Anne Morrow Lindbergh & 4 tips to value your gifts

Anne Morrow Lindbergh realizes many people are searching for new patterns and ways of living.  She has been known to think with a pencil in her hand.  As a pilot, she was inspired by the timeless sky.  Many people came to know her because she accompanied her husband on North Atlantic survey flights to launch the first transatlantic airlines.

As she moved away from the contemplative corner she once believed was her own, she grew to believe her point of view was not unique.  She encourages each person to learn more about inner gifts from the sea.  She became intimately acquainted with water from above before touching it and living beside it much of her life.  She felt it enriched her.

1) As the illusion of frailty falls away, you rediscover truth.

2) To dig for treasure shows not only imptience and greed, but lack of faith.

3) The sea teaches the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

4) The outside offers clues, but does not begin to divulge what lies beneath the surface.

Ram Dass & 5 ideas to access your authentic self

Ram Dass is the co-founder and advisory board member of the Seva Foundation ("seva" means spiritual service in Sanskrit). This entity supports international service programs.

His writing is perhaps best known for the book, Be Here Now. More than forty years since its first publication, it still stands as a highly-accessible Western view of Eastern philosophy. It encourages humans to evolve attune to infinite joyin the present moment. In the self-development genre, this book remains a key reference forspiritual seekers.

Ram Dasshas long been fascinated with the soul journey. Even since his near-fatal stroke back in 1997, the after-effects have not prevented him from continuing to explore consciousness. Although paralyzed and suffering from expressive aphasia (limiting his ability to speak), he continues his healing path and also inspires people withhis writing.

Among Ram Dass' essays, he effectively shares his personal experience of rediscovering God and soul. Each individual is evolving to reconnect with true nature. Its a very subjective thing. Consider these five ideas to reach deeper into your authentic self;

1) Realize your soul history and core identity have no start and no end.

2)Accept awareness defies words; you are everything/ nothing, nowhere/ everywhere.

3) Explore your notions of separation, alienation, detachment in relation to suffering.

4) Overcome the mind's conditioned mindsets and attachment sin the physical world.

5) Reclaim your universal connection to undifferentiated awareness.

3 signs you may be lucid

People will talk about astral dreaming and lucid dreaming and sometimes wonder if a difference exists.  You can be asleep yet, still conscious and even conscious while dreaming.  These are sample phases of awareness.  

Lucid dreamers tune out from the physical world, that is, they choose not to be in conscious sensory contact with it.  They act as if they know what they are doing when they do it.  You can learn to awaken your senses and experience new kinds of contact with dream worlds. One view is that astral and lucid dreaming differ based on what part of your mind is in control.  Subconscious mind levels work differently.

If you believe that human consciousness only permits you to focus attention on one or a few things at once, then you begin to realize you are less conscious than you could be and it takes energy to focus and raise awareness.  Consider your own experience.  Reflect on these four signs you may be lucid;

1) You recall lessons you have learned in waking life during your dreams. Non-lucid dreamers experience state-specific amnesia.  That is, while asleep, they only remember fragments of waking reality, if any at all.  They do not sense a bridge or move beyond it.

2) You sense you are radically shifting or transforming experience. Completely lucid dreams have a profound and lasting impact on the dreamer's thoughts and perception.  You move from feeling contained within the dream world to where you transcend it, realize you create it, and expand.  You no longer totally identify with dream roles.

3) Insight you acquire during dreams is accessible when you awaken.  Inventors, scientists, business people and others have been inspired during sleep with ideas they write and apply while awake.   It enables you to access deeper answers within you.

Adjust your sense of what is possible

Dreams offer you clues about how to develop and apply psychic abilities in waking life. They reveal where you construct boundaries and limits and they compel you to explore why.  The why always comes before the how.  Your sense of what is possible evolves with you.

Some people believe dreams are fascinating paths into the psychic world. What you dream and how you interpret dreams reveals more than you will initially realize.  You not only gain insight into your conscious self, but you can also connect and interact with other worlds. 

Many people do not permit psychic abilities to develop beyond the dreaming stage.  You may have found yourself awaken in the morning to disregard images, thoughts and gut feelings as unimportant.  Maybe they are. Maybe they are not.  Only you can judge your progress. 

The time may arise when you discern psychic abilities during sleeping dreams.  You may experience feelings of deja vu.   You may have vivid dreams you recall long after awakening. You may derive startling meanings from symbols that stand out.  You may question the meaning of feeling grounded.  It is just adjusting your sense of what is possible.

How often have you had a wakening experience where you could swear you must be dreaming? Yet, pinching yourself reveals you are aligning new awareness.  You may use senses to discern things part of you refuses to believe are real.  It is a process to evolve.  Astral dreaming is a journey. It can help you solve conflicts, reframe challenges, and learn to trust abilities you forgot you had. You gain insight into your own self-fulfilling prophecies.

Do what is right for you

Analysis on dream submitted by Anonymous of Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I felt like I was contemplating law school. I stood on a magnificent campus of stone buildings whichseemed like Renaissance Italy. I spoke briefly with an old law friend who told me he was going his own way.  It was like I severed ties or was getting closure on a relationship in a meaningful way. He left the building alone. Then, a female student invited me to take a tour with she and her parents. I told her thanks, but I was leaving school.  I had other plans. Her face was indifferent. She hunched her shoulders and left. I moved into an orante archway and disappeared, as if by magic. I felt lighter, unburdened.

Predominant Emotions- Relief, joy, resolve, faith, courage, and expectancy.

Interpretation- You are unconcerned with legal issues in waking life, although someone you know may have had a brush with the law.  A regimented system is not for you. This does not necessarily suggest indecisiveness. Non-conformism is often mistaken for restlessness. You have an evolving understanding of new opportunities before you.

Specific places often evoke memories of food, music, culture, creative art or even past life experiences. Your level of awareness will assist you to reconnect and delve deeper if you deem such an exercise would serve you. Life is what happens when you are planning.

Some human beings associate learning with institutions and formal training. As you work through different kinds of perceived challenges, you grow to realize learning takes on many forms that unfold outside school. You can grow to believe learning never ends.

Ornate buildings reflect status, reputation and material wealth.  As you reject or detach from aspects of the physical world, you favor spiritual growth.  Paths you perceive are not grasped by people on a different wavelength.  Your level of awareness determines what you discern.  It is not your job to convince people to see or accept your choices.