DECEMBER: Is Ours A World Of Chaotic Discord Or A Harmonious Concert of Guiding Symbols?
All the world is a concert of symbols! The Holy Spirit is the director and He uses our worldly symbols to guide us back to the joy of our own innocence—to our own forgotten song.
Hello dear ones,
How are you feeling as in the world of time we now close out the year 2020? Together, through many challenges some of us have also undergone an extensive time-out . . . a pause for inner reflection. Have you had personal insights, and/or a desire for letting go of what does not serve you, or perhaps have been inspired by a vision of being and experiencing life in a way you did not think possible? Are you opening to new possibilities?
I am. As the year closes, I am addressing a deep longing for how I can more clearly relate what I’ve been shown, and how it has expanded my awareness, and most of all, how it can help others. I have discussed in many ways how “symbols” have become an avenue for healing my life. Yet, I long to relate in a more specific way that is meaningful to you - in your life. I recently heard Anita Moojani (author of Dying to Be Me) express her challenge of translating her near death experience into ways that can actually help others. She said it has taken her ten years to at last feel she is relating its true message to others.
I feel the same challenge. The word “symbols” usually refers to specific objects or archetypal images. This is not what symbols have come to mean to me. In this letter, I would like to share with you specifically what I mean by the word, symbols.
As my visions manifested, all the world became a concert of symbols! The Holy Spirit became the director and He used my worldly symbols to guide me back to remember the joy of my own innocence—to my own forgotten song. How does that happen?
Experiencing the symbolic world that I discovered, was not the same experience as seeing archetypal symbols that embody common human experiences. But instead, by beginning to see everything in the world through the lens of a healing message, not the body’s eyes, I began to see through what can be called symbolic vision.
It took years for this understanding to come to me after seeing prophetic visions in an out-of-body experience when I was 22. My visions held images of unfamiliar places floating freely in the oneness of glorious kaleidoscopic light. Then, those places actually happened in my life. As I learned to accept that there is a power within me that is not of me that is guiding me through my inner voice—I began to see all things differently. As each of my visionary images manifested, I realized they were serving a specific purpose for my growth and to expand my awareness. I was being asked to let go of my own judgment—to literally see everything differently. I was led to strip away all superficial meaning and function of worldly symbols, and to ask only what is this for? I’ve elaborated upon this process in my book, Thank God I’m Crazy. [also see ACIM wk. bk. Lessons 28, 29, 30]
At first, I thought symbols were leading me to the perfect situation . . . a great relationship, a successful career, wealth, etc. But symbolic vision is not the search for different pathways. It is the pathway to wholeness. Then, I found A Course in Miracles which says . . . You live by symbols. In this world, you have made up names for everything you see . . . thus you think you have established a unity which functions with an independent will—but all the while, its enemy is actually wholeness.
Through symbolic vision, or as The Course calls it, Christ’s vision, my world became a hologram. The word “hologram” comes from two words; holos, which means whole, and gram, which means message . . . or one whole message. The Holy Spirit uses all of our worldly symbols to show us that creation has one name, one meaning and a single source which unifies all things. Love. Love is all that is real. Love unites. The worldly symbols I became drawn to led me through a process of learning to let go of all that is not love. Everyone can be led to awareness through guiding symbols, when willing.
Symbolic vision can help us to see the holiness that lights up the world. How does that work? To quote Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist, “Symbols are a psychological mechanism that transforms energy.” In other words—symbols stir a knowing within us that cannot be heard in the world of form. They can trigger our higher consciousness to kick in. Suddenly, God is in everything I see, because--God is in my mind.
I was brought to tears when I read an invitation in A Course in Miracles to accept the vision that can show us our holiness; reminding us to listen and remember the ancient song that we know so well . . . “perhaps you can catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten.” I remembered. I’ve learned as the Course says, that nothing will ever be so dear as the perpetual, eternal ancient hymn of love that the Son of God constantly sings to his Father, and the Father sings back to his Son. Symbols are one of God’s healing tools.
Thank you for reading. If you are feeling generous, I lovingly invite you to send me your questions that will in turn offer me the opportunity to clarify. Communication is our pathway to wholeness.
I wish you many, many openings to joyous new possibilities, as the fruit of your inner work takes form in the coming new year! Blessings, love, and much laughter! 😊
***** SEE ONLY LOVE FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE *****
So . . . until next time
When you find yourself staring into the headlights of fear—as I often
do—stop and tell yourself, I am insane right now 😊 then laugh, and remember . . . THANK GOD I’M CRAZY!
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Thank God I’m Crazy includes pictures of places which took place in Grace’s life, as seen in her visions. Grace Avalon, teacher and intuitive counselor, has taught A Course in Miracles for nine years. She gives presentations, seminars and workshops for anyone whose known abuse, thought they were crazy, or wants to live a joyful life.
*** Marianne Williamson, (NY Times bestselling author, teacher, and internationally renowned speaker) , has said, “Grace Avalon inspires all of us to trust the wisdom of our hearts. Here is spirituality in practice.” ***