Yea, I’m a spiritual person, but I suffer from alcoholism and drug addiction.  As an Alcoholic and Addict, I fell prey to poverty, loss of family, loss of employment, hospital stays, being jailed and many other severe trials and sorrows. This is an alcoholic’s lot in life.  We are wired up differently than others and, although this fact qualifies us to be categorized as having a real disease, we still must take full responsibility for our actions and for our recovery.

I finally decided that I must apply myself to a spiritual program that directly addresses my tendency toward substance abuse as a coping/avoidance mechanism.  For me this includes regular attendance of AA meetings, taking a daily inventory and practicing the principles of a clean and sober life. I also have to supplement my diet with certain nutrients that my addictions have depleted in my brain and body.  Below you will find a free downloadable guide to withdrawal and recovery that addresses specific, practical aspects of staying clean and sober–for good.

What Happens After the Alcohol and Drugs Wear Off?
PAWS and how to deal with it.

I have found it helpful, especially in early recovery, to observe an enhanced diet that supports brain chemistry balancing and healing.  There is always the very real danger of relapse, some of this danger occurs because of the neurochemical changes that using substances cause in the brain.  This is sometimes called Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome or PAWS. I share some of this helpful advice with you here.

Disclaimer:

I am NOT a doctor and do not wish to present the following as a substitute for sound medical advice from a trained, competent physician.  It is always advisable to consult such a professional before embarking upon the difficult task of withdrawing from alcohol, recreational drugs, prescription painkillers or opiates in any form, especially if you find you need to try to do it at home and on your own.

This book is not meant to be a comprehensive treatise on the subject of addiction; it is simply based on my own personal experience of withdrawing and recovering from abusing most of the common substances to which we become addicted.

How to safely and successfully withdraw from Substance Abuse:
In general, I have found it impossible to sustain any kind of sobriety without following a program of rigorous honesty that has, at its heart, a firm foundation in a spiritual approach to developing and maintaining contact with a Higher Power, and performing service to helping other addicts who are still using…such as the 12-Step Program of AA.  Alcoholics Anonymous hasn’t worked for every recovering addict/alcoholic, but it has the highest success rate of any of the alternatives. During the course of my life, I have battled with addiction in many forms, and substance abuse, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse have been killers for me.  The program of Alcoholics Anonymous has been the greatest gift and has saved me years of suffering and possibly death from this serious affliction.

It is important to note here that most addicts die of their addictions in one way or another.  So the necessity for some kind of effective strategy and salutary practice is evident.  I, myself, have relapsed enough to know that AA works for those who work it.  However, it is not the only way to recover.  Others have found ways to stay sober, but most addicts/alcoholics relapse, no matter what method they try.

Relying upon one’s own devices usually sets the addict onto a slippery slope sooner or later.  This is the one approach I heartily suggest avoiding.  Get some support. You will want it and need it and may even find yourself benefiting in ways you could not have imagined once you get some recovery under your belt.

Alcohol Withdrawal

For alcoholics, stopping drinking can be next to impossible.  A stay at the local detox center may be necessary, depending on the severity of your problem. You will need to sweat it out for at least three days and more for post-acute symptoms, like anxiety and sleeplessness.  After getting the alcohol out of your system,  (which takes typically three days or so) a very good next step is to attend a local AA meeting and, at least admit to the group that you know you have a problem and want help.  There will not be a person in the room who hasn’t been right where you are; some will probably offer their direct support right away. You will want to have some contacts when a weak moment hits or if you want to ask questions about how to proceed in recovery. Get a Sponsor as soon as possible and start working the Steps. Just start going to meetings and some solid recovery will rub off on you if you keep an open mind and listen…doing your best not to judge.

A lot of really great material is out there on the subject of recovery from alcoholism, so mostly I will concentrate on the area of addiction recovery that I have found deficient in actual, practical and effective advice.

Opiate Withdrawal.

I have included a downloadable guide below filled with nutritional and practical advice to help with the difficult problem of recovery from prescription medications like benzodiazepines (sleeping pills) and Painkillers, Opiates.  Some of this information may be quite helpful to intravenous drug users as well.  I personally have not used drugs in this way.  But, I have experienced the agony of becoming physically dependent on prescription painkillers: benzodiazepines: Valium, Ativan, Ambien, Xanax, Klonapin, and Painkillers: oxycodone, hydrocodone in the form of Vicodin and Norco, morphine-contin, Percoset, and Tylenol 3 and 4. When taking these substances I invariably experienced an ever-increasing need for higher dosages within a very short time and many very serious and debilitating side-effects.

During the height of my sleeping pill addiction, because I had developed a tolerance to the drug, I was taking 10-12 sleeping pills a day…enough to sedate a horse.  With these substances, a slow taper was necessary…very difficult, but with the supplementation that I have outlined in the downloadable guide (below) I was greatly helped in this process.  I finally made it.  There are nights that I don’t sleep, but nearly everyone has some degree of insomnia occasionally, and now I just let it be.  I use my awake time to pray and read and usually, I am able to sleep again soon.

At my painkiller addiction’s worst apoint,  I was taking somewhere between 8 and 10 Norco per day.  I could not quit.  It was then that I realized I was in very serious trouble.  I tried tapering, but found that, because of the nature of the substance, I was never able to make any progress.  So, for me, cold turkey was always the only way to get off.  It took me two agonizing tries and then one more and ultimately successful, not-so-agonizing cold turkey period to finally quit…for good. The freedom I experience is well worth the pain I have to endure because of my damaged nervous system.  I actually feel better and in less pain overall, than if I were still taking narcotic painkillers.

Quitting painkillers and prescription drugs can be accomplished.  I’ve included a recipe for withdrawal at home that I have used safely (although a doctors supervision is always recommended). I found out certain things about quitting drugs and alcohol.  There are some pitfalls to look out for — especially, how to avoid falling prey to the almost unavoidable relapse associated with PAWS, or post-acute withdrawal syndrome that sets in when your 3-4 days of withdrawal from alcohol and the 5-7 days of withdrawal from opiates are over.

Get your free Downloadable guide to Recovery from Alcohol, Opiates and Prescription Drugs Here!

May your recovery be total, swift and filled with Happiness, Joyousness and Freedom!

~D. Y. (Oraea) Varis

“O SON OF MAN!

“The light hath shone on thee from the horizon of the sacred Mount and the spirit of enlightenment hath breathed in the Sinai of thy heart…” from the Hidden Words of Baha’u'llah

So what, exactly is enlightenment?  It is often spoken of as something to be sought.  But, if the above passage is true, then enlightenment must be with us always, never lost and therefore, no seeking is required.

Let’s hear the rest of this Hidden Word:

“Wherefore, free thyself from the veils of idle fancies and enter into My court, that thou mayest be fit for everlasting life and worthy to meet Me. Thus may death not come upon thee, neither weariness nor trouble.” (HW #63 from the Persian)

It must be that we are “veiled” somehow from our own enlightenment and, as the passage implies, from our eternal life–wherein we meet God and will no longer experience fatigue, trial or even death!

So the crucial task becomes one of freeing ourselves from these intervening veils.  How is this done?  Personally, I always jumped to the conclusion, that somehow I had to remake myself in God’s image, you know, fix myself so that I’d be worthy.  I never realized how arrogant this position was until I found the Course.  I began to realize, as I practiced the lessons and read the Text and the Teacher’s Manual the mind-training that is A Course in Miracles is the quickest route to the unveiling.

This, from A Course in Miracles:

“Why wait for Heaven?

Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. …The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source.   It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home….This light can not be lost.  Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? …

The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding.  He forgives because he recognized the truth in him.  The peace of God is shining in you now, and in all living things.  In quietness is it acknowledged universally.  For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient.  It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you.  Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way.  For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.”

~  from lesson 188 of the Workbook of A Course in Miracles

This passage, this lesson takes my breath away!  The same way that reading from the Baha’i writings takes my breath away, only differently.  If Baha’u'llah said that we should free ourselves from the veils of idle fancies and vain imaginings and I’m having trouble with that, it makes sense to me that God would provide a means for helping me with this all-important task.

For me, the Course is providing this means. I certainly could not explain the idea of using the Mind to reach the Light any better than the above passage from Lesson 188 of ACIM.

It’s not that the Baha’i Faith is lacking anything, the problem is: I’m veiled from understanding it fully.  The Mind Training works; I may struggle sometimes, but it never fails, if I just give it a moment…and I say, “If it’s working, why try and re-invent the Wheel?”  A provision has been given to help me strip off the intervening veils that hide the Light in me and in every one of us!  Hallelujah!

~The Peace of God is Shining in You NOW!

Oraea

Note: the views expressed herein are based upon my own experiences and are not intended to express any official Baha’i standpoint.

Okay, I could have been more sensitive….or not.

This is not what matters.

I sit here, stewing in my own juices from my brother’s verbal attack upon me from just a moment ago.   I notice that my initial, knee-jerk reaction is to want to fixate somehow, out of the discomfort. I feel triggered: judged, unloved, and like I want to separate from everyone and everything…and I’m in trouble.  In the past, I would have used a substance: alcohol, drugs or food to self-medicate–but the itch would go unscratched, the core problem would remain. If I did use a substance to “treat” my problem, then, of course, when the fix had worn off, I’d be left with the mess that any form of addiction leaves in its wake.

I claim (probably too often) that, when conflict arises, my mind is trained to perform an action of forgiveness.  These times are where the rubber meets the road.  I’m in a bind.  If I validate my brother’s ego by trying to soft-pedal the situation and console him somehow, I’m buying into the reality that I’m at fault because of my inability to predict what he would have found as acceptable behavior and tailoring myself to, at best, an inauthentic expression of myself.   I now will be verifying insanity, both in him and in myself.  This I know I cannot do.  But, that still leaves me feeling unloved.

And there it is.  I feel unloved. An old wound in myself has surfaced in the form of an attack which only seems to be outside myself, coming from someone else.  I now can hear my own call for love, for healing and for atonement. And, since there is no sense in the wounded ego trying to figure out a way to fix itself (being unreal), I turn to the Source of Love.

Sitting silently, for a moment, I open myself to the Holy Instant.  It never fails. He never fails.  I need only trust my little willingness to be healed completely of this insanity and this ancient wound.  I call upon my brother’s spirit and the Holy Spirit simultaneously and await the imminent transmutation of fear and hurt to love and forgiveness.

“Lord, Thou who are merciful unto me, into Thy hands I place my whole Self, trusting in Thee and in Thine unfailing Love. Forgive me, Father, for attacking my brother and for all unloving thoughts and actions.   Glory be to God, the All-Merciful, the All-Loving, the Ever Forgiving.”

The Instantaneous Process of Healing

Sometimes the healing of the mind is experienced instantly, sometimes gradually, sometimes I feel like I’m having a mind-storm.  This is a mind-storm moment.  A flurry of related thoughts fly through my mind, mostly crazy and mean thoughts, in rapid fire.  As each one surfaces, I let it slip past with a quiet, “Not this.”  If I get stuck on one, I see if I need to feel something and let that happen–without indulging, and then flow past it until I am emptied out. This process, can be quick or it can go on for days.  But if I am, at least somewhat vigilant against trying to solve the problem by myself, i.e. without Help from above,  healing always happens.

And now I rest in God.  I have done my part and I trust my brother will do his.  I do not have to fix him, or try to correct his behavior or blame or figure anything out.  I don’t even have to talk to him about anything.  The fact of my singularity is what heals… for…

“When I am healed, I am not healed alone.”  ~A Course in Miracles

Peace,
Oraea

Enter Into the Silence
Of your own heart’s rose garden.
Be still, be still…
Let love’s fire light up the sky.
~Rumi

One of many mystical quatrains by Jelal-u-din Rumi.

The music was created by Susan Sheely and me during one of our Tuesday night fireside gatherings–not unlike a night that might have been spent by Sufis who sang, danced and prayed with rapture until dawn…although, I don’t think we ever made it through a whole night.

We did get carried aloft, though…and frequently lost track of time, place, everything but love.  The song was made into a dance of Universal Peace by Susan and has been danced in groups all over the world.

Love’s Fire ~ Enter into the silence…

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True Vision and Remembrance

Did you know that its really effortless to “see”? Seeing, or more accurately, corrected, spiritual vision, is a natural outcome of an assemblage point shift, or a shift in the way you have organized your world view.

That shift in perception is toward a more subjective, deeper view. This deeper view can show you, in less than the twinkling of an eye, what you have forgotten.

The body’s eyes do not “see”. Vision belongs to the realm of the Light from which it extends.

“The retina of outer vision, though sensitive and delicate may nevertheless be a hindrance to the inner eye which alone can perceive…The bestowals of God…are sometimes hidden by intervening veils of mental and mortal vision…but when those scales are removed..the great signs of God will become visible and he (man) will witness the eternal light filling the world.” (Abdul-Baha’, BWF, p.263)

And what is it that you have forgotten?  Everything of importance. Like this:

“God is in everything I see. Behind every image I have made, the truth remains unchanged. Behind every veil I have drawn across the face of love, its light remains undimmed.” (A Course in Miracles, L56)

The knowledge that you possess has never left you, but the world has momentarily blinded you.  Only momentarily–as the pace of the old-world breakdown quickens, it is becoming harder to not remember, to stay blind, is it not?

This reminder from the mind training of A Course in Miracles, may help to loosen the knot of the blindfold you have been wearing:

 “Above all else I want to see. Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am, I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests to the fearful nature of the self-image I have made. If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this image of myself go. As it is replaced by truth, vision will surely be given me.” (A Course in Miracles)

But the blindfold that shows you the world of everyday things and events, has been in place so long, that you have grown accustomed to wearing it…everyone around you agrees that this is the way that it is and there are rules that the world obeys and so you must obey them as well.  To suddenly stop- to “stop the world” as Carlos Castaneda suggested in his books from the 1970′s, may seem fearful at first.

 “Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment they were born.” (Carlos Castaneda)

You are living in a dream, a dream figure being dreamed by the world.  This can never content you. Open you eyes…you will find that you are not alone and abandoned.

 “The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing bearing the semblance of reality.””Know thou that the Kingdom is the real world, and this nether place is only its shadow stretching out. A shadow hath no life of its own; its existence is only a fantasy, and nothing more; it is but images reflected in water, and seeming as pictures to the eye.”

There is a real world.  It is your native home, you know the way back.  Open your eyes…and see.

Note:  The ideas expressed herein are based solely on the author’s experiences are are not intended to represent any official Baha’i viewpoint.

The Vanishing of Everything But Love Itself – Part 1

Since I claim to have practiced the Art of Forgiveness since 1999,  people have naturally, asked me,  ”Well…what happened in 1999?”

The following is an account of an unprecedented experience I had beginning in February of 1999, following a period of profound disenchantment with my life and the world in its entirety. Utter bleakness enveloped me in a total mental and emotional devastation that brought me to my knees in prayer. I begged God for a Real Solution. I wanted Love Itself to come to my aid!

An Answer came that went beyond religion, beyond everything I had tried and exhausted. I had tried relationships, material success, artistic fulfillment, deep involvement in my faith (Baha’i) and a vast array of self-help, psychological and spiritual cures. I knew I needed something that far exceeded the narrow limits of my own machinations.

Little did I know that I was asking for far to little, even though, at the time, I felt I was praying for a great thing. I did not understand that I was asking for my disenchantment, my depression, my frustration, my ego and with them–the world itself –to vanish.

My prayer went something like: “God, I don’t know what I need, I can’t do this by myself, I need your power, I just want you…and on, and on, desperately, like that.” This prayer was recited mostly on the floor, vigorously for weeks.    

After a succession of events that led up to the magnificent event described in this article, I received the Answer to my prayer. Here’s what happened:

It’s 6:00 am and I’m standing in the Continental Check-in line at San Francisco International Airport. I feel a sense of wonderment curiously laced with nonchalance. This is going to be no ordinary plane ride.
From somewhere else in another line down the terminal, a caged rooster crows, “Time to wake up!” Strange thing: a rooster in the airport. But I know the rooster and its crowing are just for me. Spirit is speaking directly to me through everything around me and, for once, I am hearing the language that I’ve longed to hear since I became aware of its absence.

“You are about to come to full awakening.”, the Voice says. This is not an imagined voice. It is certain and spoken clearly– somehow without sound or timbre.

I take my window seat on the plane. Seat B and C are taken by an older couple. The wife is nagging her husband. He is apparently ill and I get the sense that they have just visited a medical center regarding his illness. I glance over at the man who is sitting next to me. The glance becomes a gaze. “Hello”, I say. “It’s nice to see you.” And although I’ve never seen him before, he seems utterly familiar to me.

His eyes have a timeless, holy light in them, which belies his ordinary human disguise. He gives me a tiny smile of recognition. His pant leg is touching mine. Yet, I do not mind. Instead I’m aware that our physical proximity is a necessary facilitation for what is occurring in another dimension. My light body has become an energetic channel seemingly having its own will and purpose: the reclamation of projected thought. Energetic whorls spiral from my midsection into the man seated next to me and seem to be clearing out old ideas about his identity as a sick old man. I soon forget to think of him in this way.

I glance over at his wife. She does not smile. She has noticed that her husband’s pant leg overlapping mine. Still, her eyes, too, have a deep timelessness to them. They seem to glow. As I glance across the aisle and behind me, I notice that everyone’s eyes appear this way.

“Don’t sit so close to people. You’re bothering her!”, the wife nags.

“That’s all right”, I hear myself say in a soft, courteous voice. “It’s not bothering me.”

The energy spirals continue of their own accord to clean out my historical images– this time, of the wife. I watch while thoughts of: old woman with a sick husband who nags and lives a dreary existence, disappear into me. A whole ethereal happening is superimposed upon the surface of our verbal exchange.

A moment later, the three of us relax. Apparently, the clearing has come to completion in our joint release from the past. Gifts of a different order have been given through me and I have similarly received through these two souls. There is a quiet, tangible bond that now exists here, though it would be inappropriate to speak of it. Indeed, it requires no verbal communication to be understood.

The aircraft taxis down the runway and lifts off. As I climb higher through pink- shadowed cumulus clouds, I have the uncanny sensation that I am climbing into Heaven itself: it’s something like hearing exquisitely beautiful music with my whole body.

“Your assignment with these two is complete. You’ll be moving to the back of the plane now.” The Voice directs.

“Excuse me,” I say to my two traveling companions. “I’ll be changing seats now. Feel free to take the window seat. I won’t be returning to it.” I get up and move past them. I walk down the aisle to the very last row.

There is a young, blond woman in business attire seated there. She’s napping. I drop into the seat beside her and the energetic whorls become activated. “Over-privileged, too-attractive-for-her-own-good career girl.” I hear my old ideas about who I think this young woman is. They flow back into me via these fibers of energy that circulate between us as she naps.

As my thoughts empty and the whorling subsides, she suddenly jolts awake and looks around her. She is initially annoyed that someone has infringed upon her space by taking the vacant seat next to her. “Wow, you sure woke up!”, I say. “Do you remember me?” I ask her, smiling.

She looks perplexed. “Do I know you?” she asks.

“Not from here, no.” She stares at me.

“From…?”

I smile again. “From before either of us got here, remember?” I do not wonder if she thinks I am a kook. She understands me perfectly. We speak as dear friends; we both are elevated by our meeting.

I am instructed again to move to another seat. “You will meet a Friend of God. Start heading towards the forward rows. I find my new traveling companion who looks up at me and smiles as I take the empty seat next to her.

“Hi there.” We both smile. There don’t seem to be any words of explanation. We both know why we have come together. She begins to sing a chant into my ear. Simultaneously, in the other ear, the loudspeaker comes on as the grating voice of the stewardess announces landing information. The gentle Hindu chant being sung in one ear and the jarring voice of the stewardess in the other, produces the effect of my awareness being split, opened somehow. A see a golden light, a kind of elixir flowing down over my crown and forehead. I sense that this is a gift, an essential bestowal for what is about to occur.

The Voice informs me that time is about to speed up. I do not yet know that time will go so fast that material reality– everything–is about to vanish. Conversely, I feel slower, calm, completely quiet inside.

(the astonishing story continues… proceed to part two)

It is said that it is impossible to see two worlds.
Now I’m supposed to choose.

One eye is open on the world of Maya,
What I see makes me crazy, makes me weary.
Incarcerated by imagery, artifice and false hope…
I serve a prison sentence for dealing in lies,
hard time.

The other seems crusted shut, so long disused,
…while the promised land lies just behind it’s atrophied lid.

But…once, when it opened suddenly and for no reason,
I caught a glimpse of that sweet land
and cannot forget
what I saw and loved so completely that it can’t be spoken.
Eternity shone there. Ecstasy saturated every atom.

Meanwhile…something… keeps vigil while I
while away.
My chains are familiar now,
their heaviness accepted as inevitable.

Still…a small bird chirps a reminder,
a blown flower-petal wafts a beckoning,
a faint melody, almost heard sounds the silent calling:
“Come home…I’m here”.

My world-eye is afflicted.
It needs shutting.
It wants rest.

I have only one good eye -
It’s sight forever unimpaired.
If I close the one, the other might just open.

It is said that it is impossible to see two worlds.
Now I must choose.

   ~

Are You an Undercover Mind Angel?

 There are angels among us. Some stand out in a crowd, some blend in. All of them work as miraculous healers, mostly behind the scenes. We usually do not even notice the quiet yet powerful work they do to transform our lives.

Sometimes they perform simple acts of kindness, some work in teams; some are part of a larger organization, some work entirely on their own. They are all part of a larger force, an army of light.

Abdul-Baha’, Baha’u’llah’s son and the exemplar of His Faith said this over eighty years ago:

“Whensoever holy souls, drawing on the powers of heaven, shall arise with such qualities of the spirit, and march in unison, rank on rank, every one of those souls will be even as one thousand, and the surging waves of that mighty ocean will be even as the battalions of the Concourse on high.” (Abdul-Baha’, SWAB, p 260)

There is an undercover army of angels among us who are working in the trenches of ordinary life to bring about the coming Era of Enlightenment. These angels are not only Peace Corps workers or those who bring relief when disaster strikes. Sometimes they are the quiet ones who work through the Spirit at the level of Mind.

“The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness” (A Course in Miracles, Lesson 6)

Who are Mind Angels?

These angels are ordinary folks who are changing the collective consciousness by changing their own minds. At this level, change is accomplished because the external picture is like a mirror of the inner condition. To efface the dust of the ego from the mirror of the mind is to release light into the world. To eradicate the impacted darkness deep in the collective human psyche, Mind Angels work within their own minds to take on the fiercest demons of hatred, prejudice, fear, madness, greed, lust and guilt in all its forms.

It may seem, on the surface of things, that they aren’t doing much. But, such is not the case. An undercover Mind Angel works deeply, sometimes painfully, always very exquisitely, to bring about happiness and a sense of light where a condition of darkness prevailed just a moment ago.

A thought of negativity, whether it appears in your own mind or that of another, carries with it a cloud of negativity that communicates to others. When a Mind Angel takes responsibility for the error and practices the art of forgiveness, spiritual energies are released that break up the darkness and everything changes. All minds in the immediate proximity are affected. But the miracle doesn’t end there as the generality of human consciousness is raised also–by just that much.

Thought is Very Powerful

“Consume every wayward thought with His loving mention.” (Baha’u'llah, Gleanings of Baha’ullah, p. 265)

Think not that this is some foo-foo, airy-fairy pseudo-practice. No indeed. By practicing the art of forgiveness, Mind Angels are taking on the thick shadow of Human evil and digesting it. The result is all-encompassing. Its effect is the elevation of the Human Condition. It is light upon light.

You have performed miracles of forgiveness perhaps many times. You have been a Mind Angel every time you extended a hand to a stranger or jumped in to help, in spite of fear– but most especially– you have been an angel of the Mind every time you chose to love, even when it seemed impossible.

How to Be A Mind Angel

Becoming a Mind Angel is fun and can be practiced anywhere and everywhere. Just notice when there are dark patches–moments of conflict. Then step back and allow the Light to crack the shadow open. That’s all.

You are a Mind Angel when you silently bless instead of condemn, when you ask for healing and trust that it is accomplished. You are among the “secret agent” Angels as soon as you accept the “burden of light” that comprises the re-unification of your thought system, sometimes called: the Atonement.

May peace be upon you…and may peace be brought to every mind through your forgiveness.  You will start to see Mind Angels springing up all over the place–soon…soon.