Swan In Heaven News 7.08

- TODAY'S MESSAGE FROM DANNY -

Terri's Introduction :

I would like to begin this newsletter by thanking all of you who've shown such love and support for A Swan in Heaven and for the work I'm doing with the help of Danny and my guides. It brings me to tears when I read your letters, and it's difficult to express how much gratitude I have for all of you.

As many of you know, nothing comes into our awareness by accident. The right person, the right book, the right experience, are all perfectly orchestrated to provide opportunities for the soul's growth. I often talk in my workshops about how there is no Divine judgment, only Divine guidance. The energy that is "God" doesn't have an opinion about what we do, and does not judge us. Instead, it fuels and energizes us, serving as a connective fiber that joins all of creation in one perfectly aligned movement toward the completion of plans and agreements. The ultimate destination is a place where our earth aspect (ego/personality) and our Divine aspect (soul/higher self) work together in harmony. The experiences we create on earth are designed to move us to this place, and sometimes the most effective experiences are the most painful.

Because I do so much work with the bereaved, I often ask Danny to give me the right words to help people who are in terrible pain about the loss of a loved one. As I recently wrote on my new website www.AfterlifeAwareness.com:

"I help the bereaved understand that every one of us is connected and no death happens in a vacuum. We are all part of soul families that make pre-birth agreements to act out certain plans, and sometimes a tragic death is part of that plan. When you look at it with a wider view, when you see it as a part of the whole -- a catalyst to increase awareness for an entire soul group -- the victim aspect falls into the background, and a greater understanding of that death can be realized."

This is a difficult concept for someone in the midst of unbearable grief, so I asked Danny to elaborate...

- DANNY SPEAKS -

Imagine that a mother is crying about her young daughter (we will call the daughter Jane) who has just left the physical realm. "She was so young, a compassionate, beautiful soul, pure, clean and perfect," the mother says. "She loved unconditionally. She was completely innocent. Why did she have to die?"

There is a reason, though to understand it requires an opening of the mind and the senses to an elevated view of our purpose on earth. Jane's life, her earth personality, her soul, her death, everything she is and everything she does, is not separate from the rest of us. She is part of an enormous living organism called "Us." This is what the great teachers mean when they speak of Oneness. No one of Us is separate from any other of Us. When a piece of Us -- Jane -- moves into another dimension, it is never a personal affront against one of Us, nor is it a "loss" in a metaphysical sense, because Jane's life and death -- her soul's movement through this system -- is part of a much bigger picture affects all of Us. This can easily be seen and understood on the soul level, but is difficult to grasp at the ego level. Jane's death alters the lives of the people who knew her. They are forever changed, and that change ripples out into their social groups and spirit families to create increased awareness for all of Us.

Imagine that Jane, her family, everybody who ever met her, everybody on earth, all beings in the higher realms and every spark of energy in the universe is like a fragment in a kaleidoscope. When the slightest movement occurs, the fragments are rearranged. Jane's death, as well as every other action in the universe, moves the kaleidoscope, and the position of each fragment is shifted. If you understand that no fragment stands alone, you can understand how we are all connected. The piece of Us known as "Jane" in this lifetime is not separate from the rest of Us. Neither is your dog, a stranger on the other side of the world or the person you perceive as your worst enemy. Healing and forgiveness, whether it's about grieving the death of a loved one or recovering from a childhood trauma, begins with this understanding.

In the kaleidoscope of Us, a death is simply another shift that moves us all forward in our awareness. On earth, on the ego level, of course this causes great pain. But that pain teaches us the most important spiritual lesson we will learn in this lifetime... that there is only US. And when you see yourself as part of the whole, like a finger or an eyelash as part of a body, then you realize that your departed loved one and even your own self, is an eyelash on the body of US. When you can think and live as if you are not here alone, as if you are a part of something bigger than your individual ego identity, then you can accept these shifts with love and find great peace and purpose in your life. The alternative is to have an experience on earth of bitterness, blame, spiritual isolation, confusion and powerlessness. If that is the experience one chooses, then there is a purpose to that experience as well. There is never any judgment about these choices.

The ego sees itself as the center of the universe, and works tirelessly to maintain its illusion of control. When great trauma or loss occurs, there's a disruption in that system, and the ego fights frantically to survive. Every time this happens, we have the opportunity to change our perceptions and move beyond the ego to a higher understanding. We are constantly being given these opportunities to align more fully with the Divine. When tragedies can be recognized as opportunities, our experience on earth becomes much less difficult, much less ruled by fear and panic. The whole reason we come to earth is to remember The Oneness. And when we need a reminder of this, we'll experience a tragedy or loss that stops the ego in its tracks and gives us a chance to listen to the soul and heart instead. This is the whole purpose of incarnation.. to remember that we're not separate from each other and not separate from God. We do not toil alone.

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