IN THIS POST I will continue sharing from Sunreed Foundation of Sound Healing. This article from their website resonates with my own rationale and approach to sound healing as explored and published in my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Sound, in my view and experience, when providing a carrier wave for the transmission of Spirit, is sacred. Let’s read what the team at Sunreed says about it.
“It’s not just about sound; it’s about how you meet the sound, hold space, and grow through it. This integration of sound and consciousness amplifies the depth, authenticity, and resonance of your practice, allowing true transformation to unfold, for yourself and those you serve.”
WHEN SOUND BECOMES A TRANSISSION OF THE SACRED
At the heart of sound, healing, and consciousness work lies something deeper than skill, deeper than knowledge … devotion.
This work, when truly alive, becomes more than a personal journey. It becomes a living offering, an act of service, of reverence, and of relationship. It is not just about healing ourselves or helping others. It is about aligning with something greater, something interconnected, something whole.
It is about placing our gifts, our growth, and our sound in service to the collective field of awakening and care.
Devotion is not about worshiping something outside ourselves. It’s about honoring the sacredness that flows through all things, in every vibration, every gesture, every breath.
To be devotional in your practice means to meet it with a quality of presence that says: This matters. I am here. I offer this not just for myself, but for the greater good.
Whether you are toning a single note or holding space for a group in ceremony, devotion lives in your intention, your humility, and your willingness to listen.
When you place your practice in service to something beyond the self, you enter into alignment with what many call Unity Consciousness, the living awareness that all things are connected, that healing for one is healing for all, and that your vibration contributes to the field of collective coherence.
This is not abstract. It is deeply felt. When you come into a space devoted to sacred sound and healing, you can feel the difference. Something opens. Something stabilizes. Something unites.
Devotion is the bridge that allows sound to move from being a “tool” to being a transmission of the sacred.
It is what allows your voice, your bowl, your drum, your silence to become a vehicle for something far more expansive than the self.
The more we enter into this work with devotion, the more every practice becomes a kind of prayer, not always in words, but in energy. The drumbeat becomes the heartbeat of the Earth. The tone of your voice becomes a vessel of clarity and compassion. The silence between sounds becomes a spacious field where healing can arise.
In this way, your sound is no longer yours alone. It becomes a shared act of rememberi
A ripple that contributes to the reweaving of a fractured world. A call back to wholeness.
Devotion is about being present, with your full self, in full awareness, in relationship to the whole. It’s about aligning your actions, your sound, your practice with your deepest values, your highest knowing, and your most sincere intentions.
It’s what sustains your path when inspiration wanes.
It’s what roots your practice when ego wants control. And it’s what calls forth the unseen allies, ancestral wisdom, and universal intelligence to support the work you’re doing.
To hold devotion is to contribute to the emergence of a new story, one that honors sound as sacred, that sees healing as collective, and that recognizes consciousness as a shared field we are all shaping together.
It means trusting that your voice, your presence, and your intention matter. That when you practice with devotion, you are adding coherence to the whole. You are calling forth a deeper truth. You are saying yes to a world where healing is not only possible, it’s happening, here and now, through each of us.
In the final module of the Foundations of Sound Healing™ program, we take that calling and funnel that yes in a way forward to building a sound healing practice and sharing your service with the world.
“Your practice shapes your presence. Your presence shapes the space. The space shapes the possibility.“
I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING from the folks at SUNREED ~ CENTER FOR SOUND HEALING, a supplier of very high quality quartz crystal singing bowls. Their message conveys a very encouraging, as well as accurate, rationale for those of us who use sound in our energy healing practice. So I thought it would be fitting to share it with my readers. I think you will resonate with it and benefit from its content. Enjoy . . . and feel free to share your thoughts and experiences with me by email. Below you will find my email address, as well as a link to Amazon where you can review and purchase my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Check it out. Here’s the article from SUNREED.
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There comes a moment in any sacred journey when inspiration must root itself in practice. When the call that once sparked curiosity asks something deeper of us, commitment, presence, and discipline. The path of sound, healing, and consciousness is no different. It is not a one-time event or a quick realization. It is a lived devotion. A practice. A path.
To walk this path is to cultivate a discipline that is not rigid, but reverent. It is a rhythm you return to, again and again, not because you are lacking, but because you are growing.
We practice not because we need to be better, but because we recognize the sacredness of life deserves our attention.
Whether it is toning with our voice, playing an instrument, holding space for another, or simply listening deeply, each time we show up to our practice, we are refining our capacity to be clear, present, and aligned.
Discipline, in this sense, is not about control. It is about devotion to clarity. It is about tending to our inner landscape so we can be of service to others with coherence, integrity, and care.
Your personal practice is also a seed for collective resonance.
When you ground yourself in daily attunement, whether through sound, breath, movement, meditation, or ceremony, you create a vibrational field that others can feel and trust.
Working with others in sound and consciousness requires us to develop our own resonance first. Not perfection, but stability. A kind of inner holding. So that when others enter the field with us, they are met with presence rather than projection, groundedness rather than distraction, awareness rather than reaction.
We practice to prepare ourselves to be a vessel for whatever needs to unfold, for their healing, their emergence, their sound.
When we work with others using sound, we are not fixing or controlling outcomes. We are inviting a process. Sound is a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, the visible and invisible. When we offer it with intention, we invite others into a co-created space where something more than either of us can do alone may happen.
This kind of practice requires us to let go of needing to “know” what should happen and instead trust the intelligence of the moment. The more deeply you’ve explored your own sound field, your patterns, your voice, your nervous system, your shadows, the more space you hold for others to do the same.
The more consistently we walk this path, the more we emanate a field of integrity.
People feel this, not through what we say, but through how we are. Your practice shapes your presence. Your presence shapes the space. The space shapes the possibility.
Walking this path is not just about what you practice, but how you practice it, with intention, humility, and respect for the mystery. As we walk, we begin to embody what we hope to offer: connection, coherence, and care.
And over time, we come to realize:
The path of practice is not just a means to an end. It is the path itself that transforms us.
Zacciah & Dorothy, Emissaries of Sound™ and Sunreed™ Team
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You will benefit further studying my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND, available from Amazon Books. In it I explore ways for using sacred sound as a carrier wave for spirit and intention. Here is a picture of the back and front covers, designed by my artist son John. To enlarge it for a better view, simply click on the picture.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire, and it sat upon each of them. (Acts 2:2-3)
THE DOVE IS A SYMBOL of the Holy Spirit in Christian iconography. It’s also a symbol of peace. Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday, or 50 days, after Easter. (The word pente meaning 5 and kosta meaning 10 times.) Tomorrow, June 8th, is “Pentecost Sunday.” I write about this historical event in my book SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God, in which I share some of my thoughts and insights into this rather ecstatic experience the disciples of Jesus had just after their Lord and Master had ascended back to His Father in Heaven. They were gathered in an upper room in the city of Jerusalem where they were instructed to tarry until the Holy Spirit had fully come.
A couple of things stand out to me in this story that have significant bearing on the process of transformation and ascension occurring with these faithful followers of Jesus. This primary condition is described by the phrase, “with one accord in one place.” (Acts 2:1)
These very close friends of Jesus were in agreement in one thing: their powerful love for this One with whom they had just spent three-and-a-half incredible years in what must have been a whirlwind experience that had utterly turned their worlds upside down—or perhaps more accurately, had turnedthem right side up! Undoubtedly they had a difficult time making sense out of the events that had just occurred, leading to the untimely end of life on earth for this beautiful man whom they called “Master,” leaving them with an overwhelming sense of great loss and confusion. All they had left to turn to were each other and the powerful love they were still sharing for the Master in their hearts, as well as the fresh memories of their experiences with him. Everything changed so abruptly and so tragically with his crucifixion, and again, later, so ecstatically with his resurrection and subsequent ascension into heaven. What could they make of it all? Of even greater import to us today, what would be made of it over the ensuing years and centuries? Well, for one thing, Christianity would emerge from it all as a religious movement that would fill much of the world with a belief system unparalleled in recorded history. But what actually took place in that upper room with these men and women?
Their hearts were “in one place,” the place of utter love for their Beloved Lord and abandon to his will for them, and their minds “with one accord,” singularly focused in this One — as well as, without doubt, in what they were going to do now that He was gone. He had instructed them to tarry in the city of Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit had fully come.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire, and it sat upon each of them. (Acts 2:2-3)
The ascending flame of love became visible to them as they themselves were in the process of transformation and transmutation in their own consciousness, which was being lifted up to a higher vibratory level to be with this One whose love had drawn them together into a place of accord, just as he had said earlier on it would be: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32). They experienced attunement (at-one-ment) with the life vibration—the shem in the Aramaic, which is translated into English as the name of their Lord and Master, the Christ–Radiance, and the subsequent release of his love through themselves. And immediately they were in that place he had once told them about when he said, “I go to prepare a place for you…so that where I am ye may be also.” (John 14:3) They were “in the spirit on the Lord’s day” — in phase and in tune with the life vibration of the Lord of Love. The transformation he was experiencing that had taken him all the way through seven levels of being into complete union with his Father in the highest Heaven, impacted not only his personal physical form but apparently theirs as well.
The notable thing here is that he was on earth with them at the time he said this, indicating clearly that the kingdom of heaven is to be known and experienced here on earth where we now live and not in some imagined hereafter. This lends meaning to words he had just spoken prior to these: “In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you.” As we considered earlier on, there is vastly more to the multidimensional context of life and of our makeup than we can observe with our outer senses alone….
FAILURE TO TARRY
….Another thing that stands out in this story relates to what happened to the apostles and hundreds of their followers after this Pentecost. The apostles went out from the upper room — which symbolically relates to a higher state of consciousness — where they had been instructed by the Master to “tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued [clothed] with power from on high.”(Luke 24:49) — and they began to dissipate the collective spiritual substance they had been generating over the years with Jesus and, more currently, within the crucible of their gathering in the upper room. This gathering itself, although likely affected by fear of what might become of them after seeing what had become of their Master, was nonetheless a crucible for change in themselves, for transformation in their consciousness and subsequent transmutation in their physical forms. Physical evidence of this process was appearing in the form of radical and bazar changes that had apparently come over them, even in their manner of speaking. As the story goes, they began speaking “in tongues” so that even those of different dialects were able to understand what they were saying. So astounding was this phenomenon that the people were confounded. They were, for a time, experiencing spiritual communion and communication above the level of human language.
Reading through the account of all this in the book, “Acts of The Apostles,” one can readily see the release of the power that had been building up in this crucible through them. All sorts of healings and extraordinary events took place, both with the apostles and among the people, who were “filled with fear” (awe) at what they were seeing and experiencing. One apostle was reportedly seen in two different locations at the same time. So something of a transformation was occurring in their consciousness resulting in transmutation of their physical forms.
But it was all short-lived as the power, mishandled, gradually went out from them and eventually dissipated altogether. The story ends in utter chaos and tragedy for all of them, and for hundreds of their disciples as well, as they were scattered abroad and many were ultimately put to death by the Romans — except, notably, for John the Beloved who was exiled to the isle called Patmos, where he wrote his Book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse), the last book of the New Testament, which laid out in mystical language “the things which thou hath seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.”(Rev. 1:19) From my own personal experience, one needs to be in an elevated place in one’s consciousness to even begin to “see” — with spiritual eyes — what the Spirit of Truth is saying and conveying in and through the words of this sacred scripture.
I’ll close this blog post with an invitation to visit my friend David Barnes’s recent post of June 1, 2025 on his Great Cosmic Story blog entitled “The Lamb,” a service given by Martin Cecil on May 12, 1974. This is a classic presentation of the history of the three “Sacred Schools,” leading up to the fourth currently cycling in the Creative Process of restoration of God’s Presence on Earth in and through the Body of Man, the “Temple of the Living God.” In my view, this presentation is a great teaching for those seeking an overview of the sacred history of humanity’s sojourn on Earth — of what’s really been unfolding in the history of Man.
I will continue sharing from my book in my next post. Until then,
Be love. Be loved.
Anthony ~ Email: tpal70@gmail.com
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I am the Spirit of Love I draw my world together as a playing field for my creativity I and my world are one I seed and father the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of the Womb I provide containment and wisdom for the Spirit of Love I am open to the Father to receive, conceive, nurture and give birth to the seeds of Love I mother the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Life I bring radiance to my world I am born anew in each moment For I am birthless, deathless and eternally the same I am the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Purification I protect the life and this temple from harm I bring heaven and earth together as one I give assurance to my world that all is well.
I am the Spirit of Blessing I uplift the elements of my world through my Creative Process so they might become part of my body I provide realization for my world.
I am the Spirit of the Single Eye I bring power to my body, focus to my mind, precision to my movement, tranquility to my world.
I am the Spirit of the New Earth I welcome the substance by which I create all things new in patience and right expectancy I am the spirit of love
“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
ON THURSDAY, MAY 29th, the Catholic world of Christianity celebrated the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven . . .”the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” as one of the disciples acknowledged and proclaimed — a proclamation upon which Jesus said He will build His church. In this year of our Lord 2025, we may rightly celebrate His return, as the angels declared, “in like manner as you have seen him go”. . . on the clouds of heaven. I write about this in SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God:
Jesus was seen by his disciples as ascending into the clouds above their heads. These clouds may be interpreted as the conditions in their own collective consciousness through which the Lord of Love was making his royal exit from the earthly planes back into the higher planes of being from which he had come, and from which we all have come—the “kingdom of heaven” which he had told them more than once “is within you.” This could also be the inference made by the two men in white apparel whom they reportedly saw standing with him and whom they heard say: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
This may well be a classic instance where dimensional perception did not see nor comprehend the non-dimensional. In other words, the darkness did not comprehend the light. The lower planes simply cannot comprehend the higher . . . from the lower planes. But the One who stands in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, the seven planes of being, in the fourth dimension, has both physical and spiritual eyes and can see and comprehend the non-dimensional as clearly and easily as the dimensional. We are invited to stand with Him in this 4th plane of Being and share His view and comprehension of the levels above and below this crossoverconnection between heaven above and earth below. This is the place we were put in the beginning, the Garden of Eden, with the commission of dressing and keeping it. The “clouds of heaven” may be understood as the vibrational substance of consciousness where the ordinances of Heaven are handed down to Man for their dominion to be set in the earth, a function the Lord queried Job about from “out of the whirlwind, and demanded an answer, as though he had forgotten his Creator and his co-creator role in creating the forms of life to fill and live on the earth. (Job 38:23)
These are the very clouds upon which He has returned. “The Lord is in His Temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” (Habakkuk 2:20). Thus will I be silent and simply welcome Him back . . . except to say “Welcome back, Lord. It’s so good to be with you in the Garden again after all these centuries of forgetfulness and disconnection. I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you.” To which the Lord replies “Welcome back Home, my precious sons and daughters.” After all, it was we who left the Garden, not the Lord. He never left. We are simply awakening to His presence, having ascended, or been drawn by love, to a higher level of consciousness, the Garden of Eden. We’ve come full circle back from whence we came.
The Body of God on Earth is awakening! Let us give thanks and praise to the Lord for His eternal patience and unconditional love.
Anthony
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“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION of Jesus back into the inner and higher dimensions of the Realms of Light and to His Heavenly Father, after spending forty days with his disciples, is celebrated by Christians the world over on Thursday, May 29th this year. I offer my readers a very special gift. This video recording is of a presentation given by Lloyd A. Meeker (URANDA), spiritual teacher and modern day prophet, back in July of 1953 and was subsequently entitled “Transfiguration—Ascension.” It’s a bit lengthy (53 minutes) but rich with new perspective and profound insight. I trust that as you listen to his words and resonant voice, you can be open to hear his authoritative message and its many and provocative implications, and resonate with the tonal frequency of his spirit. Enjoy.
(I preface Uranda’s presentation with this passage from the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John because I do believe that John the Divine, the Beloved Disciple of Jesus and author of the Book of Revelation, came to “prophesy again,” just as he was promised he would do in sacred scripture, Revelation 10:11: “And he said unto me, ‘Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.'”)
And this From John 14: “. . . These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart; And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” (Matt 17:1)
I take particular note of Uranda’s words about the spiritual nature of ascension, indicating that it’s a vibrational movement upward to a higher dimension and level rather than a physical ascension from the surface of the earth. The “clouds of heaven” describe a state of consciousness. I will consider this in my next post. Until then, I greet you with much Joy in this post-Easter Season.
“Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my Father.” (John 14:12)
I WRITE NOT FORENTERTAINMENT, but rather out of love for the Word; love for the Divine Design that shapes the Universe and our physical bodies; love for the breath of Life that inspires these flesh bodies — and has the power and intelligence to transmutes them into light . . . of which they and all created forms are made.
The following is not intended to be a futile exercise in speculation, but rather an appreciative and insightful peer into the magic of life’s genius that remains largely untapped in human experience, and that when activated by spirit, and often by prayer, or simply by belief, is viewed with awe as some sort of “miracle.” God doesn’t need to impress human beings with magical tricks in order to gain their belief and faith. What occurred in Jesus’s experience of resurrection and ascension was no miracle. It was rather the demonstration and revelation of the latent power and intelligence of the truth of love using natural laws and processes.
There are, indeed, many things most are not yet mature enough spiritually to understand and accept. Tradition holds human understanding and appreciation captive behind the structures erected in the subconscious by religious programming and superstition. The invitation and instruction given by the “voice” John heard “coming from heaven” was and still is, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4). The word “sin” is an archery term for missing the target. Think about that!
The Christian world is about to observe and celebrate the Feast of the Ascension on Thursday, May the twenty-nineth. There are some Christian scholars, such as Francis V. Tiso mentioned in the second video below, who believe that Jesus may well have attained the “rainbow body” experience as he moved through the processes of resurrection and ascension. Could He have spent three days in the tomb in deep transcendental meditation, following the Tibetan Buddhist practice of achieving the Rainbow Body, and transmuted his flesh body into a light body? Scientific examination of the Shroud of Turin reveals that some kind of radiant heat burned the image of the comatose body of Jesus into the shroud, suggesting a process of transmutation.
The Shroud of Turin
My purpose here is to emphasize the very natural, physiologically, and chemically facilitated changes the human “quantum coherent biophoton” flesh body is capable of undergoing when those changes are empowered by the omnipotent Spirit of God. This may well have been the case in Jesus’s resurrection from the tomb and his ascension back into the Realms of Light. The way that He told Mary not to touch him could indicate that he was in a process of change energetically and physically that outside contact might have interrupted; or that He was being protective of her for some reason. The following videos give visual demonstration and historical and present-day evidence of transmutation from flesh unto light. Enjoy!
As I conclude this post I am drawn back to the passage above from the Gospel of John quoting Jesus’s words to His disciples as he prepared them for His departure from earth back into Heaven: “Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my Father.”
There are two implications in this passage that draw my attention. One implication is that His going to His Father plays an essential role in what makes the “greater works” at all possible. The second implication is that we are invited to follow Him is every aspect of His journey here on earth. Here’s the larger context in which He spoke these words:
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. . . .” (John 14:10-15)
As I said in my blog post of May 3rd, I dream of a more pleasant and ecstatic way of departing this physical plane than death. I also know that a more pleasant and ecstatic life in form here on earth is possible. I have a dear friend and Attunement colleague who has testified from personal experience — in what he describes as an “NAE” (Near Ascension Experience) rather than an NDE (Near Death Experience) during a critical health crisis — to the reality that ascension is available now to us all. I personally have had a brief taste of such an experience some years back while sharing in a collective Attunement with friends miles apart and in which a current of “Unified Radiation” developed. I describe this ecstatic event in my book SACRED ANATOMY . . . which you can examine and purchase on Amazon Books. If you haven’t already read it, it’s the kind of book that will change the way you see your body and experience living in it. It is, in my humble opinion — and that of others as well — a beautiful book.
Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in the middle of the 20th Century, became the first American born Pope on May 8th, 2025. Ten-thousand people from many parts of the world filled St. Peter’s Square as the whole world tuned into the conclave of 133 cardinals who came to Rome from 14 countries to choose from among their number their new leader and head of the Catholic Church. “Habemus Papam!” was the announcement in Latin from the traditional balcony of St. Peter Basilica overlooking the square where the people congregate to see the Holy Father, as he is known, and to receive his blessing: “We have a Pope!”
There are 1.375 billion Catholics in the world, of which nearly half live in the US. That’s half the number of Christians and nearly 18% of the current global population. That’s a critical mass which can, heeding the words of their newly elected leader, lever the fallen consciousness of humanity and thereby transform the world.
Marianne Williamson posted the following commentary on this momentous event. Her response resonates with my own. Coming from a devout Catholic family, and having spent seven years in seminary studying for the priesthood, I still have a love in my heart for the many friends and seminary classmates who traveled with me in those early years of searching and pursuing our vocations in life . . . one of whom recently reconnected with me after years of search. He went to Rome for his four years of Theology and ordination. We met in the seminary Gregorian chant choir, which I loved conducting. We sang ballads with guitar together and became best and forever friends. I felt a strong calling to a priestly life of service, and I have answered that calling in the healthcare field as a spirit-led chiropractor and holistic physician. So, Marianne’s words rest easy in my heart. I would like to share them with you now in this blog post.
TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson
Humanitarians, progressives and Christians who are truly interested in the teachings of Christ are jubilant over the choice of Robert Prevost as Pope. At a moment when American public policy reflects a moral abyss – inverting every injunction to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and help the poor into its opposite- the first American Pope stands as a reminder of the American soul we seem to have misplaced.
I don’t know if any of the Cardinals who voted for Prevost were consciously sticking it to Trump and Musk by doing so. They say not, but they knew what they were doing either consciously or unconsciously. We need a moral counterforce to rising authoritarianism in the world today, particularly given that the United States has joined its ranks. Whatever the Pope says, the world will hear. And Pope Leo XIV, we can tell already, will be saying quite a lot.
Many have noted the holiness of Leo’s visage and I agree. But I see something else there too. There’s a mischievous twinkle in those newly anointed eyes, as though he knows some things and he’s about to say them. I’m not Catholic but I believe in divinely inspired decisions. You don’t have to be Catholic to get the feeling God had His hand in this one.
Some have argued that people are making way too big a deal about Leo’s election. Not everyone likes certain things he’s said and done, after all, and the Pope has no actual political power on the world stage. But anyone who influences over a billion people with every word he says is inherently relevant. He who touches the heart holds the greatest lever of power, and it’s the only power that can possibly save the world in time. In his first homily, Pope Leo called for the Catholic priesthood to show humility. That’s a big deal, because the meek after all will inherit the earth. Their strength will take the place over.
Leo expresses a spiritual wisdom that is universal, harkening to Truths that speak to people of all faiths and to no faith. He doesn’t talk b.s. He talks about Love. Promising to further the tradition of Pope Francis, while the world speaks of war we can expect that he will speak for peace. In a world obsessed with billionaires, he will point to the least of these. While some are trying to colonize space, he will speak of saving the earth. As he said in his first appearance as Pope, “Evil will not win.”
Gandhi had a word for that: Satyagraha. Satyagraha means insistence on the truth of the heart even when challenged by the lies of the world, such insistence a form of nonviolent resistance to all systems of oppression. We can hold to what we know in our hearts regardless what devilish propaganda declares that cruelty is okay, or idolatry patriotic. Satyagraha is the secret source of nonviolent revolution. It changes the world because it changes us.
Pope Francis had satyagraha. Abraham Lincoln had satyagraha. Martin Luther King, Jr. had satyagraha. The world’s greatest people have had and have it. They are those who refuse to forget the truth in our hearts, who refuse to look away from human suffering or ignore the call for love that goes out from every soul.
In the days ahead, the world will indeed be blessed if we have another satyagraha Pope. Many people, not just Catholics, could feel something powerful in the air when Robert Prevost was elected last week. May God work through him and stand beside him, as he so obviously stands with us.
Jesus’s words of command are love of God with all and love of one another as self. We should never underestimate the power of love in expression through the collective heart of a critical mass of humanity. Like the rudder of a great ship on the high seas, such power can and will change the course of our current destination and head us in the direction of a collective transformation that will take us victoriously into the Golden Age of a New Earth.
Love God with all and neighbor as Self . . . even your neighbor who doesn’t worship God the way you do in your church. Many have a critical view of the Catholic Church, which has a history, in concert with three other churches, of condemning witchcraft and approving burning them, along with heretics, alive at the stake. I have struggled with this for years being a student of religious history and aspirant to the Catholic priesthood. Judgement has come easily into my heart and mind. Still does. Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! It’s hard at times not to judge others . . . and self, for that matter. But it’s absolutely essential to the salvation and restoration of our species; the restoration of Man, male and female, to our ordained role as co-creators with God in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. It’s critical to all life on Earth.
Words of a ballad I wrote and sang back in the 1960’s entitled “What Do You See When You See?” come to mind: “Man, you’re the reason for hatred; Man, you’re the reason for love; Man, you’re the keeper of Eden! What’s in your heart when you see?” And the closing phrase: “Man, you are love. Can’t you see?”
On this special day when we remember our mothers with love and appreciation, I give deep thanks for my mother and for all mothers through whose wombs we all were born into this world to love and live life fully. We are all mothers in that we are created to bring forth the spirit of God through the womb of our hearts. I send you the blessing of my love and appreciation for sharing the thoughts and meditations of my heart. Until my next post . . .
CALL ME A DREAMER, if you like, for I do indeed dream of a more pleasant and ecstatic way of departing this physical plane than “death”—which I understand is but an interlude in the cycle of incarnation, and not much different from birth. One door closes and another opens . . . only for the spirit, however, as the body remains behind to return to the earth from which it arose, even as the spirit returns to the Creator who gave it. I dream of ascension for my body as well as my spirit . . . and I do believe that what I think about and dream about in season comes about. My light body, that which I am, can so penetrate my dense physical body by way of resonant attunement and fusion so as to accelerate the vibratory frequencies of its billions of cells and send it floating in the air—an experience I know personally and write about in SACRED ANATOMY. In this post, I share an excerpt from the final pages of “PART V: ASCENT IN THE TEMPLE”—which really should have been entitled “ASCENT OF THE TEMPLE.” If the Tibetans can do it, “…why, then, oh why can’t I?” I invite you to dream with me.
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“According to the Biblical record handed down to us—and there have been other accounts that tell a different story—the Master Jesus lifted his own body temple up out of the tomb of decay and death and into the Garden state of eternal life. As this did in fact occur and as He truly is the Supreme Focus of the Spirit of God for the Body of Mankind, then by his own resurrection and ascension into a glorified state he established the pattern of resurrection and ascension for men and women for all time. As the template and model of a totally new paradigm for the healing of the gap between God and man, He opened a door in heaven and then proceeded to invite all those who so desire to come and be with Him, “that where I am there ye may be also,” (John 14:3-4) not only after death but now while we yet have life and breath.
“Obviously humanity has not taken the Lord up on his invitation. There has been no one, to my knowledge anyway, who has ascended into heaven in a glorified, spiritualized body as the Lord Himself did two thousand years ago. We have two accounts of ascension in the Old Testament, the first was Enoch, who “walked with God” and God “took him,” (Genesis 5:12), and the second was Elijah, who “went in a whirlwind to heaven” in a “fiery chariot.”(2 Kings 2:11) Whether we look at these incidents as physical ascensions into the Realms of Light, or as metaphorical descriptions of a transformation process by which their human consciousness merged with divine consciousness, either way Enoch and Elijah were no longer merely human in their identity. As we have explored in considerable depth, the way to this experience is open and available to all of mankind. It is available now and has been especially so for two thousand years. We, now, may not only enter into the kingdom of heaven but may inhabit and function in all the levels of being that make up the “many mansions” of the Father’s House. All that is required is that we walk with God on the path that leads thereto.
“Jesus walked with God and was about His Father’s business of restoring humanity to the Garden State. His purpose was not to set up yet another religion to replace the old ones. In the Garden of Eden, Man, “naked and unashamed,” walked and talked with the LORD God, and the LORD God with man. Death had not yet been introduced into man’s experience. It was his failure to remain in the Garden of Eden and therefore to leave identity in life, that first brought death. Anything that has a beginning necessarily must have an end. The fall of human identity included man’s choice of death as the end and not ascension. The cycle of incarnation had to have taken us from some form of birth—no doubt different from what we now know—through life, whatever that entailed and in whatever nature of form we had then, and on to ascension through the various levels of consciousness. It has even been suggested from legendary writings, as we considered at the start of this section, that we were once able to travel back and forth between heaven and earth to refresh ourselves with rarefied spiritual nourishment.
“In his profoundly engaging book, Memories and Visions of Paradise, a book that always engenders in me a deep sense of deja vu when I read it, author Richard Heinberg, who devoted a decade to studying Paradise Myths from around the world, explores universal stories of a lost “Golden Age” when the human spirit was not as earth-bound as it is today.
“He writes:
“‘Originally, according to myths of every continent, all humanity was perpetually in the divine presence and continually in harmony with divine will. The Africans’ insistence that at first God lived on Earth with the people, and the Australians’ memory of the Dreamtime, when the Creator-Heroes walked the land, echo the biblical image of Adam and Eve strolling naked and unashamed in the Garden with God. . . .
“‘Few things in Nature seem more axiomatic than the inevitability of death. It is remarkable, therefore, that one of the most consistently encountered themes in Paradise myths is that of the original immortality of human beings. The myths tell us that death is in some sense not natural at all, but rather the result of sin or sorcery. . . a mistake or misdeed on the part of ancestors in the First Age. . . .
“‘According to universal tradition, the original earthly Paradise and the still-existent otherworldly Paradise were at first united, or in any case were in close proximity and communication. The means of connection is described variously in different cultures— most vividly, perhaps, as a rainbow. In the traditions of Japan, Australia, and Mesopotamia, the rainbow was seen as a reminder of a bridge that once existed between Heaven and Earth and was accessible to all people. The seven colors of the rainbow were the seven heavens of Hindu, Mesopotamian, and Judaic religion. Among the central Asians, shamanic drums were decorated with rainbows symbolizing the shaman’s journey to the Otherworld. Similarly, the seven levels of the Babylonian ziggurat (stepped pyramid) were painted with the seven colors of the rainbow, and the priest, in climbing its stories, symbolically mounted to the cosmic world of the gods. . . .
“‘The primordial world-bridge is elsewhere remembered as a ladder or a rope. According to pre-Buddhist traditions, called Bon, there originally existed a rope that bound Earth to Heaven and that was used by the gods to come down to meet human beings. The first king of Tibet was said to have come down from Heaven by a rope, and the first Tibetan kings did not die but mounted again into Heaven. After the Fall and the coming of death, the link between Heaven and Earth was broken. Once the rope was cut, only spirits could ascend to Heaven; their bodies remained on Earth. . . .
“‘The Polynesians knew the Otherworld as Pulotu, a magical realm in the midst of which grew an immense tree whose leaves supplied all wants. Following physical death, according to tradition, a stream floated the spirit away to Pulotu.
“‘All floated away together, well and ill-favored, young and old, sound and sick, chiefs and commoners; they must look neither to the right nor left, nor attempt to reach the other side, nor must they look back. Little more than half alive, they floated on until they reached Pulotu, where they bathed in the waters of Vaiola, when all become lively, bright and vigorous, every infirmity vanishing, and even the aged becoming young again. Everything went on in Pulotu much as in the world of life, except that here their bodies were singularly volatile, so that they were able to ascend at night, becoming luminous sparks, or vapors, revisiting their former homes, but retiring again in early dawn to the bush or to Pulotu. ‘”
“We are haunted by ancient memories of Paradise. In dreams people have visions of that Golden Age when we crossed over the rainbow between heaven and earth. Song writers have written whimsical lyrics about these memories and visions. In the Wizard of Oz is that memorable song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg about the longing in the heart to return to a land “somewhere over the rainbow” where “troubles melt like lemon drops” and “dreams really do come true.” Go ahead and sing it with me . . . .
“‘Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby….Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?‘”
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Why indeed?! More about the “RAINBOW BODY” to come . . . so stay tuned. I would love hearing your thoughts along these lines. My email address is below.
Healing Tones 
