur because you don’t do anything to make it occur.  It just occurs when you least consciously think about it.   I had the acquaintanceship of a fellow many years ago who was a logistics engineer.  He also tutored Mensa students.  His mind actually was so powerful as to actually dampen the whole environment of the TR activity.  When he was present, I was unable to get a clear line of TR communication from his or my spiritual companions.  I’ve never met anyone quite like that since!

The Zen of TRing is much like catching the soap bar that slips out of your hand when your eyes are tightly shut while showering.  You catch it not because you are looking for it, but because you were not.  And try doing that on purpose!  Good luck! and Happy TRing!  //Daniel Raphael

Applied Mysticism

This is a call to all mystics of the world to come forward to become the bridge of communication between “*people of belief” and the Creator’s spiritual Caretakers of Earth.   {*People who believe in God, the afterlife, and the continuity of the ‘soul’ of each individual after death.}

Volunteer mystics are needed to build upon their existent skills of communicating with the God presence within themselves.  Many thousands of mystics around the world already have an ongoing, personal, and sometimes intimate relationship with the Divine.  You are being asked to step forward to learn how to enable the Caretakers to communicate through you to facilitate a conversation with others to design sustainable societies.

Now that earth is fully populated with a global civilization, the Caretakers have clearly stated they have mandated to bring about the healing and sustainability of our world with the co-creative participation of earth’s inhabitants.  Further, the problems of our world (over population, endemic warlike behavior, famine, pandemics, unstable economies, the inequity of powerful nationalism, unstable political regimes, genocide, and many more) will not be solved by divine fiat or miracle.

Your skills are needed to provide the spiritual Caretakers with a conscious process of dialogue with team members to design and implement sustainable social and living practices.  The Caretakers have already built half of that bridge in the form of an existent Co-Creative Design Team Process.  Several mystics who have learned to TR (Transmit-Receive) have successfully proven the feasibility of working in a team environment with the Caretakers to design sustainable relationships, as example.  Much work is ahead to design sustainable social institutions, which are the foundation and fabric of a sustainable global civilization.

If you are interested in sustainable peace, sustainable agricultural practices, a sustainable global economy, sustainable health care systems, sustainable educational systems, and sustainable processes of democracy, to name only a few, then you are needed in a team setting as a member of the team, whether you are a mystic or not.   A Team guided by a spiritual consultant is key to the development of a sustainable future for our planet.

Mortals alone are too short lived to guide the development of a sustainable world, and those in authority are too filled with self-interest and/or fear to take on this multi-decade project.  Many millions of people worldwide believe that the tumultuous changes we are now experiencing globally presage the New Era; but, they also believe, and know from history, that no one has the capability to consciously and intentionally bring that Era into fruition!

Ironically, mystics, the very small and discreet population of most god-centered religions and held at arms length by those religions, are the ones who have the most capability to facilitate the birth of the New Era of our planet.  Mystics who opt to become conscious, clairaudient TRs are the most ethically appropriate to facilitate a conscious dialogue between our unseen planetary Caretakers and capable believers to want to design sustainable social institutions for the New Era.   Our unseen spiritual planetary Caretakers, who have millennia of experience and wisdom providing the watchcare of budding, immature civilizations, have stepped forward to act as midwives of the New Era — an era based upon a sustainable civilization.

Now, with evidence that our global civilization has peaked and has begun the long process of decline leading to collapse, will mystics come forward to aid the healing of our world, and the spiritual enlightenment of billions?  Specifically, will you come forward to facilitate a sustainable future with the wisdom and guidance of our spiritual Planetary Caretakers?    //Daniel Raphael

TRing: The Subtleties

Many of you visit this site because you wish to learn more about “conversations with God.”  That is, how to become conversant with beings of light through conscious and direct dialogue. It is not hard to do, but does require attention to the nuances and subtleties of the inner processes of thinking.  What Neale Donald Walsh experienced is very typical of what you can do, too.  Every member of the hierarchy of the Creator’s universe administration who has a personal concern for your welfare will welcome an opportunity to have a conscious conversation with you.

To this subject, I can only speak knowledgeably from my own experience.  This applies to everything I have written below.  One of the subtleties is that the experience is often different from one TR to another.

As reference, please scroll through preceding Posts to find the one having to do with the “Gates of TRing”.  You must give permissions to your unseen spiritual conversationalists, to proceed, and to yourself as well.

Often the first reaction of prospective TRs is they “feel a nudge” from the Celestial Teacher that they are ready to begin a conversation either within your mind, or clairaudiently, i.e. aloud.  It’s the subtle nudge that you may miss.  The nudge is your cue that they are present and ready to begin a conversation with you.

Now is NOT the time to doubt the process, but to accept the flow of what is going on.  Simply note that something is different from a few moments ago, and ask, “Are you ready to begin?”  Often you will actually hear a voice in your mind say, “Yes, let’s begin.”

Don’t be confused if the voice sounds just like your own mind-voice.  This is often the way it is in the beginning.  Just as babies learn to differentiate sounds and voices with experience, you will too.  It took me about 6 months to differentiate the voice of my Celestial Teacher (Mor-gan) from my own mind-voice.  The differences are very similar to those of your friends — strength, depth, pitch, tone, etc.   Speaking with Nebadonia, for example, is vastly different from talking with my Guardian Angel, Leah.  Nebadonia presents a vast presence which seems to pervade my whole being at all levels, yet personal, compassionate, supportive, with strength.  Since she is everywhere present in Nebadon, she persists and is totally present.

Speaking with Midwayers is very different from speaking with Nebadonia.  Midwayers are “up close and personal,”  “in your face,” a bit.  They are immediate and present.

One of the subtleties useful to continue your conversation is to be curious and inquisitive — ask questions that are personal to your spiritual and emotional growth.   In my beginning years, I taught others how to TR before I could.  When contact was made, I would coach the new TR to ask, “Does God love me?”  Then, speaking to the person’s Guardian Angel, “Do you love me?”  Next, “What are the reasons you love me?”  and so on.  Keep it very simple.  Speaking to/with spiritual beings of light is not an exercise in intellectual prowess or stature, but rather the beginnings of the nuts and bolts sort of dialogue that is necessary to carry on your spiritual, emotional, and social education in this lifetime which will help you make the transit to the next much easier and more rapidly.

Soon you will be able to have conversations with your Spiritual Team at almost any time and in any place, even while holding a conversation with another person.  You see, one of the subtleties is that your mind works at several levels simultaneously:  with your self, your spiritual helper, with another person, and still have time to do some design work in the background.  Many people get lost in their thinking because they have not learned to differentiate the various levels of activity.  Most people simply assign the many levels as “my thinking”  and leave it at that.

To become a capable TR you will want to practice the art of “self-observation.”  This skill is essential to your social and emotional development, which provide good background experience for observing your self while in dialogue with you Spiritual Helpers.  By observing your self in dialogue, you can, to use a metaphor, watch the ball being batted from one side of the tennis court to the other while sitting in the stands watching the game.  Just as you can estimate the expertise of the players, you can estimate how well you are doing in the conversation.

And, NO!, you don’t have to be on drugs to do this.  Drugs, alcohol, emotional highs and lows, social giddiness and withdrawal, and more all will hold you back from a genuine conversation with your unseen friends.  You may think you are having a terrific conversation, but later, if you had recorded the session, you would see that it had little meaningful content.

There are always subtleties peculiar to each individual.   If you are not sure, please write your question either in a Comment to the post, or in a separate email to me.   //Daniel Raphael

The “Gates” of TRing

The “Gates” of TRing

We are creeping closer  and closer to the phenomena of TRing as an intimate, personal, and social experience of your spiritual development.  Today’s post will now explore the personal challenges each individual will experience as he or she confronts this pragmatic frontier of spiritual development.

PREPARING to TR

Learning to meditate and enter into “the stillness” is a necessary step for talking to beings of light.  In the stillness you become sensitive to the presence of another and hear them speak to you.   When you still your mind to meditate, you have completed a necessary step to talk to angels and other beings of light.  With practice you can learn to differentiate between your own mind-talk and what you hear from a spiritual being.  There are some very fundamental steps that must be taken to empower this quickly:

GATES of PERMISSION for WORKING with SPIRITUAL BEINGS of Light (Angels are used as example.)

Necessary premises, assumptions and permissions:

1.     I believe angels actually exist.

2.     I believe that a guardian angel loves me and eternally cares for me and wants to aid me in my spiritual journey.

3.     I believe that I can talk to angels.

4.     I believe that angels can hear me.

5.     I believe that angels can talk to me.

6.     I believe that it is possible to hear my Guardian Angel.

7.     I want to have a conscious, personal, ongoing, and sacred co-creative relationship to exist between myself and my angels.

8.     I hereby give my guardian angel permission to develop a conscious, personal, ongoing, and sacred relation­ship with me.

10.   I give myself permission to have a conscious, personal, ongoing, and sacred relationship with my guardian angel.

11.   I hereby give my guardian angel authority to take any action for my highest and greatest good according to God’s will and plan for my life.

LEVELS of “MIND ACTION”-

It is helpful as introduction to distinguish the various processes of thinking.  This is a necessary activity as you examine your thinking while TRing.  As a TR you will become quite amazed at how much “spare time” you have to think about your thinking and what is going on, what is beings said, and what is NOT being said.  During TRing you are really a passive observer of what is going on through you, without injecting or coloring the message with your own agendas.  Understanding the types of thinking activities that are occurring in your mind will help you maintain the separation of your self from that of the spiritual being coming through you.  Not everyone has this unbiased ability, so discern accordingly.

●  Active thinking – Cognitive processing ….

●  Reflective thinking – reviewing past experiences.  What was the lesson from that experience?  What did I learn?  Why is this important?  What is the wisdom it is telling me?

●  Contemplative – A semi-conscious but focused and wordless dialogue with “Cosmic Mind,” which may be accompanied with metaphors, mind-pictures, and similar mind phenomena.

●  Intuitive – With intention, consciously and actively projecting your consciousness to another time or place to receive awareness.

●  Meditative – In the stillness you become open to contact with Spirit for receiving guidance without thought, words, or mind-pictures.  The insights and guidance may not show up in your life until a later date/time.

DECLARATION of INTENT -

“What is my intent and motive for having a conscious, personal, and ongoing relation­ship with my guardian angel?  Is my intent for spiritual growth or to support my ego?”

A fully conscious co-creative relationship with angels, who work in God’s light and love, can only exist when the mortal has the right intent and motives for that relationship.  It is the mortal who must ask why they want to have a relationship with their guardian angel.

If your intent is to bolster your ego, your guardian angel may introduce you to some living situations to learn humility.  A relationship with your guardian angel is not a means to avoid working through your personal issues, but a means to work through them successfully and quickly.  Though a personal, conscious relationship with an angel is not conditional, a conscious, ongoing relationship with her will occur sooner when it will aid your journey of spiritual growth and moral maturity.

The EXAMINATION of YOUR SINCERITY -

Sincerity has to do with the appreciation for your relationship with your guardian angels.  Your attitude toward this relationship is a measure of the depth of your sincerity.  If you are insincere, your attitudes about it may be blasé, indifferent, aloof, and casual and you may see this relationship as being superficial to your life.  If your intent is to have this relationship but your sincerity is superficial, an attitude adjustment lesson may be in be just around the corner.  You can be sure that your guardian angel will not initiate steps for a fully conscious relationship with you until you are prepared for it with the right intent and right degree of sincerity.  It is not that your guardian angel wants to remain distant from you.  It is because the conscious relationship you establish with your guardian angel has the potential to last thousands of years, and it needs to get off to a good start with good intent and genuine sincerity.

HUMILITY and CONSCIOUSNESS

Humility and Consciousness are the paramount features of effective TRing.  Consciousness is the awareness of your self as you enter into the stillness of listening within.

In TRing, you become aware of your self as distinct from the Spiritual being you are hearing.  During this activity, you continually monitor this distinction as a guard against your own mind-voice becoming integrated with the Spiritual being.  That is, you become capable of hearing the voice of the Spiritual guest as different from your own mind’s voice.

This separation clearly separates the consciousness of the TR and the presence of the Spiritual visitor.

HUMILITY and MEDITATION

Meditation and proceeding to the stillness is an act of immense humility.  It is to travel to a center of all peace, release, and “letting.”  It is a journey of active listening within your mind … without expectation, or even anticipation.  To go to the stillness is a pilgrimage to a meeting space where you wait for the speaker to come to you.  The “listening place” will always be a place where you maintain respect and admiration for the privilege of being there with “ordinary” angels or it might be a being of divine nature.

PREPARING the INNER GROUND –

Preparing your attitude, intentions, values, beliefs, and expectations for meditation and TRing is the most important preparation you can make for all of the experiences that will follow.  These must be clarified and aligned to remove any conflicts that may interrupt your relationship with the celestial speaker and the content of the message.

NOW LISTEN –

Listen to what?  Many people enter into meditation without an intention.  For them, the experience is a wonderful place of peace and stillness.  I apologize if what I am about to say appears superficial, but this practice is essential for good mental health, which is the bedrock of spiritual growth.  Yet, ironically, it does not engage the student in a spiritual field.

To do so, the student must state the intention of meditation as an opportunity to receive spiritual wisdom from a spiritual source — a place of “downloading” to the mortal mind.  This, too, is essential for spiritual growth, but still seems rather passive, to me.

To truly engage spiritual beings of light in your meditations, you must come to stillness and peace; then, open your mind for downloading of wisdom, by your intention.

And, lastly, Ask a Question to receive answers.  What I was told long ago when I first began was this, “No questions, now answers.”  That is where the listening comes into play.  I have found that Angels and other beings of light who are personally associated with you and your plan of life/living are particularly susceptible to questions directed to them.  It is a part of their personal responsibility to develop a functional, ongoing, and conscious relationship with you, and you with them.  This is a fundamental element of your infinite journey of spiritual growth, particularly after you crossover to the next level of existence.

Questions?  You know who to ask!  // Daniel Raphael