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The Star of Conscious Change

Posted on June 17, 2017 Written by Cara Lumen

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As we set out to explore the 95% of the Great Mystery that is in our unconscious mind, we need to to do some consous prep work before we go journeying off into the unknown.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community helps us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she shows us how to consciously prepare oursel  to explore our Invisible Self by performing the Star of Conscious Change.

In this episode we consider: 

1 – How to deepen your inner work by surrounding ourself with the Star of Conscious Change.

2- Learn the powerful and centering “I Am” Chant

3 – Learn the Star for Conscious Change process.

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides  

Power Journaling 

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

The Secret Garden

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

Art of Wholing digital book k (Amazon and Ibooks)

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart.
Will you join  us? 

Filed Under: Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, vLog Tagged With: illumined service, shamanic journeying, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Our Need to Transcend 

Posted on June 13, 2017 Written by Cara Lumen

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We have another challenge, another step to take. Psychologist Abraham Maslow ended his hierarchy of needs with self-actualization. He thought that was the highest point we could reach.  When you are self-actualized, you understand yourself and you understand what you bring to the world. But recently I learned that two years before Maslow died he basically said, “Wait, there is more. We have a need to transcend ourselves.” That, he said, was the missing piece.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is pictured as a pyramid.  At the bottom (the fundamental need) is physiological (shelter, food), next is safety, topped by love/belonging.  Esteem is next, with the top of the pyramid being self-actualization.

The premise is that you have to fulfill each of these needs before you can move to the one above it. Until you’re safely sheltered, you’re focused on that rather than on introspective work. So, if you’ve worked your way up to self-actualization, you have one more step to take – to “transcend” yourself.  Transcend – go beyond, rise above.

Our next step is to move beyond ourselves into the unseen, the Great Mystery. We have to journey beyond the confines of our Body Suit experience and move into a deeper relationship with our Invisible Self.

How do we experience transcendence?

Transcendence is an existence or experience above the known physical level.  We experience this unseen world when we get a hunch or follow our intuition, or simply know with certainty the action we should take.

Transcendence is experienced in our deepest meditation, our shamanic journeying, our dreams, our visioning, whatever means we use to move beyond the confines and limitations of our Body Suit into the unseen spaciousness of the Great Mystery. It’s in those times that we transcend, that we go beyond the physical plane.

Why do we want to experience transcendence?

I have taught that the more we know and understand ourselves the more aligned our choices will be. The most powerful thing you can do for yourself is to become more self-aware.  To know your passion, your gifts, and develop the tools and techniques that allow you to offer your unique expression to the world.  But Maslow says that there’s more – that there’s yet another step for us to take.

I got serious about this exploration when I moved into a senior center where there is, by age alone, a lot of death. I’m 84 and not ready to die for many years.  I also had a philosophy of death that seemed to work for me but as I get closer to the experience, I needed and wanted to expand this philosophy. I explored more deeply. What’s next?  What is “out there”?

How do we explore transcendence?

I now explore and work within the inner places I find through shamanic journeying. That includes spirit guides, angels, fairies, elves, Cosmic Mother and even a representative from another universe. They are all parts of myself that I’ve identified in a specific form, but they are also messengers from the Great Unknown.

Only 5% of our world is experienced through our consciousness; the other 95% is from our unconscious.  Our unconscious!  That part of us that we barely understand but a level of ourselves that’s responsible for most of what we experience in our own life.

The good news is that the Great Mystery wants us to come exploring and is very generous with the clarity it brings to us.

The more we practice transcendence the more we understand

Each moment of mindfulness, each request for messages from our inner world, each intuition we follow leads us further along this path of transcendence.  As we explore and begin to understand, we also begin to apply that knowledge to our Body Suit lives.  We take what we learn and use it to climb higher, move further, or dive deeper.

Nature is a powerful teacher of transcendence

We are all one energy.  All connected.  All the same.  We all move through cycles that have a beginning, a middle and an end.  Nature gives us examples of those cycles and teaches us to allow life and circumstances to simply unfold. Nature can lead us into experiences of the unseen world.

I use various techniques to purposefully focus energy. I meditate with rocks and crystals to receive their messages. I have drummed and chanted, and used symbols to heal. I have sent energy outside of time and space.  I have practiced affirmative prayer. I have meditated in many forms.  I continue to practice and expand my shamanic journeying. Now I’m joining with others in the ever-expanding Transformational Community to deepen and expand the collective consciousness.

The more I explore the “unseen” world, the more I “see.”

What is “out there”?

Transcendence is when we go beyond “me” to “we” – when we feel and know and accept that there is one great mysterious energy and that we’re each encompassed in it.

We learn to transcend our individual self and feel how deeply we’re a part of All That Is, the Great Mystery, just like everyone else.

When we realize how completely we’re connected, we become more aware of our words and actions and choices because we know how subtly and deeply we affect others – because we’re all one energy. Our choices become more aligned with a universal group consciousness, a joining of our minds in a collective energy that moves us all to places and spaces where we’ve never gone before.

Transcend – to go beyond one’s self, to move above our earthly limitations even while being alive in our body suits.

The final step beyond self-actualization is to transcend

Simply begin to notice and think about and allow yourself to experience transcendence. Notice the spaces in your meditation when you mind stills and you drift off and can no longer experience your body.

Notice the powerful calling that you have to understand “more”.  This is obviously not about dying, although dying is certainly a form of transcendence.

Look for ways to transcend right now, from here in your Body Suit. You can begin to explore the invisible realms, to transcend from the limitations of being human into the expansion of being and feeling and knowing that you are totally encompassed in the whole.

How do you experience transcendence?  What practices will you put in place to help you take this powerful next step?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery

I Am You   ‎

We Are Part of a Larger Spiritual Order

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World

Vlog: Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Podcast: 45-How to Become a Mindful Presence

Filed Under: Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community Tagged With: Spiritual Expansion, transcend, transformational thinking, Unfolding

The Secret Garden

Posted on June 10, 2017 Written by Cara Lumen

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As we begin to expand our inner work, this exploration of our Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, we want to create a launch pad, a Secret Garden from which we begin our exploration. It is part of our inner world, our Invisible Self.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community help us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she explains how to create and use a secret garden of your imagination as a safe space for contemplation and exploration.

Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all of yourself.  – Rumi

(7:35) In this episode we consider: 

1 – The Purpose of the Secret Garden

2 – The meaning of the elements in the Secret Garden

3- The Sacred Garden and healing

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

Power Journaling

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

“Awakening to the Spirit World, The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation” Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wasserman

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

Filed Under: Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community, vLog Tagged With: Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Your Body Suit and Your Invisible Self

Posted on June 2, 2017 Written by Cara Lumen

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Our Body Suits limit us.  It is only when we learn how to explore our Invisible Self that deep connection and understanding occurs.  95% of life takes place in our Invisible Self.  How will you go exploring? What will you discover?

In this video we explore the limitations of our Body Suite and discover why and how we can connect more deeply with or Invisible Self.

(2:43) In this episode we consider: 

1 – How to embrace the Wholeness of the Visible and Invisible.
2 – Limitations of the Body Suit
3- Undiscovered aspect of our Invisible Self

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

For More Insights on Your Deeper Song Consider: 

vLof:Deepening Our Connection 

Post: Find and Use Your Power Within
How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

Podcast:  21 – How to Share a Piece of Your Soul  

Filed Under: Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, vLog Tagged With: self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

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