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We are intelligent, feeling beings living in a world of challenge and opportunity. The human being is unique in this world because of the potential of the heart and the growth of consciousness that can blend to give us the latent possibility of realizing the Divine.

Our psychospiritual work at the Deva Foundation is dedicated to supporting the client's innate ability to heal and develop these divinely human qualities in this lifetime. The work consists of two major functions: To open and develop the relationship with the Higher Self, that Divine Presence Within, and to release the attachments of pain and suffering.

Going Within

The boundaries of the body, that is, its material form existing within time, are formidable restrictions to the perception of things that are intangible, unbounded, and beyond time. These characteristics of human life create a wall of separation from the spiritual realms. The senses connect us to what is happening outside of ourselves in the ever-changing world of phenomena. Manifest creation keeps the senses busy with plenty of stimuli.

Trapped by the marvels of perception on the human plane, we are drawn outward through the senses into the phenomenal world and the attachments of karma, emotion, and the mysteries of life. Yet there is a firm foundation of reality within us, at times beyond our conscious perception, yet nevertheless constantly there as our true reality. This divine source is eternal, conscious, and equally available to everyone. It is the Higher Self, the self that exists beyond the confines of the incarnational games and roles we play. This Higher Self can guide us, teach us, and certainly thrill us, for it truly is our one and only spiritual source, our connection to the Divine Imagination. To investigate its ways of communication and to open to the flow of conscious spiritual insight is an inspired purpose for our lives. Its potential is utterly profound.

At the Deva Foundation, our psychospiritual facilitators help people open the doors to their spiritual truths, facilitating the clearing of emotional patterns of illusion and unconsciousness. Spiritual energy is indeed the greatest healer, the Higher Self being the teacher and guide for the mastery of life. To expand our consciousness of this unlimited source within, we must begin by learning the language of our inner spiritual world and becoming skilled in the exploration of its multidimensional landscape.

The creative expressions of consciousness that are seen in psychospiritual sessions, meditation, or dreams are rich in symbolism. Always multidimensional, these inner experiences affect our sense of reality holographically and provide our intellect with marvelous understandings. To have the privilege of watching and sharing in a client's mystical journey is a great opportunity. Not only is the information always relevant, but the power of a spiritual question and the penetration into deeper and deeper levels of understanding ushers in new possibilities, allowing both the facilitator and the client to creatively communicate with new models of reality as the sense of Self evolves.

Having entered the game of life, we naturally hold onto form, repeatedly. The nature of karma is repetition. It requires the perpetuation of familiar forms, patterned responses, limited perspectives in other words, memory. Memory can be held physically or energetically, deep within the subtle bodies of our personal field. Practically speaking, the difficulty of karmic memory is that it holds the emotional energy of the past and creates themes of repetitive expression. It starts with the initial imprint of our separation from God and snowballs into familiar feelings such as fear, anger, isolation, helplessness, and victimization. Separation creates the suffering of life.

The actual reason we don't commune with Spirit is because of the emotional memory of our past suffering and our unwillingness to open to it for fear of feeling the pain again. We have an ego that is required to keep those doors closed for protection, to insure and secure the present as it flows into the future. The future then becomes structured by the repressed memories of the past. This creates the illusion of fear and an expectation of continued suffering. We become attached to time. Our past is purposely forgotten, our future is controlled to the best of our ability, and our present loses its potential for free expression and continued expansion.

Our body holds the memory of karma and our attachment to it blocks us from knowing our Universal Self. By identifying with the body, our ego thinks we are the form and the feelings, so it insulates us in order to preserve our limited self-concept. On one level, it tries to protect us from suffering, if not from annihilation. On another level, its attachments keep us within boundaries, resisting the call for liberation. It fears unboundedness, which is equated with death, with nothingness. The ego is pledged to maintain self-identity, for this means continued existence. This vicious closed cycle is maintained by the fear of letting go of the past, thereby perpetuating form and time.

The emotional imprints of the past are powerful; they create form, and they create obstacles to our ability to listen clearly and know ourselves. Fortunately, the releasing of past memory dissolves form. As we heal and release the past, the boundaries loosen, the sense of self expands, the ego experiences greater freedom and we begin to realize the Universal Self. Lowering our personal wall opens up our feelings and allows for greater intimacy, which eventually leads us into communion. But first we must face the challenges of our past and communicate with the memories of our past choices in order to learn the lessons completely.

One of the most difficult yet most empowering lessons is about suffering. Suffering is caused by the separation from Universal Self. The greater the apparent gap, the more attachment our ignorance has in our emotional body. As consciousness opens, our memories of suffering come up and we are given the opportunity, once again, to deal with our hindrances and transform them into growth. Penetrating the walls to our inner communication can then be seen as the chance to experience new freedom.

Living in a body demands that we live in a world of matter and energy. This produces forms, and we identify with those forms. How we understand our perceptions of the things around us requires us to reorganize our sensory input so that we can recognize a perception and be able to interact or communicate with it. In order to do this, we create models of reality.

These models can include habitual behavioral responses, learned from parents and society. We are taught how to live, how to react, what is right or wrong. We form attitudes based on our programming from the past. We are taught how to relate, what to believe, and even what we are supposed to be. Models can be symbolic or representational forms that create a lens for us to view manifest reality.

We create the model airplane to represent something tangible, or we model behavior of the judge, honor student, athlete, etc., or enjoy watching a fashion model display the elegance or look that we consider ideal. Underneath all this imprinting and programming is an emotional body that just feels. It holds a set of emotional responses that are based on its programming since its creation, countless lifetimes ago. Since the emotional body exists outside of time and space, its imprinting makes it vulnerable at any moment to repeat the responses of the past, including pre-incarnational memory, here in the present. When it does get triggered, its emotional energy associates itself with the events and situations of the moment, creating another memory layer which then attaches to the seed memory of the past. Each layer strengthens our emotional identification with the memories of the past by trapping us in the models of limitation and suffering.

Our mental judgments and attitudes then reflect these emotional imprints, and we constantly express them in our daily behavior. The karmic imprints held in the emotional body, therefore, are the basis of how we see and act in the world. Our karma has created our models of reality. The greater the attachment to these karmic models, the less consciousness we will experience. Or we can say that the more we identify with the emotional imprints of the past, the less conscious we will be of the unbounded nature of Spirit and the sense of freedom it holds.

To transcend models is to go beyond manifestation into a merging with the Absolute Oneness. Then, of course, there is no body, no incarnational need. But we are in body and we are in need of further growth. How do we live in a body, realize the ultimate, and live enlightenment in a world of form?

The first step requires us to experience something besides the relative world of form. We must know the experience of the Absolute Oneness, which by definition is formless and unmanifest. Until we have experienced the source of all matter and energy that structures form, we are unable to live the coexistence of the absolute and relative worlds.

For example, we may have two glasses of clear water. They may look alike, but until we use another way of perceiving such as taste we miss the experience of the dissolved salt in one and the dissolved sugar in another. Relying on singular means of perception, we cannot distinguish the false assumptions we've made and cannot move beyond the illusion of the familiar experience.

In order to experience the formless, we must take our attention inward, into the silence of pure consciousness, that absolute field of being. Meditation is one method that is direct and a natural way to experience the unmanifest world from which all form arises.

The second step is to become aware of our models of reality, which include both mental and emotional imprints of the past. The overshadowing effect of our memory causes us to lose sight of our unbounded nature, and this leads to suffering. If the Buddha is correct that one cause of suffering is ignorance, then the influence of memory has caused us to fall into the trap of ignoring our essential nature, which is beyond the constraint of the thought forms of memory.

Pure knowledge of the true nature of Self is enough to loosen the grip of ignorance which has perpetuated attachment to the models and concepts of who and what we think we are. This knowledge is not of the mind, but of the Higher Self. We may also call it the intuitive heart, or the Divine Heart. It is known by the totality of who I am Spirit. The mind is trapped in its models; the intuitive heart can let go of models, and in its expansiveness can feel truth without needing to explain or put it into form. The essence of who we truly are knows itself; coming back to an experience of that essence allows it to integrate into our incarnate life.

To become conscious of our models of reality also means to recognize that we create models, and models require structures of matter and energy. Whether it be a model of good behavior, or a model of our planet in a universe of celestial objects, these models are creations and therefore move through their cycles of change. They are the stuff of the relative world, as real as any other manifestation of creation. Yet they are real only from the perspective of the relative world. To know the Absolute Oneness is to be looking from a unique and different viewpoint. As a result, our perception of relative reality has changed. Absolute Oneness is now what is real and the relative world has the feel of the illusory. Because our manifest world is constantly changing, moving through the cycles of creation and dissolution, only Absolute Oneness has the unchanging stability of eternity and the intelligence to uphold the template of creation.

If there is a goal, it would be to realize Absolute Oneness as the source and all models of form as temporary and illusory. To only identify with the relative world leads to ignorance, which leads to suffering. That is what we have done. Recognizing Absolute Oneness brings us back home to what is truly our reality.

The third step, which is a natural progression of our expanding consciousness, is to clear the attachments of the emotional body and infuse knowledge of Spirit into our daily life. As this progresses, our happiness and success in living naturally spills out to our world and, by our example, others are positively affected. The realization of God/dess spreads through the collective consciousness.

Form is created by karma. The spirit infuses form. The spirit is not the karma, and therefore not the form, but coexists with it. Spirit is transcendental, beyond form and structure. Our models of reality are created from the influence of karma and our identification or attachment to it.

Our Higher Self, in its pure formlessness, is unbounded and not localized in time and space because it is omnipresent, multidimensional, and transcendental. Yet we symbolically give it form and meaning as we strive to know it and come into integration with it. We require the formless to assume a form so that the initial steps of communication can give us a sense of contact and inspiration an infusion within the mind and body of the reality of the spiritual.

Because of our limitations, we model our communication behavior after our interpersonal relationships. We need to hear, touch, see, and feel the reactions within others and, in the same way, we require the same intimacy from our Higher Self.

One reason that channeling has become popular is that the invisible entity talks with us from beyond, modeling a telephone call. Speech is the model of behavior that links us to a spiritual entity in another realm. The entity adapts to our sensory needs of experience. The Higher Self may do the same; as a result, we have a tendency to want to precipitate it into form, into a model that is easy to experience and that conforms to our ideas of what it is supposed to be.

The more we live in our left-brain, linear views of life, the greater need we have to experience the Higher Self as a tangible form that we can experience with our five senses. From those senses, we usually require the Higher Self to be somewhat like us, with a personality that we respect, preferably quite holy and wise. This personality is our ego's need. The Higher Self's symbolic form is not real but is a model that we have created to make it easier for us to relate to our True Self. The symbolism of the form and the behavior we perceive are just the creation we require as we move down the path of evolution. As consciousness expands and our linear perspectives fall away, our need for a three-dimensional personal form gives way to a more abstract form. Our model has expanded.

So what we see happening is a progression of models. Each successive form becomes a little more open and a little more expansive, with greater compassion, greater freedom, and greater unconditional love, until the model is so expansive that all the boundaries fall away and we are left with a conception of Self that is unlimited and transcendental. In other words, we are left with no model at all, nothing with which to identify. We are within the infinity of it all. We come into unity consciousness of everlasting being.

The Field of Consciousness

It is written in the esoteric literature throughout the ages that all psychic phenomena arise from the ability to tap into the non-local qualities of consciousness and use this field of all possibilities as the source for creation and manifestation. On that transcendental level, all is connected. The doors are open multidimensionally. Thoughts, feelings, the past, the present, and the future are all available to one's awareness. The ability to create, transmit, or alter matter, energy even reality's possible from the subtlest levels of the relative world to the surface levels of life. (Within any psychic phenomenon, whether it be clairvoyance, clairaudience, or tuning into anther's thoughts or feelings, the field of pure consciousness is utilized.)

Far-sensing, which includes clairvoyance and clairaudience (the ability to see or hear at a distance), becomes possible if space is no longer a limit. And the abilities to know events of the past, present, or future, such as premonition, precognition, or prophecy, become possible if time is no longer a limit. If our mind, in the sense of its ability to think and feel, is also non-local, then our consciousness can join with another's mind and experience his or her thoughts, feelings, and desires. Being joined, it becomes natural to telepathically communicate thoughts and/or energy to another, regardless of distance.

The reality of an omnipresent field as the fundamental ground state of communication opens up all possibilities to us. All possibilities is actually a characteristic of consciousness. Pure consciousness is a field of infinite potential. It is the unmanifest source from which all creation springs. All configurations of matter and energy arise from it, structuring creation. By transcending the relative world of form and experiencing the pure consciousness within, we open to our ability to literally do anything, create anything, know anything. All psychic abilities manifest from the omnipresent field of pure consciousness.

If these psychic, mental, and physical abilities are so empowering to the human species, why have we not seen more evidence of natural selection for these qualities? Psychic and mental powers seem to offer us advantages in survival and the ability to overcome suffering and illness, so why do relatively few people exhibit these talents? And if one does have a particular gift, such as psychokinesis, why aren't other abilities also present? And why is it so difficult to develop them?

One theory is that our social environment may limit the expression of psychic abilities; that is, we keep such experiences to our self for fear of judgment. Many within the general public either deny their personal experiences or keep them private. In traditional native cultures, there is often a framework for expressing these abilities. There may be more psychic development and an openness that is generally lacking in Western, scientific-oriented societies. The Western mind, having no objective model for understanding such things, has projected its own ignorance and misunderstanding on indigenous shamanistic cultures by judging them as superstitious and ignorant, as if to say, If your shamanism doesn't fit into our scientific paradigm it must not be real. So, let us educate you in our truth. This patronizing attitude of science has caused a degeneration and tragic loss of shamanistic culture, including the invaluable understanding of the inner worlds. The psychic abilities and sacred technologies exemplified in thousands of years of shamanistic practice provide the database for researching and validating psychic phenomena. Even though a growing number of parapsychological researchers are attempting to develop both technical and theoretical models for psychic phenomena, our relatively new scientific culture has not found satisfactory models of reality or even successful hypotheses to understand the inner dimensions.

Also, there is the influence of religion and modern attitudes: psychic phenomena are judged harshly and associated with belief systems that many people fear. This, combined with addictions to superficial materialism, keeps psychic phenomena and subtle energetics from developing as a natural part of who we are.

Another explanation, although esoteric, is quite common and evident in psychospiritual therapy. One of the core themes that many spiritual seekers are attempting to heal is the masculine issue of the abuse of power. This negative yang energy wants to control usually through violence and aggression.

Power is one of the great seducers. It weaves a web that entraps. There is the victimizer's addiction to the rush of power; there is the addiction to being the victim of another's power; and there is just being the victim to the addiction. It can be overshadowing, diminishing our abilities. Power is the manifestation of energy to do work. How we use power is our test; and the effect it has on us is part of that test.

In Deva sessions, the Higher Self often takes a client's consciousness into karmic memories where there was a misuse of power that has left a deep imprint. As a result of separation, this imprint creates in the victim's and victimizer's consciousness harsh judgments. The emotional chain reaction of the separation/judgment theme usually brings a person to a demand for punishment, which may include the promise that power will never be abused again. Unfortunately, fear of power is often part of the karmic theme, so any ability or behavior that expresses power is shut down or tightly controlled out of fear of repetition.

Since consciousness is the source of all manifestation, its potential power is unlimited. The spiritual masters of the past knew of the power of consciousness and the temptation to misuse it. They offered their teachings only to those who were prepared and wise enough to handle the responsibility. Even so, abuse of spiritual power existed and is still experienced today. Fortunately, the abuse of consciousness does not destroy consciousness (though in its extreme, it could destroy manifest creation, part and parcel). But experience teaches us that when a karmic lesson is learned, we are less likely to repeat it. At the same time, others are influenced by the resonance of this newly found wisdom and the collective wisdom expands.

The abuse of power has been a theme in this world for eons. The consequences have grown exponentially to the point that we human beings now have the ability to destroy the planet. If this continues, our negative potential may expand out beyond the solar system. If the abuse of power is drawn inward into deep energetic realms of creation, there is no telling what destruction of subtle realms might be possible.

But inherent within consciousness is the ability to create, to heal, and to balance the extremes of polarity. Like a pendulum that swings to one extreme, we may see that it can swing to the other, continuing to swing back and forth. We may then realize that we need not play this game anymore, and the pendulum of life's polarities stop. We transcend into unity consciousness, free of duality. The following is an example of that process/possibility.

An Abuse-of-Power Session

After the client laid down on the massage table, the facilitator asked him to bring his attention to his breath and comfortably to follow the flow of the breath. The facilitator inserted six acupuncture needles primarily in the neck and head areas and then asked the client to close his eyes and imagine that each needle was being activated by a small lightning bolt of white light.

After a few minutes the altered state of consciousness was present and the session started:

Sydney : My vision expands beyond this earth into the cosmos. I see the galactic consciousness; I am this immensity, so expanded, so powerful.

I am a galactic being, not of human form but of some kind of immense light-body consciousness. I know how to create and how to dissolve my creation. It is just a matter of thought and desire. I communicate with other beings like myself.... But, something feels uncomfortable.

Facilitator: Go into it. What is the feeling?

Sydney : There is some sort of arrogance or distorted self-satisfaction or maybe a self-righteousness to this being....

I see him talking, communicating with these others as if they're gods deciding the future of their subordinates in essence, passing judgment. Now it looks like Earth, and its inhabitants are the playthings of these so-called gods.

Facilitator :What do you do? What happens?

Sydney: I descend onto Earth in the form of a man. I still have my powers, my awareness of my status. There's such arrogance. I feel I must change things and clean things up these humans are so stupid! They don't know how to live. Such ignorance I must purge this ignorance and decadence. (Breathing increases.)

Time has no limit. I create a massive volcanic eruption. It spreads a layer of ash through the atmosphere. It darkens the sky, the sun, the moon. It sends panic into the hearts of men. They know it's an omen of punishment. The climate changes storms, floods, droughts, insects ravish crops, people die. It's the purge.

In another time, I create the plague epidemics of disease. It kills more. Few survive. The body disintegrates. The fear is alive.

I create a world of fire, an explosion of killing light. It destroys the world. I purge by light, by fire, to purify, yet the fear remains. It's a hell fire to purge their ignorance. There is no other way; the earth must begin again. Their drug of ignorance keeps them suffering. The people fight each other; they even kill their families. They can't even talk to each other. It's like a world of total aloneness. Everybody is in their own prison. The doors are locked tightly.... (Tears)

I must purge them of their judgment by being their judgment! I am their consciousness of aloneness and separation.

Wait a minute. (Pause for five minutes)
 

Such power! I am the god of their creation. I am the manifestation of their arrogance, of their misuse of life, power, all their misuse. Just as I can create and destroy, humanity creates and destroys. They created the cloud of ash from the volcano. They created the darkness that blocked the energy of their spirit-sun. They created the plague, the nuclear storm. My God!

It ís not about the past only, it's now, the volcanoes, the air pollution from our cars, our industries, our pain. It's AIDS, starvation, nuclear contamination, toxic waste. It is truly the ignorance. We are in prisons of suffering.... (Tears)

I am the god of misuse of galactic power. I am that energy which maintains the gap between people, that won't allow the prison doors to open so we can listen to each other. The thickness of ignorance is like a wall to the psychic touch of our common divinity and inter-connectedness.

I am also the god of their guilt. I remember the time before we retreated behind the veil of illusion; before ignorance shut down our unbounded awareness. I remember when we could talk without words, hear without sound, see without eyes; when spirit was the mode of communication; when the senses were spiritual rather than so limited physically. Spirit was the pathway, common to all, the connection that made us one. But our judgment shut it all down. We imprisoned ourselves in denial in the grand ignorance, no longer wanting to see. We panicked. The form took over, the body disconnected us from Spirit. But it was the guilt that we had failed. The misuse of our power took us into its grip. Suffering was our punishment. We thought suffering was our punishment from a higher power. The guilt created the victim; we just perpetuated it, we created a god to continue doing it to us.

I am the god they created, the destroyer....

I am so tired of it all. Yet there are some who see the illusion of it all, some who are not deluded, some who know. Their reality is not one of the prison; they create a different reality: one of love, of healing. They are the healers of this ignorance.

Yes, I see it now. I can be their god of healing, of lessons learned, their god of wisdom. Just as I manifested the world's need for suffering, I can now manifest the world's need for transformation.

I clear the darkness that obscured the light.
I heal the body of disease.
I neutralize the radiation of death.
I open the consciousness to the one, true God, the infinity of life.

As I open their consciousness, the ignorance simply disappears: no more illusion of separation, no more need to judge. And where there is no judgment, no guilt is felt, and no punishment, no victim, and no need to misuse life anymore. The crime of self-destruction is eradicated. I love creation... finally.

Facilitator: Now let that love energy spread through the body, allow it to integrate into the body. Then rest.

This session exemplifies the ability to take responsibility for one's reality and to see that the inner mirrors the outer and vice versa. By opening the doors of his emotional body and taking the light of consciousness into his denial and illusions of ignorance, Sydney was able to see the core theme of abuse of power. Embodying that power, he became the god of power and witnessed his expression of it.

In Sydney's life before the session, he was aware of how his judgment manifested as a sharp tongue of criticism toward others, but mostly towards himself. He had an almost pathological need to purge his imperfections, to live a life of controlled purity which of course, he could never accomplish. His judgment created more guilt, and the guilt created more punishment.

What is interesting is that until age ten, Sydney was extremely psychic, especially in the ability of psychokinesis. Then all his powers shutdown. For many years, this was a source of great frustration because he felt inside that he had done something wrong and was being punished.

Sydney's feeling after the session was that he now understood some of the reasons why he chose to shut down. We both agreed that this session should be interpreted symbolically, although some aspects of his experience have been played out in much the same way as he had seen them.

It was important for Sydney to allow his consciousness to penetrate into the painful memories in order to energetically clear any attachments of separation/judgment, abuse of power, and the resulting emotional suffering. Now comes the challenge of putting this information to work and allowing his potential to open up again. Having released his attachment to the addiction of power, Sydney may now be able to channel great power into his life without abusing it, his lesson learned.
 

Spiritual Acupuncture as Technique

Communication with the spiritual realm of our being has been part of indigenous cultures since the beginnings of humanity. The methods of opening, connecting, and communicating with Spirit have always been enshrouded in the rich ceremonial life of people. The spiritual traditions, mythologies, and teachings of our enlightened ancestors provide symbolic maps and practices that help humanity live in accordance with natural law as well as to provide support for our evolution. These spiritual technologies are still available to us (although we may have lost our ability to understand and follow them correctly). In our own way, we can adapt and modify the old ways to suit us now, today.

Systems like massage, yoga, meditation, chanting, and dance have been part of human culture for thousands of years. We have been able to incorporate them into our life and as a result, we have seen great benefit.

One system I have been researching at the Deva Foundation with great success is the ancient system of spiritual acupuncture. In traditional Chinese medicine today, acupuncture and medicinal herbs are used mainly for the prevention and alleviation of illness. Acupuncture works well in many areas especially problems with pain or other such manifestations of energy imbalance. Herbal medicine, many times used in conjunction with acupuncture, helps to restore the proper balance of yin and yang, allowing a person to adjust his or her body on an energetic level rather than on the superficial level of the symptom.

At Deva, working with energy is the basis of our psychospiritual approach to holistic healing. We use a wide variety of techniques, but the power of consciousness is the foundation for all of them.

In Deva Work, the facilitator is not the guide (except to help the client connect with his or her own Higher Self or Inner Knowing); nor is the facilitator the physician and seldom the teacher since the client's experiences do the healing and teaching. The facilitator is merely a loving, nonjudgmental presence who encourages self-discovery. The client's intention sets the process in motion; and it is the client who does the work.

I have watched this process unfold beautifully and perfectly in more than three thousand sessions. Yet there are times when my Higher Self instructs me to use acupuncture to help the client more effectively open and clear energy that may be stuck or is in need of a little push. When this happens, I carefully watch how the needles work and what they do to stimulate change.

The ancient masters used a set of acupuncture points, which they called Windows of the Sky, either alone or in conjunction with other points that stimulated a highly refined vibratory state of consciousness. These spiritual patterns of points freed consciousness to experience the multidimensional self and other spiritual realms of existence.

I have found these points quite effective in psychospiritual work whether exploring the expansion of consciousness, other realities, past lives, or ego transcendence. When used in conjunction with the Window of the Sky acupuncture points, the client can literally channel high-vibratory spiritual energy into an emotional imprint like anger, fear, or sadness; then quickly disengage that emotion and replace it with its spiritual counterpart such as peace or happiness.

Window of the Sky acupuncture points promote transcendence. They are points of communication and communion. It is interesting that most of them lie around the throat chakra, the area of communication. These points take us beyond our judgment and separation and into higher realms of unity and Self. They help us to let go of ego constraints in order to rediscover who we really are. The true nature of reality becomes energetically a part of our awareness; Higher Self shines through us more clearly. The throat chakra unlocks the gates to the third eye. Realization dawns and enlightenment begins.

Once these spiritual points, whether needled or not, are activated, they energetically communicate as part of the natural function of transmutation and enlightenment. As they are activated, the karmic layers of separation fall away and the judgments, that have self-righteously flared our anger are released. Forgiveness then heals the sore spot in our emotional body, and we can come out of our separation to connect with love again.

Most facilitators of psychospiritual work have their own methodologies for helping their clients to connect with Spirit. The ways and means are many, and the effectiveness of any given technique depends on many factors. In any case, consciousness is the ground state of our being, and it is the arena of any spiritual work. (The more we expand our consciousness and use it for communicating, the more effective will be our tools and techniques.)

Once we begin to open and utilize our infinite power of consciousness, we can begin to build a true foundation for all the possibilities of this world and others. Communicating with Spirit is the process of expanding our consciousness into an altered state, where we may shift our awareness into a perspective that allows us to sense a new reality. The communication process remains essentially the same, although it is a different world, with different rules. By opening this new door of perception and taking a step into the subtler realms of creation, Spirit can be experienced from a new perspective. Each time we view the hologram of Spirit from a different angle, it draws us inward a bit more. Then we can know it more expansively until we realize it fully. Upon full recognition, we transcend the need for form and tangible experience, and we arrive at communion, where there is the unified experience of just being.