Going to another for spiritual enlightenment or to receive channeled wisdom from the inner realms can lead to spiritual enslavement. Whoa! That’s heavy. Maybe, but it’s something that needs to be addressed in the spiritual community.
When you take on another person’s ideas as your truth without your own independent investigation and experience, then you give your power away to someone or something outside yourself.
I’m really all about some DIY spirituality. I just love teaching people to do it for themselves.
Looking back, I finally made a conscious decision to not be anyone’s Faery oracle. I felt I could be of greater service to the world, not by transmitting or channeling messages of the Faery realm for people, but by empowering others to co-create their own relationship with the spirit world.
I can remember being tempted once. When a trusted mentor asked me to sit in a magic garden and be the next-generation Faery channel for her spiritual retreat center, I had to think twice — visions of past lives as a Delphi oracle and village prophetess danced like sugar plums before my mind’s eye.
But I overcame my temptation and did not fall prey to my ego. It would have been really easy to succumb and be someone’s oracle too. Because people love that stuff.
But it’s important to realize that it ain’t nothing but a crutch.
Long ago in the ancient world, perhaps it was necessary—a different time, a different place. People needed a hand to reach beyond the veil and pull a rabbit out of a hat so they could renew their belief in magic.
But now we are at a point in our evolutionary journey when sovereignty is trending. The time has come for each of us to be a font of oracular wisdom for him or herself.
Why? Because if I give you a message from spirit, now you buy into that age-old (and frankly out-of-style) belief that you can’t access the wisdom yourself. So you make my truth your own, and give your power away to a source outside of you.
Perhaps worst of all is that you deprive yourself of the incredible magic and potential that lies in developing a relationship with the spirit realm and the living realms of nature for yourself.
So it’s time to stop looking outside yourself and turn within to remember the truth of who you are.
I believe in this world where each and every person has unlocked their soul’s profound wisdom. In this reality, each person shares from his or her heart, and has access to their own wisdom in a way that is most pertinent to their piece of the puzzle. Each person is aligned to their truth, and thus they become a unique instrument of beauty, love and healing.
That is the world I work for and that is the world I keep in my heart when I empower my clients and my community to awaken a potent relationship with the living magick of nature.
It is true that I hear the voices of Spirit and the Otherworld— the Fae and Elven folk, the whispers on the wind and the spirits of nature.
But so can you!
Creating a relationship with the living medicine of the Earth helps you remember yourself “home” and connected to who you really are. You’d be surprised how many “problems” don’t seem so big anymore when you know who you are.
So the next time you decide to listen to somebody’s channeled words, I want you to stop, drop into your own body and heart, and see what is there waiting for you.
Then ask yourself, why am I listening to this message?
Is it simply because I desire a little inspiration and insight?
OR are you using it as an excuse to not access your own deeper knowing and relationship with the inner realms of nature for yourself?
Here’s to uncovering your own inner jewels and being the magick that you are!