Soul Light

(Messages through Les Dyer)

SOUL LIGHT - TEN

BELIEF AND FAITH

Last week I spoke about Real Faith embracing us as our expectations in such a way that it flows out of an actual physical knowing within us rather than just a clump of mental ideas, hopes or even vague wishes.

One person wrote: “The fleeting awareness of this knowing is so sweet and then we forget again. Steps are taken everyday - and we feel good! We love the expectation - that really hit the spot.”

Of course, for many people, faith is still only a mental construct, a longing and desire.

An example of this would be when someone says “I believe in God”.

They often mean that they mentally hope their very limited ideas about a power greater than themselves are correct – but there’s no expectation attached to them such that it would in any significant way change their behaviour.

As history continually attests, you can “believe” in God without that “belief” having any beneficial effect on your levels of intolerance, fear, anger, lust, jealousy, pride, anxiety or worthlessness.

When such a belief is so obviously ineffective in transforming people one must ask if that belief holds any real value.

One could also ask what could possibly help change inappropriate behaviour if “belief in God” doesn’t?

And the answer is to live – and to sincerely mean - “I have faith in God”.

Real faith, as we have said, implies a genuine living expectation.

But what is this expectation?

Surely it’s that I am safe, ok, totally loved and completely blessed.

That I am infinite spirit, eternal life and immortal soul.

That I am a part of the Whole, the One-ness – and thus all else is a part of me; and all others are my brothers and sisters in divinity.

That Abundance is my birthright and Joyfulness my natural expression.

That Peace is my Name and Love is my Essence.

When I genuinely have faith in The Divine I embrace my Greatness, free of any egotistical comparisons.

I live my life with certainty and sureness.

I lack for nothing, regardless of what I receive or have removed from me.

The bridge between belief and faith is called Knowing.

We leave our beliefs behind – all of them. Even about God.

We step into our Knowing – deep within. Only by surrendering and embracing deep within.

And then we step into our Faith – and live our Expectations with richness and sureness. Always in all ways.

Blessings to you, your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - NINE

HAVING FAITH

In my spare time I am writing three more books.

You might well ask “why three?” – and my answer is “because I expect to finish them”.

Expectation, real expectation, is faith.

Finishing the books is not my goal (one volume has taken three years thus far!). Rather, it is my vision.

It is a vision based on my expectation – my faith - that I will finish them.

For many people in our topsy-turvy world, faith is someone’s else’s understanding that we take at face value: it’s not our understanding at all, at least not until we agree to believe what we’ve been told to believe. This borrowed faith can however become a strong guide through life for us.

Its drawback is that it is always second hand – and is always subject to change or outright rejection should another more attractive belief/faith be presented to us.

Being subject to constant challenge, we can often wander aimlessly from one faith to another, never quite sure what we really believe in.

Real faith is never second-hand.

It arises deep within oneself as a knowing.

Yet, it is a knowing which exists outside of any sense-based discovery.

Such knowings arise from the Soul, the True Mind of the individual – and propel us forward to even greater discoveries within.

When I first wish to embark on unknown journeys I may be well served by asking directions of others who have already journeyed afar – but ultimately, with practice and growing confidence, I must choose to go where no-one else can ever go – within myself.

And this I must do by myself.

That which I find I can truly have Faith in for it is my very true Self.

Belief is replaced with Knowing, and Wishing is replaced with Expectation.

Faith is never an empty vessel - but a cup overflowing with real values and substance.

In the moment we recognise it we recognise our true Self and our True Worth.

The trinkets of physical existence become quite meaningless to us; and we rest content, peaceful, happy and joyous in our Truth.

We are the Love.

We are the Peace.

We are the Oneness that was, is and always will be.

Have Faith - you’ll find it to be so if you go within.

But whatever you do – don’t take my word for it!!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - EIGHT

HAPPINESS – STEP FIVE:
ESTABLISHING ONE’S BEING IN DIVINE GUIDANCE

Ultimately, Happiness arises from within oneself the moment one surrenders to Divine Guidance.

After we’ve thought all our thoughts, planned all our plans, plotted all our plots, dreamed all our dreams and manipulated everyone and everything we realize we ultimately have control over nothing outside our Self.

We cannot control our life, our death or anything physical in-between for more than a moment in time.

In fact, at a physical level we realize we are ourselves significantly controlled – at least at a physical level – by the sheer weight of influences that bear down on us unrelentingly from everyone and everywhere all the time.

Only within our Self do we find refuge.

And only within the True within our Self do we find anything of meaningful value, worth and substance: for then we find the Divine.

True Happiness is the state of returned Self to Soul, of life lived as the Divine Dance it was always meant to be.

It cannot be lived in Ultimate One-ness for ultimate One-ness negates duality: we simply cease to be.

Our duality, this separation of a kind from the Divine is a purposeful and creative act by the Divine to express its blissfulness. Only through objective experience can bliss be experienced.

Thus, our duality is a wholesome aspect of the Play of Existence: we are meant to move to the divine Dance of Life.

Yet how to know how to move?

What steps to take?

Whom to have as partner?

Divine Guidance shows us.

Such Guidance is the very dance of life itself.

“Allow me to be your partner” says God. “Let me lead you. Simply follow me”.

God and I then dance together – and happiness is the rhythm of life to which we dance!

“Come, take another partner, now!” says God. “Just remember every step that I have taught you”.

And thus I dance with you and you and you and you…..and recognize the guidance for my rhythm!

“Come, join us in the dance!” we say to God, ecstatically.

“My pleasure!” is God’s sweet reply.

Thus God and You and I dance for eternity.

God, You, And I - Dance!

G-u-i-dance!

Maybe it was best said by the Turkish Sufi mystic Rumi around 1250AD:

I watch you dancing in all my actions
Without using my eyes, I spy you at play
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

When he died twenty years later, he was still blissed out with happiness.

I send you boundless love and indubitable happiness!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - SEVEN

HAPPINESS – STEP FOUR:
Om Mani Padme Hum - LIVING IN AWARENESS

Three articles ago I spoke about the first step to happiness – stop comparing ourself with anyone else.

The following article I spoke about how happiness is being truly real and seeing through the insanity of “normal” life.

We DROP the distortions and dysfunctions which create the madness that spins itself into a mesmerising nightmare we call our society.

We still exist in society; but we’re no longer mentally trapped and emotionally crippled by its madness.

In the last article I shared how reality and happiness are truly ordinary – and that awareness – and only awareness - leads to this natural state of being.

This week I’d like to share one of those prime awarenesses that most certainly lead to real happiness.

It’s found in the famous Buddhist mantra: Om Mani Padme Hum…..

Om – This is the Sanskrit word used in ancient India for God. Actually it means “every thing” as everything is, of course, an aspect of the Divine. When we awaken to this understanding we realise that ultimately everything and everyone is One. Such an understanding, fully comprehended, leads to instant bliss! Everyone is our brother and sister and ourself! Jesus himself spoke most aptly when he exclaimed “I and my Father are One!”

However, duality exists in all realms for all is in a state of separation for the purpose of experience. That goes for the spirit realms as well as the recognizably-dimensional earthen realms. Understanding this we seek for a way to access the Divine (and our true happiness!) within this realm of duality. Jesus, again, said it so aptly when he remarked “The father is in me; and I in him”.

This access we achieve through our Heart. Love is not only the expression of the Divine within our duality – but, in a sense, is that Divinity itself. So when we express Love we are really expressing the God-light. Jesus well understood this when he said “….the Father told me what I should say and what I should speak”. When we live from within our Heart our lives are full and rich with love; and happiness walks easily hand in hand with us.

This Divine Love, when accessed allows us to experience True Wisdom. This isn’t everyday understanding as Jesus noted when he said “If I bear witness of myself my witness is not true”. In other words, the illusion of Self isn’t the real thing. Those things that are real, however – reality itself – can only be accessed through True Wisdom; and this, say all the sages, comes only through the Heart and never through the head.

Just as Wisdom flows through Love, so Truth flows through Wisdom. Truth for most of us is simply what we believe in the moment. And yet Universal Truths also exist – often far different from our own limited perspectives! To access these Truths we must first access Wisdom. “I seek not my own will but the Will of the Father who sent me” said Jesus. We couldn’t do much better than to seek similarly ourselves, surely! For in those truths lies the very soul of the happiness we seek!

Seeking within Truth – within ourselves - we find the Divine. Jesus shared this with the world when he stated “He that has seen me has seen the Father”! Wow! One could almost imagine he had been chanting Buddha’s ancient mantra!

Om Mani Padme Hum in the centre of Love which is called your Heart lies Wisdom which is called the Lotus flower in the centre of which lies Truth which is called the Gem of Inestimable Value in the centre of which is the Boundless Vibration-less Nothingness – the pure and infinite potential of all universes…..called God!

When we become truly aware and conscious of this quite simple reality then Happiness springs from our being with great joyousness in celebration that we are aware. Aware above all else that we simply ARE! No conditions. No demands. No hells. No false heavens. Nothing we have to do. Nowhere we have to go. Nothing we have to achieve. Just to BE. To be LOVE. Always were. And always will be. How good is that! How happy does that make you?

I send you boundless love and happiness!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - SIX

HAPPINESS – STEP THREE:
UNDERSTANDING THAT WHAT WE ARE
SEEKING IS THE ORDINARY.

Two articles ago I spoke about the first step – how happiness can start to happen when we stop comparing ourself with anyone else.

Last article I spoke about how happiness is being truly real and seeing through the insanity of “normal” life.

That when we are in tune with reality, we’re happy because we move into harmony with what’s real.

We DROP the distortions and dysfunctions which create the madness that spins itself into a mesmerising nightmare we call our society.

We still exist in society; but we’re no longer mentally trapped and emotionally crippled by its madness.

This week I want to share how reality and happiness is truly ordinary.

I am reminded of that great Aussie Jessica Watson, just 16 years old, who sailed solo and unassisted around the world. On her return last weekend she said “I am completely ordinary. That's the thing. I just put a lot of effort in, had a great team around me and I think that goes to show you don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want it."

The same goes for happiness.

We just have to truly and deeply WANT it.

And be totally committed and willing to put the effort in.

Happiness is completely ordinary and can be achieved by completely ordinary people, like you and I.

We just have to become AWARE!

When the great Sufi poet, Jalal-ud-Din Rumi became aware he wrote:

What I tell about 'me' I tell about you
The walls between us long ago burned down
This voice seizing me is your voice
Burning to speak to us of us.

We need to be burning with the fire of desire ourselves to find and BE ourselves.

To find and speak and share and delight in our happiness.
Awareness is the key.
And this requires that we be ordinary – not somehow above others, or superior, or better, or more spiritual.
But simply aware.

Aware that we are spirit having a physical existence.
Aware that we are love.
Aware that we are harmony.
Aware that peace can never come by going to war.
Aware that safety can never come by building bigger fences.
Aware that health can never come in a pill or a bottle or a needle.
Aware that happiness can never come if it means we have to get things or keep things (or people or places or titles or tasks or even our hopes and dreams)
Aware that equality and fairness can never come by selfishness and greed.
Aware that no-one needs the answers; only a burning desire to be aware.
Awareness leads us back to reality.

Being in reality brings us happiness. Real happiness.

Such happiness is so complete it requires no conditions, demands, objectives, outcomes or circumstances.

It is complete in itself.
This is what we seek.
The state of real ordinariness.

This week, look at all your friends, relatives, family, business associates through FRESH eyes. Just look at them.

Not as someone who wants something from them.

But as someone who is simply looking at them.

Don’t tag them with pre-made descriptions; don’t assign them any kind of personality.

Just look at them deeply.
Be aware.

And let me know how your perspective on them – and yourself -changes just by being objectively aware.

I send you boundless love!
Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - FIVE
HAPPINESS – STEP TWO:
UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE ARE SEEKING

Last week I spoke about STEP ONE – not comparing oneself with anyone else.

Justine from Sydney wrote: “Hey Les, I loved Step 1, I could really relate to this piece. A task last year brought out my self-doubt and issues of self-worth. I can honestly say my comparing myself to other people robbed me of my power and spirit, and my connection to my own soul was lessened.

As usual when life throws me the big ones, I retreated into my heart and read and talked about love until I felt it radiant within. Spirit wouldn't have given me the task, if I was not capable of it. I had to raise my spirit to the task and have faith that spirit would provide everything I needed and spirit did. The White Lotus Sanctuary (in western Sydney) was born…..”

This spiritual Sanctuary now offers spiritual services every week – and came into existence after Justine stopped comparing herself and her abilities against other people. What can you achieve by doing likewise?

Lizzy from Darwin said “Nice one Les, thanks! There's a real simple exercise in the Avatar ReSurfacing workshop ... "Deliberately smile until you feel happy"!! I often teach this one to the school kids I teach as a relief teacher - all ages from pre-school to year 12 - they love it! It's so easy to be happy, it's just a decision hey…..”

Lizzy lives by Harry Palmer’s famous saying "every moment that you are happy is a gift to rest of the world".

The SECOND STEP to help us achieve a natural state of happiness is TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE SEEKING.

This is most easily discovered by understanding what happiness isn’t.

It’s not excitement.
It’s not a thrill.
It’s not even joy or bliss (although it may express itself as these).
It’s connection to reality.

When we are in tune with reality, we’re happy.

When we’re in tune with reality we’re really in harmony with what’s real.

We’ve dropped – at least for the moment – the false, the illusory and all the delusions that create our society.

Did you grasp that? We become happy when we DROP the distortions and dysfunctions which create the madness that spins itself into a tight web we call our society.

This web traps us with its lure of happiness.

But this web is just a dream that’s grown so all-encompassing it’s turned into a nightmare.

When trapped we believe the dream – that money will make us happy, that great sex will make us happy, that power will make us happy, that drugs will make us happy, that the right conditions will make us happy, that any other person is able to make us happy.

And because none of this has the ability to make us happy we suffer life year after year, life after life in the nightmare.

We commit to the nightmare.

We trust it.

We hope that violent war will lead to peace; that ugly greed will lead to fulfilment; that deadly chemicals will lead to health, that constant thinking will lead to action, and that a great physique will lead to love.

None of them do.

So we remain, as a race, unhappy.

The answer is as plain as day: happiness is being real.

It has almost nothing to do with our physical condition, our economic state, our religious convictions, our work status or our politics.

And it has nothing at all to do with anyone else on this planet – alive or dead.

We become happy the moment we drop the ego, the nonsense, the lies, the hierarchies, the madnesses, the dogmas, the political creeds, the fashion trends, the supposed health practices – and everything else - that tie us hand and foot to this chaotic rat race we ought to acknowledge as a seriously deluded lunatic asylum, called Planet Earth (once also known as the Garden of Eden, incidentally).

This is what we are seeking.

I send you boundless love!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Four
HAPPINESS – STEP ONE: NOT COMPARING ONESELF

Are you happy?

Anthony De Mello, the late and famous Catholic priest from India, once said that no-one was happy.

He said that no-one even wanted to be happy – they liked being sad, hurt, disillusioned and angry.

I’m not quite as pessimistic as Anthony – I believe happiness is possible on this planet.

It first requires that we stop comparing ourself with others.

Stop comparing ourselves in a superior way – or in an inferior way.

Stop making comparisons, the purpose of which is to confirm our pre-determined perceptions (good or bad) of ourself.

Stop seeing ourself as better than her; but not as good as him.

Or better-looking than that one – but way below par when compared with that one.

Or a better ‘catch’ than ‘x’; but not as good as ‘y’.

Happiness requires that we dance – because we stop determining that we can’t after having seen what others can do on TV.

It requires that we sing – regardless of whether we ever make it onto a talent show.

That we paint – even if people won’t pay us to.

That we write stories or poems – just for the fun and pleasure of it.

That we do things simply because in our own way (and in our own style) we can.

Not because it necessarily passes muster on anyone else’s parade.

When we stop the comparison game, we’re no longer dumber or brighter; no longer less or more; no longer concerned to be richer or luckier; no longer needing to achieve higher levels or leave the playing field.

We’re okay to be us.

Just as we are.

No score-boards.

It’s about simply observing everyone as if they were extra-ordinary life-forms going about finding out that they’re extra-ordinary life-forms. Which they are.

And doing so without having to compare.

Such living surely takes us on the first step toward happiness.

Is it easy?

Depends on whether you think it is!

It is if you think it is!

Try it this week – stop comparing yourself against your work colleagues, your friends, other family members or your partner.

How do you feel?

I send you boundless love!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Three
EASTER – Death and Life

I remember as a child hearing the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.

It fascinated me; especially because all the churches seemed fixated on some strange purpose for his barbaric killing and an equally strange reliance on the sureness of his physical resurrection.

For me, the magic of the story lay in the fact that regardless of what happened to him Jesus seemed to have a cast-iron relationship with the Divine. Even when he gets frustrated and is in his worst death throes his cry is a direct call to God – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

He doesn’t cry out to his captors, his family or his friends.

First and last comes God.

This, for me, was always the central theme of Jesus’ spiritual ministry: aligning oneself with God.

Easter – the pagan festival of Eostre – celebrated the resurrection and rebirth of spring; hence, its placement after the full moon.

Put anther way, Easter celebrates rebirth.

But what really is the rebirth which is celebrated?

Surely it’s the rebirth of you and I into our real relationship with God.

It starts with the death of the ego…..

It ends with the resurrection of the spirit which is one with the Divine.

The Jesus Easter story parallels the journey each of us must take.

Through death arose life anew.

Through the death of our ego-centred approach to life arises a new kind of life based on the same kind of relationship with God that Jesus found.

It’s a relationship that puts God first and last, no matter what happens.

Is this how you live now?

This is specifically the core of the Jesus story – and Easter - as explained in the Bible.

For such a relationship to be real for each of us we need to really find it for ourselves.

And the only place we can find anything of course is within,

So the source of our relationship with the Divine arises from deep within.

Just like it did for Jesus.

Trudi and I wish you all a blessed, peace-filled, love overflowing Easter.

May you use this time to deepen your relationship, as a divine being of Light, with God, the Only Source of All That Really Is.

May you experience your own death of ego and celebrate the resurrection within you of that spirit that flows in pure alignment with Divine Will.

This is our purpose.

What better time than now to let it happen!

I send you boundless love!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Two
A SENSE OF SEPARATION FROM THE DIVINE IS OUR GREATEST ILLUSION

In the Jewish creation story, the first humans sensed their individuality – and perceived it as a state of separateness from God. In this perceived state of separateness they found themselves capable of operating in contradiction to God’s laws; and thus God seemingly punished them by removing them from his Presence.

They found this perceived state of separateness so lacking that they felt the need to clothe themselves and hide from the Divine.

This mythic tale was a rabbinic method of sharing with their flock the false belief that we have been forcibly removed from the Presence of the Divine because of our guilt. The rest of the Jewish Bible is about man’s inappropriate attempts to prove his guilt and his grossly inadequate attempts to occasionally try to claw his way back into favour.

It was and is, a story of distorted perceptions.

Our sense of separation from the Divine is our greatest illusion.

There is no separation possible. Full stop.

We are divine spirit.

We may forget who we are, we may choose to ignore who we are, we may pretend to be something other than what we are – but it makes not one whit of difference.

We are still divine Spirit.

And we are still always – in all ways – in the Divine Presence.
There is NO separation.

A daffodil is divine spirit simply being a daffodil.
A tree is divine spirit simply being a tree.

Every human is always divine spirit simply being a human.

No scientific discovery, religious dogma, distorted belief or cataclysmic occurrence can ever change this.

Like it or not we are in the Presence of the Divine RIGHT NOW.

How are you behaving?

What are you thinking?

What are you doing in your life that’s based on forgetfulness of this simple truth?

What’s the answer?

Wake up. Stay conscious. Stop beating yourself up. Be gentle on yourself. Laugh. Enjoy the moment.

But remember………because you cannot be separated from the Divine!!

I send you boundless love!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - One
Welcome to the FIRST Issue of Volume 4
In this new volume I’d like to explore the positive aspects of authentic spiritual life and offer more practical steps for achieving it.
KNOW NOW

The first step – the biggest step – on the road to enlightenment is to know you’re on your way.

This requires that you recognise metaphysically where you’re at right now.

You might say “Here I am, moving forward……However, right now I’m also impatient, intolerant, angry, lazy, doubting, etc….”

Such self-speak is perfectly fine; it’s absolutely okay!

This first step requires only that we acknowledge where we are.

We don’t need to beat ourselves up for it. We shouldn’t bemoan the fact that we still have envy or pride or selfishness or jealousy or anything else holding us back.

And we should never compare ourselves with the achievements of others!

We simply accept where we are right now.

Until we can recognise and accept where we are right now we won’t be seriously going anywhere more fulfilling.

But the moment we acknowledge where we are we’ve made a huge leap forward!

Suddenly the opportunity to change becomes possible – but only because we know what we have to change!

Knowing what to change is the keystone to achieving change!

For the next 10 days feel absolutely ok about “where you are” – knowing that change is on its way – simply because we’ve recognised and fully accepted our current state of being.

Know yourself now – know it fully – and a brighter, more fulfilled future is an assured certainty!

I send you boundless love!

Blessings to your family and friends,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Sixty Two
Stories of Spiritual Connections

Many thanks to all those people who, following my last newsletter, shared with me their own amazing stories of spiritual connections. It’s wonderful to be reminded there’s more to life than we can see with the human eye!

Allow me to share just two of the reports I was sent…..

Marjan's story

A dear friend of mine, Marjan, departed this life in her early 40s. She was so full of life and enthusiasm for living it was very sad to let her go. I was visiting my mother’s house months after Marjan's death and that night as I went to sleep I mentally sent a prayer to Marjan asking if she would send me a sign that she was 'somewhere' out there. Even just a 'hello' would be fine I mentally conveyed to her.

Next morning I joined my mother at the breakfast table. Without a pause or a good morning she said...."You know I had the strangest dream about your friend Marjan last night."

I was immediately still...... "What was it?" I asked.

"Well." said my mother "She just appeared in this dream, stood in front of me and said 'hello' - and then she was gone. Just like that....'Hello"...nothing more".

A chill went up my spine....I had received my message.....'just a hello.

Then another strange event regarding Marjan happened via my daughter.

When the clairvoyant John Edwards came to Brisbane my daughter Angela wanted to be part of his audience but his presentation was fully booked.

At this time my mother had died and my daughter who was very close to her grandmother, was hoping to have contact with her.

The day before his presentation a friend rang her and had been given 2 free tickets.

My daughter attended with the friend. John Edwards contacted a number of spirits for the audience. The audience consisted of 800 people. He speaks with a very small portion of this number.

He was about to close up when he said he had one more connection coming through.

It was, out of 800 people, and the very last, for my daughter Angela.

She immediately thought it would be her grandmother (my mother).

But......

John Edwards said he had a friend of her mother's coming through with an unusual name starting with M..... He struggled with the name even saying he wanted to say Marjorie but that name wasn’t right (Marjorie was Marjan's birth name but she wouldn't let any of us use it) . Eventually he got it when it dawned on Angela who it was.

He said she had died a number of years ago and was clairvoyant herself (Marjan did card readings wrote for a newspaper and did a North Qld TV program now and then).

He continued...'She was a close friend of your mother's and she wants you to give this message to her. Tell your mother Marjan said everything will be alright. She is to know that."

John Edwards then picked up a little dog which was deceased that belonged to the family - probably her grandmother - again, he said, the name was very uncommon - started with a Z.

My mother's little dog was called Zulu. (how many people even in 800 have a dog with a name starting with Z ?)

He also had advice from the spirit world for Angela to pass to someone in the family whose name started with 'J' .

Angela could not think of anyone in the family whose name started with 'J' even though her brother is named Jason, her cousins Joel, Judson, there's Jack and her Aunt is Jill.........She said she just couldn’t think straight!

Although there are a lot of hoaxes out there.....there's many happenings that prove there IS something in the afterlife and they demand our attention.

Ruth MacDonald

And another……

Hi Les,

I had a similar experience with my brother: I’d recently bought a new laptop so I could do more work from home. It’s a great computer and works a treat.

Each year I perform a ritual for immediate family members who have passed over.

This occurs on their birthdays: I take their photo and put it in front of me, light a candle and sing Happy Birthday to them.

Then I blow out the candle.

On the night of my brother’s birthday, I had some work to finish on the computer so I took his photo and put it near me and explained to him that I would sing Happy Birthday to him when I had finished my work. Immediately after I said those words the mouse jumped all over the screen, the keys jammed and I couldn’t even switch the computer off!

I then lit the candle and sang Happy Birthday to my brother and placed his photo in front of me for the rest of the night. I didn’t go near the computer. The following morning, the computer worked perfectly and has ever since! My brother had spoken loud and clear!

Cheers - Carla

Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Sixty One
Valentine’s Day Special!
AN AMAZING HEALING STORY OF SPIRIT

Dear Friends,

Over the year’s I have experienced countless strange events and stories that deeply support my belief in the afterlife.

This one was sent to me from a friend whom I encouraged to visit Sydney to repair the bonds between himself and his departed Father…..I trust it helps to give you faith in the often unseen.

“I’d like to share with you our rather amazing experience whilst in Sydney to perform the "mission" Les had given me as a means to free myself of my inner issues.

We had to arrange a suitable large glass bowl and candles to perform the ceremony at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium gardens. There was no set place where my Dad’s ashes were as my Mum had elected to have the administration take care of them after the cremation service some 5 yrs ago - so my Dad's actual ashes whereabouts were totally unknown.

We could only presume they had been scattered throughout the gardens there, somewhere, at the place where the cremation took place.

It wasn't easy to find a suitable glass container and the candle situation was even worse ! We could only find tiny Birthday candles.

I was nervous and focussed on the task ahead of me...to read out a letter to my deceased father at the crematorium with a candle burning inside a glass vial and a picture of my Dad set into the ground underneath a lovely rose bush!

I selected a location, to perform the ceremony.

By instinct and hope something led me to a beautiful section of rose bushes, a very comforting fountain, with bubbling water, which of course, set a very pleasant audible background.
We set my Dad's photo into the garden under the rose bush.....candle lit inside the punch bowl glass vial....... My partner opened with a prayer and then we had a quiet moment thereafter.

I then commenced reading the letter I had created.

As I read each page I burnt it, six pages in all.
We generated a lot of heat in this glass punch bowl as all the pages burnt as they were read. It was untouchable after the final pages burnt.

My partner noticed that at some point as I read, the clouds parted and sunlight streamed through and the winds stopped for a short time during my reading.

At the end of everything I closed in prayer and during this time, I also asked that the divine presence would offer us the contentment of knowing that a spiritual connection had been made with my Dad there that day.

We then had another quiet time after that in reflection, prior to packing up everything. the bowl was full of black and totally burnt paper; it appeared as if everything had been accomplished in this regard.

Then, the tiniest piece of unburnt paper - the only piece to have missed total destruction - blew out of the bowl and landed on the ground and caught the eye of my partner.

She and I found it hard to fathom, that this most tiny of pieces of paper - no more than a centimeter across - had one word still on it that was un-burnt!

It said; "Father".

There were only 2 or three references to this word in the entire letter – out of the 300-400 words within this letter - which all had been burnt and the only piece that wasn't burnt said this word “Father” which had then blown out of the glass bowl by the wind and landed at our feet!

It was pretty special!

I still have this tiny piece of paper as proof and it was our blessing which told us my Father was present and that we had made our connection. It was a very releasing moment for me and for both of us the proof of connecting with him happened as a result of that amazing piece of paper!!
I hope you enjoyed reading my story.

Permission granted for me to relay this true story – thankyou. Name withheld for courtesy purposes.

I have personally seen that piece of paper, burnt all around the edges…..

Miracles do happen!

Spirit does connect with us!

If you would like help to resolve some issue in your life, please know that help is always at hand.

Blessings and love,


Les

SOUL LIGHT - Sixty
THE NEW YEAR

Dearest Friends,

The New Year is upon us already.

As with every new day, indeed every sacred moment, we are offered fresh chances to repair old wounds.
Transformation is always but a momentary pause in our illusions, away!

Self-realisation is always within us, as us; and thus ever ready to step into active guidance.
I feel it might be useful for us all to start off with a prayer of Hope, a Prayer of Healing (actually the same one as is used in our Worldwide Healing Prayer Vigil) – I believe this might be a propitious step for 2010!

I encourage you to say this prayer, preferably aloud, at least once a day for at least seven days.
Please let me know how things are in your life at the end of that time!

Dear God,

Great Spirit of the Universe,
Loving creator of our bodies and our souls
We give you grateful thanks for life itself.
We acknowledge the wholeness and the infinite love that we are.
We affirm the god within ourselves and within All That Is.
We dedicate ourselves to Divine Will, expressing Itself through us.
We submit to your great Purpose with all our Un-knowing;
and we do so with faith and with gratitude.
We understand the transforming power of love and we pledge ourselves to be this Love consciously.
We ask you to help us to empty ourselves of all our hurts, our pains, our fears and our pettinesses;
and to make of us hollow bones - so that we may be filled with your most healing love.
We ask that we now be a channel of Infinite healing Light;
and that all that seek through us may find
and all that ask through us may be answered.
Be our walking; guide our footsteps and our every action; to the everlasting delight of Divine Being.
We surrender ourselves into Divine care and use.

And now we hold all of humanity in perfect wholeness and embrace all in their absolute perfection.
We see All and Everyone only as their truth, their light, their love, their peace, their harmony, their Christ-light, their Buddha-hood. They are truly already whole and eternal we give thanks for their wholeness and eternal state of being-ness.

All is.

Amen.

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Fifty Nine
Christmas Message

Please accept Trudi and my thanks for all your well wishes for the festive season.
Thanks also to those who respond to my articles during the year.

One person wrote this week:
“I felt I was the only person feeling like a Christmas Grinch. After I read your message, I was in the bank and people were talking behind me. They were saying exactly what you said. Christmas has lost its true meaning, or rather people have. I live in a low socio-economic area, many of these people spend more than they can afford at this time of year. If only they could see their own self worth and love who they are and realize how much they already have. I want to shout from the roof tops. STOP and see how much you have, enjoy it and be happy”.

On a lighter note to finish the year, let me share with you a bit of nonsense.

Remember the Christmas song…..

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Twelve drummers drumming
eleven pipers piping
ten lords a' leaping
nine ladies dancing
eight maids a' milking
seven swans a' swimming
six geese a' laying
five gold rings
four calling birds
three French hens
two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree

According to the US PNC Bank, those 364 gifts were valued at US$12, 623 in 1984 and US$21,465 this year – almost a 100% increase and that’s in spite of any recession! Main increases were the five gold rings, up 43% for the year. There was no overall increase in wages for pipers, drummers, lords or maids – with just the ladies dancing, up 15%.
I’m not sure if that included Pole Dancers.

The 12 Days of Christmas traditionally start on Boxing Day.
Originally a French song, it became popular in England as a singing game in 1780. One person would sing a line and everyone would repeat it. Then just the next line and everyone would have to repeat both, etc….Whoever tripped up on the words would have to give the song Leader a kiss or a sweet or suchlike.

The Scottish version would probably have been harder to sing but certainly described a heartily lusty Scottish approach to the festive season…”.. a good stuffing without bones, two breasts of veal, three joints of beef, four pigs' trotters, five legs of mutton, six partridges with cabbage, seven spitted rabbits, eight plates of salad, nine dishes for a chapter of canons, ten full casks, eleven beautiful full-breasted maidens, and twelve musketeers with their swords”.
Makes me feel sorry for the twelfth musketeer….

A clever Catholic in the late 19th century used the song as a reminder of the Catholic catechism:
-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.
-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.
-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.
-The five golden rings recalled the first five books of the Old Testament.
-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
-The eight Maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten Lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.
-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed

Enjoy the song any way you wish. Remember it’s not the song that matters- but how you sing each song. It’s not the season that matters but how you season each day.

Trudi and I wish everyone a peace-filled festive season, wherein love for all sentient life overflows. Happy Christmas!

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Fifty Eight
Time for The Presents

It’s that time of year again. Once more it’s time for the presents.

And once more the emphasis is on giving.

For some of us this is done under the watchful eye of Old Saint Nick. Others copy-cat three wise men from the East. And many others amongst us just fall into the trap of maintaining tradition.

Yet what do we give? Things. Big things, little things. Brightly wrapped things. Budget things, expensive things. Practical things. Useless things. Asked for things. Things to impress, Things to prove we haven’t forgotten. Things to show we still love.

Even the humble Xmas card is a given thing – appropriate and cost-effective for giving out in large numbers to family, friends, neighbours – even favoured tradespeople, work associates, clients and customers.

Christmas has become a time to give give give things things things..

Not to give things is seen to be miserly, mean, selfish, uncaring…..

Yet is this what Christmas has come down to – ‘Pass the Present’?

According to the commercial world, yes.

How can you deprive your children of the latest X-box?! This is the time to show her you care via that expensive necklace, now reduced to half price! Impress your family this Christmas with the latest twin cab ute…..and we’ll throw in a bonus tax break, too!

The present with the greatest value is your own Presence.

Christ-mass isn’t about presents. It’s about the Presence.

The Presence which you are, already, deep within.

It’s about sharing that Presence with your family, your friends, your neighbours, total strangers…..

It’s about a birth says a Mum in the front row. Correct. The birth of consciousness. Of the Presence within humanity. The Presence which exists deep within you, as you, right now, right here (even as you read/hear these words).

It’s about gifts says a small child. Correct. The three most valued gifts of all - one’s Presence, one’s Acceptance and one’s Love.

Forget the things, even the expensive or the exclusive things - the frankincense, the myrrh and the gold. They’re still just things.

It’s your Presence, your real and divine Presence, freely and joyfully given and shared which is the real value, the gold – your divinity.

It’s your Acceptance, the ability to include everyone (regardless of their behaviour) as a child of the Divine which is the real activity, the frankincense – your spiritual integrity.

And it’s your Love, your very expression of the Godlight within you, which is the real spice, the myrrh – your life lived authentically.

These gifts don’t need the excuse of a tawdry, over-commercialised Christmas festivity.

No gaudy lights. No fancy trees. No ‘dreaming of a white Christmas’ carols (which we croon unthinkingly under scorching hot skies in Australia!).

These gifts just need YOU to allow them to be birthed, moment after moment, day after day. Anyday. Everyday.

Pretty ordinary really. And yet wondrous, too.

But then, so was the birth of my good friend, Jesus.

May you have a peace-filled festive season in which love overflows abundantly……

For myself, I give you my Presence, my Acceptance and my Love.

Peace Be Within You this festive season

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Fifty Seven
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BUTTERFLIES.

Have you seen any extraordinarily beautiful butterflies flying about lately?

I have. A friend was with me and he suggested we catch it to add to his specimen board.

This man epitomises our materialistic human society: let’s catch it and own it. Let’s keep it all to ourselves. Let’s add it to our collection of dead things. Let’s show it off as something that belongs to us.

This is the madness of our world – we collect dead things.

People do this with just about everything from old resentments to ancient religions and modern gadgets to brand new dollar notes.

Friends, cars, bank accounts…. the latest electronic gizmo, the newest overseas holiday destination, the miniature horse, the latest flat screen plasma TV…

What do we want? Everything!

When do we want it? Now!

Surely we need to learn to simply enjoy what we have in the moment.

To let it be, without having to own it.

If we have it for the moment, we enjoy its presence. If we don’t possess it in that moment then whatever we do have in its place we enjoy, instead.

Of course, if my friend had been a scientist (or a doctor) he’d have wanted to dissect it.

These are its wings. Pluck. Pluck.

These its antennae. Plick. Plick.

Here’s its six legs. Plack. Plack. Plack. Plack. Plack. Plack.

This is its Head. Schook.

Here’s its Thorax (chest). Schunk.

And its abdomen. Plink.

All done, six little bottles containing one butterfly.

But do they?

Where is the lofty soaring of the butterfly?

Where is the numinous beauty of the butterfly?

Where is the wonder and awe that took our breath away?

Certainly not in the bottles.

The bottles simply contain the dead bits. The dead things.

The aliveness of the butterfly has flown away!

That aliveness lives on – now it’s in your heart!

Try for a week NOT OWNING DEAD THINGS.

Let go of everything that isn’t YOU.

That means dropping your sense of ownership toward money, jobs, family, social status, lovers, the future, the past – even your guilt's, worries, doubts, fears, hopes and expectations.

Let them all go.

Move out of your long dead cocoon of safety!

For just one week gently move above the mundane…… and become the extraordinarily beautiful and capable butterfly you already are!

Come, fly!

Love and blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Fifty Six
THE CENTRE OF ‘THOUGHT’ IS ‘U’ !

My last article encouraged many of you to write – thankyou!

One person wrote: “I fired my inner critic recently. My inner peace is working with me now.....”.

How good is that?!?!? It’s something to deeply aspire to!

Another friend wrote: “Much of what I've been reading says we have no control over our thoughts. Our brain makes decisions earlier than we're aware of them, so we actually have little control over what thoughts or decisions come our way. My experience backs that up, although I do (seem to) have control over whether I focus on a thought that comes up, obsess over it, release it, believe it, or just watch it pass through. However, I suspect that I don't have control over any of that either…..”.

My response may hopefully help others who have had the same idea:

Of course we have control over our thoughts – if we choose to! Didn't even those people who write “we have no control” have control over what they wrote?

Would you ever trust anyone who said they have no control over who they are or what they do? Even Jesus had control over what he did - even if it was to surrender to his Higher Self!

Surrendering to our Higher Self we simply give control to that which we really are; and remove control from the ego. We – the real ‘us’- then gains control!

Naturally, our autonomic system operates independently from consciousness - but that in no way refutes the reality that we can have control over most of what we consciously think.

In this way we can ameliorate and repair dysfunctional early-childhood perceptual programs. If we couldn't we'd never be able to change! We'd always remain in sabotaging delusion!

We can also choose love and compassion as our expressions of life (so easy when we connect so naturally and easily with them!).

The same writer also mentioned: “We appear to have free will, yet it seems we do not”.

My reply: Of course we have free will – always – but only over our thoughts (the input) - never over the results of those thoughts (the output).

Naturally, we have no will over the thoughts (and therefore, the actions) of any others.

Our thoughts are always ours to own – the actions that flow are no concern of ours.

Understood correctly, this is the end of our sense of failure (in any area of our life), of worthlessness, of uselessness, of not being good enough….

It’s also the start of genuine self-appreciation and self-worth.

I shall leave the last word to a regular respondent who exemplifies this in everyday action…..

Yesterday I hopped into a taxi in Sydney and asked the driver, "Fox Studios please"

His question to me: " the professional entrance then?

I said "Yes please.......How did you know that?"

He said "Because you look professional".

This I found odd as I still dress like a teenager at the age of 42!

I then said to him "You’re very intelligent"

The Japanese driver said "Intelligent? No! Not a taxi driver!"

I replied: "Yes you are. And a good man, too".

He cried, almost shook my hand off and thanked me a million times over….

What will you do this week with YOUR thoughts?

Love and blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Fifty Five
FOCUS ON YOUR INPUT - NOT YOUR OUTPUT

Last article I wrote that we will always be unhappy if we compare ourselves against others.

We will also always be unhappy if we focus on our output.

In other words, if we place our happiness on the effects we create or the results we produce we will be setting ourselves up for “failure”.

Often, we may manage to achieve good outcomes that will satisfy our ego, that Inner Critic.

But at other times we will “fail” ourselves because of our comparison with the perceived results and output of others.

Even if we don’t compare ourselves with others but simply measure our achievements by our own arbitrary benchmarks we will often be focusing on the source of discontent.

Imagine you definitely wanted to shoot someone - but missed! What are you guilty of? Yes, of your thoughts. It is your input thought that is errant.

Imagine you were simply cleaning a gun when it fell and accidentally shot someone…. What are you guilty of now? Not your input thought (although maybe your carelessness!).

Imagine you wished to love someone dearly but they refused to have anything to do with you.

It matters not. The outcome is of no lasting and real importance. Only the input, the thoughts you hold toward that person, truly matter.

When we focus on each and every input thought – and dedicate each and every one of them to the Divine – we are living with a clear focus of Love.

We commit to control over the only thing we actually ever have control over – our thoughts.

We cast aside the foolishness of placing our focus outside ourself, outside where we have no control over the thoughts and actions of any other.

No longer can we be demeaned by the results we achieve or the effects we create.

We finally wake up to reality: we are only ever in charge of what we think.

And what we really deeply think only flowers as Love when we wake up to who we truly are.

We are Love.

And Light.

And Spirit.

And joy!

Try it again - send your Inner Critic on holidays for another week.

Once more, associate with the Divine Presence within you, your Soul-Heart.

Focus on your input – not your output – for just one week.

As before, whenever a report arrives on your brain's desk from the Inner Critic, trash it, sight unseen.

Simply be who you are. A beautiful being of Light and Love.

This week, like the previous, may not bring you total happiness; but it may well lead you further along that golden highway that leads toward it!

Love and blessings,

Les