Suffice it to say that time is limited for all of us; construct that it is, time stands still for no 'man'...or wo-man! Time, as we are experiencing it is also quickening...speeding up. One week from tomorrow, it will be MAY, yes...May 1st, 'May Day...the traditional start of the celebration of new life emerging everywhere!

So, to celebrate, my new life...my new project, is my upcoming book:...Co-Creation: Pure & Simple. Some of you will recognize much of the content; I've shared it with you here on my blog. Some of it has been altered...slightly...more to clarify and correct misspellings and other confusion. I have a draft out to a few trusted friends...I'm still looking for 3-4 (or more) quotable reviews and commentaries from people who would like to contribute to this work. If you're interested, I will send you a draft PDF to read. Anyone who is quoted will receive a free, autographed book (including US postage...outside the US, I may ask for some help).

I will be creating a marketing campaign and hope to do book signings at metaphysical book and gift stores across the US...or even abroad in the coming months; if you have a suggestion, please contact me directly. There will be a website for the book...I've been 'told' that it is 'first in a series'...which was a bit surprising to me, as I saw this as more of a one-time deal. I have a number of fictional projects sitting on the 'backburner' and expect to pick up those soon too.

Now, last, but not least...for those few who've never Tweeted...yes, I've joined those ranks too. After spending countless hours on Facebook (still there, just reduced in time expended), I find that most of my posting time is now on one of my two Twitter accounts. If you'd asked me in January, February or even early March, what Twitter is and why a sane, adult would spend any time at all on such a thing, I'd have shrugged too. But, after a month on Twitter, all that's changed. Much like texting, Twittering is a short, rapid-fire way of sharing what you're doing or thinking about with all who 'follow' you. The learning curve may be a little steep for some, but if you need ANY help, please feel free to ask me...privately, or by 'Tweet'...:)

Love & Light, Dear Ones...
Debi Brady, deMysticWay-er

Find me on Twitter:
@deBradyMD (main acct, mostly business, social media/marketing)
@deTweeter (my 'green' and peaceful acct, more targeted, fewer tweets)

Exploring Our Inner Darkness on the Path to Light and Peace Within

Co-Creative Channel by Rev Debi Brady 3/16/09

If you see and feel fear, cruelty, and darkness on the "outside"-look within, you will most certainly find that these are mere projections of what you refuse to identify with. This dis-identification process is the sole source of all that you call evil or bad. Looking at the true source of your angst is the most difficult thing a human can do-but, to evolve into your next state of consciousness, this is what must be endeavored.

We know what we're asking of you; know that it is not a journey that can be taken lightly, nor is this a journey that can be shared-however, we can assure you that it is indeed necessary for the evolution of your soul-and that of your entire species. Darkness can only exist where light has not been shone; you know this, every one of your holy and sacred texts has repeated this in many ways and in many languages. The reason that you have not truly heard these messages is that you avoid the pain and anxiety that is inherent in these self-discovering lessons.

You continue to search for the end of hate, fear and inhumanity-ultimately, the end of war-is in your own hands, as it has always been. This is an externalized manifestation of what lies within your own psyche-your soul is crying out for release. Many have avoided this journey by choosing insanity or even death. A journey which ends like this cannot assist you-or your world-in its ascension.

Ascension itself is a greatly misunderstood topic for discussion. Unlike enlightenment, it works on all your levels of consciousness and energybodies. Whether or not you're on a personal path to so-called en-LIGHT-enment, you're part of this grand evolutionary process called ascension. True, some of you have found methods that help to evolve slightly faster than others of your kind, but your whole species is, in fact, ascending and evolving at approximately the same rate. This topic is broad and will be covered in later discussions.

Know that your darkside is part of you too-personally and as a race, the human race. Each of you has in their power to bring a little more light into their life. This is the true en-light-enment. Be willing to peer into all your dark places and, one-by-one, the light of the Universal Source will grace your planet, bringing with it more peace and love to all its inhabitants. On the day, all will rejoice in oneness.

Past Lives, Present Living (03/13/09)

By Rev Debi Brady

Placing undue focus on what you now call "past lives" leads to confusion and distractions from what you have come here to do. This lifetime is truly the only one you need be concerned with-and you have limited time in form. The physical form may appear to be solid, but as your scientists will now tell you, this is not the case at all. What is true is that the particular form and framework you have chosen to embody is the densest in molecular composition that is possible that will allow for your consciousness to interact in the 3D world.

That said, we highly encourage you to place your focus upon your present living, rather than continuing to process those "other" lives which you call past-and future-ones. Since the veil is as thin now as it has ever been, you have been able to glimpse these "other" lives which you have been involved in; however, we will assure you that just because you can do a thing, does not mean that you should. This is not a directive, merely a recommendation.

Related concepts, such as karma and twin souls/flames, are appropriate to process to the degree that may be necessary to reduce the "charge" which they create in your energybody. It is better for you to release this "negative" charge, rather than have it build up unexpressed. If this takes the form of a "past life reading", that is fine, but it is unnecessary to continue to investigate this phenomenon expansively. To allow the charge to be identified and then released completely, you must not allow it to remain attached to your consciousness. There is a time and place for all things-and to let them pass.

There will be more and more "meetings" with others who carry similar charges which can be identified as "past life" connections. We remind you that this is part of the unification process and that you will encounter these "others" in greater numbers and in greater frequency as you approach the nexus of the Great Change. These rememberings are confirmations of this current time; let them come into your consciousness naturally and then you will find it easier to let them go as well.

You are oneness expressed as individuals. Each of you has come to this point with a purpose greater than any one of you. Welcome this new energy and let it flow through you with gentleness and ease. This is what you have come to the present to do-be present to it and each other.

 The Continuity of Existence (3/11/09)

By Rev Debi Brady as part of the Co-Creative Channel  Series

Shapeless and infinite as your true Self is, you have come here at this time and place and narrowed your spiritual focus into this compact shell you call your body. Though many have told you throughout the years in multiple traditions and texts that you are not this body, you have persisted in experiencing yourself as this limited form. We assure you this has its purpose too; however, equally so, you must not limit your thoughts about yourself to remain so focused upon this lifetime.

Existence of your expanded beingness is truly continuous and expansive beyond your current time and space-bound awareness. Nothing that can be reported and verified by your limited senses and accumulated knowledge of yourself--as you've come to understand it--can begin to explain this truth. Even as you ponder these words, your "educated" mind tries to formulate and compare that which you've understood to this moment, you place limits on the very thing you wish to consider.

Mystics and gurus have expounded upon this idea of your expanded Self, but mind cannot know itself. You cannot trade-off the mind and understandings brought to you by another in order to reach a definitive  conclusion about truth. You slip out from the bounds of thought only after you have left this small self you have come to inhabit in this lifetime.

Yet, you reach out and ask for this clarification, so we attempt to approximate it for you here in words. In some ways, the senses you have come to trust to report reality back to you--for yourself and collectively, as a species, must be subverted. There is much truth to the statement that you must first know that you know nothing--turn off the stories that you told yourself and in that vacuum, you will begin to grasp the enormity of what is available to you.

You have come to define life as breathing and electrical responses coming from a body. We ask you to open up this definition to allow for a greater "life" that requires no body to contain it.  Once you have reached a level of acceptance, the continuity of existence--what you may call your immortal soul--can be contemplated.

Along the way, you will meet and interact with exactly you "need" to be with--your greatest challenges will be to let go of both good and bad experiences. The good, because you are designed to be pleasure-seekers; the bad, because you have a natural aversion to that. There will be wonderful, amazing--and brief--experiences which you wish would last for your entire lifetime. There will be tragic, painful--and long--experiences which you wish would never happen at all. If you understand that all these come and go from the experience of yourself in the physical time-bound awareness that you currently have for a reason, you will be happier.

Understand also that everything that has form is transitory; it is only in the formless expression of a greater existence which you are part of that has validity. In your world, there is a natural progression of things. This is not who you are; this is not your truth. We understand that this is beyond your beliefs--it is, has to be, an act of faith.

We ask much of you by asking for your faith. You can be that seed--the latent, but unexpressed essence of yourself.  It is the spark of the Divine; the drop-in-the-ocean which is the microcosm of your grander reality. Regardless of the appearance of the manifested body, old or young, that seed may remain in its latent, potential state without expressing itself. The Universe holds no resistance or judgment against you for remaining latent; you are always at-choice in this respect--at a Soul level. Neither is it your place to make this determination for any other Soul

For as you judge another, so you will be judged. This is in your Scriptures; however, the judgment does not come back to you from another--there is no "other." The only other there is to judge or be judged is within you. So, if you see something in this "other" that cries out for you to notice, recognize it for the mirror that it is.

Clarity will come to you naturally as you become accustomed to "seeing" and recognizing these mirrors reflecting those parts of yourself that are being called forth for re-integration. As you continue to re-integrate disparate parts of the "you" which yearns for itself, the Universe will open itself up to your growing awareness. All is perfection in beingness which you are now returning to--it is time and the Universe smiles as you return yourself back into the existence that you have merely been "out of step" with. Welcome back, You are all that there is, has been and will ever be. A-men.

NOTE: This was created before my identification with 'co-creation'...but nonetheless consider it part of my work. I was presented as a 'sermon' or message to my One With Spirit Meta-Journal group in a slightly different format. It has been streamlined to be included in my upcoming book on Co-Creation...and I'm sharing it with my Gaia friends here on my blog. Hope you enjoy!
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Sacrifice or Surrender: Expanding into the One Love (07/04/05)

Rev Debi Brady

When the Ark of the Covenant was placed into its special place, in the most holy place of which the tribes of Israel could create, it was recorded that so many sheep and cattle were sacrificed that there number could not be counted.  What a way to revere the Almighty!  In those days, animal sacrifice was a way of honoring God.  The thought being that God demanded sacrifice, namely giving up food which could not then be consumed by humans, as proof of our love of the Divine One.  Today, that would be absurd.  Instead, the words and meanings of "love" and "sacrifice" are still bound together, whether it be in God's name or for those who we hold closest to us.

The issue most of us have with the word...and meaning...and love is that it implies sacrifice in one way or another.  Not in the old meaning of giving up our food by way of animal sacrifice (most people would probably see that as cruel and even evil).  Yet, to love does mean to sacrifice, at least to some degree, our selfish ways to be in service to another...whether that other be God or someone else.  We may see this as a joyful occasion, as it was in the passage, and the very best that we could offer onto that other.

The term, Ultimate Sacrifice, has come to mean giving up one's own life to save another, as in a firefighter who made the ultimate sacrifice when he died rescuing a young child from a fire.  We may agree that through the heroics of one individual being of service to the other, a life was saved.  However, at what cost and is that a price that many of us would pay?  The Bible tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sins.  This would seem to also be a case of making the Ultimate Sacrifice.  But is it?  And, even if it is, what meaning does it have for us, today?

Perhaps the greatest sacrifice is our separateness from one another.  When we are told that we are One in the Spirit (as in the song that continues by saying, we are One in the Lord), that is a truism which cuts across all boundaries we have artificially created in our physical reality.  For most of us, that's a hard pill to swallow.  How can we be both One and unique?  It would seem to be a contradiction of terms.  But it's not.

One of my favorite passages from an anonymous writer is: As we learn to See the Oneness and to Be the Oneness, we Become the One.

There is but One Love.  We are the One, yet our various religions have always sought to find that Divine One which is (or so it would seem) separate from us.  Although teacher after teacher, including the Christ, has come to offer us a greater truth about ourselves, we haven't heard the message.  There is no need to make the Ultimate Sacrifice.  We have to realize that deep within us we are already One with all of the universe.  This is our core and our nature.  In a deeply profound way, we have but to expand into the One-Love to fully experience ourselves as the divine creatures we were always meant to be.

From the ancient teacher, Melchizedek, he put it this way: You are a multi-universal being...the universal initiations focus primarily on the topic of your greatness.

So, as we choose to be expansive in our beingness, we can begin to accept that we one with all other things...seen and unseen.  Love need not be a sacrifice that we are willing to give to one another.  Let us reframe that misbegotten idea and transform it into the knowingness that we are one in love: One-Love.  The Old Testament was written for those who lived in a very harsh and mundane reality of sacrifices.  That was long ago and far away. 

We can now see ourselves not as separate from each other...and from God...but bound together in same way in which the One-Love that binds the stars and the universe, the weak and the small, the mighty and divine to each other.  Nothing needs to be lost...sacrificed...to attain this state.  We only need to recognize and live it for ourselves.

It is in the surrender...not sacrifice...of our individual selves that we can expand to fill the Universe with One-Love.  We are, each of us, symbolically, the Ark of the Covenant, placed in our Most Holy Place and under the watch of angels.  We sing, as with one voice, giving thanks to the One from which we came to know ourselves.  And, praising that same source, for we know that it is all goodness and love...forever.  Life without end.

 Re-framing Fear into Awareness

by Rev Debi Brady (3/8/09)

 

 

You wander, often aimlessly, through the world you have created--and, more often than not--with a framework of fear and anxiety. Source energy is readily available to make whatever it is that you are imagining reality. This framework is the cumulative effect of all humans who have ever lived a physical existence. The press of time with your conscious awareness of yourself and the world around you seems to carry with it a fear about what is to come--what does the future look like?

These questions are appropriate for your present awareness as they impress on your collective psyche the "need" to "do something"--which is to say, consciously manifest reality. The opposite has been truer for you over the last few millennia and the result of unconscious manifestation is apparent all around you.

We offer these suggestions: 1) Decide first what it is in your world which is not in perfect alignment with what you desire to show up; 2) Begin to consider how you yourself have been perpetuating this reality; and, 3) Set a new intention to shift your own attention about co-creating the world a-new. We will amplify these steps in more detail soon. But, for now, know that ever the intention you choose to wake up to your own contributions to this reality has already begun this process.

Fear can be an effective way of coming to this awareness initially; however, once this process has begun, it is important that your place as much trust as you can into getting past fearful thought about what "could be." Looking at a thing has great power to change; when you gaze with your full intention to see past the man-made illusions, these will begin to fall away and allow you to see beneath the surface. This process can rightly be called "re-framing."

 As we've said before, fear begets pain and suffering. To the degree that you can let go of the fears you still hold toward any object, situation or person, you will find that pain and suffering will naturally be reduced or eliminated. This re-framing of fear-based reality will free you to create with fewer illusions and clearer manifestations of a new reality--the New Earth. Such is the perfection of your growing awareness of yourselves as you welcome in the Golden Age.

Know that many around you will not understand--they do not yet have the necessary level of awareness. It is you and those like you who have begun this work of re-framing who will lead others to their own awakening. Let them move at their own pace--all is perfection--trust.

Every Step Toward Who I AM

Co-Creative Channel by Rev Debi Brady

Started 3/1 completed 3/5/09

Now is the perfectly ripe time to be who you came to this earth to be. You might have the thought that you are wasting time or being misled. Know that there is no mistakes or accidents in your life. Whatever happens, however you perceive what is happening in your reality, it is in perfect order.

You are--have always been--a perfect child of God. God being just one of the many names for the Divine Creator. God creates through you from your intentions and desires; this is what is meant by you as creator--everything is manifested through and by you, whether or not you realize it. The true wonder is when you set the intention and provide desire, the Universe takes over from there. In fact, it's best when we let go of the need to know the hows and whys of how its manifestation occurs.

Every step, every turn, even every breath, is part of your path, taking you from where you were to where you are now. Since there is only now, the thought that something or someone "prevented" you from being or doing anything that is "incorrect." We invite you to let go of any thought that anything that has happened has been negative--this is not possible.

Pleasure and pain come from the same root within your emotional framework. You assign a positive charge to pleasure, a negative one to pain, but both serve their purpose. The body and soul connect to each other through an energetic force that can be interpreted by your emotions. This force is expressed through your emotional bodies and since your emotions contain judgments about your physical world, they carry polarizing charges in the form of thoughts.

The Universe has no judgments about you; you have judgments about how the Universe is showing up for you. You may think you are a victim, at odds with the All-That-Is, again, we invite you to re-think this from the point-of-view of Source. Everything you are comes through Source; there is no other way for the Universe to manifest into physical form. It would be counter to this never-ending stream to have anything "out-of-place." Truly, understand that this is simply not possible.

Turn this thought around again and see that it is perfection--even when you assess the evidence of your current reality as otherwise. At the risk of belaboring this point, the Universe is here to support you--always. You have come to this time and place to usher in the Golden Age, which is unfolding as it--and you--have designed it. We are here, as well, to provide you support.

Self-ishly in Love

Rev Debi Brady (2/25 & 27/09)

We believe that we need someone else to fall in love with. As we've discussed before, there is no "other"; it is all you and only you. The other is an outer manifestation of your innerwork. The people that show up in your life are what you called to you, in this moment, to do the work and have the experiences that you came here to do.

When you consider who you think you are and examine the idea of falling in love with another, you will see that you are not falling in love with the other, you are seeking your own reflection. Your need is one of validation and approval.

Once you realize that self-love is vital-not only to you, but all of mankind-you will be able to better understand what is impossible to give what you don't have. If you know not what it's like to love yourself, how do you ever hope to be able to show love to anyone else. The fact that there are no "others" reinforces this concept.

With you at the center of your creative reality, all else emanates from you out into the universe. You are the heart, the sun, the light around which all creation comes to life. Your science is just beginning to explain with "advanced" forms of thought and theories how you exist in a universe created by your own perceptions of it. Quantum physics, string theory, quarks and other scientific conjectures allow you to better conceptualize your universe, but will never fully explain it.

Consider a drop of mercury; it changes properties as its environment changes, it reflects light, but absorbs heat. It is fluid, yet exhibits properties of a solid. Like your emotions, it cannot be fully predicted and it is equally difficult to contain; this is where you get your term "mercurial". Humans strive to understand every aspect of their world in a vain attempt to predict it, yet the emotion you understand least is love.

Which would be "better"? To understand how the Universe came into being, or, why you fall in love? Choices-always-but you need not understand either. On the grandest scale, they are the same, for as you grow in love, so the Universe expands. You are the limiting factor-not the Universe. If you ever hope to free yourself from the self-made "purgatory" you've created for yourself by restricting your love, especially love of Self, you will need to stop looking to the exterior. It does not exist and is therefore irrelevant to your existence. Be a self-explorer, this is the Final Frontier you have always sought to discover.

Remembering Lives - Past and Future

By Rev Debi Brady (2/25/09, 1am)

Since there is no such thing as time, there cannot be a past or future to remember; however, in the physical world you inhabit, there are memories of the ‘not-now' that hold a special kind a fascination for human beings.

This fascination extends to the concept you call "past lives". No memory can be trusted, especially those that have emotional charges. These charges arise due to the resonance you have with present associations. Understand that in order for you to experience yourself as "limited"--having a body--growing up, getting old-it's natural for you to consider what came before this life, and, what will come after.

There is an enormous amount of pressure you place upon yourself, what you call stress. Although stress does not need to feel difficult or negative--all these things you yourself make associations with your present reality. When you let go of time as a function of your reality, much of this pressure--this stress--will diminish or even cease to exist at all. It is the remembering of past hurts or potential future events which propel you into this state of discomfort.

Breathe--as yogis have admonished you to do more consciously; breath pulls fresh air into your body and allows you to be more self-focused. Time itself seems to show down when you're focused instead on the deliberate inhale and exhale of your breath. You will find it difficult to be internally-focused and hold thoughts of time and exterior "reality".

So, what fascinates you with this concept of living other lives? Could it be that things or people in your life remind you of some--before--or will happen sometime in the future? In one important respect, there are memories or rather re-memberings, of a life or lives where you were--well, not you--not as you conceptualize yourself. The "you" that you are remembering is not a different "life" but a fragment of reality caught in the kaleidoscope of the multiverse. You have no tangible way of conceptualizing this, but you know that this rings true as you read this.

Hopefully, you will find this more understandable, but we know that it is a difficult concept for you. You have tried hard to place inequities and injustices that you see in the world around you into some kind of concept which makes you feel "better". There is no ultimate judgment, no justice, no punishment for the choices you--and others--make. Universal source provides the source material with which you experience yourself in the "reality" that you yourself have created.

This divine drama you have conjured up can be fascinating; indeed, it is an unending source of your art and literature. Those of us who exist "outside" of your self-limiting dimension are often amused at the joy and consternation that arises from this continuing story of your lives. If it helps you to conceptualize yourself as living in some past--or future--life, by all means, you have an active imagination, fertile with all kinds of thoughts.

From your earliest memories of yourselves, the story has grown and become oh so elaborate, often weaving together bits and pieces of other people's stories as you make up the grander story of what you think you are. Pause, then, and consider how simple you really are without all these stories, dramas and conjectures. How much more time you would have if you could slow down all this thought and just be you. But, you are making all this stuff up to protect that most-inner you from discovering the very simplicity and awesomeness of the divine being that you are.

You are just now arriving at a "time" in the progression of this remembering which is allowing you to discover this core truth. We rejoice at what may seem to you like an epiphany--your true being with the need for stories or façades. When you stop telling yourself the stories, when you can truly let go of the attachments that you have built your life around--then, you will be able to see the shining star of your inner, true Self.

It is this unmasked and unblemished you that your ego self has kept hidden from your acknowledgement that brings us the most joy. You will understand just how important a leap of faith this is--after you have made it. The irony here should not be lost on you. You must leap before you know what lies beyond. Trust in the reality of your true self and everything else will fall into place. As always, we send you love and support in this transition.

Duality in Emotion (written 2/17/09)

by Rev Debi Brady

We often consider emotions as something we have--relatively capriciously--they come and go with little or no will on our part. This is simplistic and still based on the little "I" arising from our most primal selves. As the vibrational levels we live in continue to rise, there must be more consideration placed on the emotions and their apparent control "over" us.

Often emotions are placed in opposition to one another, suchas love/hate, envy/joy, etc. The dualistic comparisons are also based on the fallacy that these emotions can be placed a kind of balancing point. If that were true, you could reach some sort of happy 'median'. Consider the fairly traditional dichotomy of love and hate. You may wish to consider whether there is a certain level of quality of expression of each--love and hate. Is there a point where there is too much "love"? Is there a point where there is a great "need" for hate? Of course, definitions may different from individual to individual, culture to culture; but, in general, the answer is probably no in both cases.

So, is there any two emotions that operate in a dialectic fashion? The closet to this are envy and joy, but only in the sense that as envy is eliminated, or at least diminished, joy is increased--and vice versa. Envy places you furthest from your present moment truth; joy brings you closest. Although there might not be an obvious direct connection between these two emotions. Certainly you can see how it may affect your experience of the present moment--which is really the only "time" you can ever experience.

Love and joy are strongly linked, as well; however, there is no specific connection. It can be true that you feel more joyful when you arealso experiencing love or loving thoughts, some love can make you anything but joyful. And, reciprocally, you can feel especially joyful and that experience could have nothing--in particular--to do with any specific feelings of love.

How you process your dualistic nature of human physical reality can be confusing and all-too-often attributed to strong emotions. Clearly, as we've pointed out, emotions are merely your inner thoughts about your present moment. We suggest that, although emotions can be useful gages of your inner world; they are misleading or outright inaccurate barometers of your "outer" world.