BOOKS AND DVDS OF NOW

I took a trip to the East Centres Library and this is what got caught in my bag.

"The Book of Secrets" - Deepak Chopra (I am Really waiting to sink my teeth into this!)
"Your Erroneous Zones" - Wayne W. Dyer (Accept yourself and dare to live)
"The Michael Teachings: The Structures of the Local Universe" - José Stevens
"Tao Te Ching" - Laotse (this will be the source of my daily posts starting tomorrow)
"Life After Death" -Deepak Chopra (another must read to all who will die)

also DVDs

"Religion of the World: Native Religions of Americas" - Narr. Ben Kingsley
"Naked Sciense: The Pyramids" - Bonnier Publications
"New World" - NewLine Cinema (Colin Farrell & Q'orianka Kilcher)
"Kundun" - Dir. Martin Scorsese

I have the Pyramids in the player right now. I will share what these bring up.

SOUL AGE: OLDER IS NOT BETTER

From: http://www.michaelteachings.com/older_not_better.html

Older Is Not Better
(excerpt from The Journey of Your Soul)

BY SHEPHERD HOODWIN

It is not better to be an old soul than to be mature or young, just as it isn’t better to be forty-five years old than it is to be thirty-two or fourteen. A young person may be wise, and an old person foolish. A baby soul may be loving, and an old soul spiteful. People of every soul age are capable of manifesting their true personality—that is, of acting out of their positive poles, which are motivated by love. Younger souls are simply less experienced than older souls, not having completed as many monads. They are less fully tested, one could say.

Having compassion for others through knowledge of oneself is possible at any soul age.

An infant soul can be appropriate and responsible, but is not ready to handle larger responsibilities. He is generally not attracted to situations beyond his abilities. It is similar to a child, who can be appropriate and responsible, but for a smaller sphere than an adult can be. You would not expect a five-year-old to hold down a nine-to-five job, for example.

Advancement is not as important as experience. You do advance, because you are in motion, but you are here to experience life in every facet. Some facets of life are easier than others, but each step of development is necessary. If you were to skip over one, you would be left with a gap.

The more conscious you are in your growth process, the more quickly you grow. However, this does not necessarily translate into moving more quickly from second-level mature to third-level mature, for instance. It is not necessarily desirable for you to move from second to third mature as quickly as possible. Your soul age simply indicates your point of perspective. It is not inferior to be second-level mature rather than third-level mature; all points of perspective are valid. However, if you are ready to move from second mature to third, and you bring more awareness to the process, it may happen more quickly because you will be in a better position to avoid becoming stuck.

On the other hand, it may be appropriate for you to have an extensive experience of being at second-level mature. If that’s the case, you will do so more expansively if you are growing consciously, but you will not necessarily finish it more quickly. The object of the game is not to move through the soul ages as quickly as possible. It is to move through them in the way you choose to move through them. Choice is the “name of the game.” Some people are more attracted to the mature soul perspective and spend more time in it; others are more attracted to the young or old-soul perspectives. It is individual.

Soul age is similar in some respects to physical age. When you are sixty, no matter how intelligent, mature, appropriate, or healthy you are or are not, you go through certain experiences; the sixty-year-old body brings with it a certain perspective—you cannot escape that. Likewise with the eleven-year-old body: an eleven-year-old girl may mimic a seventeen-year-old, wearing makeup and dating, but she probably does not yet have the physical capacity to support a sexual relationship, for instance. Two eleven-year-olds can be quite different, yet both share the eleven-year-old experience. In the same way, two people of the same soul age share a common perspective, even though the specifics of their lives may be quite different.

Old souls tend to be tolerant and inclusive, and at least try to be open to other ways of looking at things. However, they may become upset by people whose points of view are rigid and exclusive. So if they are trying to respect different points of view, they may not respect people whose points of view do not respect other points of view.

MORE @ http://www.michaelteachings.com/older_not_better.html

MY TRUTH - MICHAEL TEACHINGS

Here is something that resonates deep inside of me as MY PERSONAL TRUTH.

An Overview of the Michael Teachings

Long ago you faced a dilemma. You were about to start a grand journey, a new cycle of lifetimes in a human body. In your cycle you would sign on for approximately 10,000 years, or 50-200 lifetimes, in order to learn about the physical plane and about sentience.

You were told that in order to become sentient you needed to be one of seven personality types, or "Roles": Server, Priest, Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, or Scholar. Your Role, to be chosen by you, would be your underlying personality type through all of your lifetimes in the cycle.

You knew this was a big decision, one you'd have to live with for a long time. Should you be a kind, loving Server? An inspired Priest? A creative Artisan? A fun-loving Sage? What about a brave Warrior, masterful King, or intelligent Scholar?

To make things easier for you, the universal life force or Tao created a system of personality traits called overleaves, to be worn like a cloak over your true Role. You would stay the same Role through each of your lifetimes in the cycle, but every lifetime you would change your overleaves for variety. Overleaves would give you a chance to experiment with the energy of all the other Roles, modify your life experience as needed, and enable you to be complex and sophisticated.

When you began your first lifetime as whatever Role you wanted to be. You chose a Goal for that lifetime: Re-evaluation, Growth, Discrimination, Acceptance, Submission, Dominance, or Flow

............More @ http://www.michaelteachings.com/introduction.html

They have it all, Roles, Modes, Attitude, Soul Age, your Centering, you Essence Twin (ET).

I first got introduced to Michael's teachings when I was 16. My father (who isn't exactly spiritual found two book in yard sale and though I would like them... These two books were called:

Tao to Earth
By Jose Stevens.
How do you get here? And what happens when you do? This book covers all the important information about the setting up of a lifetime, from describing karmas, agreements and relationships. Essence twins, task companions, monads and astrological influences are included.

And

Earth to Tao
By Jose Stevens.
Presents a comprehensive blueprint of spiritual awakening & its relationship to healing. Discusses the support of nature devas, animals, spiritual guides, and the seven steps to "agape".

I went through the first one and from the first sentance on it was what my soul resonated with, it was my truth in a book, by a man and soul group I've never even heard of!
I was flabbergasted - how come I already knew all this and then was presented with these books for resource material?

All I am saying is this truly opened my eyes to synchronicity - divine will - and peace.

P.S: I find myself at 2nd Level Old Soul, in Server Role with Artisan Overleaves which is:

Old Soul: Retired, relaxed-looking, puttering around, usually happy, not getting excited about too much, unambitious, learning to teach and love, finishing off karmas. 2nd: The Explorer. At this level you feel more grounded in the new consciousness, and send yourself out in the world. Here you work most strongly on your self-karmas, testing your personal habit patterns and working on your self-discipline.
Server: This Role was originally called "Slave", but this word gives a connotation to the Role which is not necessarily valid. In the Negative Pole of -Bondage, a Server can be like a slave in the sense that she feels as if she is carrying the world as a burden on her shoulders. She may feel like she is a lowly drudge who is yoked to a menial job. She may feel that her whole life is filled with one obligatory chore after another, just like a slave in past cultures. But the Positive Pole of Service is one of helping, caring, nurturing, sustaining, attending, aiding, and consoling. Of the Roles, the Server would probably be considered the most "feminine" in our culture, because of these "mothering" qualities. Artisans: are impelled to make things. They get restless if they do not create something tangible. It is their nature to produce physical objects. They generate an idea, and from within themselves they spew it out into material reality. They take the raw material in their hands and fashion it into things of beauty or function. Gadgets and gizmos are their stock in trade. Artisans are interested in how things work. As children, they often take things apart to see what is inside -- "What makes it tick?" -- then they put it back together again. They are good at this and have high "mechanical aptitudes." But Artisans are so multi-faceted that they can't be boxed into a single field of expertise. They can be excellent artists, inventors, musicians, actors, writers, surgeons, architects, interior decorators, landscapers, or essentially any occupation that generates something new, different, and unique. They also excel at occupations that involve fixing or manipulating things that already exist, such as draftsmen, machinists, assemblers, mechanics, home-builders, construction workers, painters, auto-makers, manufacturers, repairmen, technicians, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, and so on.