Spiritual Essentials

How I Know that the Dead are Alive

Amazing free online book written by a medium who had a near death experience.

Liara Covert-Dream Builders Interview

I was given the extreme pleasure of interviewing Liara Covert about her new book Self Disclosure.  Please visit her site for more information  Dream Builders

Enjoy! 

1.      Please give us a synopsis of your new book.

Thanks Danielle, for choosing to interview me here. I love your blog material and how it invites readers to open their minds to expanding possibilities. 

Self-Disclosure: Changes from Within invites readers to gain insight into themselves.  It is like a choose-your-own-adventure on different levels of awareness and perceived life stages.  An analogy may be made with a Disney movie.  Adults and children experience different things each time they watch it. Similarly, the book can be read more than once and in more than one way.  Each experience offers insight into your own thought process, current situation, preoccupation and perceived obstacles. In this way, the book is an empowering, problem-solving tool.  At the end of each section, questions are offered to prompt reflection.  End of book questionnaires also exist that are suitable for journal work.

 On one level, a protagonist and a conscience explore morals, ethics and perceived behaviour.  As book dialogue unfolds, readers are invited to expand self-awareness, to learn to find blessings in every situation. The nature of your own experience and imagination determine possible origins for the voices in the book.  If you are open to other worlds, then angels, spirit guides, other beings or divine channelling are options. The universal lessons explored delve into reasons why each person generates emotions, and how people judge, reject and learn to heal.

 This is not simply a selection of experiences of one person, it is everyone’s story.  You can grow to relate to lessons as a romantic, a self-help seeker, business person or from other vantage points.  The book reminds you every person is healing parts of the inner self.  This involves a process of getting-in-touch with core feelings.  You learn to recognize why you think and feel as you do at a given moment and why.  You shift awareness to explore unconditional love and acceptance in all areas of existence, and view everything and everyone you encounter as a mirror of your current state of mind. Deep down, all human beings know what they need.

2.      What events or inspirations do you feel have brought you to write this book?

Expanding consciousness is a universal journey.  One way conscious shifts grow noticeable is through dreams.  This is partly how I come to realize images and sensations convey messages from different sources simultaneously. Learning to recall and explore on my own dreams helps me expand different kinds of vision and multi-sensory skills.  To empower other people to recall and work with dreams continues to be mutually-beneficial.  People come to realize dreams are windows into soul, into experiences on the horizon, with a key purpose to awaken and strengthen connections to higher awareness.  Readers evolve to recognize new meaning in events in waking life.

3.      How has astral dreaming influenced your spiritual direction? Do you have any specific tips as to how to enhance one’s ability to enable themselves to astral travel?

Funny, you ask this. I am in the midst of writing an ebook about dreams, astral, lucid dreaming and Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and Near death experiences (NDEs).  This draws from my experience as a newspaper columnist of dream interpretations, my blog, interactions with clients in other capacities and my own experience. I encourage anyone interested in these subjects to read about them, to join forums and talk about their own experiences. The truth is, everything a person wants to know is already inside him.  It is a matter of learning to recognize spiritual identity.  Every person can discover sprit beings exist ready to help you remember what you temporarily forgot.

4.      How can group meditation assist others seeking to embrace their own spirituality?

Group meditation focuses energy.  Some people mediate to quiet or discipline mind, and improve concentration.  Some people meditate to consciously strengthen links to spiritual dimensions. Some people have a variety of spiritual motivations. In essence, like-minded individuals connect when willing to help each other explore spiritual energies abilities. Learning to discern them is a step toward exploring deeper connection to life-force energy.

Group energy also grows in development circles.  Some people join these groups out of curiosity about the afterlife.  Others do so out of a conscious desire to learn more about the mechanics of mediumship and how to act as a channel between spirit and physical worlds.  When a person has genuine desire to serve, to open other people’s hearts to love, understanding and forgiveness, this enables him to guide others to conscious understanding about love and fear.   Helping others is a way to simultaneously help the self expand consciousness.

5.      Could you explain your spiritual connections to the other side?

I explore some of these in the book.  Certain deceased relatives have communicated with me in ways I understand based on experience we shared during their physical existence.  Spiritual development circles also enable me to learn to attune to energy differently. I learn to aspire to the higher characteristics of my soul nature, and to open myself as a channel to receive certain kinds of energy. This teaches how the truth is felt and does not always translate. During travel experiences in over fifty countries, spiritual energy has also drawn me to specific places.

6.      Do you have any personal experiences you’d like to share concerning guidance or assistance from the other side?

I explore some of these in the book as well. For example, two accidents were turning points in my life where I grew to connect shifts in awareness and survival to incidents of divine intervention.

On different occasions I also feel a pull to certain geographical places.  The nuances of spirit energy reach out as they have something to convey. I listen. I have been drawn to what turn out to be funeral processions on St Michaela, a cemetery island off Venice, Italy, and also a cremation in remote Thailand.  Spirit wanted to be heard.

In another case, while providing unrelated service to a city client, I spontaneously began conversing about the possibility of hidden burial grounds. The surprised client volunteered how the new building in which we were had been constructed on a burial ground and some strange occurrences had spooked people out.  She wondered how I knew. I helped the woman validate the relevance of spirit guides and accept blessings in unexpected events.   

7. Do you have memories of your past lives? Could you describe some of them?

During one of my past lives, my civilisation restricted freedom of information sharing among all people.  Social rules, hierarchies and customs prevented me from openly interacting with others unless they were from certain groups.  I resisted this, and found ways around the system, yet was unable to complete what I started.  

In another past life, I was a native shaman who encountered opposition because this was not my heritage role.  Nonetheless, I learned to permit thought and spirit energy to flow through me and continued on this chosen path against the odds.  This resulted in external conflict.    

8.      Much of society is still trapped in the illusion of third dimension. Do you find it difficult to be amongst those who have not awakened as of yet?

To awaken to the nature of self-created illusion helps people realize being “stuck” is a choice. To realize many layers of illusion and awareness exist suggests learning is perpetual.  Rather than focus on what is not, I choose to honour the highest things and be happy now.  As you sense blessings everywhere, difficulty dissipates.

9. What advice do you have for those in the beginning or midst of their own spiritual awakenings?

Patience is a virtue.  The power and impact of intention are never to be underestimated. You always know more than you consciously realize and only open the curtains to let in the light when you are ready to accept the truth.

10. Do you feel that the profound interest and growth of New Age spirituality is preparing us for a specific destiny? What direction do you feel spirituality is moving towards in the near and distant future?

Individual destiny is often viewed as separate from collective evolution.  Some people view destiny as a series of experiences each soul chooses or, events controlled by external forces. Other people sense thought and feeling are connected to the collective experience perceived as existence.  As you sense thoughts and feelings are energy, you consciously shape destiny every moment, how you think and feel, and where every behaviour is leading.

Each person has the freedom to shift awareness or not at any stage of existence. Many people hear talk about 2012 as a prospective turning point in human existence.  When fear controls the mind, people focus on the prospect of Armageddon or the end of the world as it seems. In truth, reality is not what it seems and change is perpetual. One chooses to resist and fear or, to surrender and love whatever unfolds. Whether you choose to experience ascension, rebirth, dimensional shifts, or something else, relates to level of conscious awareness and what you intuit to be possible.  As a person moves to sense timelessness, then everything happens now. Future is an illusion.

Dr. Emoto’s Rice-Intention Experiment

I found this on Youtube, very cool.  This woman is not me even though her name is also Danielle, enjoy!

Part I  The Experiment

Part II  The Results

Spirit Guide Quotes

I’m having a lot of fun making up my own quotes lately, so I’m just going to keep putting them up here. 

‘We go through a lifetime trying to get back to the perfection & pure essence of who we really are, ironically, from where we began’ ~ DLee

As a spiritually maturing species, we are slowly becoming aware that what the mass consciousness believes, the universe will manifest ~ DLee

The soul was never meant to be permanently imprisoned by the flesh for the entirety of the gestation on earth..therefore we dream.. DLee

Live your life as though it is the one true and perfect gift you have ever given yourself. ~ DLee

Nothing you choose is wrong, it is only disabling not to choose what is right for you. ~ DLee

Choose to embody all moments, good & bad, welcoming the opportunity to learn & grow from all lessons that are bestowed upon you ~ DLee

A human being remembering their true self is a soul set afire by spiritual recall. ~ DLee

You are a pure energy that compliments a flawed and temporary fleshy suit, designated only as a learning institution ~ DLee

‘The mysterious fibres of the spiritual veils are lifting, thrusting our youthful society from evolutionary infancy to adulthood’ ~ DLee

 

Quotes by The Spirit Guide

Does being born into the ocean of mass consciousness leave you completely at the will of the tides?

Understand that you are part of everyone and everyone is a part of you, that the light is never lesser within any soul.

We are glorious, loving souls trapped in a dense, clumsy vehicle afflicted with amnesia.

The sixth sense is empathic, embrace compassion and it expands the intuition.

Sit not in fascination of another, but stand in revered awe of yourself.

You cannot embody the light until you embrace the dark.

How can we possibly understand the paranormal if we resist altering our own perceptions of normal.

Lightworkers are the messengers of illumination that will herald the genesis of the new world.

Universe = One Song

Danielle Lee

 

Spirit Board Interview

I was given the pleasure of being asked to do  Q & A interview by David at the Spirit Board.  David has developed a whole new approach to the original Ouija Board, check it out!

1.  What do you recommend to people who are just starting to try to communicate with spirits?  I would encourage them to set aside any preconceived notions that they may have about the ‘other side’.  Try to remember that these are merely human or energy beings that simply don’t have a tangible body in which to communicate with.  Be patient and compassionate concerning their situation and they will be much more inclined to ’speak’ with you.

 

2.   Do you think that anyone can communicate with spirits, or only people with special natural gifts? I believe that everyone is capable of developing these abilities, especially if they can approach the situation with an open and unbiased mindset.  It is much easier, of course, having the natural tendency towards psychic empathy, but with patience and understanding, I feel that everyone can develop their latent sixth sense.

 

3.  Have you tried different methods of communicating with spirits? If so, what methods have you found most or least successful? I haven’t felt the need to experiment with alternate communication forms at a psychic level, but I’ve tried different forms of technology such as EVP recordings and EMF detectors, to obtain proof and attempt communication at a more scientific standpoint.

 

4.   Is there anything in particular you have done to develop your psychic abilities? Meditation has been a key factor for me when attempting to further enhance my ability.  It always has been a very natural sense for me, but I’ve always taken steps to maintain, preserve and enhance the strength of it.  One thing that I’ve found works very well is a visual imagery meditation.  Imagine that you are face to face with a friendly entity, one that does not have any of our five senses.  No eyesight, no hearing, no sense of smell, touch or taste.  They have no mouth in which to speak with,  but the entity is capable of receiving information based on it’s sixth sense.  How would you communicate with them?  The sixth sense is an empathetic sense, an emotional sense.  If you had to communicate to the being a simple idea like ‘love’, how would you do it?  Myself, I imagine holding my children or the sensation of loving someone and ‘impress’ the sensation onto the entity.  This exercise has been the most effective for me in bringing my abilities to higher levels.

 

5.  Do you take any precautions before attempting to communicate with spirits?

Mostly I just try to assess the situation before entering into it.  If the atmosphere in the haunted location feels hostile or unstable, I attempt to subdue the entity first.  By asking it’s permission to enter the home or location of their preference, it gives them back their sense of dignity and they lower their aggressive stance.  Non-human entities must be taken a bit more seriously and tend to be a lot more manipulative, they just need to be handled more like a rebellious toddler and shown that their behavior will not be tolerated.  I do attempt to raise my own vibrations before I enter into communications with spirits, through meditation and calming, I put aside my own ‘human’ issues so that I can better focus on the spirit.

 

6.  Have you ever felt an evil spirit trying to invade you? If so, what do you do?  I’ve only had the sensation of a spirit try to occupy my ’space’ once, I politely declined and asked my guides to assist me.  He wasn’t an evil spirit at all, evil is only a judgement made based on their spirit’s behavior.  Seeing past the behavior and superstitions helps one to understand better the nature of the soul behind the haunting.

 

7.  Do you believe children should be allowed to conjure spirits or hold “play séances”? I believe with knowledge and compassion, children will learn the most effective ways to experience the paranormal.  With my own children, I am simply very honest with them about ghosts.  They know that there is nothing to fear, they cannot hurt us and most of the time have no desire to.  From my experience, spirits aren’t interested in being conjured or manipulated, they simply want to pass on a message or want to be left alone. 

 

8.  Have you been able to communicate with particular ghosts or spirits of your choosing?  I politely ask if they would like to come forward, it’s their choice if they want to, but mostly deceased family members will come visit if I call for them.  Otherwise, when I’m doing a reading for someone, their loved ones are usually their before I even need to call for them.  The spirit usually senses the raised vibrations and understands that this is a great time to communicate if they want to.

 

9.  Are you tempted to try to use your psychic abilities for personal gain? If you mean the lottery or something like that, well, my mom tried for a while to have me fill out lottery ticket numbers and whatnot, but, because the ‘other side’ has absolutely no use for monetary gain, they don’t cooperate with anything like that.  My psychic ability is empathic, so I don’t receive much for precognition unless it’s pertaining to the person I’m reading at the time or an emergency that ‘they’ need to show me something that will happen. 

 

10.  Are you afraid? Hmmm..well, I’m not afraid of death, that’s for sure, I feel pretty confident there’s a great place to go afterwards.  I’d have to say I’m far more afraid of what living human beings do to one another than what I’ve ever come across in the spirit world.  Spirits always leave me feeling more alive, more aware of my spirituality and more compassionate to their situation.  Living humans often leave me feeling sad, paranoid and afraid.  Everyone’s afraid of something, but I defintely am not afraid of the unknown, I’m always just curious and sympathetic towards them. 

 

Mystical Sites

Bitten By Books

Mystic Warrior

Sacred Geometry

Paranormal Podcast

Intent.com

More Sacred Geometry

 

My Hero

This is by far the most amazing and inspiring thing I have ever seen.  Whenever I feel down or unworthy of my own successes and dreams…I will watch this to lift my spirits and remind me just how wonderful each and every one of us are.

The Spirit Guide

Designated at birth, your spirit guide is a divinely essential element within the blueprint of your life. Painstaking amounts of spiritual education and superior knowledge are embedded into the very luminescent fabric of your guide’s soul. Chosen only for you, they embark on a mission of the utmost unselfishness and predestined path of spiritual enlightenment. They have bravely chosen to blissfully sacrifice their time, patience and existence to guide and love you throughout your journey on the earthly plane of existence.

A spirit guide was indeed a human being, flesh and blood existing upon the earth at one point in their eternity. It was a conscious and deliberate choice for them to side with you as your sidekick, presenting you to the human world with pride and accomplishment as their chosen hero.

Forever proud and dauntless in their task as guide and divine interpreter, they try desperately to maintain your path of spirituality and lead you through your predetermined glories and hardships upon earth. They tirelessly, and sometimes with remorse, present you with life lessons that you yourself have decided previous to embarking on the human journey. Helping you lovingly every moment of every day to succeed in learning your precious, yet sometimes painful and repetitive, spiritual lessons.

In this day and age, these modern wingless angels are all but ignored and denied on a regular, if not alarming, basis. Hundreds of years ago, people were much more aware of their soul and their purpose in the dance of the divine, but nowadays, spiritual oneness has taken a sad backseat to materialism and narcissism.

Suggesting, nudging and loving pushes in the right direction, courtesy of your guide, are blatantly ignored in favor of selfishness and desire for perfection of the physical self. This does sadden your guide immensely, they do not wish to see you fail time and time again due to lack of enlightenment on the physical realm.

Thankfully, they are consistently loving and have unending patience for the one they love as though it were their only earth-born child. They peacefully and lovingly listen to your goals and wishes, they considerately and passionately love the ideals and people that you love, they praise and glorify your every accomplishment, they weep and grieve with every pain and suffering that you must endure.

Never forget this glorious and unselfish being, filled with light and divine love, designated and devoted to only you and your spiritual development. This wondrous and wise entity who cried tears of joy as you entered into the earthly dimension and who will weep mixed tears of sadness and relief for you as leave the harsh human realm to return to your rightful, eternal home. They will be the first to greet you and lead you back to the light of One.

 

Excellent Indigo Video