Reviews revisited – the work in progress

 

“In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.” -  Ani Difranco

 In cleaning up the clutter on my computer, I found a review of Talking to Nightlights that I had saved and filed away. Suggestions on how I could better present the topic were late in coming but appreciated none the less.

There is a reason I misfiled this review. To sum up: the reviewer – without mincing words – suggested I cut some of the personal process and tidy up the writing… make it a bit leaner.

I did some mincing on those recommended specifics in this version.

So – if the book goes on in another form - I can still do that. No doubt it would improve the selling points and make the message more commercially appealing. I have yet to do that. My experiences and the people who have connected to me as a result of what I shared have given me even more avenues of conscious awakening to explore and assurance that there are others who know exactly what I have undergone as they are having similar experiences in the rocking boat.

So it was what I needed to do at the time. The book is about sharing the very first transitioning steps of a profound, life-changing spiritual metamorphosis.    

As it stands now when you read it, it might be helpful to know that I chose to include some of the personal process in my book because I knew there would be others like me who had not been exposed nor prepared for this kind of metaphysical – supernatural – paranormal event and might appreciate hearing how it can just start…for absolutely no reason… and then shake up the very core of your life foundation.

It would have been better I suppose to have cut the excess description and make a tidier story but this metaphysical, spiritual awakening stuff doesn’t happen neat and tidy. When it happens, the world shifts, reality cracks and you undergo an intense reassessment of consicous awareness … and your mental state.

You begin to reexamine superficial appearances and question all that you encounter. I could not imagine how to make sense of my story without including the process of unfoldment to demonstrate that – no matter who you are or how tight you think your handle is on the “real” world, reality is relative. You will make mistakes and muddle through a few things before you get your bearings.  

Awakening to a world where multidimensional awareness is a part of the daily routine takes a bit of getting used to. I was left with the knowing that the world is multi-layered energetic arena and a much more entertaining place if we can allow for that – even if we can’t comprehend it. We truly exist in a space – in and out of time – and when we are granted more exposure to some of the shamanic realms – wonder unfolds exponentially.

Now here’s the review - mince excised – for your dancing and dining pleasure. 

***Garrett, Wendy – A psychic channels messages from a spirit through a blinking nightlight. ***

[Point of fact. I have had to make peace with the term "psychic" because I had not considered myself in that light. EVER. I go so far as to claim channeling, intuitive and shamanic abilities with a mystical approach. I thought I was telling the story as a Broadcast Journalist who went AWOL and found God... Might be why the reviewer needed to offer a redirect.

I hate to admit being annoyed at being called a psychic but I thought - right out of the chute  - the label misdirected the intent and the direction of the book.]  

TALKING TO NIGHTLIGHTS, Channeling Energy and Awakening for Spiritual Insight
iUniverse (132 pp.) $13.95 paperback
April 25, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-595-41919-7:

In 1997, Garrett, who’d had psychic experiences since childhood but kept them at arms length to maintain a normal daily routine, began the channeling adventure of her life when she discovered that a blinking nightlight conveyed messages from a spirit, whom she called the Energy.

Informed that the Energy watches over and influences humans—Garrett worked with her own spirit guides to learn how to better connect to the Energy and as a result, soon understood the Energy well enough to sit at her computer and allow its messages to flow through her fingers.

A spirit thousands of years old, the Energy spoke of multiple universes and imparted information to help Garrett discover more about her spiritual self and her life connections to those around her. A spiritual Deep Throat, perhaps the most revealing bit the Energy divulged is what Garrett could expect after her death, which she will experience many times before becoming a spirit like the Energy.

Several conversations were developed into discussions about science and metaphysics.
For these, the Energy received help from other spirits, whom Garrett had channeled before. To better understand this information, Garrett studied books by respected physicists like Stephen Hawking, and those titles are included in a recommended reading list.

Eventually, the Energy told the author, she would move on to a higher plane of pure energy and take on a physical form again. The spirit also transmitted positive messages about love and a touching message about the death of the author’s cat.

[True confession... this is where a lot of "helpful suggestions"... were minced..er...um...excised. I ended up with one good sentence. The words in bold are original. ]

Positive messages about a unique experience of spiritual awakening. 

And so it is.

Message from The Nightlights

“At times I think and at times I am.” – Paul Valery

Shout Out to Awakened Dreamers

Get ready to rethink everything you ever thought you knew about reality. As the shift progresses, your awareness will allow you to see more that you had somehow overlooked prior to your arrival in this space and time.

Nothing is as it seems. The only real thing here is YOU. You create every single thing you engage with and you determine the measure of the encounter. And that creation thing is happening every single second of every day. Whatever you have fixated upon in your mind will turn up in some form in the world around you.

It does not seem so because the part of you doing that creation is not in this form nor on the same plane. You are multidimensional. Of the many parts, you are merely one at play in this universal field of conscious awareness.

Reality is not a line; it’s a bubble. Each and every item in the manifest plane has a bubble around it. The more you believe your bubble to be solid… the greater the potential for impact with others who believe otherwise. The ever so subtle way to avoid those types of altercations: Go with the flow. Loosen your attachments.

Listen to your heart, spirit guides and that knowing voice within and you will get out of the rut of recycled manifestations into the life stream of multi-consciousness creation with awareness before anyone realizes you are gone…

Note that it will not be an obvious nor prolonged departure. You will still exist as a shadow in this plane, almost like a place holder or a lampshade. While the butterfly soul navigates the in between state of becoming and – at every opportunity of remembering – the true spirit form of that little butterfly slips out of the cocoon and wanders out to play amongst the stars.

Conscious Ascension. You are lighting your way and you are already there – taking a byte out of time. What does this mean? At this level of awareness it becomes possible to effectively freeze yourself in place while making the metaphysical connections to step out of time and alter your life course.

Kind of changes everything as we know it. It isn’t new information, rather, it is information we chose to forget to be able to come here and grow lighter in our awareness and our being. We are now at the point of remembering our way HOME. The home we never left.

Perspective — you are the creator of your destiny. As such, the videos I have linked to this material are a game – “This game involves using the mind to overcome reaction and move into creation. Each player is moving from a limited reactive Third Dimensional body with a Fourth Dimensional drama to a Fifth-Dimensional spirit engaged in a multi-Dimensional reality.” — this is yet another creation. — http://www.premieres.com/christwithin.

My information does not come from their material but it does give it credence.

Amazon Review of Talking to Nightlights

Illumination – One hand clapping often leads to another.

Friday was a wonderful reminder that litte surprises can be worth the wait. First, the finished copy of Guy Finley’s Letting Go a little bit at a time arrived. And – on his website is my endorsement…it made the cut…at the very, very end of the list…and right before the link to read the book.

Then – because I called myself the Author of Talking to Nightlights – I checked out the book on Amazon… and what a shock to see a review… thank you for little surprises.

Talking to Nightlights, January 26, 2009 – Amazon Review – By R. McGovern (Maine USA) -

Talking to Nightlights: Channeling Energy and Awakening for Spiritual Insight – I highly recommend this book! It is excellent. Our paranormal group liked it so much some of our team members have bought a copy for themselves. A great read!

If I were an Amazon Customer I could reply – Hello and Thank you for a wonderful review. The events I talk about in the book changed my life path in 1997. My nightlights and my spiritual connection with the Energy has become even stronger. It is present wherever I am. And it can also be present with you (we are one and all connected in spirit consciousness).

I have posted videos on Youtube to give you an idea of how it works for me. The camera is set on auto and it phases out due to the presence of the energy. It is more obvious in the first video (08). In the current video (09), the Energy has managed to accomodate that dynamic and not interfere in the process.

Best wishes to you and your connections with Light!

Love, light and laughs,
wendy and the Energy…and the nightlights.

Musical Ghost at the Stanley Hotel

Believe and you will see.

I have had earlier opportunities to check out the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado and opted against it. Since I believe in and experience ghosts on a regular basis, I really didn’t want or need to engage more on my vacation.

Ghosts and spirit energies are real for me, so I try not to intentionally go where I have not been invited. This time, for whatever reason, I had an invite; my guides suggested a visit. As such, it was up to me to make it happen, not knowing exactly what to expect or why I had to see the Stanley Hotel.

It may be that, with the constant presence of my nightlight energy, I don’t question or doubt the existence of other awarenesses and life forms. Ghosts are a lot like people. They each have a certain role they are playing or duty they have agreed perform.

Some appreciate a bit of interest and polite acknowledgement but for the most part, they don’t want to hang out to shoot the breeze…or jump through a circus of hoops to prove they exist. They exist without proof or any obligation to provide such.

When and if a ghost needs my help, they find me and that works perfectly well for me. Why the Stanley and why this time? Turns out it was the presence of a new (very much alive and breathing) tour guide who had just enough time and experience on the job to corroborate all of my impressions – impressions that started bubbling in full force from the minute we drove onto the property.

My guides told me – “We have a surprise for you.” Ever the jovial companions, I have learned any reluctance or trepidation on my part only serves to amuse them even more, so I just go and see what they’ve arranged to help with my ongoing lessons in enlightenment.

I obliged them with a trip to the Stanley Hotel to meet a spirit they referred to as “The Singing Ghost.” The music began the minute I entered the grounds (The guides were laughing and kept asking, “Can you hear us singing.”). I walked – without knowing – directly to the music room, paused to admire the piano in the lobby area outside and felt drawn to the souvenir shop where I found someone I could question, who answered a lot of my questions and then directed me to (as it turns out) the person I was actually sent there to see. When I told that person I had a tremendous connection with someone who was incredibly musical and I heard and felt as if the ghost was humming, we were off. Our story is still unfolding.
For me, even though I have been doing this kind of thing overtly for over a decade, it is still embarrassing to ask the kind of questions I have to ask to corroborate my ghost impressions – but I can’t get any information if I don’t – so I just allow that I will find the right person and provide amusement for those who don’t get it.

On this trip – I found the ghost, the right person, and a reason to go back. Once again, my guides managed to make the road to “enlightenment” fun.

Oh, and for an added incentive to do my homework, I woke up with a huge knot in my back the day of the trip. It made absolutely no sense. (However, I did suspect a connection.) The guides referred to it as the “monkey on your back.” As soon as I made my engagement at the Stanley, the monkey went away.
The purpose of the trip:
My guides sent me to a place where I had no prior knowledge or sense of familiarity to connect my dots and remember what I “know” is always with me; I had to affirm me in yet another way. No matter how amazing and wonderful my encounters and abilities, I am still exploring, discovering and accepting who I am and what I do.

Never a dull moment in this world of light.

I also took my nightlight on this trip. More on that later…

Trust

When you need a defense, trust the light is always on; and it is. 

Stitching Time

No matter how fast or slow it may appear – we arrive in perfect time.

I am less focused now on dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s. Might be okay to leave a few things undone. What I have seen of where we are going – there are no things left undone.

I actually find that “undone” stuff rather intriguing. It inspires me to wonder, to contemplate what might appear as the next solution, knowing full well it doesn’t have to be a resolution, and even so, there will always remain more to be done.

Mystery is the carrot. We can never have all the answers because we can’t fathom the right questions but we create our reality regardless.

That is what we do here; we create and we are done.  Where we are going we will not miss it, as it doesn’t exist in any other form nor is it in our awareness, so I intend to enjoy it while I am here. I think that is called attachment. 

Heartfelt Living

The life pre-planned by the heart supersedes all plans of the mind. Even when the mind cannot hear the voice of the soul, the heart lives it. Our test is to meet the challenge while groping around in the dark.  

And no matter how successful we become in our connections – victory is not revealed here. Some of our dearest soul companions are to remain disguised until the game is over and we return home. Trust – though we cannot see them – we can feel them when we allow our heart to lead. 

Sharing InSight

The Holy Longing
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
Because the massman will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love making
sweeps you forward.

Distance does not make you falter
now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.

And so long as you haven’t experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.
—Goethe

The lights I see are such an enigma to me -

I have no answers for this seeing,

what is seen and my sense of it;

and yet, I have a new question every day!

What is the point?

Why do I see what I have no answer for

and what has no answer here?

Why me?

I ask my soul for an answer and it comes.

Butterfly Dreams.

I see light in the dark.

Shifting Gears – Evolving

“Thought has been constantly evolving and we can’t say when that system began.”  - David Bohm –

I am considering consolidating my focus to the Blogspot site. There, I share/feature more information on the other abilities I use and how that impacts my daily life.  I am a bit torn because I don’t want to shut down an avenue that works…even in a limited fashion. But – it will go where my energy flows…as I do.

Today, both sites feature Nic Askew. He’s created a wonderful program of insight and inspiration. He showcases a wide range of topics and subjects through individuals who are caught up in the maya.

Authentic, real, and inspiring, each is connected to spirit in his own way… As such, Nic provides a visual tapestry of the rainbow of spirit manifest for all to see.  A Sample. 

(The interpretation of the wording on that part is not what I envisioned. I meant to say – those who have found a way to fully embrace the illusion/maya and work it in a very unique and inspiring way… Language frustrates me … sometimes there are no words to convey the exact meaning. I hope it translates to say I value the subjects/individuals he has chosen to present and the eye he has for capturing their illuminating essence.) 

As You Think

As you think,

so you are.

As you dream,

so you become.

As you create your wishes,

so they create you.

Create the best for all with whom you come into contact and you not only elevate them – you elevate yourself.