The Council of Light, page 18
Part of the premise of this is to give you the opportunity to move into an energy of either nonattachment or detachment and for you to decide for yourself. Do you feel like the universe is a friendly universe that is conspiring for your benefit? Are you operating out of the paradigm that all is well and that there is some organized, synchronistic aspect to everything? Is that a preferred way of seeing the world for you? It is not necessary to have that viewpoint but it may assist you in relaxing into seeing the blank canvas of the world, seeing the web of the world, and piercing through the illusion. The Divine Ray assists you in piercing through the illusion.
SUPPORT EXERCISE
Seeing the Painting of Your Life through the Divine Ray
To apply the concept of the blank canvas to your life, imagine a situation that you feel unrest about and have an attachment to. Maybe it is something that you really want to happen that has not happened yet. Maybe it is a person that brings up all of your stuff. Maybe it is a health issue. Whatever it is, just focus on it.
Maybe you do not have any areas of unrest right now, but imagine one that you had previously, or one that someone you knew had. Focus on some area that brings a sense of dis-ease, a sense of unrest, or an incredible sense of longing, urgency, or attachment.
Imagine that this situation is a painting. Maybe it is an angry painting or a wistful painting, a wanting painting or a longing painting. Maybe it is a conflicted painting or one in which there is some residue of war or an inner struggle. That is how it appears to you if you are looking at it from your nonawake eyes, being unaware of the Divine Ray. As you put the Divine Ray glasses on and come from the perspective of seeing from the Divine Ray, it is like the painting becomes misty and you see the clear field of the mind and the infinite intelligence that is pulsing through each moment. You see the expansion, you see the Divine Ray, and you see the web of oneness, the Source, origin, and spirit.
In the beginning of this process things can feel somewhat altered. There can be a sense of grieving that happens when you move into identifying or aligning with a higher realm of consciousness, because it changes the way that you interact with your life and reality. Because of this there can be a sense of the death of an old way of being. Yet there is something within you that very much wants to align with a new way of being: unification, oneness, alignment, expansion, harmony, light, life, peace, and unity.
Imagine that you have, with the assistance of the Divine Ray, stripped away the illusion. It is a part of the prophesy of the New Age that there will be the ability to see everything for what it is: if someone has an ulterior motive in what they are saying to you or what they are doing it becomes transparent. You are able to see that they are being motivated by their own fear, their own insecurity, or they want to get something from you. Everything becomes transparent.
As you look at your painting through the lens of the Divine Ray you also begin to see the right relationship with everyone’s connection to it. If your painting involves someone else you are able to see what is motivating them, motivating you, and you are able to recognize that on a soul level the experience has reminded you and the other person to see through the illusion, to grow in some way, and to be a catalyst of remembering. Take a few deep breaths and imagine the Divine Ray completely saturating your picture, bringing a state of resonance and alignment to the situation you have chosen. As you are ready bring your awareness fully back to the present moment, letting go of the picture—the situation—completely.
VIEWING LIFE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Seeing everything from a different perspective can feel like an altered state. If you watch a movie with 3-D glasses, the glasses add a new dimension to the previously flat image. Or like the movie The Matrix where Keanu Reaves can see each and every particle of light in everything. That is the kind of awareness that we are talking about. It may not be visual for you, but there is a piercing through and getting to the core of things, to the root of things. You are able to see everything.
As you add the Divine Ray to your toolbox for yourself and others, it provides the space to go deeper. You do not have to have vision for someone else, but if you want to it can provide the space for the person to get to the core of whatever is going on with him or her. You can also call upon it in your own meditation, as it gives you the space to get to the core of something.
ENERGETIC EXERCISE
Connecting More Deeply to the Divine Ray
Focus on your breath and your heart and take a few moments in silence to enhance your connection to the Divine Ray. Notice that more and more of this energy is brought into your awareness. Spend a few minutes exploring the Divine Ray even further. What do you notice about the Divine Ray? How can it support you in your life? In what situations would you call upon it? When you are ready take a couple of deep breaths, move your fingers and toes, feel yourself come back into your body, and gently bring your awareness back to the present moment.
CHOICE
Do you want to live as an awake being? Is this a choice that you are making? Do you want to live in the state of a dream or an illusion? There is a distance to it. It is like living in illusion, duality, and separation without being fully awake. This does not necessarily happen from one moment to the next, although it can, but most people are choosing to evolve in a way that feels comfortable over time. This hesitancy is shifting though.
Draw your focus once again to the Divine Ray and connect in to it, allowing it, relaxing even more. There is nothing you need to do; this is a natural, organic process being guided by your higher self and your free will.
INTEGRATING THE DIVINE RAY
There are various ways that you can choose to integrate the Divine Ray into your life. You may see it like something that you take internally or like a time-release vitamin that spreads its nourishment over time. Or it could be like a muscle that gets developed over time and then you are able to lift something more easily. All of these are perfectly acceptable, wonderful ways of connecting to the Divine Ray. Yet it is important to point out and underscore that the Divine Ray exists naturally within you.
As a human being you are made up of water, and so it is like building a relationship to water by saying, “I am going to drink a glass of water once a day. I am going to put my toes in the water.” You already are water so it is not incompatible in any way to your system. Likewise it is not incompatible in any way to your system to fully remember and awaken the Divine Ray in its wholeness.
You may want to set the intention in this remembering and awakening that everything unfolds with ease and grace. You may want to do it in a time-release way, because it is a change in the way that you are connecting to the world. It almost is like a personality change in some ways, but it does not change your essence. Yet it is important for you to state that it can happen in its wholeness from one moment to the next if that is how you would prefer it to happen.
THE BENEFIT OF LIVING FROM THE DIVINE RAY
What is the benefit of living from the Divine Ray? Why would you choose to awaken it in its wholeness? It is like standing on the inside of a house looking out the window trying to imagine what it feels like to climb a tree or to swim in a pool of water. When you are in the pool, when you are climbing the tree, you have a different awareness than when you are thinking about it from the inside of your house looking out the window. Therefore, you may want to stick your toe in the pool or climb up to the first branch of the tree and see how it feels. A shift in perspective is a shift in perspective.
A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE
Another question you might be wondering about is “Will I still be able to feel? Will I still have emotions? Is living from the Divine Ray like Prozac, like flat-lining everything?” Your emotions are a part of your human experience and as long as you are in your physical incarnation you will have emotions. It is not that your life will become flat-lined from an emotional perspective if you choose to wake up all the way. It is more that you will have a sense of the higher perspective simultaneously with the emotion. In some ways you can feel the emotion even more fully because it is not confused with all the other different paints on the painting. You are able to feel the brown just as the brown without it being glommed on to the entire painting.
Let us say you have a negative emotion. Maybe before living from the Divine Ray you would have that emotion, believe and feel that emotion, tell stories about that emotion, and get into every nook and cranny of that emotion. With the Divine Ray you have the emotion, you feel it, and yet the story you tell about the emotion would be different. Right away you know it is reminding you to pay attention to the stream of well-being that always exists. Or it is reminding you to take some time for you. It has a purpose, but it is not because somebody did something to you, because you have been wronged, or whatever story you might have had from a sleepy place. There is an awakeness to recognizing the intrinsic value of every experience.
With a positive emotion like love, passion, or joy, you can feel those even more strongly because there is a greater resonance to what is underlying those. If you know a little about the idea of joy or you have glimpses of joy, but it does not come as easily to you as you would like, activating the Divine Ray will support you in being able to feel all the aspects of joy.
THE CHOICE TO INCARNATE AT THIS TIME
On a soul level why do you think you chose to incarnate and to be alive during this time? What about this particular period in history, technology, and the spiritual, physical, and material realms had you saying, “Yes. I am coming in then.” What is it that was so compelling that the population on the planet is more than it has ever been, and so many souls have chosen to incarnate during this time? And in particular, why are you drawn to it?
This may be a good question to meditate on because it gives you the invitation to start looking at what is intriguing about this time. What is compelling about it? What is really exciting about it? What is drawing you to it? What is inviting your soul’s gifts and talents, your inspirational ideas, your unique essence to shine and to be called forth in a stronger way? It is obvious that this is a rapid and accelerated time. You can look at your technology and other areas and see that there is an acceleration happening.
Maybe like Christopher Columbus you are a pioneer and are discovering continents of consciousness and ways of being that are new and innovative and in alignment with what is to come. Why is it that the average natural lifespan is longer than it has ever been? You can look at this intellectually and see that technology and healthcare make it easier to sustain a longer lifespan. Maybe there is another purpose for it though. Maybe in order to take a quantum leap in consciousness it was important to have lived through many years of the old consciousness, the history, and to be alchemists and transmute that into the new.
It is like the difference between being inside of the house looking out the window at the coming forests of consciousness to being in it. The Divine Ray is a bridge that will assist in this shift in consciousness.
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT RAY
The Unity Ray
Allows you to clearly see the essence of that which you are seeking, which already exists in the present moment. It supports you in being in union in the now moment and to know that everything you want already exists within you and within this now moment. This Ray is powerful in transcending any thoughts or feelings of separation consciousness and a wonderful Ray to call upon as you are in the process of realizing an expanded state of health, wealth, or happiness.
TUNING IN
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Stillness and Inner Union
As we begin this segment with the Council of Light on the Enlightenment Ray, take a few moments to focus on your breath and invite your mind to relax and become peaceful like a still lake. The Egyptian goddess Seshat, who is shown with a seven-petaled flower or star upon her head, is the female form of Thoth. Seshat is related to the clear field of the mind. Have a sense of her presence and her archetypal energy assisting you with this process.
In preparation for tuning in to the Enlightenment Ray, one of the first steps is to come into a greater level of stillness. If this is one of those moments where your mind happens to not be still and has many ripples in the water, then simply be present and accept what is happening in the moment. Rather than trying to fight it, change it, or transcend it, accept that right now your mind may be busy. As much as possible, though, enter into that clear field, that relaxed state.
It is not that you connect to the Enlightenment Ray or to that still place within you from your mind. Your mind may be the part of you that is overshadowing or louder than the stillness. It would be similar to you wanting to do a yoga practice, but having fifty different radios or television shows on in your home or yoga studio. It would be challenging to focus on feeling your body on the mat and doing the exercises. You could still do it, absolutely, and your posture would still look the same from the outside perhaps, but your internal connection to the posture would be different. Beginning with addressing the mind and asking the mind to relax is like turning off the five hundred radio stations or televisions. Yoga stands for union and the Enlightenment Ray is about union, an inner union.
Imagine that in these first few moments, through your intention and through this guidance, you have been able to turn off the louder external signals and begin to tune in to what is already there. Everything already exists within you. Enlightenment, however you define it, is simply living in a light, bubbly, effervescent, humorous, and happy state. Or maybe to you it is that undeniable connection to the Divine within and without in each and every moment, or that expanded perspective to be able to see all there is in every moment. However you define enlightenment, imagine that it already exists in a state of wholeness within you. It is not that enlightenment takes a long period of time to attain or you have to earn it or create it. It already exists in wholeness within you. It is more about quieting down the extraneous environment and tuning in to the wholeness that already exists there.
This first segment of our time together has been about just that, turning down the extraneous environment to bring your attention to something that is there already. Maybe you have had glimpses of it, many moments of connection to it, or maybe you feel like you have no idea that it exists within you. Allow this segment, this time together, to be an invitation to connect to the inner knowing within. Let it be an invitation to connect with the sacred presence, the inner sanctuary, the holy of holies, and to the union within.
Set your intention to connect to the Council of Light. Imagine that you are connecting to your ideal Council of Light frequencies and members and that they are transmitting the Enlightenment Ray to you multidimensionally. Invite your system to access, receive, and remember the Enlightenment Ray. Allow yourself the time and space you desire to fully steep in the energy of the Enlightenment Ray. When you are ready and feel complete with this process, take a few deep breaths and gently come back to the present moment.
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EVERYTHING YOU SEEK ALREADY EXISTS IN THE PRESENT MOMENT
There is the analogy about peeling off the layers of an onion. In a sense you are peeling away the layers of awareness and tapping into a seed of consciousness that is the Enlightenment Ray. The core of the onion exists even when the onion is whole and you can only see the outside of the onion. What if everything that you have ever been seeking was already right with you the entire time? What if the confidence, love, the external manifestation of a relationship, of an experience of having something, was already in the present moment in which you were seeking it, yet your attention was not able to locate it?
One of the purposes of the Enlightenment Ray is to help you clearly see the essence of whatever it is that you are seeking as already existing in the present moment. The Enlightenment Ray is like the blind person being given a pair of glasses that gives him the ability to be able to see what is there and has been there all along. You can imagine trying to find your car keys with your eyes closed. This would be a different process than opening your eyes and trying to find your car keys when they are in plain sight. The Enlightenment Ray serves the purpose to open your eyes and your inner awareness to the union that already exists in all things and at all times in any given moment.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT RAY AUGMENTS YOUR WORK IN SERVICE TO OTHERS
Tapping into the Enlightenment Ray as you are in service to another, as you are helping another, turns on the light for the other person to see what already has been there all along. As you develop your connection and intentionally engage with the Enlightenment Ray while you are in the presence of others, whether it is a formal session, in the grocery store line, or on an airplane, it acts as a field of energy that illuminates what the person has been seeking all along.
Maybe it is about the glasses on the top of their head that they have been looking for, or maybe it is a sense of peace, unlimited abundance, connection to the Divine, health, love, or happiness. Whatever feels as if it is lost begins to be found.
To be clear it is different from handing someone his keys. It is more a turning on the light so he can find the keys himself. These are two different actions. Whether it is Reiki, coaching, massage, teaching, or working in an office, adding the Enlightenment Ray to the modality that you already know upgrades it.
Why is it that you can use a modality, like energy healing for instance, and it works miraculously for one person and it does not seem to work for another person? Nothing seems to have changed. Adding the Enlightenment Ray to energy healing upgrades the modality to be more current. If there is an aspect of a modality where a practitioner is trying to give the client his or her glasses, keys, health, abundance, happiness, soul fulfillment, or spiritual connection, that is a hit-or-miss way for the person to actually receive it. But adding in the Enlightenment Ray lifts the veils of the person whom it is connecting to so she can get the keys and health for herself. She can get the manifestation for herself; as such, she creates a permanent connection to that which has been there all along.
