Ancient keys to creating New Earth

So much has transpired over this past year. I feel like I have had the greatest cosmic makeover ever in my lifetime. Spiritual surgery and cosmic chiropractic care have been my 'Extreme makeover" and it has been painful and joyful in equal amounts. but then it is all about reaching a balance, an equilibrium within ourselves to prepare us for a world of our own co-creation as human angels rather than the old world paradigm of being servants to our egos and the fear based karmic reality of the past. I am certain that many of you feel as though your own lives, own journeys have been through similar experiences of learning to detach from outworn thought forms, relationships and habits that do not serve our highest good and learning to replace them with focused , conscious and loving actions that produce personal full-fill-meant while honoring individual integrity. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

KNOW THYSELF. these two powerful commands from the ancient world are more alive and real today than I think they have been since their first utterance. We recognize the first from the Bible , which is often equated to a time of patriarchal political maneuvering and taken completely out of context to its original intent. The latter command was inscribed over the temple of Apollo at the most powerful shrine to the Oracle of Delphi, the Pythia. This command, KNOW THYSELF is I believe, the precursor to THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. FOr when we come into our own spiritual truth and surrender to it on a deep soul level, we become authentic beings living from our heart of God/Goddess, we become truly divine sparks of the ONE living purely in the light of our individual consciousness, talents and gifts for the service of all. WHen we discover and surrender to this TRUTH it indeed SETS US FREE.

We become free from suffering over how our outer reality does not match up to our inner ideals. We begin to see that all things are perfect and in a state of great transformation and that it is not the outer reality that needs to harmonize to our wants and demands but rather that our inner harmony is free from the seeming disarray and tragedy of the external world. that by remaining inharmony within ourselves, we in fact create the very world we wish to see. If we become out of balance and begin to suffer because of the world we perceive than it creates us, rather than the other way around. WE ARE THE CREATORS. As we go within and find our truth and spiral that energy outward into the world we live our divine heritage for the highest good of all. Letting go of the lie that you are a product of the world you have experienced is the key. you allow the world to spiral into you, you take in the experience and make it a truth rather than taking your truth and making it your experience, as was intended by God/dess. What is takes is realization that no matter what your experience has been or for how long, that in each moment you are given FREE WILL to believe, what you WILL. You can choose to believe in yourself as a product of your experience and remain a victim to circumstance. OR you can choose to believe that that despite any and all circumstance you encounter that you will produce from it only what serves your highest good individually and for the whole. I speak not from some lofty ideal but from personal experience. I am not someone whose life has been all sunshine and granola! ; ) Rather, I grew up in some pretty heavy conditions, I have seen friends die, experienced abuses of my body, intellect and emotions, gone through despair, fear, self doubt, longed for an escape from this world, I have been through addictions, perversions, and foolishness on magnificent scales. I have been Human too after all. We all go through this world. through this carnival of chaos and splendor. what is important is not what we experience for that fades in time and is impermanent. But rather, what we take from the experience into ourselves.

What we take from our worldly experiences into ourselves is like primal matter. I think of it as clay. From it we fashion our beliefs about the world, and about ourselves. SO it makes me think, what am I fashioning and out of what? I want to take the best from each experience good bad or ugly and use only those parts that will serve to help me create beautiful and useful things from it. Holding on to all the garbage, only gives you garbage to sculpt form. you end up with decay, dis-ease, and rot. sometimes, we have to take the SH%#@ from our experiences and make compost! turn it into something life sustaining and nurturing by transforming it from waste by product into organic living components that by allowing it to breakdown, letting it go, serves to create rich, nourishing material to work with.

I have had allot of time to think about what we take in as I am currently 6 months pregnant with my third child. All day long, I eat and eat, consume and take into my body that which is rich in nutrients and that will support healthy life and growth within me for my unborn baby. It makes me wonder why we tend to care more about such things when another life is on the line, rather than just our own? take in the best, the most life sustaining. yes! but even now and then, a bowl of Count Chocula cereal is pleasurable experience too! ; )
it is all about BALANCE. about being conscious of what you take in and utilizing the sparks of it for the highest good of all.

KNOW THYSELF and YOUR TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!

Namaste
Mary Samantha Magdal Anna
-"how we live our truth is as important as the truth itself-"Tao

Samantha
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The Lie of Self-Less-Ness

There is much afoot about healing the world these days and I say first, we must learn that we must heal ourselves NOW.

For some of us it means taking more responsibility for our own actions, words
and
learning to come from wisdom rather than from ego.We are faced with having to
own up to
the reality of who we are and how respond to others. Learning to let go of the
tediousness
of the ego that lives in fear of being taken advantage of or ignored completely.

For others it may be that they need to learn that what they tell themselves is
selfless
service for the healing and benefit of others, is in actuality yet another
illusion that serves
only to further deplete them of their energy and sense of self. WHen we give so
much of
ourselves away to others dramas and issues, we in essence play a dangerous game
of
playing martyr to our own egoic sense of greatness. It too is an illusion. We
cannot
become so attached to serving others to the point of our own derailment and
demise. WE
are learning that we have been lied to. Men and Women both! In our time, selflessness is equated with goodness
but truly
how can we do the greatest good if we have less-self to do it from????? We must
replace
this ladies and gentlemen. NOW! the Era of our Selflessness is OVER. We are moving into our
SELF-
FULLNESS and leaving behind self-lessness.

I am not speaking of Selfishness that thinks only of its wants and likes. that is not self at all, that is the illusion of the EGO.

SELF_ FULL NESS is this:
AS we are Learning to honor ourselves,
and to
not put ourselves in situations that continually harm us, this is wisdom.
Learning to
transmute the guilt and ego needs to feel needed are steps to becoming truly
able to do
the greatest good. As we honor ourselves in positive ways, we become more
capable of
knowing how to truly honor others. When we accept that for us to be at optimum
condition that we need rest, peace, time for ourselves, time in nature, kind and
loving
people around us, harmonious home and family life, food that is healthy for our bodies, pure water to drink, clean air to breath, laughter, beauty, kindness, as we accept ONLY these
things in
our lives and work to create only such things in our lives, we become full of
joy, love,
peace, healing, patience, compassion, grace.

Think of how much of our society is completely against all those things I just listed. Our entertainment industry for one example, is full of violence, death, butchery, fear, competition, hate, demise, and depravity. From the video games we let our children play, blasting away at enemies, to the slash and gash movies that our society will willingly pay for to sit in the dark for 90 minutes and be terrorized for the sake of a thrill. Music is full of aggression, dissatisfaction, and complaints. Television is an endless stream of advertisements encouraging us to take drugs because the natural world and our own selves are completely out of control and unable to do a thing about it , so take a pill at least. These are just a few examples. I need not go into politics, environment, media coverage etc. you know it!

What if we simply refused as individuals to take any of it in any more. If each SELF sought FULLNESS to their being nourished and enriched by a life that is sustained by all manner of good things. what a society that would be, what a future that would create! BUt his is not going to happen as a whole unless we start with ourselves.

In the trainings I provide for Priestesses, there is a basic tenant. : AS vessels of the Goddess we have learned that to be truly filled we must FIRST
be truly
emptied.

we understand this to be that as we empty out these old conditionings and beliefs and replace them
with
healthy ones that support our sense of SELF, we come home to our authenticity.

Like
Quan Yin,
LAdy of the compassionate waters, who pours out the endless flow, we must
become
central to our own existence. QUan Yin does not sit on her lotus in the sea of
tranquility
with umpteen people who need things from her, demanding things of her. her arms
are not
full, her eyes are not focused all around her on everything she Must get done.
NO. A true
Goddess of compassion for the world, sits in her SelfHood. She floats as a
sovereign
queen on her tranquil sea on her lotus, full up with her own inner being of love
and
wisdom. Her eyelids softly closed, her gaze focused inwards to the source of joy
and love
from her authentic being.It is in this state, that she heals the world.

In your personal challenge whatever it is. Claim your lotus. Calm your sea.
CLose your
eyes and focus them within.

another note on karma: we may feel feelings of guilt, anger, panic, need,
insistence that
we must do something, that we cannot let go. but remember that as you do this
for your
SELF you are in essence doing the most good you can for others. You are showing
them
how to do this for themselves. this is LOVE. making other independent from you
not
dependent on you is true unselfish love. we teach children how to walk by slowly
learning
learning how to let them go it on their own. Not by carrying them everywhere.

We must step back from our " selfless " egos and realize that we are in effect
inhibiting
another persons ability to take care of themselves. We stand between them and
their own
evolution because we take on that karma for them, rather than allowing them the
space to
take responsibility for themselves. But no matter which of these or both of
these we are
coming from to seek balance, we each are dealing with our own transmuting of
the last of
the dead weight karma so we can be whole, functional and without excuses, so we
may
exist in grace and integrity, empowered and FULLY present.

( the Goddess is taking role call and will want to know who is FULLY present and
who is
absent)

namaste,
Mary Magdal-Anna

(image by Sue Halstenberg)

Blessed Ancestral Season to you all! ( I was mata hari for Halloween, what were you ?)

I hope your Halloween was full of fun, that your Dias De Los Muertos was full of family warmth and remembrance and that your Samhain was most Blessed.

AUTHENTIC INTEGRATION is the energetic key this turn of the wheel. Looking at the past and receiving into ourselves all the worthwhile parts of our selves that sustained our being, good, bad and ugly and integrating them into ourselves. Old paradigm says to transcend your past, rise above who you have been, and let go of who you no longer are. But that is falling away and consciousness has shifted as we move towards a 7 dimensional way of being. This new thought form speaks of INTEGRATION INTO ONENESS. After all, We need all of our parts to be a whole person. We need all of our visions to be a whole creator, we are myriad selves. Like diamonds that refract the light of the divine, the more the facets, the shinier and more brilliant the light . As we spin into the dark of winter and turn within to spend time with our personal inner worlds, Opening to receive ourselves, let the habits, thought forms, relationships and such that no longer serve your highest good, fall away in to the Autumn bonfires BUT with that, draw into yourself who you were, who you are, who you will become with love, forgiveness, joy and compassion. Love all the facets of you that life has danced you through. Each facet is worthy of love and forgiveness, worthy of integration into the whole of the diamond light heart and soul that you are.

NAMASTE!
Mary Magdal-Anna

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Poems: the lover and the Beloved

As we journey closer to Oneness, like lovers to the breast of the beloved, as she strips away her veils, we see clearer that the eyes behind them are our own, we embrace ourselves through one another, as i encounter you, I encounter the divine, laughing, playing, weeping, expressing, BE-ing. it is beautiful to be the lover, we are ONE and in your arms, I am held effulgent in the arms of myself, in the arms of my beloved.
-Mary Samantha

below are some poems to celebrate 777 and our moving ever closer to ONE NESS like lover adn beloved reunited after aeons in the wasteland of ignorance.


BY MIRABAI 1498-1565

Unbreakable, O Lord,
Is the love
That binds me to You:
Like a diamond,
It breaks the hammer that strikes it.

My heart goes into You
As the polish goes into the gold.
As the lotus lives in its water,
I live in You.

Like the bird
That gazes all night
At the passing moon,
I have lost myself dwelling in You.

O my Beloved --
Return.

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O my friends,
What can you tell me of Love,
Whose pathways are filled with strangeness?
When you offer the Great One your love,
At the first step your body is crushed.
Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.
Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the light,
To live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter's call,
In the partridge that swallows hot coals for love of the moon,
In the fish that, kept from the sea, happily dies.
Like a bee trapped for life in the closing of the sweet flower,
Mira has offered herself to her Lord.
She says, the single Lotus will swallow you whole.

Song of Solomon, chapter 2




1: I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
2: As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
3: As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4: He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
5: Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
6: His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7: I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
8: The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
9: My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
10: My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11: For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12: The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13: The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14: O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
15: Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
16: My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
17: Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.


Song of Solomon, chapter 4



1: Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
2: Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
3: Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
4: Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
5: Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
6: Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
7: Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
8: Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9: Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
10: How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
11: Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13: Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
14: Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
15: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
16: Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

New Podcasting at the www.templeofplace.com

Exciting news for us priestesses at the Temple of place. We have just added podcasting to our temple site. you can come listen to out first one by going to www.templeofplace.com and clicking on the microphone. ; )

Blessings to you all!