INSIGHTS
MARCH 2014

Dear Friend: 
When I energetically entered the month of March, it took me a few moments to adjust. Everything felt chaotic. It was kind of like walking from a peaceful valley, hearing the sounds of a quiet brook, the soft whoosh of a breeze as it touches against your skin and moves through the grasses, the sound of birds and small creatures moving through the brush and then suddenly waking up and finding that you're in a nightclub, with lights flashing from every direction, drums clashing, horns blaring, guitars screeching and frantic movement all about. It felt as though my consciousness was moving from moment to moment, back and forth between the nightclub and the peaceful valley.
That feeling was best defined for me on March 1st, when I turned on the television and in less than two minutes, I watched news flashes of troops preparing to overtake the Crimean Peninsula as the world watched, immobilized. In direct contrast, I watched people celebrating Carnivale. I watched a news flash about people knifed to death in an attack in a Chinese train station. I watched a couple who had found more than ten million dollars worth of coins in their back yard last year (the dream of every landowner!!) and now, had just discovered that the United States government may confiscate their fortune. I saw a photo of a soldier carrying two horribly injured little children off a battlefield. I had to turn off the TV. All of this hit me within a very short period of time - zoom zoom zoom - going from positive to negative and back to positive in an incredibly brief span of time, not giving my brain or my emotional senses a chance to respond to any one event before another came along.
It is in times such as this that we begin to hear more and more people discussing and assessing their feelings about Spirituality and/or various religions, philosophies and ideals. Unfortunately, most conversations about religion end up in dispute. I have for many years used the word Spirit and Spirituality in these newsletters to mean "God" because I teach and lecture to people of many different religious and philosophical persuasions and although I was raised in the Christian church, I have great respect for many Spiritual paths.
Every life has a Spiritual path that defines it by bringing it into certain experiences, urging it toward certain events and bringing us together with other Souls whose presence in our lives have the potential to benefit both of us. (The lesson is never in the event but always in our response to the event.....this can be the love of our life, the heartbreak of our life, or simply a relationship we never forgot.)
Whether they know and acknowledge it, every person has a Spiritual core, and in times of intense travail or in times of powerful emotional intensity, there is a knowing of that Spiritual core that exists within. Because it is difficult to describe or explain, people who "live in their minds" tend to discredit the experience. Although they will admit to having the experience, they will generally ascribe it to fleeting emotional fantasy. However, for all of us, in the moments that create the changes in our lives - the moments that create the decisions that make our life BE - that inner core of Spiritual being is the driving force that directs us. It is that which we know as God, and it is that the more aware or the more conscious person comes to realize as a greater part of their being.
I have been asking you to consciously work on awareness and telling you that enormous events are coming our way, I will say now that those who have preawareness are also those who live consciously - they don't feel as though they get "slammed" when intensely powerful events happen, not to say that it doesn't feel like a lot hits them when so many things happen at once, but to say that they can handle it without flying apart. Those of us who consciously focus on awareness - who meditate, who pray, who practice living in attunement with Spirit - will immediately go into a sense of alignment with Spirit and feel a sense of peaceful calm flow into us the moment we have an awareness of the presence of something that might be perceived as threatening or might be called "bad news".
If you lived in Crimea when the soldiers came, masked and heavily armed, if you are a person who had been consciously practicing the development of a Spiritual connection through meditation, prayer, etc., at the moment that you were aware that the event was happening, you would have felt a sense of peace flowing through your body. You would have had an inner sense of strength and had an inner knowing of what you needed to do to provide for the safety of your loved ones and yourself.
The difference between an evolved Soul and a young Soul (who often become so religiously fanatical that they would kill for their religious ideals) is that the evolved Soul knows that Spirit would never, under any circumstances, urge a person to do harm to themselves or another person. Their Spiritual core is unwavering in that knowing. A younger soul is worshipping something outside themselves; the Spiritual seeker is worshipping a love that they find inside themselves that is everywhere, and they understand that it flows through everyone and everything in the world - every person, every tree, every animal, every plant.
As I have said many times before in these newsletters (and will probably repeat many times again), people are becoming powerfully locked into their own religious thought-forms, becoming so polarized that they actually believe anyone who thinks differently than they should be killed, that they have no right to live in this world. Those who are born to these factions of hatred are growing larger and more powerful in their intent with every passing day, and we're moving closer and closer to tremendous, tremendous Universal upheaval and devastation as a result......until/unless enough of us learn to respect each other and come to the realization that any deity worth offering our entire beings to must be a deity who offers to fill us and this world with Love, compassion and healing.
Our task is to live our lives daily in a constant state of being aware of the presence of Spirit or God so that when an event occurs - any event, whether it be the invasion of your homeland or the finding of millions of dollars - we don't have to call on Spirit - we live with Spirit. We live in harmony with Spirit, and when we live in harmony with Spirit, we live in integrity. Therefore, we automatically take whatever action Spirit would urge us to take. And when we live in constant awareness because we are in a constant state of partnership with Spirit, nothing comes as a real surprise.

As we move through this year, there will be so much that happens so fast: the boundaries of the countries of the world are changing, the political structures are changing, the religious structures are changing - so much is changing so fast that we can feel like we're swirling around OR we can pass quietly, even peacefully, through this, experiencing moments of joy, moments of wonderful love, and having the opportunity to truly be of service to others who are in need.
I just want you to remember that as much as there is going to be chaos in this month, there is also going to be beauty. Remember that in that flash of images I saw, I also saw some really beautiful things. This world is filled with wonders. Just as I began to get up from my chair after seeing that sequence on television, my little puppy came into my room and put the first spring daffodil I've seen into my lap. Of course, it was soaking from the rains and torn to shreds, but what a joyful and lovely gift!
Accept the blessings. There are so many - we just need to recognize them as they come and receive the blessings into ourselves, not just saying, "Oh, that's so beautiful"....but feeling the blessings all the way through us and into our hearts and saying with gratitude, "Thank you, God."
Stay Focused on the Light....          

Dixie Yeterian