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TANGLED BRANCHES

     you'll meet us first where your most tangled branches grow   the greatest fear isn't of death but of the Unknown   we're part of the Unknown you've yet to discover at the crux of your own being   foray into that primal wilderness now  where all your ghosts and shadows play   there's someone waiting for you here who's not from your safe and familiar surroundings   what if what you most deeply fear guards the secret of who you most truly are?

     where is your real home?   it's not a big mansion at the crossroad of two busy highways  nor a penthouse atop a towering skyscraper   your real home lies hidden away in a clearing in the forest of your innermost self   it's a humble refuge where you meditate in solitude   at the same time it's a hearth where you welcome both known and unknown guests    we're among the unknown guests who seek to be known

     just step out your door and the adventure begins   turn any corner and you can't be certain who or what you'll meet   even if you try to cleave to the seemingly secure and easy path   sooner or later you'll find yourself knocked for a loop by the unpredictable--which never was under your control   far better then to travel light and live bravely   unafraid of mystery   another name for this is "Miracle"

     the soul sees so much clearer by starlight   that's because it's the outer shining which most vividly reflects an inner Illumination   grasp a rough branch with one hand    but keep your other hand open and ready for any new encounter   this way   dwelling wide awake in both worlds   you'll realize they're not separate   they're One

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VISITOR

     we meet   as if for the first time   although we've always known each other   amazing isn't it?  that the strangest stranger should also be your closest friend   across a billion light years  yet not even spanning the tiniest hair's breadth  we say "hello"   but there's no separation   apart is illusion   Oneness is all

     come nearer   don't be afraid   you're only encountering your own deepest  highest  vastest Self   the journey of seeking   finding   knowing  loving   has spiraled outward to greater and greater inclusiveness   now your consciousness expands   encompassing the universe!  here is your destiny   created from the stars   you're returning to the stars   we reveal the wormhole opening to that destination

     while a frightened child's locked in a dark closet   she weeps   he rages   then a Friend finally comes   unlocking the closet door and swinging it wide   at first that child's blinded  confused  terrified   but after a time the truth gradually dawns--liberation!  so it is now with you  you're still blinded by the Light   but soon you'll understand   It's the Beacon of your soul's freedom   blazing brightly at last!

     the whole story's changing   radically  inescapably   everywhere    the rigid  deadening armor forged from fear  hatred  and cruelty is splintering   and through each fissure and crack an Ocean of Light is seeping   even pouring through!  this Flood cannot be stopped   transformation's inevitable   we're its messengers   we're your awakeners to the only Reality there is:  One Is All  All Are One   You Are That   We Are That

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UFO

     always be ready for the arrival of the Unknown   forever  be open to unexpected Mystery   the universe speaks with countless tongues   if your consciousness is wide awake you discover that everything is connecting   communicating   the cosmic web quivers throughout its infinite strands   we come to  reveal the Oneness of We

     be unafraid of raindrops   what does this mean?   every moment the world impinges in numberless ways you can never control   all you ultimately can do is receive and respond   how you respond is your freedom and your destiny   if your answer is fear then fear is your enslaving god   if your answer is love than not even the galaxies will mark your boundary

     a UFO is a crowbar prying open the lid of your closed mind   a stray black cat is also a spiritual messenger   who you see in the mirror each morning is different from who you were yesterday   or who you'll be tomorrow   although you may refuse to accept it  each instant is another wormhole leading to unexplored continents of the soul   you've been taught to look outside yourself for guidance   we are the beacons who summon you back within

     time is a little puddle   space is a tiny cave   liberate yourself from their illusory limits   what's inside you encompasses and transcends them!  didn't you already experience this in a communion of all beings even before you were born?   there's always a UFO hovering right over your head   like the angel's halo it's a symbol of your Divine Essence   a reminder of your Eternal Home   two and two don't equal just four   live beyond pat solutions   quaff the elixir of starlight!

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CONE OF LIGHT

     we wait within the circle of a cone of Light  will you meet us there?   are you willing to become illuminated   transparent   utterly present   transcending all boundaries?   here is the portal   here is the doorway leading from bondage to freedom   you'll discover it shining at the crossroads of your soul

     outside this circle of Light is your loneliness  your fear  your self-alienation   we understand how hard it is to feel so totally exposed   with no place left to hide from being psychically x-rayed  we know what it takes to risk encountering the Unknown   but please slowly come forward out of the shadows   we mean you no harm   we're the Friend you've journeyed all your life to embrace

     much has been forgotten   many years wasted  once our companionship was your natural home  return now   remember who you already are   not isolated consciousness   but a unique inspiration sparking in the mind of the universe   we wish to guide you into living this truth   our message is beyond words but try to grasp it nonetheless  you're right on the cusp of a rebirth you can scarcely imagine!   open up   let go   receive  become

     here we are   strange but familiar   different though the same   arrived from afar yet oh so very near   all directions point  back to us   we're the revelation you've most resisted and most yearned for--your inmost eternal Highest Self!   we can summarize our ocean of silent communion in two words: "Wake Up!"   you've been asleep long enough   wake now and step into our holy circle of Cosmic Light   let it change you   let it shower you with bliss!

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we're here   we're you   we're one

walls don't matter   space and time

they're illusion   this instant is all--

crackling with branches and stars!

we signal within you   outside you

we meet   beneath trees   by night

from the sky   while you dream us

look  see  listen  hear  sleep  wake

your mask face must go   remove it

let your false voice hush in silence

we're the emissaries of what's real

break open your being!  receive us!

to death we're birth  to the divided

we're whole   although few can see

to the blind we're sight   to the lost

we're shining--beacons to your soul

"fear not" say angels   and we echo

fear not!   we're your highest selves

intimate strangers   shadow friends

the holy secret you've always known

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STARRY NIGHT

     mystery and majesty   the whole night sky strewn with stars   a shoal of diamonds!   if you cherish no vision of something profound and eternal expanding outward forever   what will happen to your body made of star-stuff?   or your soul--that wormhole to the Infinite?   gaze up in awe!   we come from there   and there is everywhere   as above so below   as without so within

     all true teachers have but a single truth to teach   however veiled   you and the universe are One!   there is no separation   the Big Bang itself  explodes at your core!   how much damage is done when you don't allow for sheer consciousness pervading every atom   how far you stray from home when you sever communion with your Source   we show the way to heal this self-alienation

     strangers will visit you   let them in   guides will arrive wearing unseemly disguises   grant them welcome   what you think you know is what you don't know   who you think you are is someone else   your head needs to bud wide open--a night-blooming cereus  your heart needs to melt like pond ice next spring   real meanings glimmer in out-of-the-way corners where nobody expects to find them   or gleam like multi-colored Easter eggs hidden in plain sight

     a night will dawn when all the stars finally chime together in one transcendent chord   then the lost and lonely with be found and beloved  the broken outcasts will be hugged and accepted  the smallest and meekest will be elevated on high  didn't you start to dance even before you were born?   never forget the steps you learned when first you joined that Divine Intoxication!

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LUMINOUS SKY

     vast is the sky above your head   but vaster by far the sky inside you--those wide-spreading expanses of your soul   learn to gaze up into that luminous sky   never shut yourself off from it  then you'll always be aware and ready when we arrive   this is the sky of your universal empathy  you have no boundaries there   you're meant to open outward forever

     don't be shuttered in your consciousness   repeating the perverse mantras of "me" and "mine"   and all other excuses for exclusion  these must dissolve now   their time and reasons are over   what does it mean to be a winged being?  it means to finally soar above any such distinctions to perceive an overarching unity--the seamless web of life which encompasses and transcends all differences

     navigating this inner sky   each UFO is identified and can make a safe landing   there are no strangers here   no aliens   it's as if a clear mirror is held up before you and everything you see in it becomes a reflection of your own eternal essence   we have become this   we are your wise soul companions   helping you to evolve to our dimension

     always stretch yourself   never be satisfied--even as you change and grow   reach beyond every constricting limit   how many jail their minds in a tiny cage   although they themselves possess the key to unlocking it and setting their vision free!   when you gaze at the unfettered sky above your head say to yourself: "that starry heaven is the counterpart of my own measureless Divinity"   we are your guides and teachers for this revelation   we are one with your innermost wholeness   catalysts for your self-realization

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CORONA OF LEAVES

     soul and instinct aren't separate and divided  they dance together    one adding meaning and context to the other   so a corona of dark leaves is a stargate for the soul's manifestation   what begins in nature ends in spirit   what illuminates as spirit is realized in nature   examine a single leaf closely   with you full attention  remain quiet and centered while you ponder it   you'll discover an emblem for the infinite universe

     the deepest  most unconscious zone of your being is united with the highest  most inspired dimension   what fractures them into polar opposites is fear--putting grim survival before intimate communion   then walls rise up and connections break down   we are the messengers of transparent relationship   the path to both survival and transcendence leads through the revelation of "we together"   not the desolation of "me alone"

     your soul is the sexiest "organ" of your makeup   your body is the most soulful expression   identify with a tree and sense how its roots growing in the depths and its leaves on the heights function as one   everything's conscious   everything flows and links and intermingles   everything's passionately engaged with everything else!

      dreamers of dreams  now's the time to awake  doers of deeds  now's the hour to soar in your sleep   we bring news of your next becoming  we're the mystery knocking to be known   once you see with reborn eyes nothing exists that isn't holy   once you feel with a wide-open heart  there's no being you meet who's not another embodiment of yourself

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RADIANCE

     light from outside you know   how could you exist without the sun?   but the Light from inside too many don't know   It's not visible to biological eyes   only to the eyes of inner being   sunlight is the source for your body   Divine Light is the Source for your soul   both are necessary for incarnate life to flourish on Earth   yet only Divine Light sustains beyond death

     we are the beaconers of Divine Light   we are the psychic Lighthouse keepers   whatever the storms which rack your days and ravage your nights   we keep watch and signal safe passage  secure harbor   look through us   beyond us   and you will find your Eternal Home

     all you hunger for   that aching void inside which you cannot satisfy with addictive idols and ephemeral illusions   Divine Radiance alone (which has no cause because Itself is Primal Cause) will feed and fill   when your soul bathes in this Light you experience grace and attain peace   within you is a luminous  ever-renewing Fountain   drink from It's bliss and be healed

     we're not going to leave you alone   we're going to bug you until you become aware of us--if only because you'll finally plumb an absence  a loneliness  a desperation you no longer can bear  Divine Light is also soul essence--a sphere of consciousness whose periphery is nowhere and whose center is everywhere   always you're already saturated with such holy communion  clenched refusal to recognize this truth is what exhausts and depletes you   seek Inner Radiance with your whole heart and you will find it

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MANDALA

     mystic symbol   UFO   cosmic seed   template for enlightenment   we plant this mandala now in your soul   contemplate it   pulsing undiscovered within are a teaching   a story   a journey   and a transformation   you are not what you seem  reality is far vaster than you can imagine   what you think you know is but one tiny flicker in a radiant immensity of being

     through suggestive words and intriguing images we try to impart a wisdom which is beyond both words and images   only by experiencing this wisdom   becoming this wisdom   will you understand   such knowledge starts with emptying out   stripping naked   opening up   letting go  allow simplicity and humility to become your path   gratitude and transparency to guide your way

     this Truth is very rare   yet common as water  a mysterious secret   yet hidden in plain sight  when you look for it   it's gone behind you   when you turn around   it's not there!   the breathing inside your breath is part of it     as is the seeing beyond your eyes    more inescapable even than your own shadow  the Sublime saturates every cell   but most remain blind to its shining--oblivious

     no longer   now is wake-up time   every wall will crumble   all compartments break down   the illusion of duality--at last exposed!  a new revelation's arriving and its power is immediate and universal   after so long trapped in a stifling cave   human consciousness will be liberated and expand to the stars   we are messengers of that  we are the soul beacon orienting you toward your destiny   don't be afraid!   struggle free from alienation   step into eternity's blazing Light

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