An Interview with Charmian Redwood

By Colin Whitby

This month I have asked Charmian Redwood to come back to talk to us, this time to talk about her new book 2012 A New Earth Rising. We are approaching December 21st 2012 that the Mayans predicted to be the end of time. Their 56.000-year calendar stops at that date. What does this mean? Will life on the Earth end? Will we all be destroyed? To find an answer to these questions Charmian used hypnosis to guide several people forwards in time to discover the truth of what will really happen. I was involved in the preparation of a number of chapters so was very interested to receive a final version of the book to review.

Colin:- This book was quite a project, what inspired you to work with different people in this way?

Charmian:- As soon as I had published my first book Coming Home To Lemuria I was guided to start another one taking people through the dimensional shift to look at the New Earth and to see what we need to do to prepare for it.

Colin:- The observations made by the contributors varied but do you think most were optimistic of our future here on Earth?

Charmian:- Definitely, I realised after I had done the sessions that the reason for the strong impulse to write the book so quickly was that it is so positive about the future and many people are having such a challenging time with the shifting frequencies causing chaos on the planet.

Colin:- Were there any journeys you made with your co-authors that took you by surprise?

Charmian:- Yes I was surprised by some of the journeys off planet , including my own, how many other star systems we had spent time on to prepare for this shift which was planned aeons of time ago before we even came here. It made me realise just how important the leap we are making here on the Earth is in the greater scheme of things and how much help there is for us  “Out there”.

Colin:- In many of the journeys to the future the conversations revealed that we were interacting with our star family quite naturally and openly, as we were vibrating at a much higher vibration. For me this felt perfectly normal, have you had any feedback from readers so far as to their response to these revelations?

Charmian:- Yes, many people know that they are from Sirius or the Plaeides and are looking forward to reconnecting with the ships and their star families again. They have an inner knowing that their star brothers are here and are waiting to assist us.

Colin:- One of the overriding feelings that came through each of the interviews was that love was the key that opens our doorway to the wonderful new world that is being described in the book. Having worked so much to bring this about how did you feel when you found this was earth’s new future, one filled with love?

Charmian:- I was and am very optimistic about the New Earth, I intend being in the first wave of ascension  to experience living in the state of ecstatic bliss that many of the contributors reported. It was effortless and everybody was just living in perfect unconditional love with everyone and everything. Gathering the material for this book has changed my life. I feel relaxed and confident that all is unfolding in Divine Right Order and I am ready for this New World of Love. I have no fear and I know that my soul is already creating everything I need to make this shift, all I have to do is stay in my heart and have fun!

Colin:- During our journey we travelled in a ship constructed through our consciousness, something we have done many times, and it was encouraging to find that this mode of transport will become quite normal for us on earth in the future. We will travel through space and time, something only found in science fiction at the moment.  It was interesting the way children were being taught how to interact with this new world too, was this something you had seen in other journeys?

Charmian:- Yes the new children already know  all of this, it is quite normal for them to be able to travel between dimensions as they have not yet shut down their expanded consciousness. They are our teachers and they are already embodying their own Higher Self which is what the “ Shift” is. It is a shift in consciousness from our limited ego self to our Divine God Self while still in physical form.

Colin:- If there was one thing that you gained from writing the book that you feel would encourage someone to go straight out and buy it, what do you think that would be?

Charmian:- Connect with your Higher Self and know that he/she has planned perfectly everything you need to know  to make this dimensional shift with ease and grace. There is nothing you need to” DO”, just sit and “BE “the love that you are. When I asked my Higher Self what I needed to do to prepare for the shift the answer was’ Nothing”, I could sit under a tree from now until the Ascension beaming out love and my life purpose would be fulfilled.

About the Author

Charmian Amarea Kumara Redwood had a near death experience 30 years ago. Since then, she has lived her life with the purpose of helping others live a full life without a fear of death. She has trained as a transpersonal hypnotherapist and has worked with both groups and individuals for 20 years. Redwood lives on Maui in Hawaii, and works with hospice clients helping people to return to the Light in grace.

www.cominghometolemuria.com

An Interview with Damiana Sage Miller

By Colin Whitby

Damiana Sage Miller has recently published her book Ambassadors Between Worlds, Intergalactic Gateway to a New Earth, where she channels information from a number of beings from different planets.

I am always fascinated to read this kind of conversation and asked Damiana if she would agree to an interview so we could discover a little more about her technique and explore some of the more controversial material.

Colin:- Hi Damiana, thanks for agreeing to take part in this interview. I’m really interested to know how you came to the point of writing the book, were you channelling information before this?

Damiana:- Hi Colin,Thanks for interviewing me. It’s quite interesting how this book came to be. About a year and half ago I began to question my life. Lost and confused, I turned to daily meditations for answers. Not too long after I started these meditations, I received my first channeling. I was working as a waitress, and one day at work I heard “Welcome, being of the light!” I looked around to see who said it and again I heard “Welcome, being of the light!" I realized the words were in my head so I quickly pulled out a pen and paper to transcribe my first channeling.

That first channeling was signed from “a special friend” from my time in Atlantis. She was welcoming me back and told me that I had been channeling spiritual beings from other worlds for many lifetimes and I could choose to do it in this life as well. After that, I started working frequently with my parents. We would alternate our days with regular meditations, channeled sessions, and third-eye travels. (My second book, Third Eye Awakening, Adventures of a Clairvoyant Traveler, will be published next year.) My very first channelings were from archangels and ascended masters. Shortly after that, I had my first encounter with an extraterrestrial. My father asked him lots of questions.

Every few days, other enlightened extraterrestrials — from Pleiades, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, and LaZarus (a planet in another diimension) — also started speaking through me. I was hooked up to a microphone so we were able to record the sessions. My father asked the questions and my mother transcribed the recordings. It didn’t take us long to realize that these Q and A sessions would make a fascinating book.

Colin:- How did you feel when the beings were speaking through you, could you ‘hear’ what they were saying or were you ‘elsewhere’?

Damiana:- I feel like there are three distinct levels of channeling. The first level is where the channel receives images, concepts, and ideas and it is up to them to decipher the message. The second level is much more direct. The entities are connected to the channel. They are using the channel’s vocabulary and voice, but the message is much more direct and flows through the channel smoothly. The third level, trance channeling, is where the extraterrestrial (or angel) is fully present. They are using the channel’s voice and body by agreement. Right now, I’m at that second level, so I’m partially sharing my vessel although I am somewhat aware of the conversation as it occurs. However, quite often I will read a session from earlier that day and be surprised at the sophistication of the conversation and have no recollection of hearing or saying the message while the channeling took place.

Colin:- Throughout the book your guides mention that they were testing you to see how much energy you could tolerate to make sure you were as pure a channel as possible. How did that feel? Did you find you were growing in confidence as the book progressed?

Damiana:- I definitely feel like my gift developed as the book progressed. The sessions would become longer, the information that I was receiving became more direct, and I was less present in the channelings. In later chapters of the book, some of the information is very specific on topics that I have no knowledge about. For example, at one point in the book the extraterrestrials made the following statement: “Most inhabitants on Earth eat insects. However, for some reason most English-speaking beings on your planet avoid this (and are disgusted by it). But did you know that cattle cost millions of dollars to feed and farm, destroy your planet to raise, and only produce 18 percent protein with 18 percent fat, while insects eat natural food — fruits, vegetables, grass — cost very little to raise, and produce 30 percent protein and only 6 percent fat?” After this channeling session, I did a google search and was astounded to discover that these numbers are correct.

When I start to channel, I feel a strong pressure between my third eye (above my nose) and crown chakra (on top of my head). It feels like I have a little cap on that spot. Sometimes, though, I feel really strong energy throughout my body like they are preparing me or testing me for the third level of channeling. I think that with time I will leave my body and allow them to speak directly through me. They tell me that my third eye travels, where I am already having out-of-body experiences exploring other planets and dimensions, are preparing me for this next level of channeling. I appreciate that my guides are constantly pushing my limits because they know that I want to relay the most pure information.

Colin:- Your father posed the questions during the channelling sessions, did you find having this kind of support from your parents helped you develop your gifts?  (Damiana’s Mum Susanne Miller contributed two channeled interviews to The Magic of Being: Gene Roddenberry and Cleopatra)

Damiana:- Absolutely! I’m lucky to have such a strong relationship with both of my parents. Not only do they accept my unique calling, but they also work with me each day to develop it.

Colin:- One of the most controversial parts of the book is where your channels talk about how Jesus used a doppelganger to stand in for him on the cross. Your father asked for clarification a number of times and the story did not change, which was interesting. Why do you think this information came through now, when so many other channellings in the past have not mentioned it?

Damiana:-  We were very weary about putting that information in the book, but every time we discussed it with our guides they insisted that is was true. I don’t know whether that really happened or not but I think it’s certainly possible. The guides are very clear in the book that they do not wish to change anyone’s belief systems. However, they don’t want to deny us truths as they perceive them. I think we are coming up to a new period in time where we need to question everything, including our most cherished beliefs.  Perhaps people are using the concept that Jesus died on the cross for our sins as an excuse not to take responsibility for their own actions. The extraterrestrials are seeing where humanity stands on a number of different topics and slowly releasing new information that will push the envelope — and people’s buttons — helping us to grow.

Colin:- Did some of the answers to the questions about religion challenge your own beliefs or did you find them reassuring?

Damiana:- When my father asked the extraterrestrials to give their brief impressions of our major religions, they were honest but non-judgmental. The extraterrestrials are so loving and compassionate that their approach to sensitive topics like religion really made me appreciate the many similarities that our Earth religions share. I think that my true “religion” even before I started channeling was a belief in universal love, so I was not surprised or offended by their answers. I hope others are not offended as well.

Colin:- The explanation about past lives advised that we are all living in the now, and that past, present and future are all taking place at once. So our past lives, as well as our future ones, are currently being experienced by our souls. Was this something new to you and your father or did this just serve to confirm what you already felt?

Damiana:-  The concept of time has always mesmerized me, especially how it seems much more conceptual than concrete. I have often thought about time, trying to wrap my head around it: What exactly is time? Why does it appear faster when we’re having fun and slower when we’re doing things we don’t enjoy? What is the relationship between time and space? However, when the extraterrestrials said that everything is happening in the infinite “Now,” and that time as we understand it only exists in the third dimension, it was new to me, yet it made sense. When I travel with my third eye, I don’t have limitations of time and space. I can instantly travel anywhere in the universe, and I can go “back” in time to my past lives in Atlantis (or on other planets) or “forward” in time to events that haven’t happened yet in my third dimensional reality.

I also recently discovered that physicists are baffled by their mathematical formula for time because it shows that time should be able to move backwards just as easily as we perceive it moving forward. In my book, the extraterrestrials explain how they can fold time and space allowing them to travel great distances almost instantly. They also say, “Several things are just being. They don’t exist in any past or present form. They are just existing — as is God, your higher Self, time, love, and karma. They are not going anywhere. They are not coming from anywhere. They just are. They always will be.” These ideas were also new to me (and my father) although now they seem as natural to both of us as the hours of a day seem real to most people.

Colin:- Thanks so much for spending some time with us today Damiana, I’ve really enjoyed our conversation and wish you every success with this and your next book.

Damiana Sage Miller is an internationally renowned spiritual channel, an ambassador for enlightened beings in other worlds. She communicates with benevolent extraterrestrials from advanced civilizations. She also receives messages from angels, archangels, and other beings of Light, sharing their messages of love and hope. Damiana is the author of Ambassadors Between Worlds, Intergalactic Gateway to a New Earth (New Atlantean Press, 2012). For more information, visit: www.SummonTheLight.com

An Interview with Sherrie Dillard

by Colin Whitby

I reviewed Sherrie's book The Miracle Workers Handbook last month and was so touched by the energy, and the connection to Mother Mary that comes through the pages, that I asked Sherrie if she would like to do an interview for The Magic of Being.

Luckly for us she agreed, I hope you enjoy.

With Love,

Colin.

Colin:- In your book The Miracle Workers Handbook you describe how Mother Mary came into your life despite your having had very little involvement with her in your early years. When was it that you first began to feel connected to Mary?

Sherrie:- I was brought up in a primarily Catholic neighbourhood, although I was not a Catholic. The first recollection I have of Mary is seeing her as a statue on the top of a big Catholic church in my home town. I would ride my bike up there and be kind of drawn to stare up at her, and have an experience that I could not explain, but that felt very good so I just kept doing it. When you are a child it really doesn’t matter if something is in your imagination or real, everything is real if you can feel it. This would be my first clear recollection of the feeling ‘this is Mary’. 

Sometime later I was working on a farm in upper New York state helping to plant vegetables in a garden for the poor in New York City. We would take all the vegetables down to the city to give to the homeless. The people who started the farm and did the core of the work there were very devoted to Mary, and this was the first time I had come to know people who relied on her to keep the farm going and to keep the money coming in. At that time I was a little resistant, I was a young hippy kind of girl and Mary didn’t seem hip, but I was open to new things and let her seep into my consciousness.

I remember walking up the hill to the cabin where I lived one evening and whilst looking over a field to the side I felt and saw Mary’s energy in a tangible three dimensional form. I can’t really put it into words but she was clearly there. At the time I thought it was because I was somewhere (the farm) where she was present, so I didn’t really think any more of it. That was probably my very first mystical experience of her in a way that makes your hair stand up on your arms, you feel the electricity and feel that life is forever different now. It makes you want to cry and to be happy at the same time and wonder where do I go from here?

I lived with that for a while and my wanting to be closer to Mary certainly deepened. Since then the constant feeling of her presence has been with me, I don’t know why most of the time, even now.

Colin:- When did you then decide to write a book structured around the life events of Mary which were linked to the seven levels of manifestation?

Sherrie:- I had already published two books,’ Discover Your Psychic Type’ and ‘Love and Intuition’, and they were doing well. My life overall was going very well, I was in a relationship, I had a nice home and then incredibly abruptly it all changed. The bottom kind of fell out and I found myself alone, but I knew there was some kind of purpose, that my life was being diverted for some reason. It was so clear that there was something else I was supposed to be doing but I didn’t know what it was.

I started walking at 5.30 every morning with my dogs and during one of those walks I became aware that I was supposed to be writing about Mary. Although I did not know exactly what I was going to write I just knew it was time. So every morning on my walk I would ask Mary ‘what do I write today’. I would then receive a very clear and concise complete download of information.  I would get home write notes about it, then after work seeing clients I would get back to it and fill in the spaces. The next day I would get another download and then go home and write again.

I didn’t know the steps until this happened and I didn’t know what I was writing or where it was going. It was not logical and cerebral, it was intuitive and given to me.

Colin:-  I found the act of reviewing was not a usual read and review, it was very much an experience, feeling the downloads so to speak. The book imparts such a powerful and accessible message, and carries Mary’s energy of love throughout.

Sherrie:- Yes, it really is a download although I can’t take credit for that at all. I went to the Yucatan for a week or so in the middle of writing the book, I was in a primitive hut right on the water with no electricity. I would go out on the beach and feel overwhelmed with Mary’s energy. It was sometimes so strong I couldn’t integrate it.  I would have to back off some as the energy was so immense. I was better able to handle all of what I was receiving there as there were no distractions, no computer, no television, no radio, no phones, just me and the beach for a week or so. A lot of her energies came in at that time and I could really ground them.

Colin:- You describe how Mary’s energy can be both nurturing and challenging, lovingly finding those places within us that need to be reviewed or cleared. Did you find this clearing process working for yourself as you wrote the book?

Sherrie:- . I learned the steps as I was writing the book. I was living the steps every day and integrating them and working with them at the same time.

Colin:- In each chapter you encourage the reader to consider repeating a prayer to Mary, asking her to come close. This was a very potent time for me as a reader, where I could feel her energy very clearly. Is this something you practice every day?

Sherrie:- Yes my mornings are still devoted to Mary.  It’s interesting that at one time I thought I would get back to normal once I had written the book. Yet I can still feel her energy with me most of the time. For a while I was not really pulling it in but eventually I allowed myself to completely absorb her energy. 

I feel I am like a portal for her energy, some days her energy is for me, perhaps to build my own energy levels or to help clear something. Other days I feel like a lighthouse. I can feel many Angels and I can feel Mary’s energy moving through me going out to the world. I don’t know where it’s going most of the time. I just know its happening. I think that those reading the book are also being used as portals of light.  Particularly during this new era beginning in 2012 which I feel is very significant for a shift into divine feminine energy.

I feel Mary’s energy is creating Miracles, grace and the paradigm of how we need to be living right now, and there are people coming forward like you who have had an experience of it and are accepting that this is what we are here to do.

Colin:- Much of the work I have been doing up until this year has been around balancing the masculine and feminine energies, but at the Jesus/Mary Magdalene level, the relationship between the two energies. This year however I have been drawn to the Mother energy, the divine feminine, and I think many people have been getting into the nurturing energy of the Mother, which is where I feel Mary. You use a similar language throughout your book, that of feeling Mary, do you ever see images of her?

Sherrie:- Lately I would say she appears as a translucent colour blue with other colours that shift in and out, but mainly blue.  I had a client recently who was having nightmares. She also kept seeing blue energy and couldn’t understand why. I suggested it was probably Mary’s energy present to help her. I have had many clients and people who have read the book tell me the same thing. She comes to me in a particular shade, a really clear blue. I also see Mary as a translucent outline of light.

Colin:- I think with The Miracle Workers Handbook you have managed to create a workbook without it really feeling like one. I’ve read quite a number of books that describe the 7 steps to some enlightened state, but often they feel like instruction manuals. What you have created is very energetically charged and I’m sure your readers will ‘get it’ if you like.

Sherrie:- Yes and ‘get it’ like I did and maybe like you did. I think anyone who reads the book with an open mind and an open heart will experience a shift, it acts somehow like an energy vortex. When I started to get the information for the book I felt like a portal had opened and the energy was just flowing in. Now that I have integrated it more that portal is with me all of the time and pulls energy in and disperses it outwardly.

I’ve heard from more people about this book than I have the others, less people have bought this book yet proportionately more people have been in touch. The experiences that they have been having with Mary since reading the book are amazing.

Until now Mary has not been overly popular, not like Magdalene or Archangel Michael, but I think her energy is really coming into being now, not just with me, I think it is just happening.

Colin:- We like to language and shape things to gain an understanding and I think Mary has offered us a very easy and comfortable way of accessing this energy.

Sherrie:- Yes very comfortable.

Colin:-  There were a few challenging moments during the energetic clearings, whilst working through the book, like when you come up against this very pure energy something has got to go. Have you had feedback from other readers around the impact the book is having?

Sherrie:- I feel that the divine masculine has been predominantly our paradigm for spirituality, no matter what religion or spiritual practice you might be involved in. As you know we are all male and female, so I’m not talking about men. The divine male energy is assertive, clears the way and dissolves the ego construct. We have reached a balance point, where the thinning of ego on the super conscious level both in the celestial and the earthly realms, can now support the divine feminine to come in and emerge through us.

I bring this up because some of the ways we have cleared and shifted in the past were based on that assertive energy of letting the ego drop away, but in a difficult way. Perhaps because the ego doesn’t let go lightly, there’s always a little bit of a kick back with it. However to answer your question I think much of the clearing is going to be done in a far more gentle way. Co-creative grace is allowing us to graciously receive.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be challenges in it, for me it was to bring more of my spirituality into my life (not that I wasn’t before, but I have been holding some back). So I’ve committed to new levels of depth, and that dualism is slipping away too.

Colin:- I’d like to thank you for such a wonderful experience in reading the book, and now speaking with you, and to Mary for being present, even as I write these questions.

With a lifelong devotion and dedication to be of service, Sherrie has worked with diverse populations in unique settings. Along with her work as a professional intuitive she has helped to house and feed the poor and homeless in New York City, and in San Jose and San Francisco, CA. She has built simple water systems in Indian villages in the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala and created art therapy programs in treatment centres for troubled youth in North Carolina and Georgia.

Sherrie's love of service combined with her intuitive ability has catapulted her intuitive practice around the globe. She has given over 50,000 readings worldwide.

Sherrie holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.Div. in New Thought pastoral counselling. She has taught intuition development classes at Duke University, Miraval Resort and in Europe, Costa Rica and Mexico. Her passion for the fusion of intuition, spirituality and conscious self-growth has made her a popular speaker and teacher at retreats and conferences both nationally and internationally.

http://www.sherriedillard.com

An Interview with Master Charles Cannon

Author of FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE

This month I was very fortunate to have been invited to review a new book by Master Charles Cannon 'Forgiving the Unforgivable'. It was such an enjoyable read I asked if he would be available to answer a few questions for our magazine, and I'm pleased to say he agreed.

I hope you enjoy.

Colin.

Colin:- Master Charles thank you very much for spending some time to answer a few questions about your book FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE. What came out so vividly for me was how we can move from reaction mode to a more holistic view of each situation. Perhaps that is why you and your party were there in Mumbai at that precise moment, to experience first-hand a terrorist attack, then to pass on your learning? 

Master Charles:- Personal choice makes all the difference, which explains why two people in the same circumstance can have opposite experiences. Reactions are automatic, responses are deliberate. In Mumbai, all of us were challenged to examine our automatic reactions, such as fear and the urge to retaliate, then decide whether we really wanted to respond that way, and finally, consciously choose how to express ourselves. This 1, 2, 3 process can be practiced by anyone in any situation. Over time, it becomes a healthy habit. 

Colin:- One phrase that you use a lot in your book is ‘where your feet are’. This is a great way of describing what is going on ‘right now’. Can you give us a little more insight into what this means for you? 

Master Charles:- Your feet rest on the ground. They ground you in the earth, the here and now natural world. This is not theoretical, it’s real. So much of our activity is “head bound;” we’re in our heads, thinking about things. But where our feet are is our connection with nature, with reality. So, I like to advise people to pay attention to where their feet are, in order to make a conscious connection with their environment. It helps to get them out of their heads and relating to the actual circumstance they are in, which is always full of lessons to learn and service to offer.

Colin:- You say that Mumbai did not leave scars; it healed old wounds. How did that work for you and your group? 

Master Charles:- Traumatic events always shake you up. But who you choose to be within them determines whether you get scarred or healed. Victims get traumatized and often take years to get over what happened, if they ever do. We chose a different identity and it’s important to say that this was not a novel choice. It’s how we live. We didn’t really do anything revolutionary in Mumbai. We consciously chose as we always do, to be present in the situation and see what we could learn and contribute.

It’s true that the trauma of being in that life and death situation was stressful. But we chose to handle the stress in a way that minimized the damage. Time has told the tale; none of us are experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. In fact, the event did provide some healing relative to other traumas. Any time you can prevail in a challenging situation you come out strengthened. All those in my party have been on a learning track for many years. Each time any of them succeed in staying present in a challenging circumstance, it heals their memory of not having been as effective in some past encounter. Now they are!

Colin:- I love the idea of Masters being able to pass on their vibration by ‘entraining’ others. Have you seen this working within your own programme?

Master Charles:- Entrainment is the core value of what we offer through Synchronicity Foundation. It’s who we are, not just what I may say or write, that has the effect. We’ve seen this working for 30 years in the dramatically tangible results our associates have experienced, not in theory but in their increased happiness and fulfillment. And they will all tell you the same thing, that it’s the “field of energy” we share that does the most good. This is true wherever true mastery is available. The Master extends his or her amplitude of power through momentary livingness. It fills what they say and do and transmits throughout their associations. All those aligned with this frequency then become transponders, amplifying the signal. Entrainment is available this way to whoever chooses to come close and explore the meaning for themselves. And it emphasizes how important that originating broadcast is!

Colin:- An interesting reaction to your experience was how the media could not relate to your position of forgiveness rather than blame, of love rather than fear. Even now the word fear appears in every news broadcast; what would you say is the best way to deal with this phenomenon?

Master Charles:- Actually, many in the media we spoke to immediately after our rescue did relate to our position. Perhaps it was the shock of death, that two of our members had died in the attack. This made them naturally sympathetic, which opened their hearts. When they heard us speak about forgiveness many of them understood instinctively. Why? Because this was the truth, a life-affirming, healing response. It’s interesting how people will sort of “get it” in an extreme moment, like Mumbai was. Here were these veteran, world- tested journalists, and some of them really melted, they felt the truth of what we were saying.

Of course others didn’t. They trade on fear and supply whatever their audiences need to, as Eckhart Tolle says, “feed the pain body.” We all have one and if you’re devoted to feeding it, well, you’ve got to get your next meal. But some are feeding their love body, they are open to something more genuinely nourishing. We were grateful to meet quite a number of those in the media.

Colin:- Your book, associated videos and supporting text form a great basis for self-teaching the Holistic Lifestyle. Would you also advocate readers seek out their own Master who could help them assimilate the material?

Master Charles:- When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The ego does the seeking, the self does the living. Just live. Accept each moment as the teacher. You know, Masters show up in all sorts of forms. It can be your husband, your boss, a plane cancellation, bad news from the doctor, even a pet that teaches you about unconditional love! I always encourage people to live fully in the moment, to take full advantage of what is showing up for them right now. That will lead them from one Master to another.

Beware the self-promoting guru! Awakening to truth is not a business. When a person has evolved to the point where they are ready for what you might call “spiritual apprenticeship,” they will meet the teacher that is just right for them. They will be magnetically drawn to that particular one. This is how it has always happened in the great spiritual traditions. So, I encourage people to relax. They couldn’t be more on schedule if they tried.

Colin:- What other supporting materials have you made available for anyone who is inspired to begin practicing the Holistic Lifestyle for themselves?

Master Charles:- Meditation has always been the first and best tool for those moved to expand their self-awareness. I created High Tech Meditation over 30 years ago and it’s available on our web site, www.synchronicity.org in the form of a sample meditation cd that comes with a newly written introductory book, Modern Spirituality. This is probably the best resource for someone who wants to explore what we offer. There is an on-line course and a monthly meditation study program called Recognitions as well. Of course, we also welcome visitors to our sanctuary in Virginia where we hold a variety of retreats throughout the year.

Colin:- Master Charles thank you for your time today, it has been a joy to connect with you in this way.

FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE

The Power of Holistic Living

The True Story of How the Survivors of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack Answered Hatred with Compassion

By Master Charles Cannon with Will Wilkinson

Foreword by Eckhart Tolle

Afterword by Neale Donald Walsch

In 2008, terrorists attacked the 5-star Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, where Master Charles Cannon and 24 of his associates from the Synchronicity Foundation for Modern Spirituality were staying. Four from their group were injured and two, a father and daughter, were killed. Following rescue by SWAT teams, the survivors made surprising statements to the international media using words of forgiveness to express compassion and understanding toward their attackers, rather than anger or hatred. Even the mother who had lost her child and husband forgave the killers. Thousands of messages from inspired people poured in asking, “How were you able to do this?”

FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE: The True Story of How the Survivors of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack Answered Hatred with Compassion by Master Charles Cannon (SelectBooks, February 21, 2012), shows how principles of enlightened living proved themselves imminently practical during a traumatic, life-threatening circumstance. “This book is about forgiveness but, more essentially, it is about how to live in a certain state of consciousness out of which forgiveness arises naturally and effortlessly,” writes renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle in the foreword.

From those who respect forgiveness as the final victory over those who have done them harm to those who seek the inner stillness of a lightened spirit, FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE presents the spiritual practice that made it possible for the author and his colleagues to weather their ordeal with insight, compassion and unconditional love. Written in user-friendly language that readers can easily translate into their own results, Cannon remains a gentle and thoughtful guide throughout, inviting readers to see each moment as “an experience whose time has come” and to learn how to express the very qualities that may seem to be missing, like love in the face of hatred.

Master Charles Cannon is a modern spiritual teacher and founder of Synchronicity Foundation for Modern Spirituality.

Look out for the review next month.

Coming Home To Lemuria

By Charmian Amarea Kumara Redwood

This month we feature a book that I found had so many codes and reminders within it, those ‘Ah Yes!’ moments, it was a joy to read. Charmian has often taken me on journeys to these places to meet our ancestors, who in fact have never really left, as time is only an illusion. We are now beginning to feel our connections with these wonderful beings more and more, and realising that we are also of this lineage. To whet your appetite for the book further here is an interview with Charmian discussing our links with Lemuria and the Lemurians. 

Colin:- When you wrote about ‘Coming Home to Lemuria’ you felt that Hawaii was the nearest place to that feeling of home you had experienced. How is Hawaii linked to the ancient consciousness of Lemuria? 

Charmian:- The Hawaiian Islands are remnants of the continent of Lemuria. It was in Lemuria that we experienced The Fall or separation from the Source aeons ago and it is from these islands that the Return is being orchestrated. Many of the people on the planet at this time have links to Lemuria and remembering Lemuria will help them to return to full consciousness. 

Colin:- Did Lemuria cover a large area of the Earth, and if so, are there other places that resonate to a similar frequency? 

Charmian:- Lemuria was where the Pacific ocean is now so many of the other Pacific islands such as Easter islands were part of Lemuria as well as the west coast of America, Japan , Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Many ancient temples such as Macchu Picchu and the stone carvings on Easter island are remnants of Lemuria. The Incas said the city was already there when they came to Macchu Picchu in Peru and the natives of Easter island said their legends told how the stones ” walked” from the quarry to the cliffs. The Lemurians knew how to levitate and cut huge stones using sound and focus. 

Colin:- You describe where we came from before Lemuria, from star systems far away. Was the Lemurian population a mixture of all these different beings and influences? 

Charmian:- Yes it was a co-operative project by Beings from many Star systems. The Ones who came to Lemuria first spent time on other systems such as The Pleaides, Sirius, Orion, Arcturus, Andromeda and Venus developing the skills they would need to transform the Earth into a fifth dimensional Being and for humanity to bring the full light of the Soul into physical form. 

Colin:- Much of the creative activity of these beautiful beings took place in   Temples, how would you describe the function of temples in the Lemurian society. 

Charmian:- The temples held the highest frequency in a Lemurian city. Here the Temple teams of gridmasters received the new codes of Creation as blueprints directly from Source. They translated them into energy grids which all other aspects of society used for their own speciality. For instance new codes for healing might come in through the Temple and be downloaded into the city grids, the healers would receive them and use them to develop new ways of healing. 

Colin:- The way you describe gardens and how we co-created with the plant kingdom is similar the images that James Redfield painted in his book about the Celestine Prophecy.  Do you think this is the way we will co-exist with the plant and animal kingdoms in the future? 

Charmian:- Yes. In the future, after the dimensional shift, when we return to the consciousness we had in Lemuria we will be able to communicate telepathically with plant and animal spirits. Everything we eat will be grown from love and by co-operation with the animals. We will sing and play with our brothers and sisters in the animal kingdom, many of them such as whales, dolphins, cats and dogs are already fully conscious Beings who are here to help us with our evolution. They never forgot who they are or who we are and they are helping us to wake up and remember. Many of us came together with the whales and dolphins from Sirius. 

Colin:- You describe how our DNA is being reprogrammed with the many new energies that are available to us at the moment. Are we becoming crystal light beings like our Lemurian predecessors? 

Charmian:- Yes. We have already existed on this Earth as fully conscious Beings with our lightbodies fully activated. We have the light codes for this in our DNA and they are being activated as the frequency of the Earth is lifted. The codes are in this book, reading it will help to awaken the Lemurian memories and activate the DNA codes. 

Colin:- Having described Lemuria the way it was, do you think this is what we will be co-creating again with our beloved Earth, a paradise on Earth? 

Charmian:- Yes this is why we have all returned at this time. To bring the Earth and all humanity back to the Garden. We came from Beauty, we walked this Earth in Grace and we chose to experience separation as an opportunity to advance our soul’s evolution. We chose to fall into Ego and now we are rising into Grace. 

Colin:- What would you say is the most important message we should take from your book? 

Charmian:- Have no fear. Everything that is happening on the planet right now is helping us to return to Love. Some people need to experience hate to realise that Love is the way. They will all return “Home” in their own way at the time of their choosing. You are a powerful Creator God so choose very carefully where you put your focus. Personally I came to create the new world not to participate in the destruction of the old one. There is no possibility of failure. All roads are leading ‘us ‘Home”. We wrote the script and it is perfect as we are perfect. 

Colin:- Thanks very much for your time today Charmian, it has been very ‘enlightening’, the energy of the book really comes through when we talk about it.

About the Author

Charmian Amarea Kumara Redwood had a near death experience 30 years ago. Since then, she has lived her life with the purpose of helping others live a full life without a fear of death. She has trained as a transpersonal hypnotherapist and has worked with both groups and individuals for 20 years. Redwood lives on Maui in Hawaii, and works with hospice clients helping people to return to the Light in grace – one focus of her sessions is about going back to Lemuria.