Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. (Ephesians 6:16)
Today, I write to you because of a very important lesson I was remembering: the necessity of the spiritual path for overcoming all evil emanations. The purpose of this writing isn’t to scare anybody. The purpose is just the opposite: to tell you my story about overcoming the fear of the unknown.
I sat one day in my living room, watching cable television. I don’t remember what was on the TV, which was fine because I also had a book in my hand, probably something metaphysical. It was past my bedtime, and I needed to get a good night’s sleep. I was experiencing the late-night quiet and precious moments of a mom whose kids had already gone to bed. Soon after I thought of going to bed myself, I felt my butt lift up and almost off of the couch cushion. I hadn’t noticed anyone in the room with me, and although I wasn’t levitating entirely off the couch, I felt a definite shift in my body weight. It was as if someone were trying to help me get off the couch! My heart was pounding inside my chest out of fear of the unknown.
Days later, one of my spiritual teachers asked me, “Haven’t you heard of your Guardian Angels?”
What happened next was astounding. My Teacher proceeded to give me a week’s worth of homework on psychic self-protection, a lesson on God’s Divine Kingdom (which included a reinterpretation of what we mean by Oneness), and, just to be sure, a Catholic web address for Angelic Prayers, so I could call upon my Angel helpers whenever I needed them. That wasn’t all. She recorded the conversation, then proceeded to email it to me after I’d gone back home.
What did I learn from all of this? First of all, there was nothing to fear except my teacher, who wanted me to remember a lesson. Second, I learned that knowing is everything when overcoming the fear of the unknown.
Had I remembered, I would have welcomed my Guardian Angel’s help that evening. But, I had previously encountered another entity of a not-so-friendly nature, which left me feeling on edge about my own spiritual experiences. My Teacher teased me about my not-so-welcome experience by recounting the tale of Mickey Mouse in The Magician’s Apprentice. As you may recall, mops and mop-buckets of water, spellbound by the apprentice, were getting wildly out of control. That is until the apprentice’s master shows up with a look of consternation on his face and silences the whole outfit. Mickey Mouse was left with some clean-up work!
My ugly encounter was a lesson in Oneness. Something I did, something deep within me, some shadow part of myself, needed some clean-up work, too. And, before I could continue moving forward on the spiritual path, I had to realize what I did to create my own worst enemy: a spirit who wanted to tell me what to do with my time. I didn’t recognize the warning signs – the separations. The spirit wanted me away from my family.
However, putting two and two together took me a day or two. I learned through bitter experience that I had a recent unfoldment of my own psychic abilities called Clair-audience, enabling me to hear clearly from the angelic realm. And, it was time for me to raise my vibration to a higher level of awareness: I had to learn to close the door tightly behind me to duality and live in a non-dual universe.
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