Hello again, or more appropriately, Namaste!
Namaste,
(pronounced Nah-ma-stay) is a greeting that I just recently learned, which
means: My eternal soul greets your eternal soul. Pretty cool, don’t you think?
I found it while I was in the midst of one of my many internet treks. And make
no mistake about it, we are all eternal.
I’d love to be able to tell you the origin of the greeting but it seems that
just about everyone I run into is claiming it as theirs. First I heard it was
Hindu and then a Wiccan claimed it belonged to them! I guess I’ll have to get
back to you on that one. At the very least I can tell you that I happen to like
its meaning. So from now on, it’ll be my greeting or I guess I should say,
ours.
As I was also saying just a bit ago, I happen to frequent the internet quite
regularly. Okay, incessantly is more like it. At least that was until I got this
job, but that’s another story. My family just doesn’t get it. They just
don’t understand “mental travel”. If they only knew all of the places
I’ve gone, all of people I’ve met, all of the things I’ve seen! O.K., so
some of them are virtual. On the whole though, most of them aren’t. I
especially love the chat sites. (Spiritual of course!) The only problem with it
all is that we only have the one phone line in our house and so “the family”
is continuously getting that bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, busy signal that is driving them
absolutely wild. They already think I’m a little ~bonkers~ being into what my
mother has come to call that “freaky stuff”. Personally, I think it’s that
they’re just upset that they can’t get through to me to tap into all of that
juicy 4th dimensional knowledge I’m accumulating. And, I even have the proof!
Last week, when I was floating around the net I chanced upon a topic I had long
ago forgotten about. It’s called Dowsing. As is usual with all of the topics I
discuss, I’d like to make clear that dowsing is scientific in its roots.
It’s just that my “interpretations” of all of these things always go that
little extra step further. I consider it a step closer to enlightenment but I
fear that my mother considers it one step “past sanity”. Ah! Such is life!
Anyway, just for the record, dowsing has been used very conventionally with much
success, for locating water supplies in areas where the odds of finding it were
extremely low. There are four basic kinds of dowsing tools, the Pendulum, the Y
rod, the Bobber and the L rods. I’m going to discuss what I have found to be
the most fun.....the pendulum and how it can be used to help us answer those Yes
/No questions we have. What dowsing really does is to help us get our rational,
analytical thinking mind take a back seat and our inner and more intuitive sense
“speak” to us. Of course this is mostly done for fun, but I want to repeat
that we are not only always in control of our destiny, but that it is also our
responsibility to make the choices that we must, very carefully.
A pendulum can be made from just about anything you can think of. I used a gold
chain and charm that I wear around my neck all the time. I’ve also used a
crystal suspended from a piece of wire. I liked the jewelry much better! Hey, I
am a woman! After you have your pendulum, the next step is to decide what your
YES direction is and what your NO direction is. You do this in the following
way: 1) Make sure the pendulum is still. 2) Say to the pendulum: “Show me
YES”. Before you know it, it will move in a certain direction. 3) Say to the
pendulum: “Show me NO”. Again, it will move, but in a different way.
You now have your designated responses. Now all you have to do is ask away with
those heartfelt, and maybe even frivolous questions you have. The more you do
it, the better you’ll get at it. My family is totally amazed! One word of
caution: Be patient! For some strange reason my daughter thought that yelling at
it to stop would make it happen faster. Trust me on this, it doesn’t. While
the unconscious mind may be slow, it’s not deaf!
As for my family, remember my mother who thinks I’ve lost it, well I think she
was asking her pendulum if she was going to win the Publishers Clearinghouse
contest. Talk about optimism! And my sister-in-law, who just found out that
she’s pregnant, was asking hers if this new baby was going to be that little
girl that she and my brother want so badly. My mother was kind of “mum” with
her answer but my sis-in-law is supposedly having that girl! Who really knows?
I’ll tell you in 7 months whether or not the pendulum answered correctly about
the baby, and as far as the contest is concerned.......if Ed McMahon should
happen to drop by with that check, it’ll be my unabashed pleasure to wave to
you all on TV. as I live conveniently around the corner from my Mom. (Boy oh
boy, is my Mother going to want to kill me when she reads this! Metaphorically
speaking....of course!)
Love, Light and Peace...Always
~*MoonLady*~
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The Following
Article is an original publication written by (me *S*) Donna
Helgeson.
It first appeared in the Brooklyn Baron in my continuing
column: The Journey...Inward!!!!
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