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December 2004
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The
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Issue
#31 |
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you must be very attuned to a higher power of sorts
and the wonderful Universal energy to flow like
you do and create as you do. Well done." ~Brandy |
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In this issue we have great
articles and many questions and answers about growing
on the Path!
Read the
questions and answers section of the newsletter, Ask
the Guides, where readers ask Kris and Kalyn
questions about their path. You might find a question
that you have!
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by
Kris Raphael |
Why
are we in body?
We are here to Bump.
Have you ever wondered why you came into body?
There is a specific purpose and intent for coming
into body. The quicker we recognize what this
purpose is and fulfill the intent, the quicker
we are able to complete this cycle of our spiritual
growth and evolution.
There are three basic reasons we come into body.
The first reason is to experience the polarity
of gender. When we incarnate into the earth-life-system
we take on a gender, i.e. male or female. On
an energetic level, we learn to become proficient
at working assertive (masculine) and receptive
(feminine) energy. It is not an exaggeration
to say that when we are able to master the laws
of gender, we become masters of our universe.
In order to have dominion (which is not the same
as domination) of self and our world, we must
be adept at using masculine and feminine energy.
For example, if you wish to access your inner
guidance, you must use both the masculine (assertive)
and feminine (receptive) energies in their proper
order. You must first assert to your place of
guidance, your transpersonal point for example,
then you must switch your energy to becoming
receptive in order to receive the guidance. Often
people will do one or the other. They will assert
and assert, trying to push through to their guidance,
but never open and become receptive and become
frustrated when no guidance comes. Others will
sit and sit in a receptive mode without ever
asserting, waiting for guidance to come.
There are many other applications of the laws
of gender that can assist us, not only on our
spiritual path, but also in life. Knowing and
being able to use your own natural gender energy,
for example, can help you in your relationships,
and even your career. In the Essence Love School
and Toltec Mystery School, we give teachings
on working with your gender energy.
The second reason we come into body is to experience
individuality. In the world of non-structure
where you exist before coming into body, you
cannot bump into another person. There is little
there to do the bumping. In the world of non-structure,
we exist as a collective energy or a oneness.
There is no individuality. It is like a bucket
of paint that is the consciousness of humanity.
In the bucket there are like swirls of different
colors. These colors are karmatic energy that
must be worked out in the earth-life-system.
You cannot separate a color out once it has entered
the bucket with the other colors. In order to
work out the collective karma of humanity, we
come into body where the colors are individual
and not blended into the other colors. We come
into body to work out our piece of the karmatic
pie.
When we come into body, we are able to slow down.
We are able to operate at the pace of the physical
body. Before we come into body, we exist in a
world where things are very fast. A thought is
instantly manifest. In this energetic world where
everything blends in with another, and all at
a high speed, it is difficult to work out the
collective karma. Therefore, we come into body
where we can focus a lifetime on one piece of
the karmatic pie.
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The piece
of karma we bring into a lifetime is called
our life purpose, personal task, or life issue.
Too many people who are into spirituality come
into body only to want to try to leave the
body. They try to escape back into 'oneness'
forgetting why they came into body in the first
place.
Our purpose for coming into body is NOT to go
back into oneness. It is to work out our piece
of karmatic pie in order to INTEGRATE IT BACK
INTO ONENESS. There is a big difference between
the two. This doesn't mean we do not go to the
state of oneness through meditative processes.
We do. However, when we do, we must bring back
down to our individuality the energy and essences
we receive from the oneness in order to fulfill
our life purpose.
We will return to oneness soon enough. When we
drop the body, we leave the world of structure,
and return to the place that is beyond the structure
of space and time. If we avoid our life issues,
which sometimes can be painful to work through,
we are in effect wasting our lifetime and short-circuiting
our purpose for coming into body in the first
place.
The third reason we come into body is a bit more
esoteric, but can be quite fun. We come into
body in order to master bringing unstructured
energy into structure, or Spirit into form. As
we develop this mastery, we become expert manifesters
in the earth-life-system. We also become valuable
conduits for Spirit. The human apparatus, when
fully developed, is one of the best vehicles
for Spirit to manifest through.
In the Essence Love and Toltec Mystery School,
we work with a number of processes, teachings
and techniques to assist those with a strong
desire to grow and evolve to fulfill their purpose
for coming into body.
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Love
and Light,
Kris
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Dear Guides,
I surrendered to the Universe three years ago. Since then,
I have had a very interesting and exciting life. I am 52
years old and have just graduated with a bachelor of social
work. I am thrilled to have accomplished a life-long dream!
I am an auxiliary social worker in child protection and
briefly worked for three months. However, I was laid off
six weeks ago. I am feeling frustrated and I am having
a difficult time ‘keeping the faith’. I know that one of
my life lessons is to become more patient but I feel a
desperate need to get on with my career and make the most
of what life has to offer. Please give me guidance.
-Terry
Dear Terry,
Congratulations on completing a cycle by finishing school!
Because it is the end of the year, this is a great time
for completing cycles – it creates better beginnings for
the next cycle, or the next year.
As it is the end of the year, this is a great time to release
things, Terry. Release old habits that are not benefiting
you, release feelings that are holding you back, especially
resistance to being a part of the parts of life/people
that you feel are far from perfect. While they may not
be perfect, the only way to improve life is to be a part
of it.
Terry, you have a life-long resistance to what you feel
is “bad” or “wrong” with people or the world and this is
part of what has driven you to work in child protection.
You can benefit children, life and most importantly yourself,
but to do this you will have to release the judgments you
hold and do the best you can within a less than perfect
system.
Change your attitude and energy towards that which you
resist and you will also change yourself and bring future
job opportunities to yourself.
Love and Light,
K2
(Kris & Kalyn)
Dearest Guides,
I feel like I live
my life in a genuine, sincere way-this tends to be
my personality and what I believe to be important,
to always be kind, empathetic and assume people are
good or at least trying to be. I try to live by the
Four Agreements. My nature has always tended to be
upbeat. However, I have difficulty understanding -or
finding a helpful perspective on - why I am regularly
confronted with major challenges. While some are a
result of my own mistakes (like financial insecurity)
others just seem to happen around me. I can't feel
that my life circumstances will remain comfortable
and without huge stresses for long; some very difficult
situation always seems to be around the corner. (For
example, my sister dying of cancer, discovering my
(now ex-) boyfriend sexually abusing his son and going
through a trial in which he was acquitted, discovering
that a new boyfriend cheats on me, going back to school
and facing roadblock after roadblock when they don't
seem to be there for most others,..) I know that self-pity
is immature and unproductive and most of the time I
avoid it, but can you help me to find a perspective
that will help me? I believe that we are here to learn
and grow and become stronger and wiser, yet I also
want to enjoy life and I feel like my life is always
close to the edge of a cliff or in some hazardous zone.
I know there are lots of others worse off. But it is
hard sometimes to feel strong. Can you offer any suggestions
to make it a little easier?
-M.S.
Dear
M.S.,
Your heart
is in the right place, so to speak, as you are trying
to improve yourself and your life.
All of the challenges and problems that you have attracted
into your life are because your Soul is trying to get
through to you. When we experience problems and challenges
in our lives we are given the opportunity to grow and
strengthen ourselves. When these problems do not seem
to get resolved and more problems come our way, it is
because our Souls are trying to get our attention, making
something more and more pronounced or problematic.
Look to the patterns in your problems, M.S. There are
repeated themes and feelings you experience regardless
of the circumstances and these are what you need to pay
attention to. You are being given an opportunity to strengthen
yourself but, out of your habitual patterns, you shy
away from taking your own personal power in your life. You
feel like you are trying to improve your life, but you
forget that when you are faced with conflict you try
to back down or smooth the waters without really solving
the problems.
You are aware of this, which is why you are feeling frustrated
and in hazardous zones. There is an important distinction
between doing unsafe and uncomfortable things that benefit
us, such as facing conflict with others, and being aware
that our lives are headed in a hazardous direction. If
we do not stand up for ourselves when there are problems
that create conflict and confrontation to be resolved,
then we drive ourselves in this hazardous direction.
Don’t forget, M.S., one of the Four Agreements is to
always do your best. When you avoid conflict or avoid
another being mad at you and forsake your own needs or
problems, you are not doing your best. Your best will
require taking your own personal power into your life
so that you have the power and courage to resolve your
problems.
Love and Light,
K2
(Kris & Kalyn)
Do
you have a question? Ask the guides by clicking
on this link.
Please
be sure to pose complete and clear questions, as only
these can be answered. Thank you.
Look for Q&As to the guides in
next month's issue!
Question
for the Guides
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Toltec Mystery School is Growing! |
Join
the School and be part of a unique community
in which
a Dream of Heaven is being created! |
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Toltec Mystery School is growing in order to
be able to support more people on their spiritual
paths. The School will be expanding to include
an open forum for those who wish to work with
School Guides and to meet and share their paths
with others.
Changes
are already being implemented into the school,
and many more changes will be coming soon:
- This year the school
has been growing and several of the students
have advanced to become guides themselves!
- We invite you to
meet our School
guides:
- K2, Kris and Kalyn,
the founders and Lead Guides for the Mystery
School
- Meet our Jaguar
Guides, students chosen by K2 to lead new
students in the Mastery of Awareness course
- Our new Sol
Guides, students who are starting groups
in their areas to create support in their
communities
- After meeting
our School
guides and you want more information
on how to work with one of these guides
or how to start a group in your own area,
please contact Kelly, our School Administrator,
by completing and submitting this Sol
Guide/Informational Request form.
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A
Gift in Every Situation
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by
Pedro Mares |
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Five
months ago I had a stroke…
I
could have reacted to what was happening. I could
have felt sorry for myself and I could have indulged
in my suffering of the fact that from that very moment,
my life would never be the same. That is what I could
have done. Instead, I had enough awareness to approach
this differently. I had grown up hearing expressions
such as, “Those difficult times in ones life, those
are opportunities.” but it quickly became very real
for me. It took me a few moments to really gauge
the enormity of my situation. That happened when
I was lying down and realized I couldn’t get back
up because I had no feeling in my right leg. However,
I was not busy denying to myself as to what was happening
to my body and me. Instead, I was choosing to use
my awareness that I had gained and to be with and
accept what was going on with me. My roommate was
freaking out and reacting and I was the one who calmed him down.
We were laughing together by the time the ambulance
came.
The
Toltec path and the tools I have received through
the teachings from the Toltec Mystery School helped
me to see that I do have a choice. I can choose: I
can choose to indulge in the negative or I can choose
to see my circumstances and myself in a positive
light. I’m not saying that I must look at this through
rose-colored glasses and say everything is wonderful
all of the time. I am saying that I must be with
what Is. I can use the tools I have gained, awareness,
will and intent, to shift my perspective and look
at this experience and my life through different
eyes. When I do this, I can see the many blessings
that have come from this life-altering event. It
has brought my family closer together. I now know
from personal experience that death truly is the
wisest advisor we have as it has helped me to see
all of the things in my life that I have taken for
granted. It allowed me to come to know who I am on
a deeper level. It has taught me that we don’t have
enough time to wait until tomorrow; we need to make
it count NOW.
If
we observe a little closer those difficulties that
seem so worrisome, no matter how tough it may be,
we will find that there is always a gift in every situation.
Let’s give thanks and gratitude this holiday season
to those opportunities that arise in our lives that
we would call anything but gifts. I encourage us
all to see beyond the difficulties in our lives to
the realization that these are really stepping-stones
on our way towards growth and a more profound meaning
of life. Let us all open the gifts that Spirit brings
into our lives—and receive these blessings.
Love and Light,
Pedro
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Pedro
Mares is a trained Jaguar Guide of the
Toltec tradition in the Denver area. He combines
compassion with ability, insight with practical
methods, and selflessness with honesty.
If
you would like to read more about Pedro or any of the
other TMS guides, click here.
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Fourth
Corner
by
Kalyn B Raphael
Above:
Kalyn in Avila, Spain leading a Guided Intensive
Kalyn
greatly enjoys working in person with women in classes
or during Guided Intensives.
The
Intensives offers women the time to focus on strengthening
themselves with Kalyn's guidance in an environment
that allows them to experience living a new dream
for themselves.
To learn
more about the Guided Intensives or to pre-enroll
for one, please click
here
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Be
Impeccable with Your Word
To speak is an action,
as it is something that our bodies do. The words we use
are significant and important, but focusing on our action
is key.
To take this agreement a step further, we must be impeccable
with our actions, not just our words since speaking is
only one of many actions we take. We must look at what
we do and why we do it so that our actions have our intent
to be impeccable in them.
At this time of the year, it is beneficial and impacting
to choose the actions we take. Ending the year as best
as possible will complete the cycle of this year well.
Well-ended cycles create better beginnings, a better
year for 2005 in this case.
So, how does one end the year impeccably? We all have
the power of choosing every minute of our lives: we choose
what we will wear, what we will eat and what activities
we engage in. To end your year as impeccably as possible,
consider your choices while striving to make the most
beneficial and healthy choices possible for yourself.
Choose to honor yourself by doing what you know you need
to do for yourself.
Some obvious actions may be doing things like cleaning
your home, ending a fight or expressing feelings that
have gone unexpressed in your life. Deeper actions may
go within, focusing on what you need to do for yourself
such as choosing healthier foods, choosing to complete
an incomplete project or resolving a long-running problem
in your life.
Being impeccable in our lives creates clarity for us,
both energetically and physically. May you create an
impeccable end to 2004 and a clear and vibrant 2005!
Love and
Light,
Kalyn
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Kalyn B Raphael also
teaches spiritual courses in Santa Fe, NM and on the
Internet. She is a certificated teacher of don Miguel
Ruiz’, best-selling author of The Four Agreements.
Ask
Kalyn your questions on the Four Agreements, click here
Join her Seek Your Soul
web site where you can see further entries of Seek
Your Soul, an Inspirational Guided Recorder, and where
you can ask questions and offer feedback. Visit
Kalyn's new site at www.seek-your-soul.com/.
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Mastery
of Awareness - AUDIO
COURSE on CDs: An Alternative |
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For
those who are unable to work directly with a teacher
or who just wish to supplement this work, Kris and
Kalyn have created an alternative, the Mastery of Awareness
Audio Course on CDs. The CDs include not only lessons,
but also energetic, meditative processes, and also live
commentary from Kris and Kalyn. You can listen to the
CDs in your car (not the meditative processes please)
or in the convenience of your home.
TESTIMONIAL: Here
are some testimonials. (Thank you Dan, Mel and Matthew!)
"Hello
K2,
I just received my first two cd's from the MOA course. It's
great to have a voice to associate with the text read in
emails or on the forum. The teachings and lessons
become much more personal. I like the conversation
format used too. Thank you so much for putting the
cd's together. I look forward to the next." ~Dan
"Hi K2!
I love the Mastery of Awareness CD's! Kris and Kalyn,
your commentaries have really helped. The lessons
on tape put them in a different dimension for me (out of
cyber space and into a voice)...one with more physical
aspects. I love your voices too. Anyway, I
listen to them in the car. . .so that makes me happy to
spend that time in the car this way.
with Love and Light,
Mel"
"The
CDs add a whole extra dimension. I like to learn by
reading, and when I listen to Kris and Kalyn on the
CDs, it takes me out of my pattern - which is what
this is all about. I have also never had much success
with meditation exercises that I read. The guided
exercises are a help to me, because I can release having
to remember what I read and just listen to Kris. Writing
about it makes my left big toe tingle for some reason.  " ~Matthew
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