I have heard so many people speak of “your” truth or “his” truth as if truth were a relative thing. My experience in the inner planes gives me a different understanding of truth, however. There is an energy “truth” and this energy is a blue color. When one can move this energy, they can picture a concept that they are wanting to test, throw the energy “truth” at it, and where it is blue - the concept is true - where there are holes - the concept is not true. One can move in consciousness into the holes, go passive (receptive) and discern what the area is that is not true in whatever one is testing.

Another of the truth tests, is the ring of truth. When one says something that is true, it “rings” true. When one says something untrue, there is a thud. It is quite an experience to say something that one may sincerely believe - only to have it thud. When the issue or subject is important to you, it is important to discover what isn’t true about what you have said. Sometimes one discovers that ones cherished beliefs and well-defended opinions are not really true at all.

We live in interesting times - there are major forces and powerful people at work trying to persuade us to believe things that just aren’t true. We each have abilities beyond the physical plane senses to discern the truth and not be fooled by others. Even if you haven’t paid attention to these abilities before - by becoming aware that they exist - and paying attention to them - they will get stronger.

If you are on the path of purifying and increasing your energies, there is a good chance you may well have more energy of a higher vibration than some of those around you. They may enjoy being in your positive and energetic presence, like sitting near a warm fire. Monitor your energy level to assure that others do not pass into drawing your energies.

Most people conduct their energy exchanges on a completely unconscious level. They do not know how to accumulate or build psychic energy. They simply go about their lives, not even conscious that some people, activities and situations energize them and others leave them drained. Because they do not know where they get energy they simply draw it from any source they can, frequently from those around them, not understanding the damage they do or the karma they incur. They are not greedy or malicious, they are simply getting by as they know how the same as a hungry child grabs food, not understanding it is not his own.

Some people draw energy from others by manipulating their emotional state. They act or behave in a way to evoke an intense emotional reaction from others whether sympathy or anger and then feed off of the emotional reaction. Have you ever felt great and encountered someone who pulled you aside telling you their sad tale or something which upset or angered you, finding yourself emerging from the exchange feeling depleted? If you haven’t before, notice the other person’s energy state after the exchange. Are they in a better place, more energized. You may even notice a smugness in some.

The steps to energy mastery are those of accepting responsibility for the maintenance, control and direction of your own energies. As you grow in mastery and awareness you can feel your energy state changing. You can sense energy dissipating or being drawn off and take action to address it. It is an expression of an enhanced state of awareness and an act of the will.

If you feel your energy being dissipated or taken, pay attention. Heighten your awareness and notice what is happening. In some cases this may be enough to stop the drain. Notice how the other person reacts when you stop giving them energy. You may even feel a struggle of wills. Their reaction may give you some insight into their awareness of their energy drain. If you do not feel able to stop the drain, change the subject of the interaction. If you need to, remove yourself from their presence.

Pat

There are a variety of issues involved in building and maintaining the integrity of one’s energies.

First I wish to clarify what I mean by your energy. We are energy beings existing on numerous planes or levels of existence. The densest plane is the physical and the energy levels above it become subtler and higher in vibration through the astral, mental, soul and spirit. Our aura and bodies at these subtler levels and the energy or “stuff” of those levels that we have gathered to us and made our own comprise what I refer to as our energies.

Energy maintenance is divided into two issues. The first is keeping your energies, not scattering or dissipating them or allowing them to be drawn off or stolen by others. The second is maintaining the character and purity of your energies, not allowing them to be contaminated by the energies of other people, groups, issues or entities.

Keeping your energies. Have you ever felt on top of the world: focused, energetic, active, productive and only a short while later felt tired, scattered, drained and seriously in need of a nap? Have you ever wondered how your energy state could change so rapidly?

Quite likely your energy was given or taken away. It can be given to another person out of sympathy. You can wish well for them and if you are not careful your generosity comes not as a blessing from the universe but as a gift from your own energies. You can desire something from another, such as that they see your point of view or cooperate with you, and this desire can serve as a conduit for giving them your energy. One of the primary lessons of being a caring and compassionate person is not inadvertantly giving your own energies away in your care for others.

Dissipating or giving away your energies is very different from directing them with intent and mastery. Learn to attend to your energy level. How much energy do you have? Is the level growing or depleting? From or to where?

Pat

Don’t be afraid to see the future.  I have heard so many people say they “don’t want to know” when it comes to future events.  They are afraid that they will see deaths or bad things happening and they just don’t want to know.

Although it can be true that when one is aware of future events, one might develop a sense of fatalism.  However, it is normally the case that the future is not completely cast in concrete, especially for the individual and even for groups. Knowing what is coming in the future allows one to prepare - and to navigate through difficult times and events.  If one has foretold, as many had, that “the Titanic is going to sink” - then one doesn’t get on that ship. The sinking of the Titanic was a large event that cast a long shadow on what I call the time tracks.  Numerous individuals dreamed of the event and did not get on the ship.

There are many cases of people who were “warned” in dreams of possible events - and took the necessary actions to avoid them.

In the case of groups - or nations - if their prophets are functioning - if their prophets speak out and are listened to - if course corrections are made - then disasters can be avoided.   Joseph’s interpretation of Pharoah’s dream was heeded and the country prepared for the seven years of plenty followed by the seven years of famine.  Because this prophecy was not ignored, many people’s lives were saved.

Even on the smaller scale - one can navigate the difficulties of their lives by heeding their prophetic warnings and dreams.  They can pay attention and save themselves much grief.  It really is no different than paying attention when the weather man says it is going to rain today.  Why be caught without your umbrella?

One of the things that I always found fascinating in my psychic development classes was how few people recognized the abilities they had. Generally, if something has not brought it to their attention otherwise, people think they are normal and everyone else does and can do what they do and can do. It comes as a shock to them to realize that some people see the stars as white, some people see them as pastel colors and some see them as crayola colors - and everybody thinks that everybody else is seeing the same. Some people see the glow around people and it is natural - they don’t realize that they are seeing their auras - some see the white surround which sticks out several inches but don’t realize that it is the etheric body of another that they are seeing.

Many people have friends that each finish the others sentences. Oftentimes they will hear the sentence in their head before they say it and then one or the other of them will say something like “great minds think alike”. Very seldom do they credit what is actually happening - that they are having telepathic experiences.

Can you feel when there has been an argument when you walk into a room? Can you tell when someone is sad even when they are trying to hide it?

In so many little things, people experience extra-sensory abilities. So - to answer the question in the title - Do you have metaphysical, psychic and magic abilities? - Yes you do. The truly wonderful thing about these abilities is that once you have acknowledged them and begin to notice them at work in your life, they expand and grow.

The shaman understands that the self can be a fluid thing and that amid life’s traumas, pieces of the self can be lost or stolen.

Soul retrieval is the process of recovering those pieces, which frequently consist of missing talents and attributes, so that we may continue our journey with more of our intended tools.

As a person travels through life, grappling with the pain and hardships of that life, he frequently seems to leave parts of himself behind - until by the time he has reached old age, he is only a shell of his former self. He may remember with a great deal of sadness how he used to be - saddened because he no longer possesses faculties or attributes that were formerly prominent.

Whenever a person experiences a trauma, a part of his vital essence ( his soul) may separate from him to try to diminish the pain. He may even feel that this separation is the only way he can survive the experience. It is very common to find soul loss associated with divorce, death or loss of a loved one, incest, and abuse. Accidents, illness, even working at a job one hates, can cause soul loss. Childhood experiences also had oftentimes resulted in soul loss - moving away from a treasured neighborhood and childhood friends, being extremely frightened by fairy tales, and being frightened by religious stories of hell and damnation.

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We create our own reality - at least that’s the concept. The question is - how many people actually take charge in any way of their lives on an energy level. How many people just “go with the flow” - or just believe that “things happen”.

Reality and the life pattern are built at the soul level - and input for that creation of the life comes from
1. The conscious mind asking
2. The subconscious mind which can be feeding fears and doubts - a lot depends on how a person has conditioned their subconscious mind. (If they have made statements like - everything always turns out for the best - I am always protected - something good always turns up -you can see how this would influence their subconscious’s input)
3. Words that a person says and words that they hear
4. Input from others if there is no input from the conscious mind or the subconscious mind. (It has always been interesting to me that “others” so seldom wish a person well - not because they wouldn’t if they thought about it - but because of their own personal baggage. Their jealousies, envy, greed, competitiveness and just plain ignorance get in the way. Few people really realize how much of an impact their thoughts, words, emotions and energies have on others.)

Because the soul will build your reality from your own input first, it is important that you provide input - and not allow the vagaries of what might be in your environment or the people who are around you.

If you know something that you would like to have in your life - you might go about it this way:
Say “I ask these things of my soul” three times
Then say “I ask that …” three times.
Then say “Thank you” three times.

You will be surprised how fast this very simple process will work.

Years ago, when my daughter was young, we had an opportunity to experience just how fast this works. It was the weekend - and she was distraught about the lack of social life that she had been having. It was a Sunday morning - she sat down in meditation and asked for a friend - within the hour a lovely girl called and my daughter and she spent the afternoon together. This girl became a lifelong friend.

If you have a “R” in your name, you have a streak of independence - or should I say rebel. This is a freedom energy and freedom is very important to you.

“R” gives physical energy. Saying the “R” out loud - drawing it out - with several repetitions can provide physical energy when one is depleted.

“R” brings some fascinating abilities to the fore. One of these is what I call the time warp ability. A person with the “R” in their name will probably have experienced the slowing of the passage of time - or at times the speeding up of time. As an example from my own life: I was driving down the street in the right hand lane in the midst of traffic at rush hour - when I perceived what appeared to be a black flash coming from the side of the road. Suddenly a car backed fast from a driveway right into the lanes of traffic where I was driving. It was like my whole consciousness changed gears - everything went into slow motion and everything seemed like some sort of graceful slow motion ballet as I slowly turned the wheel. I had all of the time in the world - it seemed - to go around him to the right. Every other car in the group where I had been driving was involved in the accident.

Another use of this time warping is the ability to tell yourself before going to sleep that you are going to get 8 hours of restful sleep in the next 30 minutes or 2 hours - or however much time you have. I have used this since I was first in college - some 40+ years ago.

Another handy use of this ability is metaphysically when one needs to repeat an energy working at a particular time, for a number of days in a row. One can say - I am warping time - I am warping time - I am warping time. I am centered in today and in the six days past. I am centered in these 7 days. You can even do a deeper warp. You can say “I warp time again. I warp time again. I warp time again. I am centered in these hours of the day - sunrise and noon and sunset. When you have warped time in this manner, you will need to take the time warp off when you are finished- simply say “The time warp is taken off - time returns to normal time - a day is as a day” If you don’t remember to take the warp off, you will probably feel strange - perhaps a little dizzy.

Using the “R” energy is not restricted to those who have an “R” in their names.  Everyone can use this energy, access it - and gain abilities with it.  People who have the “R” in their names, however, would consider the abilities as natural - probably have gained a level of mastery in past lives.

I would be interested in hearing comments from those who have had these kinds of experiences.

Maria Yu has several beautiful blogs.  On  EternalExpression today she posted this quote which is probably the very essence of existence.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

You have a strong sense of feeling.  You can feel what other people are feeling.  There is a tendency to “take on” other people’s energy - and you have to be careful of this.  I have a friend who has a capital “M” in her name.  She called me on the phone one time in an absolute panic - she thought she was having a heart attack.  I looked on the inner and didn’t see anything that would indicate that - but I did see an incoming energy - so I asked her who was around her.  Well - her husband was there talking on the phone - and although he wasn’t having a heart attack, the man he was talking to was.  A person with an “M” in their name (especially if they are developed metaphysically) always needs to ask themselves “Is this my energy?”  Normally once you have identified that it is not your energy, it will just go away.

Manifestation is strong with you.  Notice that the words manifestation, magic and miracles all begin with “M”.  With an “M” in your name, you will probably have found that one or more of these have had an appeal to you - and you will probably have noticed that you seem to have been able to make things happen in your life.