The Truth is -Right Here-

"You can't handle the truth."

If by that you mean with my hands, then maybe you're right.

Star-beings or aliens. How do we know they're out there, without the Dale Coopers and Fox Mulders?

Well, previous to my going public with my sharing my own experiences (reference my last blog post, Spiritual Mentorship), I didn't have a lot to work with.

So, I would say two things: 1) Christopher Walken, 2) Insects.

About Insects
The last place I lived in NJ, outside of Montclair, I noticed a praying mantis on the tree stump in front of the house. At first, I didn't think much about it, but after three days of being in the same place, I felt I needed to go over and have a visit.

When I got close and knelt down, I had the experience of seeing something for the first time. I felt like I was intruding on someone. It was not green, it was silver. Its color made its head look like a space helmet. It was doing T'ai Chi.

Sidebar:
I'm not kidding. I studied Chen style T'ai Chi Ch'uan, the original style, which dates back to the 17th century, with Master Guang Yi Ren at the time. Master Ren is the senior disciple of the 19th generation standard bearer of the Chen family style. Reference this video of Master Ren, apparently, rather than pining for me, he has taken up with another musician student. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72yaPmAH3uw)

The praying mantis (PM) looked over at me in mid-posture. I was definitely intruding. She said something telepathically but I don't know what.

Looking at this intelligent creature in mid-pose, holding court for three day in my front yard, it suddenly became very clear that I was in the presence of a being with a consciousness I knew nothing about. I felt humbled and almost embarrassed to be a human kicking around on my lawn without much of a clue.

I telepathically told her that I honored whoever she was and whyever she was there. I asked if she was a space traveler. Her stillness became almost intimidating if I read into it. Maybe she was a very high being doing lightwork to save us all. She responded by continuing her T'ai Chi form, while keeping an eye on me. She was gone the next day. Absolutely true.

Who Are They
I left NJ over 15 years ago and one of the many remarkable things about life in the desert is that I continue to see species of insects I've never seen before. A few weeks ago, I saw three in one day.

Since that meeting in my yard with that astronaut from another dimension, I always wonder what each of them carries as their unique special power. I mean on that scale in this world, you have to have to be able to attack or create aversion somehow! So I ask them: do you fly, hop, spit, sting, bite, explode, glow, scream or...just watch me?

And if the insects don't expand your consciousness, watch that NOVA doc on cuttlefish. We are not all from the same planet.

Blessings & Cheers,
Matthew

Spiritual Mentorship (Whatever -that- is)

A Client asked me when and how it was I first had "contact" with my spirit guides. So I talked about how, not much longer after teaching myself guitar and writing my first "real" songs, I began having experiences where words and music came right through--in the time it took me to write it all down without stopping.

I also talked about how, during that same period, through trial and error, I taught myself to shamanic journey or to visit higher dimensions and/or travel in my light body or by consciousness alone (temporarily leaving my physical body). In this way, I met beings who were definitely not me and had experiences which were clearly not of our wake or dream state.

I then jumped twenty years ahead--over a hundred great tangents--to say that the channeling classes, which Emily Bowe teaches (reference IHI website page http://indigohealinginstitute.org/classes.html) pushed me to open to connecting with my guides for other people--and to open to my healing gifts. I had never even considered that before!

My client said, "Oh, so it took that long to open to channeling," [while he was feeling impatient with his own timeline].

Then it occurred to me, that in our traditional, linear, 3rd dimensional thinking, it's supposed to take twenty years of a discipline to be able to do or know anything masterful or esoteric, whether martial arts (reference my upcoming blog post, "The Truth is Right Here") or religion or stage performance. They don't even teach you the good stuff until you've been around half a lifetime and given blood.

Sure, there's logic in these traditions, and maybe this has saved us from world domination, but the energy is different now. Maybe it took twenty years to ensure the student was serious; and could repeat the oral tradition accurately; and wouldn't betray the teacher; and it may have taken twenty years for the student to overcome or break through his birth-zeitgeist consciousness to be able to live the way or energy of the teaching.

The fact is that at this time the energies are such that time, the 4th dimension, can collapse. You can get there from here, folks, truly. The veils are within everyone's reach.

In this way, many of these old traditions, whose original intent or function was to teach and uplift, need to be looked at closely by the student. Most of the teachers are holding to the multi-thousand year old policies about who can join the club and when. This is true in all cultures, religions and disciplines.

The "real deal" teachers will welcome any real student with open arms, because their hearts are open to the spirit of their tradition. And who's got time to wait to connect?

Namaste,
Matthew