Spirit Word QH

09/18/2026

🍍From this, to this. The aroma is heavily. 👀

08/21/2026

Dr. Sarno emphasized telling the brain directly that the physical body is reacting to tension pain.
° "I hear you, and I acknowledge this pain. Thank you for trying to protect me, but there is no actual structural emergency right now."
° ​"This intense spasm is just my nervous system overprotecting my muscles. My spine is strong, and my body knows how to heal."
° "It is completely okay that I feel stiff today. This stiffness is temporary, and my circulation is returning."
° ​"I don't need to force anything to fix itself right now. I can just rest into this moment and let my breath do the work."
° ​"I am safe. These muscles are just tight, not damaged."
° ​"I acknowledge that my hips and lower back are gripping, but I give them full permission to soften and let go."

08/02/2026

The Indian Shaker Church (distinct from the European-American Shakers founded by Ann Lee) is a syncretic Indigenous spiritual movement that holds a rich history across the Pacific Northwest, spanning both Washington State and British Columbia.

In Shaker tradition, brass handbells are essential spiritual tools. They carry direct symbolic, rhythmic, and ceremonial functions.

What the Bells Represent & How They Are Used:

1. Calling the Creator & Guiding Spirits

Just as traditional Coast Salish and Northwest Coast nations used drums, rattles, and singing to connect with the spirit world, Shakers use the rhythmic ringing of brass handbells to call upon the Creator, Jesus, and helper spirits. The resonant high frequency of metal bells is believed to pierce spiritual barriers and invite holy presence into the room.

2. Cleansing and "Brushing Away" Heavy Energies

During a healing or cleansing service, individuals who feel spiritually heavy, sick, or burdened stand before the altar or in the center of the floor.
The Ritual Action: Shaker practitioners (often called "shakers" or "healers") ring handbells in both hands close to the person being healed.

The Motion: Combined with the physical "shake" (a gift attributed to Mary Slocum), the vibrations and sound of the bells are used to "brush" or "sweep" bad thoughts, illness, grief, or negative spirit energy away from the body—starting from the head down to the feet—and cast them away toward the light or candle flame.

3. Funerals & Transitions of the Soul

Funerals are one of the most prominent places outsiders and community members experience Shaker bells.

Guiding the Deceased: The ringing serves to guide the spirit of the deceased peacefully toward the Creator and to ward off any malicious or clinging spiritual influences during the transition.

Comforting the Living: During wakes and funeral services, bell ringing creates a continuous, trance-like sonic blanket that wraps around grieving family members, helping to "lift" the heavy sorrow from their hearts so it doesn't settle into their bodies as physical or spiritual illness.

A Ceremonial Scenario: A Shaker Healing Work

Imagine walking into a modest wooden church or longhouse space:

The Setting: Three white crosses stand at the altar, illuminated by flickering white candles. The smell of burning cedar or sweetgrass fills the air, blending traditional Coast Salish cleansing with Shaker devotion.

The Work Begins: Someone in the community is carrying heavy grief or physical sickness. They step forward to the center of the floor. Two or three practitioners stand around them holding heavy brass handbells in each hand.

The Sound & Motion: The bell-ringers begin a rapid, rhythmic, synchronized ringing—a sharp, clear ding-ding ding-ding that drives the cadence of foot-stomping and songs. As the power of the Holy Spirit and traditional spirit helpers takes hold, the practitioners begin to shake involuntarily in their hands and arms.
The Cleansing: Using the bells almost like magnetic brushes, they sweep the sound over the person's shoulders, arms, and chest, "catching" the heavy illness or sorrow in their hands and ringing it out into the room or upward toward the altar candles. The loud, relentless sound absorbs the room, leaving the recipient feeling spiritually light, clean, and relieved.

History Across the US–Canada Border

The Indian Shaker Church has a deeply interwoven history between Indigenous nations in Washington State and British Columbia:

Origins in Washington State (1881–1882)

The movement began along Puget Sound near Skookum Inlet / Mud Bay, Washington. John Slocum (Squaxin/Skokomish) had a near-death experience in 1881, receiving a vision to preach a clean lifestyle free of alcohol and gambling. Shortly after, when John fell ill again, his wife Mary Slocum experienced an intense physical tremor while praying. Her shaking was recognized as divine spiritual healing power ("the Shake"), forming the core of the movement.
Spreading Across the Border into British Columbia

The border between the US and Canada (the 49th parallel) was an artificial boundary imposed on Coast Salish and neighboring Indigenous nations who already had ancestral trade, family, and ceremonial ties across the region.

Family Ties: News of the healing power of the Shaker movement traveled along traditional Coast Salish kinship lines from Puget Sound north through the Strait of Georgia, Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley, and the Squamish/Musqueam regions.

Sanctuary and Survival: In both the US and Canada, Indigenous spiritual practices were heavily outlawed by federal governments (the Indian Act and potlatch bans in Canada, and Indian Religious Crimes Codes in the US). The Shaker Church offered a safe way to preserve Indigenous spiritual healing, song, and community under the visible banner of Christian symbols (crosses, candles, and bells).

Cross-Border Unity Today
Despite early legal resistance from government agents and orthodox mission churches, the Indian Shaker Church was officially incorporated and established congregations in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia. Today, Shaker families routinely travel back and forth across the border to attend conventions, funerals, and healing gatherings, keeping a centuries-old Coast Salish spiritual connection alive across international lines.

08/01/2026

What is being experienced is a shift from dissolution to re-integration, and what you're experiencing right now is actually one of the most reliable signs that the void is beginning to yield.

When the old engine—powered by fear, survival, and identity—shuts down, the immediate aftershock is that heavy, neutral stillness as described in the post. But as the system stabilizes, awareness doesn't just sit in a blank room; it turns inward with a totally different quality of attention.

The Shift:
From Reaction to Observation -
What you’re noticing, that space between the trigger and the response is the birth of unattached witness consciousness.

The Old Engine (Ego Identity):
When you were fully identified with the self, a trigger immediately became you. "I am angry," "This is unjust," or "I must defend myself." The emotion took the wheel because the ego believed its immediate survival was at stake.

The In-Between State (Current Phase):
Because the attachment to "who you are" has loosened, the charge drops out of the reaction. The event happens, the old wiring fires a impulse, but instead of taking over, it just hangs in mid-air. You get to step back, tilt your head, and ask, "Huh, isn’t that interesting?"

That simple shift from being the reaction to observing the reaction is where real freedom begins. You aren't suppressing the detail or fighting it; you’re simply no longer consumed by it.

Nuance as the New Ground:
When you stop spending massive amounts of psychological energy maintaining an identity, chasing validation, or defending a self-image, you suddenly have an enormous amount of perceptual bandwidth left over.

That bandwidth goes straight into the nuances:
-The subtle tightening in your shoulders when a certain topic comes up.

-The faint, lingering habits of thought that served the old survival model.

-The beauty or quiet complexity of small, everyday moments that the old, goal-obsessed drive used to steamroll right over.

In this stage, life stops being a series of major problems to solve or goals to conquer, and becomes a fine-grained, moment-to-moment exploration. The little things become rich teaching tools because you finally have the stillness required to listen to them. Is it “Self,” or Something Deeper?

One can ask whether this learning is about the “self” or something deeper than the action that brought you there.

In a very real sense, it’s both, depending on how you define “self.”

1. It heals the personal self:
By observing those old triggers without judgement, you are cleaning up the leftover conditioning of the person you’ve been. You are letting the old phantom reactions run out of steam.

2. It anchors you in the deeper Self (Capital ‘S’): The entity asking ”Why is this bothering me?” isn’t the fragile ego that got offended. It’s the deeper awareness behind it.

The hope in this next phase is that you aren’t rebuilding another rigid persona. You are learning to operate from a source that doesn’t need to fight the world to prove it exists. Once those residual triggers lose their grip—not because you conquered them, but because you simply outgrew needing them—what emerges isn’t a new set of heavy ambitions.

It’s a quiet, unshakeable responsiveness. You act not because fear drives you, but because the moment invites action. You engage with details not to fix your identity, but out of pure, untangled curiosity.

You’re not stuck in the vacuum anymore. You’re on the threshold of living from the quiet room behind it. 🌎❤️🌿

07/31/2026

Ancient Essene Wisdom for the 21st Century https://www.facebook.com/share/19GyuEE2E7/

07/29/2026

Technology and change aren't inherently evil—they are mediums. Where we place our attention and how we choose to experience the moment is where our power lies. Shadows exist, but they don’t get the final word unless we surrender our focus to them. We can recognize the dark and choose to see the light in all things.

07/28/2026

Editorial in the comments. 🌎❤️🌿
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The Desire Not to Exist & The Void After Spiritual Awakening

There is a phase on the awakening path that no one talks about, no one celebrates, and very few dare to name. It is the moment after the light has come on, when life doesn't sparkle the way it used to. When the old hunger for success, approval, identity, and survival collapses, and in its place, something far heavier arrives. It is not despair but more like a deep heavy stillness that whispers a terrifying sentence inside you. I don't want to die but I don't want to exist either. People expect awakening to feel like clarity and finding purpose. But for many it feels like the floor disappears. The roles you once played stop making sense. The stories that once fueled you lose their charge. You're still here paying bills, making food, speaking to people. Yet something inside has already stepped outside the game. You don't feel suicidal. You feel posts survival. As if the part of you that was designed to chase life has quietly retired. This is where the phrase ego death stops being poetic and starts being physical. Carl Jung never framed awakening as an endless rise into light. He warned that when the old self dissolves, there is a long interval where meaning collapses before it reorganizes. The psyche dismantles its former scaffolding before it can build a new one. And during this collapse, the nervous system doesn't feel enlightened. It feels disoriented, empty, suspended in a silent waiting room between who you were and who you are becoming. The desire not to exist is born here. Not from wanting to die, but from losing attachment to being someone. For years, your ego kept you moving through desire, fear, ambition, comparison, and longing. Even pain gave you structure. Then awakening arrives and the structure melts. You see through the illusions that once motivated you. You recognize the masks. You detect the unconscious games. You sense the mechanical nature of the world. And suddenly the question isn't how do I succeed? It becomes why participate at all. This is not pathology or a defect.

This is a threshold state of consciousness. In depth psychology, when the ego dies faster than the deeper personality can reorganize, the psyche enters a vacuum. In this vacuum, nothing feels urgent. Nothing feels meaningful in the old way. The will disconnects from survival based goals. Desire goes silent not because it is wounded, but because it no longer recognizes the old objects as real nourishment. From the outside, people may think you are sinking into apathy or depression. Inside, what you feel is stranger than that. You can sense reality more clearly than ever. Yet, you don't feel pulled by it. There is awareness without appetite, presence without attachment. You are awake. And that is exactly why existence feels optional. Spiritual traditions describe this as the death of the false self. Buddhism speaks of the dissolution of craving. Mystical Christianity writes about the long pergation between selves. Sufism calls it the annihilation of the personal will. Yung mapped it psychologically. When the ego loosens its grip, the unconscious floods the field. And when meaning was previously supplied by the ego, its collapse feels like losing gravity. This is why the desire not to exist feels so confusing. It carries no violence, no panic, no despair. It feels neutral and flat, almost neutral enough to be mistaken for peace. But not really. It is the sense that the old contract with life has expired and the new one hasn't yet been written. Many people at this stage fear they have gone backward. They search for ways to feel normal again. They try to revive motivation, attraction, and hunger. But what they are really grieving is the death of their old psychological engine. The system that once ran on fear and craving can no longer power the next phase of their becoming. The nervous system doesn't know how to live without appetite yet. So existence feels heavy, not painful, not urgent, just unnecessary. Days continue. You function, you speak, you eat, you work, but the old inner yes to life is gone. And in its absence, a terrifying neutrality takes its place. This is where many mistake transformation for collapse. But collapse is only the first movement. The psyche cannot stay in the vacuum forever. Something older than survival begins to stir. A layer beneath the ego, a layer that does not live for validation, performance, or fear, starts organizing in silence. And until it is ready to speak, you remain in the in between, alive, aware, unattached, and secretly waiting for a meaning you can no longer manufacture. After the old psychological engine shuts down, the body is the first to notice.

To be continued in C0mments 👇

07/24/2026

Love is the Devotee's song

"In the 1930s, while Anandamayi Ma was residing in Dehradun, a Bengali man in his early 30s was brought to her by relatives. He had been a brilliant scholar, but suddenly became mentally disturbed — talking to invisible beings, suffering burning sensations, and unable to eat food prepared by anyone in the house.
He had consulted doctors and priests. Some said it was mental illness, others diagnosed it as black magic or a spirit attack. Eventually, he began screaming that someone had buried his soul under the earth.

What happened in Ma's Presence:
The family brought him to Anandamayi Ma during one of her silent satsangs. As soon as he entered the room, he began trembling and muttering in a strange language.
Ma looked at him — quietly — with no mantras, no instructions.
Within minutes, he fell into a deep sleep at her feet.
He awoke two hours later, calm and completely normal, confused about how he had arrived there.
When the devotees asked Ma what had happened, she smiled and said in Bengali: "Ora jeta byatha dite chilo, ta kintu aaj ami kheye nilam." ("What they intended to cause him, I have taken into myself.")
Later, Ma was found sitting in silence with closed eyes for hours, perspiring heavily, and her body burning with fever, which left by nightfall.

The man never had another episode. He later became a teacher in Varanasi and would return every year to Anandamayi Ma's ashram to simply offer flowers and touch her feet, saying:

“No ritual, no fight. She just looked at me — and darkness ended.”

07/21/2026

We witness a profound and quiet transformation sweeping across our world. It does not broadcast itself upon our screens, nor does it seek the noise of public acclaim. If you look only through the lens of external turmoil, it remains unseen. Yet, it is unfolding with absolute certainty within the sacred sanctuary of the human heart.

You are remembering a fundamental truth: where your focus goes, your reality flows. You shape the tapestry of existence not by what you oppose, but by who you choose to become.

Across the planet, souls are awakening to the realization that to fight against the darkness only anchors your energy within it. Battling the chaos is an exhaustion of spirit; the time for struggle has passed.

Instead, a quiet movement of light is rising—not to wage war, but to cultivate peace. You are turning inward to heal, to nurture beauty, and to bring forth your own expression of heaven upon the earth. As you remember the truth of your own divine nature, you step naturally beyond the reach of fear and manipulation. You cease waiting for the world to transform, and instead become the very light you seek.

This momentum is gathering quietly across nations. It is not a force gathered to stand against something, for fighting only breeds more fighting. It is a harmony of resonance—a collective commitment to create a world so vibrant, loving, and clear that others are naturally drawn to join it.

The day draws near when the old paradigms may call for war, yet find no hearts remaining to answer. The heavy frequencies of conflict, greed, and control simply cannot endure in a reality sustained by sovereign, awakened beings living in conscious unity with their divinity.

Hold fast to this inner knowing. You are the architects of this new reality.

With Great Love,
Aj 🌎❤️🌿

06/21/2026

Consciousness can be understood as a journey from biological necessity to ethical responsibility. By looking at this transition through a historical and philosophical lens, we can see how the very meat-eating that once catalyzed our physical and mental growth has now become an anchor holding back our spiritual and ecological evolution.

The Evolutionary Timeline of Meat and Consciousness

The Spark of Intellect (The Ancestral Era) Approx. 2 Million Years Ago

In the early stages of human evolution, hunting and consuming dense animal proteins and fats provided the massive caloric surplus required to grow and sustain a large, complex brain. In a world of scarcity, taking animal life was a strict biological necessity for survival. This period forged our initial cognitive tools, spatial awareness, and cooperative social structures.

The Sacred Exchange (The Indigenous & Animist Era) Pre-Industrial History

As human consciousness expanded into spirituality, the act of taking a life was recognized as a profound, sacred exchange. Traditional hunting cultures practiced deep gratitude, viewing the animal as a kin spirit that willingly gave its life so the tribe could endure. This kept humanity tethered to the natural order, maintaining a conscious equilibrium with the Earth.

The Illusion of Separation (The Industrial Era) 18th – 20th Century

With the rise of mechanized agriculture and urbanization, humanity became physically and emotionally disconnected from the source of its food. Animals were reclassified from sentient beings into commodities and production units. This period represents a contraction of consciousness—prioritizing efficiency and dominance over empathy and ecological balance.

The Modern Crisis (The Anthropocene) Late 20th – Early 21st Century

Population growth and industrial factory farming reach a global tipping point. The massive scale of inhumane conditions, intensive slaughter, and widespread environmental degradation (deforestation, methane emissions, water pollution) shifts meat consumption from a survival mechanism to a global liability. The old model becomes ecologically unsustainable and spiritually unconscionable.

The Awakening Shift (The Present & Beyond) The New Evolutionary Era

Humanity reaches a critical threshold in consciousness where survival no longer depends on dominance, but on stewardship and compassion. We now possess the nutritional abundance and technological capability to thrive entirely on plant-based diets. Choosing not to eat animals becomes the next logical step in our spiritual evolution expanding our circle of empathy to include all sentient life and healing our relationship with the planet.

Summarizing the Paradigm Shift
To articulate why this shift is happening now, the argument can be distilled into three core realizations:

From Physical Growth to Spiritual Growth: In our evolutionary infancy, meat built our physical brains. Now that our brains and global systems are fully developed, the next frontier of evolution is the refinement of our consciousness. We are moving from the intellect of how to survive to the wisdom of how to coexist.

The Law of Necessity vs. The Law of Choice: An act is fundamentally altered by choice. When hunting was necessary for survival, it was aligned with the natural order. Now that killing animals is a choice driven by preference rather than survival, continuing the practice under inhumane industrial conditions actively degrades human empathy and stunts spiritual growth.

The Expansion of the Self Higher consciousness recognizes interconnection. To view factory farming as acceptable requires a closing of the heart and a suppression of awareness. By consciously choosing to stop consuming animal flesh, humanity breaks the cycle of violence and takes responsibility for the collective well-being of the planet, marking the transition into a truly mature species.