Karen Wyatt, M.D., Shares a Powerful Experience with Mary Magdalene Beckons
Book Review:
Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love by Mercedes Kirkel
Review written by Dr. Karen Wyatt
When I was first asked by the author to review this book a number of months ago I was intrigued by the subject matter, but not sure what to expect. To my knowledge I had never before read a book that was channeled by an author from a being in the spirit realm. But I am open-minded and also very interested in the life and experiences of Mary Magdalene so I eagerly agreed to write a review. To my surprise, a powerful lesson eventually unfolded for me through the process of reading and digesting the book, but I’ll get to that story a little later.
Right from the start of the book I resonated with Kirkel’s approach to the subject matter: she begins each chapter with a channeled message from Mary Magdalene and follows it with her own interpretation of the message, including stories from her life experience. Mary Magdalene’s words are fairly brief and to-the-point and they are easy for any reader to grasp. But more importantly, these messages emanate love and support that is touching and profound. Kirkel then reiterates and expands each message in the remainder of the chapter and in so doing brings its heavenly wisdom down to an earthly, practical level.
Through this format Magdalene and Kirkel address important spiritual issues such as the Divine Feminine, intimacy and spirituality, the nature of reality and birthing the Divine Self. However, I found myself attracted most strongly to Mary Magdalene’s words about pain, the dark night of the soul, love, forgiveness and death, in part because they echo some of the spiritual lessons that I myself have been motivated to write about and explore. Regarding pain Mary Magdalene says,
“Your pain is given to you to help you grow. … It is a difficult medicine. … You think that the pain is proof that God has deserted you. In fact, God is calling to you through the pain. God loves you and wants to help you, and pain is one avenue.”
And she ends the message with this comforting thought:
“You are not alone. You are never alone. … We are here with you always. Just call upon us, and we are here. We are powerful and we are for your highest good.”
That simple and powerful assurance sums up the ultimate message of this book: Mary Magdalene spoke through Mercedes Kirkel in order to bring the feminine power of love to us at this time when it is desperately needed. That alone is a good enough reason to highly recommend this book. But I had a personal experience that revealed to me the potential of this message to transform and heal our woundedness:
After I received my copy of the book I began reading it right away and got more than half-way through. But then I became extremely busy with travel and lots of writing and put the book away. When Mercedes wrote to ask about my progress on the book, I remembered my commitment to her and added some time slots on my schedule for finishing the book and writing this review. However, for some reason, every time I started to return to the book, something came up to interrupt me and two more months went by without me completing my task.
Finally Mercedes wrote once again to ask how I was doing with the review and I was overcome with guilt. What was wrong with me? How could I be so negligent and not fulfill my commitment? I immediately sat down to finish reading the book and opened it to the page where I had left my bookmark, which was Chapter 20: Releasing Guilt and False Responsibility. In Mary Magdalene’s message I read,
“Do not have guilt if you have not been open to us for a time. Guilt is a contrivance of your own mind.”
I instantly felt released from all blame for taking such a long time with this review. For whatever reason I was meant to experience this delay. A bit later, as I read the last words of that chapter, which also discussed pain and how to be with someone else who is in pain, I received a phone call from my daughter. She had just been through a deeply humiliating experience and was devastated with emotional pain. I knew exactly how to respond because I had just read Mary Magdalene’s teaching a few moments before. I was able to remind her that “pain is inherent to the spiritual path in this realm” and to “stay true to light and love.”
In that moment I saw the perfection of it all: I needed to wait to read that chapter so that it would be fresh in my mind when my daughter needed to hear its wisdom. The timing had been exactly right and there truly was no reason to feel guilt or blame. Mary Magdalene’s words came alive to me in that moment and I fully understood how this book could potentially bring transformation to its readers.
If you feel drawn to the subject of this book at all, please read it, because it likely contains wisdom that you will need on your own spiritual journey. I, for one, will return to the words of Mary Magdalene over and over again when I forget that I am constantly being held within the embrace of Divine love. That’s a message we all need to hear, now more than ever. Thank you Mercedes Kirkel and Mary Magdalene for the gift of these beautiful words in Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love.
Mary Magdalene: Balancing the Masculine and Feminine
Received through Mercedes Kirkel
[Note: This is Part 2 of a channeled message that Mary Magdalene gave at a gathering in honor of her feast day on July 22nd, 2012.]
What is in your heart?” What is it that you would like me to help you with, that you would like to hear from me?
Question: I would like to know about our children. Our children are being bombarded with so many left-brained structures and technology, which have become almost an appendage, like the cell phone. I would like to hear what you have to say about this in reference to the heart.
Mary Magdalene: The children who have come in, for quite some time now, are very remarkable beings. They have come from many places of the universe and beyond, and have responded to the call to be here at this amazing time of transformation and transition. Many of them are quite advanced in their souls and in their development. In some ways your technology and your left-brained thinking is a game for them, it is an entertainment, because they are capable of so much more. They are working on many levels, many of them. The one that you might see is not all that is going on. So you do not need to be concerned about the children. The children are here to help you and they are well prepared for this.
They are part of the network that has allowed this transformation to come through. The frequencies that they are holding, the level of light that they resonate with is quite high. They are working at other levels that you may not be aware of or notice. It may not be the same as the work that you are doing. But they are doing their work very well and they are well positioned. And that is part of what has allowed everything to come into place that needed to be here for this time.
So celebrate your children. Allow them to lead. Allow them to show you their remarkable talents. Do not be concerned.
Question: Can you speak to us about economic injustice, knowing there is more than enough for everyone to thrive on the planet, but there are yet great imbalances due to greed. Can you share with us the changes that are afoot in terms galactic consciousness?
Mary Magdalene: Your economics is simply a reflection of your relationship to power. It is something that many came into this realm to explore, to learn about, and to experience what is possible with power and what happens when there are different arrangements, different structures of power—how does it feel, how does it work, what are the end results, the repercussions. In some ways, and many are aware of this, you might say that the beings on Earth have gotten a bit off track for a period of time. This is one of the dangers of coming into a realm like this. Because it is a realm of such gross vibration or frequency. And by gross, I mean slow, that the vibration level is slow here compared to many, many other places. So the consciousness adapts to this realm and to this frequency, and you have what you all have experienced and known for a very long time of third-dimensional consciousness. In that consciousness, there is forgetting of the higher dimensions and the higher levels of consciousness.
So this exploration that has been going on for a long time in your world of power has somewhat gotten detoured because the beings involved have forgotten their own consciousness that could have extricated them from it and extricated your world from it. As a result, you have experienced many things that have been painful for many people, including the withholding of resources or the taking of resources by select groups or select beings and withholding it from others. There has always been enough for everyone. Yet this has not been what the experience of most people on Earth has been. In order to extricate yourself from this seeming ceiling of consciousness, where you have been exploring the different aspects of power in all these ways, it is requiring your power structures and your economics to get to a rather extreme place. And truly, you have gotten to a rather extreme place.
This is a realm of free choice. It was created that way and it is not something that other beings choose to interfere with. So it must be the choice of beings on Earth to change the structures, the dynamics. What supports you in doing this is for it to get to this extreme level, where so many people are feeling the effects, and so many people are noticing that so many people are feeling the effects. People are starting to wake up, starting to question, “Why, are we doing this? Why, if so many people are being hurt, being challenged by this, why are we accepting it? Why are we not changing it?” And that, indeed, is the beginning of the change, and you are seeing it.
This is a time when your economic systems are part of the change that will happen. It has to do with the Divine Feminine coming in, for the Divine Feminine would not withhold from others. Not that the Divine Masculine would do that, per se. It is that the Divine Masculine has attention on other things. And power/strength is one of those things. So when the Divine Masculine is not in union with the Divine Feminine, you see the results along the lines that have occurred in your Earth realm, where there has been much play of power without the force of love, compassion, caring for all. That is part of what is changing.
We at the higher levels are supporting this change very much. It must happen in consciousness first. So that is the place where we are beginning. We are working with each individual’s consciousness who is open to a change, to seeing the possibilities for living in a very different way, where everyone is taken care of and everyone is cared for.
Even your system of money is relatively unique to the Earth. There are very few places that use money. And you see the results of what money allows. It allows people to hoard and withhold and compete and even battle for what they think is valuable.
The consciousness is growing, where people are saying, “No, money is not what is important. It is not what is valuable. It is not what gives us our value. In truth, we give it value, if we choose. And it has not served us well in many, many ways.” So yes, you are seeing the beginning of a huge change. You might call it a revolution. It is in consciousness, first and always. As your consciousness changes, so will your world. Your consciousness is creating your world.
It is through love, it is through caring about all, it is through this process of fully incarnating the Divine Feminine in union with the Divine Masculine, that this change will take place. There are many ways that it can happen. We are supporting, as much as possible, that it will happen in a peaceful way, in an easeful way. That would be most optimal. Of course, that always is up to you, individually and as a group. But it all begins with consciousness. It all begins with changing your consciousness. Through that you begin to change who you are, what you do, your actions.
Each of you has tremendous power. Do not ever assume, “Oh, I can’t do anything. This is so huge. It’s so beyond me. The economy is this enormous thing that happens at the national level and the international level, and what can I do? I’m just one person with no power.” This is not true. You are the one who empowers the whole system, always. Each one of you is that one. Each one of you is huge and your choices absolutely matter.
But the choice, first and foremost, is in your heart. You must choose in your heart that you cannot accept this any longer and you choose something new. It will change and it will manifest.
Question: The moon, the satellite and companion of our Earth, has always been considered a representative of the Divine Feminine, as the sun is the Divine Masculine. But recently it has come to light that the moon is hollow and it is artificial intelligence. It was placed there, in its orbit, by beings from another dimension. I wanted to know what Mary Magdalene has to say about the moon and the Divine Feminine.
Mary Magdalene: The moon has the quality of a mirror. It has mirrored back the Feminine to the Feminine on Earth. The strongest manifestation of the Feminine on Earth is truly the Earth herself. And the moon has been the mirror—the mirror of the sun and the radiance of the sun. But it has also been the mirror of the Feminine on Earth.
You see, the Feminine has been displaced from the Earth for a very long time. The Feminine has not been welcomed on the Earth, which is a very sad thing. Of course, this has not been true of every person, every culture. But in general, there has been more and more of a ban, this holding down in darkness of the Feminine. And so the moon has taken up that place of being a focus for the Feminine that was not welcomed upon the Earth.
Truly, nothing is Masculine or Feminine, per se, because the Feminine and the Masculine love each other and are drawn to each other like magnets. So when you see something as Masculine or you see something as Feminine, it’s what is coming to the fore. It is what is connecting with you in that moment. But everything contains both. Perhaps not fully actualized. But the Feminine and the Masculine are inextricably connected to each other. And this is why it is so painful when one is held back, suppressed, because it is not the movement of this world at all for that to be so.
So it is not in conflict that the moon has been the refuge of the Feminine for a very long time and that there has also been Masculine influence and affect and interaction upon the moon. Any body, any being that is not in its wholeness will gravitate towards its opposite in time, over time, because that is the nature of the Divine. The Divine is in union, the Masculine and the Feminine. All that exists is in that form, in that model. It is like the holographic nature that your scientists have discovered—the whole is in everything.
You have much that you will learn about so many things in your world. You have viewed things as best you could, as best you were able to understand them for a very long time. You will be amazed what you are going to be learning in the not-too-distant future. Allow these new things that come to you to integrate with the old. Feel into what is true for yourself, what you resonate with. Do not take it on someone else’s say so. Find your truth. But know that there will be much being revealed in the future—about your world, about yourself, about so many things. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There are always kernels of truth. For centuries, I have been called a prostitute. Now it is being said I was not a prostitute. But there was a kernel of truth in that. It was not understood. It was not communicated in truth, in wholeness. But there was a seed truth to that because I was a priestess of the Divine Feminine. I was a sacred priestess and I practiced Sacred Sexuality of the Goddess. And that has often been called prostitution, or whatever word you have for it, by some. It was not what many thought. It was not the connotation that many people ascribe to the term “prostitute.” But there was seed truth in that. I was bringing forth the Divine Feminine practice, a very, very sacred, most holy experience of divine union in human form through sexuality. And I was engaging this with Yeshua. We both were engaged in this. Your world and your power structure were not ready to acknowledge this. And so they did what they did. They told the stories, turned it into this or that. But there was seed truth in there. And now it is starting to become accepted more and more that Yeshua I were married, which of course for many people goes with the understanding that we engaged in sexuality in human form, that there were children that were created out of this union. But there is even more to it than that, much more, which is just starting to enter into the consciousness of so many.
So do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Let this process reveal itself to you; let your mind be open; call upon your highest understanding, insight, and wisdom and you will come to know much. There is much that may seem quite different than you understood in the past.
Question [from a man]: I am told that it’s important that each man’s heart opens. How can I be of assistance to other men in opening to the Divine Feminine?
Mary Magdalene: The primary way that you will help others is through your being, what you are founded in in your being, and what you are living and modeling to others. The question that so many men have, the fear that they have, is that the Divine Feminine coming forth will mean that the Divine Masculine, or men—in whatever form that they are manifestations of the Masculine—are going to be suppressed, punished. There is fear that the Feminine and women will be angry at men, or at the least will want to be in the power position over men, as has happened so much in the past relative to men and women, with men being in the power position. But this is not what is meant to happen at all.
The greatest service you can do to others is to shine your strength as a man, as the Divine Masculine, and to embrace the Feminine—within yourself, but especially with women. Be a demonstration that you, in your Masculine, will be supported as you support women.
Also, it is important for men to reach out to other men. In doing so, they are accessing their own inner Feminine. For men have so often suffered being in competition with each other, feeling threatened by each other. Many men are afraid to let down their guard, afraid that if they become vulnerable, open, they will lose in the great game of competition, they will be taken advantage of. So it takes skill, as a man, to reach out to other men and to create a different kind of connection with them that is not founded in competition, that is founded in care for that man and that man’s wellbeing, founded in the understanding that it feeds you to support another man, and that you are suffering the lack of that quality of connection as much as the other.
This is not something that can be, for the most part, done through talk or even ideas. It is something that must be lived. One of the things that will help is if you are able to change the form in which you live. Right now, most people live very separately. Many people live entirely separately, all by themselves. But if they don’t live all by themselves, they usually only live with their partner, sometimes with children, or occasionally another family member, perhaps an aging parent, or another family member. But this is not actually the most supportive form. It is much more supportive for you to be living in ways where men are close to other men, women are close to other women, and you are supporting each other. If you are able to change the form in which you live, this kind of transformation will happen much more quickly. The foundation for trust will be laid and it will start to grow. That is what it will really require. Many men trust women more than they trust other men. This must change and will change. If you want to support this change, those are the arenas that are most in need of help.
I love you all so much. I thank you for all that you do, the courage that you bring, the commitment and dedication to your spiritual growth, the transformation that is underway and that you are all supporting in your world. It is such a beautiful thing. I thank you so much. And I thank you for this time. I thank you for this celebration.
I love you. I bless you.
I AM Mary Magdalene.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Was Mary Magdalene Jesus’ Wife? New Harvard findings corroborate information given to author Mercedes Kirkel.
A Harvard divinity professor has made front-page news with the announcement of a newly revealed papyrus, offering fresh evidence that Jesus may have been married. The fragments of text on the fourth century paper include Jesus speaking the words “my wife” and “Mary Magdalene” in Coptic, an Egyptian language. This revelation is no surprise to Mercedes Kirkel, Santa Fe resident and author of the newly released book Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love, in which Mary Magdalene tells about her life and relationship with Jesus.
“In the summer of 2010, I had the incredible blessing of receiving twenty-five messages from Mary Magdalene over the course of a month,” stated Kirkel. “In one of the messages, Mary described her bond to Jesus as holy husband and wife. She said they were both prepared for their relationship through their spiritual training in various sacred traditions. This included instruction in sacred sexuality, which Mary explained was ‘a process of transforming our bodies into light and love, in service to our destinies.’”
Mary also reveals in the book that both she and Jesus knew it would be 2000 years before humanity was ready to hear her story and receive her in her role as teacher and embodiment of the Divine Feminine. Throughout her messages, Mary emphasized the importance of both men and women understanding and strengthening their own Feminine, through changing the way they relate to their bodies, sexuality, and emotions, along with releasing limitations in their thinking. Her focused instruction in these arenas is offered as a means to open the heart, so that “the marriage of the sacred heart and sacred mind can occur.” According to Kirkel, “This is the marriage that Mary is most passionate about, just as Jesus’ teaching was all about us and our spiritual transformation.”
Authors Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis (Power of the Magdalene and The Magdalene Version) have said, “It is clear to us that Mary’s words contained in Mary Magdalene Beckons are part of a pure transmission of her teaching that is now being restored to the world. If you want to hear the real voice of Mary Magdalene, we recommend . . . this book.”
Mary Magdalene Beckons is available through Amazon U.S. and Europe and through the website www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. It will be available in local bookstores in October. The website also contains a video of Kirkel telling the story of how Mary Magdalene began coming to her.
For more information, go to www.marymagdalenebeckons.com.
Crossing Over Into the Light-Realm
I’ve experienced what feels like a miracle in my life. Two weeks ago my dad was admitted to the hospital with an infection that had gone into his bloodstream. As we have a number of times over the past half year, we thought this may very well be the end and prepared ourselves. But after a few days, he started to rally yet again.
As he began to “rejoin our world,” he was initially quite confused and his connection to this realm seemed tenuous. When I walked into his room, he looked at me with amazement and said, “I can’t believe you’re here. I never expected to see you.” I’m not sure who he thought I was, as I’ve been visiting him regularly. But it didn’t matter to me. I was delighted to be able to interact and talk with him. And he was so filled with love and light, it was a joy and an honor to be with him.
At one point he apologized for not being able to remember much. I reassured him, saying, “It’s not what you remember or think that matters. What matters is your heart and the love you feel.” At that point, he looked over my shoulder and seemed to be seeing something very profound. I wondered if he was having a vision. In fact, he was, but not the kind I was thinking of. I turned to see what he was looking at and realized it was the white board on the wall with all his medical information on it. Then he said to me, “Do you see that board? To me, it’s a love board.”
I walked over to the board and wrote, “I love you,” and signed my name. He seemed extremely pleased as he beamed with a wide smile. Then he laughed because underneath my message was a reminder to the nurses that he couldn’t feed himself. So the whole communication read: “I love you. Mercedes. Please feed me.”
The next day he was more lucid, but still in an exalted state. He was tracking everything going on around him with great interest and his response to all he observed was wonder and awe. As I was standing beside his bed, he asked me to turn around. I wasn’t sure why he requested that, thinking maybe he wanted to see what my clothes looked like from the back. As I turned around, he pointed out the window, and said, “Isn’t that beautiful?” I looked outside to a typical downtown Albuquerque city scene of roads, traffic, buildings, and a small patch of grass with a couple of trees. He continued, “Isn’t that building beautiful? And look at those clouds!”
I shifted into seeing what he was seeing. I wouldn’t have noticed it normally, in the midst of my busyness or focusing on whatever I was engaged in. But there was a certain beauty to the building, and certainly to the clouds. I started to reflect on the extraordinariness that all the things in our world—which I so easily take for granted—even exist. And I felt myself joining my father in his transformed state.
Later the nurse came in and attended to him. She emptied his catheter into the toilet and then flushed the contents down. He immediately wanted to know what that sound was. We told him it was the toilet flushing and he said with amazement, “Imagine that.” The nurse and I smiled at each other, each of us feeling touched and lifted up by his innocent marveling at what for us was a mundane experience.
My father has continued to recover, so quickly that even the hospital staff were surprised. His will to live continues to astound us all. And the silver lining to the whole event is that he was discharged to the same skilled nursing facility where his wife was recovering from her back surgery. For the first time since he was admitted to an assisted living facility six months ago, they’re living under the same roof. I can’t tell you the joy I saw in both their faces as she walked into his room the first evening to spend time together before they both went to sleep.
I already believe in miracles, so I didn’t need any convincing that I was witnessing one. But I feel incredibly blessed to have been so closely involved in the whole process, watching it unfold, seeing how my mind had no idea what was really going on, and feeling my heart so moved by the beauty I was witnessing. For the past six months, as my dad has seemed so close to dying so many times, I’ve often wondered what’s keeping him here. Why hasn’t he chosen to let go and move on? After experiencing these most recent events, a new thought came to me. Perhaps my dad isn’t waiting to cross over and meet with the angels. Perhaps he’s decided to start his transformation into the light-realm here and now. And in that, he continues to be my teacher, as he has been for so long.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Mary Magdalene: Sacred Marriage
Received on July 22, 2012 through Mercedes Kirkel
[This is Part I of a channeled message that Mary Magdalene gave at a gathering in honor of her feast day, July 22nd, 2012.]
Hello, greetings, and blessings to my dear one and all of you who are here with me today, all of you who will be hearing this and listening to it later, all of you who are gathered in so many gatherings across your country and around your world who are honoring the Divine Feminine through calling upon me on this day. I thank you so much.
I am so thrilled to be here with you, with all of you. I’m so happy for your opening to the Divine Feminine in this moment and in all the ways that you do. And I’m so happy for all there is to celebrate right now. For there is so much, I almost feel a little beside myself—Where to start? Where to begin?
I will begin right here with you who are gathered here. To you, Mercedes, I say that I am greatly embracing you, greatly celebrating with you for the book that you have put out, for your creating this gathering and other events. There will be so many more events in the future to allow me to come through and to allow others, as well. We are supporting all of you in your growth and your beautiful unfoldment, which is happening so strongly right now.
It is such a wonderful time, for so many reasons. But one of them is that there are so many people who are opening up to us—the beings of light in the higher dimensions. We are so happy and thrilled to be supporting all of you, connecting with you, helping you, joining with you consciously, and to have these kinds of occasions when we speak to you and we hear from you. It is so wonderful. Of course, our connection with you is not limited. It is not limited to these occasions. It is not limited to when we speak with you or you speak with us. It is ongoing and there are so many forms that it is taking. But these occasions, in particular, are very wonderful and joyful for all of us, to have you coming together, holding sacred space, creating the container for us to connect in this way. To all of you, I thank you so much for being here today.
And I thank you for your openness to me. For yes, it is true that the world is opening to me in these past few years, which of course are like the blink of an eye, if that much, in terms of your time and the total time of our beingness. But so much has happened in such an incredibly short time, and this is just the beginning. There are huge openings ahead, huge things that will be changing you, changing your consciousness, changing your world in so many ways. And this is part of the excitement that I feel. It is being created all the time by people just like yourselves who are expanding, growing, calling in this change, wanting it for themselves, wanting to hold it and share it with others. That is how your world is formed, created, sustained, changed, dissolved, re-birthed. It is how manifestation happens.
This manifestation process is strengthened through all these forms of your coming together—where you join together, share your dreams, share your visions, share your hopes, share your strengths, share your help and your support with each other. This is so important. It is so critical. It is what has happened in the past in some of your more formal ways—through your churches, in particular. And of course, there are ways that that has supported people and there are ways that that has diverted and gone away from helping people.
But the form is changing. It is becoming much more of an internal process that is happening within each person. And you are connecting with others out of this internal process, because there are so many people going through this process together. Truly, you are connected, and you are finding each other in all different ways. In those connections, you are amplifying, magnifying this process for each other, as well as for people who perhaps are at a different stage. These people are going through the process in their own way, but perhaps are not sharing in the way that you are with yourself and with others—consciously, openly, outwardly. But you are helping them, also, and it is affecting them. So these gatherings are one of the new forms that is emerging. It is a very organic form in your world, in which the power, the spiritual transformation is coming through. It is one of the great changes that are happening at this time.
And yes, the Divine Feminine is so important. Many of you understand this. Many of you have an awareness of this, of how the Divine Feminine has been waiting. It has not been time. You, so many of you, have not been ready and your world has not been ready. Now there is so much that is supporting this, that is in place. There are a few things that I wish to share about this.
The first is that one of the ways you can recognize the Divine Feminine is that the Divine Feminine is in love with the Divine Masculine. And the Divine Feminine is supportive of the Divine Masculine and of union—of union with the Masculine, union with the Child, union with the Divine. Union is one of the primary paths of the Feminine. So do not fall into the trap of thinking that it is only about the Divine Feminine, for that is not the case. The Divine Feminine is embracing of the Divine Masculine. And you have needed this time to become strong in the Divine Masculine, within yourselves, in your world. Yes, it has been out of balance. And yes, it has gone to the extreme at times. Yet, there was a logic. There was a reason and a preparation that was happening. Now the Masculine is ready to embrace the Feminine, to call us in and for there to be union and unity. This is the new stage, the new age that you are moving into.
So remember that it is about the Divine Feminine coming forth and flowering. But the Divine Feminine embraces and holds and loves the Divine Masculine, and honors the Masculine, and calls in the Masculine to bring what the Masculine brings, which is so important for there to be balance and wholeness and harmony. That is what you are moving into, a beautiful new age, in which there will be this union and this unity between the Feminine and the Masculine.
Many of you know this in your hearts, in your souls, and in your beings in the relationship between myself and Yeshua. It is something that you don’t have to know with your mind. You don’t have to know the details. You don’t have to know where we lived, what we did, what were the dates, what were the names, what were the other people. Yes, that can be interesting, and yes, there is a way that in your humanness that feeds you. But truly, everything that you need is in your heart, in your soul, in your beingness. And you know that love that we exemplified, that we lived. You know that we brought that frequency into the world, planting it as seed to be here in your world. And yes, the relationship between us was hidden for many, many years. It was not time. The world was not ready yet for that to come forth. Now it is.
So know that we are with each one of you in your heart. And there is a way that our archetypal relationship, our pure love was planted so many years ago, and is still here, is strengthening and becoming more available, more accessible, more profound as you are opening to it and receiving it. This is part of why so many people are drawn to me at this time. It is like a cosmic alarm clock going off. You are ready for this. You are ready to know of my great love for Yeshua. And you are ready to know that love within yourself and to begin to incarnate it and to manifest it.
That love always manifests first with yourself. It manifests with you knowing the love of your Divine Masculine, your Divine Feminine. The marriage of the Divine Masculine and Feminine always lives within you, within your heart, and that is where it begins. Out of that comes the holy marriage, which is the marriage of you and God. But God has two faces in this manifestation here in your realm. There is the Masculine face of God and the Feminine face of God.
Not only will you know the marriage of the two faces of God within yourself, but you will also know your holy union with God, absolutely. And then you will know this sacred union in your relationships with others. More and more of you will be finding your sacred partner, who you live this exquisite love with. The love relationship with a sacred partner includes the exquisite union of your sacred heart and sacred mind, in form, with another being. It is one of the greatest blessings that you will experience in this realm. Know that this is your future, if you have not experienced it up till now. This is what is coming in. You are ready now to grow into this, to know this, and to allow it to carry you to your greater divinity, your divine beingness.
That is always what I am so moved to share—my understanding and my experience of this divine union, this sacred marriage. As I have spoken through Mercedes and is in her book, there are foundational steps for each of you in opening to the Divine Feminine. Many of you have areas that you still need to strengthen in this way, because this is such a new time of celebrating, of opening to, of calling forth the Divine Feminine. These foundational arenas are very important, because they are what will allow you to open your heart. They will allow you to know the sacred marriage within of your Divine Masculine–Divine Feminine, of your sacred heart–sacred mind, and your sacred heart-union with another being. Do not gloss over that. It is important and it will help you to know this and to complete your work at these foundational stages. It will allow you to go on into your greatness, your largeness, your beauty, your perfection, and into greater and greater realms of experience, of consciousness, of light and love.
That is all that I am going to say about that today, for I have said it in great depth before. I hope that it may support and serve every one of you in your becoming the beautiful, divine being that you are, that I know you as, and that I support you in fully.
I love you. I bless you.
I AM Mary Magdalene.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Mary Magdalene and Sacred Sexuality: An Interview on Tantra Talk Radio
July 22nd was the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene. Part of how I celebrated this day was to do an interview with Rundy Duphiney of Tantra Talk Radio on Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Sacred Sexuality. I greatly enjoyed talking with Rundy about Mary Magdalene and what she has revealed to me about her practice and teaching of Sacred Sexuality.
Here’s what Rundy had to say about the interview:
“Last night’s interview with Mary Magdalene channel and author Mercedes Kirkel was a cosmic, otherworldly, and beautiful experience for all. Ms. Kirkel epitomizes humility, compassion, and selflessness and went into great detail explaining Tantric sexuality as channeled to her by Mary Magdalene. It was one of the most beautiful and hopeful explanations of Tantra I have ever heard.”
To listen to the recording of that interview, Click Here.
Isis: The Great Frontier of the Heart and Dealing with Fear
Received through Mercedes Kirkel
July 9, 2012
Blessings my very dear ones,
This is Goddess Isis. It has been a long time since I have come to you and spoken, for truly words are not my primary vehicle of communication. And yet tonight I am so moved to be with you, to share my heart with you, my love, and whatever wisdom I can bring that will help you, that I choose to be here in this form. My heart is so full of love. This is what I mostly wish to share with you. It is the woman’s way, in so many ways, the heart of the Mother, to want to share love. And of course, men are never excluded from this and have so much to share themselves. But love is the particular domain of the feminine within all of us – men and women. It is something we treasure so much, and yet oftentimes we work against it, eclipse it, busy ourselves with things that seem to bury it in the sand. So we need reminders to come back to that beautiful space of love that we love, and yet, tend to shy away from, to be afraid of at some level.
This is part of the third-dimensional journey that you experience in so many ways, in so many of your relationships or even with yourself—opening to love and then backing off, wanting to love but being afraid, testing the waters, getting hurt, deciding “should I?” —“shouldn’t I?”, or not deciding. So much of it happens at a level prior to consciousness. Much of it is the way you’ve been trained, what you learned at a very young age, what you see modeled all around you, what your society has agreed upon is acceptable, and normal, and even safe. Many of these things do not support you. They do not support your heart and they do not support you in love.
So there are teachers who come to teach about love. There are beings, such as myself, who come to remind you, to whisper in your ear. We come in all forms—in poetry, in music, in books, in words, in looks, in smiles, in embraces. There is no limit to the form that love can take. Love can take the form of helping someone. Love can take the form of challenging someone. It is all about the heart and about coming from the heart. Within that there are infinite possibilities.
As you manifest love more and more, the infinite possibilities of yourself, and who you are, and what you are to become will start to manifest as well. For love is not just about what you do. Love is about who you are. And who you are will change with love, in ways that you may not be able to even imagine at this time. If you go to the limits of what you can imagine, that may just be the barest beginning of what is possible in love. You have a great discovery ahead of you. It will be most wondrous. And for this you can celebrate.
And yes, there is a letting go in love. Sometimes it’s seen as taking the leap, jumping off the cliff. And sometimes it can feel like that, and that is a good thing. It does take courage, for everything you know will be telling you, “No, no, that’s not safe. Don’t do that. No, do this instead. Don’t be silly. Don’t be unrealistic. Don’t be a fool.” But listen to your heart, and your heart will guide you wisely.
Other people may have help for you, and it is well worth it to take their help in and consider it. But it is up to you to choose your course. And you alone know what that is. No one else does. What may have been a great help for someone else may not be your course at all. That is part of your journey. It is a hero’s journey, a journey of discovery, a journey of trust, of being guided.
Ultimately it is your higher self that is guiding you. You may experience this in many forms. You may experience this as an angel. You may experience this as another being that supports you. You may experience this as God, however you relate to God. Ultimately you will discover that all these things are true. And they are all true of you. They are all parts of who you are.
Please do not worry, dear ones. Things are fine. Even if it appears that things are falling apart, even if it appears that people are suffering or dying, there is a much greater story that is actually going on. All of these people are fine. All of these people are on their path. Can you trust that? Your life would change dramatically if you saw it that way. And curiously this is the greatest good you can do for others—to see that they are perfectly on their path and that there is no problem; there is nothing to worry about.
Of course you will do things, because you are in the third dimension right now, and the third dimension is a realm of action and doing. Of course you will do things that are aligned to this vision that everything is fine. Perhaps you will more and more feel less called to do things, less called to do things that you did in the past. That is fine, too. It is all being guided, and your challenge is to trust. Your challenge is to find the joy in your heart. What a delightful challenge! Not necessarily an easy one. And we have great compassion for what you suffer and the challenges that you face. They are real, and yet there is more. The “more” is in your heart, in the God-space in your heart. That is the treasure. The treasure chest of your stories of old was all a symbol for what you all have in your heart. And yes, you are on a journey to find it—the road back to your heart.
Well, my, my—I have gotten very philosophical. It is not my intention. I hope this has been helpful for you. But more than that, I hope that you feel your heart, that you see the shining of your heart, the light in your heart, the joy, the love of your heart, the blessing that this fills your whole self with and goes out to others with. This is the stage of the world, in your heart. Put your attention there. The news pales in comparison to that. You are loved immensely. And you are love immensely. Both are true.
As I am seen with wings, your heart has wings. Your soul flies on those wings when you unlock the doors. I urge you all to do this. I encourage you and support you. I whisper in your ear, “Remember your heart, dear ones. Remember your heart.” Do you know that everything happens within your heart? It is all within your heart. This is the great frontier to discover. And you have wonderful discoveries ahead, as you go more and more into the heart.
That is my message for you that I bring. Now I would like to hear from you. What are your questions that you have for me?
Question: I’ve been out of work since October. Just recently I’m starting to get frightened. So I’m seeking guidance and some assurance, I guess.
Isis: About your survival?
Questioner: Yes.
Isis: It is understandable that you would be frightened. The third dimensional world is a very frightening place, where people are left to their own, for better or for worse. And yet these things can also be the very things that transform us, that become gifts, that cause us to go beyond our limits—self-imposed and other imposed.
The first step in a circumstance of this nature—any type of crisis where you feel scared—is to, first of all, care for yourself. Love yourself in your fear. It is like the Mother-love that I spoke about. You give it to yourself. That love that says, “I understand. Of course you feel scared. I’m here with you. I won’t desert you. I love you. We will see this through. We will find our way. I am here for you.” This is your heart speaking to yourself and it is a very important step. For in our fear, we often lose ourselves and lose connection with our own heart. So that is the first step, the step of loving yourself and embracing yourself with Mother-love.
Again, this is not just for women. This is for men. This is for all beings to find. We all have Mother-love and Father-love within ourselves. And it is beyond just within ourselves. It is part of the divine. It is part of what we receive, that Mother-love that so many people connect with through the Earth. It is our divine nature. And so you connect with yourself, and you give this beautiful, nurturing loving to yourself.
You may need to connect with it through others who are nurturing to you, or through connecting with the Earth, through connecting with the Mother in that form, through connecting with the Mother in whatever form you experience her. Many people have the experience of connecting with the Mother through a particular personality or being, such as Mother Mary. That is wonderful, if that is your path. If it is not, do not be concerned. Everyone has access to the Mother’s love, to the divine Mother. So you begin with that, with nurturing yourself with the love of the divine Mother.
Through that, you find your connection to your heart. And when you find your connection to your heart, you find your connection to God. It doesn’t have to be a certain figure of God that you were taught as a child or in any particular religion. It is your relationship with God, and it is found through your heart. When you find that, you will be guided to what you need to do, because there is a plan to all of this. It is not just a random set of gruesome events that you are pitted against, and you are struggling, like running on a conveyer belt, trying to keep up so you don’t fall off and get eliminated. That is not the nature of the world. But in the third dimension, it can feel like that. It can appear like that. It is as though you have glasses on, and the glasses are coloring the way everything looks. This is why it is so important to connect with your heart, and through that to connect with God. Because through connecting with God, you will start to know your life’s plan. You will start to know what you are to do. This knowingness comes in different ways for everyone. There is no need to compare yourself to anyone else. But your heart will know.
And the truth is that you are supported in this circumstance for the perfect amount of time, the amount of time that you have selected at the soul level. When you are no longer supported being here, when it is no longer your time to be here, you will be supported to leave, and to go where you’re meant to be then. The truth is that you are always supported. But this particular third dimension can be a scary place. It’s like signing up to go on a roller coaster. You signed up for some fear! (laughs) And that’s part of the ride. So it can be scary. And there’s a purpose to that, too. There’s a purpose to your soul’s knowing that experience and understanding what that is—the experience of separation, which is ultimately separation from God. That is what all fear boils down to—separation.
This is part of what you have come here to know and to explore and to learn. It is all perfect. Your challenge is to trust. What can help you beyond these steps that I have given is to ask for help, which is simply prayer. This asking can come in a verbal form. It can come in a heart form. It can come in whatever form is true for you. But asking is an important step. So when you are connected to your heart, to your higher self, to the divine, ask for help. And you will be helped.
Are there other questions?
(Period of silence)
I take this as a sign that you are deeply in your hearts. What I invite you to do now is to be in that heart space. I invite you to simply be aware of what you experience in that heart space and to receive whatever is being given to you from the heart in this moment.
(Period of silence)
This is the space that you will more and more be living from. This is the space you will meet others in. This is the space you will create your new world from.
I love and bless you all most fully, from the depths and breath of my heart. I enfold you in my wings of love. I see the highest blessings for all. I am filled with joy to be with you tonight.
I leave you now. Blessings of Isis to you all.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Hilarion: The Game Is Changing
Received through Mercedes Kirkel
June 11, 2012
Greetings beloved,
It is I, Hilarion. I realize that this is the first time that I have come through you, and you are not so familiar with me as with others. And so I am happy to introduce myself, and to make myself known to you and to all in this way tonight.
I am especially moved to come now because this is a very potent time on the Earth. It is a time that is powerful. It is a time that is pivotal in many ways. And it is a time that is very blessed. Many of you are noticing the changes in your life. You are noticing patterns. You are noticing the speed at which things are happening. You are noticing a sense of things going faster, having more intensity, perhaps being a little bit more out of your personal control. You’re noticing that there is something larger than you that is directing the things that are happening and you are being carried by that, as opposed to you, yourself—as an individual, with a will and intention and mind—choosing what you’re doing. It is not that your will or your mind or your intention are shut down or turned off. It is that something greater is at play and is affecting you. Many of you are noticing this and are aware of this.
I confirm that this is so. There are these things happening. It is reflected in the events that you are seeing in some of the astronomical/astrological bodies—the eclipses, the transiting of Venus, the solstice that is soon upon you, and the various astrological influences that many of you are aware of. This is an unusual time, that so many things are happening virtually simultaneously. You could say that they are affecting you, and that would be accurate. But in another sense, you could also say that they are reflecting the transformation that is happening within you and within your world. It is something like what you call a chicken or an egg situation. It is not that one created the other. It is that they are both happening simultaneously and, depending on your perspective, it may appear that one is causing the other. But really, they are two phenomena that are pointing to the same thing. They are pointing to great transformation.
Many of you thought, and some people are still predicting, that this transformation is going to happen in the outer world in terms of the structures of your world—the world economy, or your national or even local economies, your political structures, your various social structures or religious structures, the institutions and forms of your world. While many predicted and thought that this would be the form that it would take, what you’re actually seeing is that the primary change is happening within yourself. And this is a very good thing. For ultimately, the only purpose for having outer forms change first is if that is supportive of helping you (and by you, I mean the global you, the greater you, the universal you), helping individuals to make the inner shift. But this is a difficult way to do it. If you are making the inner shift independent of the outside events, that is much easier and therefore preferable.
And that is what is happening in your world and we applaud you. We are so excited about what is happening and we are proud of you, that you have found your way to do it in this way, which is a much more desirable way. So congratulations and kudos to all of you who are making this inner change.
And yes, it is not always comfortable. You are being transformed. It is like playdough or silly putty being stretched into a new shape. Your body isn’t used to that shape. Or your emotions aren’t used to that constellation. Or your thinking isn’t used to thinking in that way. Or your energy body isn’t used to functioning in that form, that modality. So it is not always easy. It is not always comfortable. But you can trust this process. It is for your highest good. And you are all doing so well with it. The speed with which you are transforming is quite remarkable. It is, you could say, unique, that you humans are going through immeasurable transformation and evolution in a remarkably short time. I say this to you to help you to appreciate what is happening and to be most supportive of yourselves in the midst of it. This may often look like helping yourself to relax, to take it easy, to rest more, to let things go that in the past you might have said, “Oh no, I have to do this,” or “I have to be this way,” or whatever it is, and to trust the process. You are doing an excellent job of that. I simply urge you to continue. This will be most valuable for you.
It is not that your outer world will not change. There will be changes. But when the inner world changes first, then the outer world changes are much more easeful, flowing, cooperative, gentle, even joyful. So the fact that this is happening in this way is a very good sign. It will help you to have these changes that you long for in your world, but in a way that will not be as tumultuous and disruptive as it would be if you were not making the inner changes first. So you are completely on your path and on the optimal path for how this can happen.
It is not always easy to see change up close. When you are very close to change, it sometimes doesn’t look like anything is happening. Or it sometimes look like everything is just falling to pieces. And at times, that may indeed be what is happening. But that is a part of the process. Certain things have to release, let go of, dissolve before the new can come in. You must make space for letting go of the old, and that is what draws in the new.
Yet you do not have to particularly focus on it at this time. That is what is so wonderful about this period of time. It is not required that you even understand what you are letting go of, or that you engage it intentionally or consciously, doing the kind of work on yourself that perhaps you have done in the past, where you were working on a particular arena or issue, you were getting help with it, you were doing processes… This is different. It is not like that. It is almost like you go to sleep and it happens in your sleep. But it’s not only happening in your sleep. It’s happening in your waking time, too. But it is not something that you need to be in charge of and directing and making sure it is happening correctly. It is absolutely happening on its own. You need to just go along for the ride and support yourself in the midst of it. What a gift! And it is a gift. It is a great gift from the universal creator-God. And you are the great beneficiary of this gift. So we bless you and support you in this and reassure you that all is well. You are doing fantastically well.
There is more ahead. But at this time it does not particularly serve you to be looking to the future. It is like the process of a flower opening. Be in the moment as each petal unfurls. Do not think about what is ahead. It will happen in its own perfect timing. That will actually support you in this process, by not thinking about it, not worrying about it, not being concerned about it. You always can pray. Prayer is always a beneficial thing. And the optimum prayer is that you can be connected to your higher self, that the guidance of your higher self can come through most clearly to you, and that you can receive it most clearly, that you can hear this guidance. That will be sufficient.
All is in order. You are in order. And your higher self is completely connected to this process, to the absolute divine. That is all you need. It is quite remarkable, quite a change.
Of course you can be continuing to support yourself in ways that you enjoy. If you enjoy your meditation, most definitely do that. If you enjoy eating a healthy diet, do that. You will probably notice changes in these arenas. Use your joy as the measure, as your guide. What you enjoy and what is joyful for you is your guide. And it’s becoming more and more clear to you that that is so. So you can follow your joy. Follow your bliss, as a wise person said at one point.
Your challenge may be that this is different from the way that you have functioned in the past. Perhaps in the past you have told yourself, “Oh, I couldn’t do that. That wouldn’t be safe. I wouldn’t be taking care of business. I wouldn’t be doing what I need to do to survive and to be responsible.” But the game is changing. It has always been fine for you to follow your joy. But now it is becoming more of an imperative. And this will help you, as so many things shift, to flow with the joy and follow that.
Know that things in your world are getting more clear. They are getting more light-filled. And the darkness that was obstructing that in the past is more and more dissolving, emptying, clearing. This may not be totally apparent on the surface of things. But if you look with your third eye vision for the light, you can see it. You can see that the light is increasing. Those who do not see it or who do not want to see it will be proclaiming that the world is the same or perhaps getting worse. They will be mongering fear to you and anyone who will listen to them. It is your job to bless them and to know that that is how things appear to them. It is not how things need to appear to you.
So I urge you to stay with the light. Breathe in light. Taste the light. Fill your whole self with light. Smell the light as you breathe it through your nostrils. And enjoy the light.
One of the things that will support you in this is to talk less. Many of you have the habit of talking much more than supports you. In the higher dimensions we talk very little, partly because we communicate telepathically. We do not need to talk. You may not have that full capability yet, and that is fine. But you can start to relax your talking. This is a distraction from the beauty, the light around you, much of the time. It keeps you locked into your brain, locked away from the light, locked away from the beauty and the joy.
The same is not true of your sense of feeling. Your sense of feeling supports you. It supports you through your body, through your emotions, eventually through your heart, and eventually through your higher mind. You can support this process by relaxing your talking. It is alright for there to be silence. It is alright to be with another person and not have to fill the space with talking. Remember the light. Remember to fill yourself with the light. Let that become your primary occupation, rather than your incessant thinking and talking. It is not that you have to be mute. It is not that this is an ironclad law and you can never talk. But notice when you can relax your speech and rest in the silence, rest in the light that is all around you.
As you do this you will feel yourself smile. You will feel yourself smile on the inside. Your mouth may be totally relaxed, but your being is smiling. It is a smile of the light. And so I urge you to practice this smile, this inner smile that is filled with light, to share it fully with yourself and to share it with others. Let this be your primary communication. This will be most joyful for you, I assure you.
And now I would like to engage in dialog with you. I ask you, “What would you like to know more about? What would you me to speak about?” Please ask me and I am happy to respond.
Question: You speak about prayer. Many of us are often asked by others to send prayers to a loved one who is experiencing emotional or physical difficulties, or they are on the verge of passing into another dimension. Or they may even ask us to pray after they’ve made the transition, to assist in that. Since prayer isn’t an “asking for” experience, what should our experience be when we’re requested to pray in those ways?
Hilarion: First of all, it is not exactly accurate that prayer is not an “asking for” experience. It depends on your level of consciousness. Prayer will occur at whatever level of consciousness you are resting in. If you are in a third-dimensional consciousness, it will take the form of an “asking for.” The more you are based in physicality, the more you will be asking for very physical, tangible things.
I believe what you’re referring to, though, is the guidance or instruction that is based on elevating prayer to a higher level, basically coming from a higher-dimensional focus. At this level, prayer is less about asking for certain outcomes, certain events, certain things to occur or to manifest. It is more about what it is that you desire fundamentally at those higher levels of consciousness. These are things like: that the individuals involved can all be connected to their higher self, and can be fully receiving the guidance of their higher self and responding to that guidance. This is the same, actually, as being connected to God. It is just the form that it happens at at the individual level. This is always an appropriate prayer, to pray for connection to God, surrender to God, merging with God, and allowing God to direct the course of whatever is to happen.
Another way of saying this—which is a very simple, tangible, concrete way—is to ask that the highest good be done for all involved. This is always appropriate. You can ask it more specifically, such as, “I ask that the highest good occur for this person and for all involved.” So you can focus on a particular individual or a particular group of individuals, however it is that you’re connected to this situation. But you also want to include that it’s for the highest good of all involved. So that is another form that prayer can take.
Another prayer that is very similar is “Thy will be done.” Then you are turning it over to God. Because truly, in these situations—as in all situations—we do not know what is for the highest good. It may appear that a person is suffering, and perhaps that suffering is a great breakthrough for them in their soul’s evolution. Many people in the third dimension look at death as the enemy, that life is the positive and death is the negative. But in the higher dimensions, we do not see it this way. Perhaps if the person is ready to die, that would be a wonderful thing—that they are moving on to a higher dimension, that they have completed their life lessons and their life work in this lifetime, that they have outgrown the usefulness of their physical body at this time. It may be a complete blessing that they are moving on.
So the truest form of prayer is to make yourself the conduit of God’s light and to ask for that to come in, in the highest way and for the highest good of all involved. The other thing is to hold that understanding within yourself, which brings you to a place of peace. This, in and of itself, can be a tremendous blessing. If you are, yourself, rested, peaceful that all is in order, all is happening in God’s perfect way, you will help others to come to that. Even if they aren’t consciously aware of it or choosing it, you, yourself, will be a living prayer, by your presence. So there is both the conscious prayer that you, yourself, invoke and engage. And then there’s the prayer that you are and that you radiate and emanate to everyone you have contact with, in the physical or not in the physical. This includes being in touch with people who are not physically incarnate or beings in other dimensions. They are affected by you, as well.
Many of you have prayers that have a certain form. Someone created a prayer and that has become a form that is repeated or said. That is fine, if that supports you in connecting to God in a real, true way. If it is just an empty ritual, a hollow shell, feel free to let go of it. The form that prayer takes is fundamentally from your heart. It is your heart speaking. If words come with it, that is absolutely fine. For some people, it is easier to vision than to put things into words. For some people, it is easier to feel things in a kinesthetic way. It does not matter. It is the communication of your heart in whatever way is strongest for you. That is what you are to find. So really, when you pray, you are simply putting your attention on a particular thing, event, person, arena. And then you are allowing your heart to speak in whatever way it does, in a way that connects you with God and allows that connection to pour forth into that situation. This is true prayer.
Question: I think you were saying that some of the changes that we’re going through are of an internal nature and we don’t have to work so hard on these changes, that they’ll be more automatic. I can see that happening for some people. I can also see for others that maybe haven’t addressed things or haven’t truly figured things out, it seems like they’re being forced awake.
Hilarion: Yes. You are seeing the fruit of your past work at this time. This change is going on regardless of you focusing on it, putting your attention on it, trying to create it—it’s not that kind of change. But, depending on the work you have done in the past, that will determine the level of ease with which you are experiencing this change.
Of course there are always things you can do that will make it easier for you. It’s kind of like a woman giving birth to a child. That child is going to be born one way or another, in almost all circumstances. But the woman has some choice over how easeful the process is. And her preparation will make a difference. So the level of preparation that you have done in the past is making a difference.
Everyone is unique. You cannot compare yourself to other beings. Well, you can, but it will not serve you to compare yourself to other beings, because you are all on your own trajectory. Even though this is a group event, a group transformation that is happening, each one of you is experiencing it in a unique way. It is affecting each one of you in a unique way. And each one of you has a unique soul agreement that you came into this lifetime with that related to being here at this time for this transformation. But you also have your individual aspects—what your soul’s work is to do and what you have agreed to create in this lifetime to support that soul’s work. So it is different for everyone. It is unique. And it is not the case that the people who are seemingly having an easier time are more elevated, more advanced. Or that the ones who are having a more difficult time are less elevated, less advanced. You can’t look at the outer manifestations as a reflection of being further along the path or less far along the path, better, less-than, anything like that. Truly, you never know another’s path. You never know what their soul has done, is going to do, or is in the process of doing right now.
This is a very important understanding. If you hold this understanding it allows your mind to be open, to bring the blessings of light to all circumstances without interfering with it with your own sense of thinking that you know what is happening with another. It can be hard to even know what is happening with yourself. And in some sense it is not necessary. But there is a way that your mind can support the process. You can look at patterns. You can look at, “When I do this, it seems to be more difficult. When I do this, things seem to flow better.” You can use those patterns to make adjustments that support you, that make your life and your growth and your tranformation smoother, gentler, easier, which most beings enjoy.
Perhaps that is enough for now. I am aware that in these meetings you often drop into the heart space in a deeper way than you often experience at other times. There is great pleasure in this. And the mind tends to still and come to rest. I imagine you are experiencing that at this time, and I am glad.
I will say my farewell, for now. I thank you for our connection. I am very happy that we have connected in this way. I thank you for your questions. I hope I have supported you. I leave you with this thought and this urging: Remember the light. It is always there. Simply turn to the light and enjoy that beauty.
And so I leave you now, with my blessings, with my love, in wonder, in delight, in love.
Blessings to you dear ones.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
The Power of Change
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
This past Wednesday I had a very inspiring experience. I attended the Santa Fe city council meeting, which was the first city council meeting I’ve ever gone to. A friend had asked people to come and support a proposal to reduce the level of fluoride being added to city water. Since pure water is important to me, I decided to go. It turned out that there was a small but passionate crowd that had decided to attend.
The people who spoke seemed to be divided into two camps. The first consisted of several local dentists who work with low-income populations. They were strongly convinced that lowering the fluoride level in the water would put children in this group at further risk for dental disease. The second, larger group consisted of local residents who believe that ingesting fluoride is harmful. They had come to urge the city council to do more than was being proposed by discontinuing adding fluoride to the water altogether.
I listened to many people speak quite emotionally about why they believed their point of view was the correct one. Finally I decided to get up and contribute my thoughts. While I would like the city to discontinue fluoridation, what I focused on was that I didn’t think the two groups needed to view themselves as being in conflict. Obviously the dentists were very concerned about the wellbeing of their patients, and I think everyone could support that. Similarly, the people who seemed to be on the “other side” were simply voicing their desire for the wellbeing of city residents, too. What I urged the council members to do was to look beyond the debate of whether fluoridation was good or bad and to find other solutions that would support both groups. For example, if the money spent on fluoridation were spent on education and dental services for low-income groups, this might prove more effective than the present program for preventing tooth decay with fluoridated water, while still supporting those who don’t want chemicals that they consider toxic added to their water.
What happened next was quite surprising to me, and also very exciting. After hearing from the public, the council began their discussion. I was thinking that the most I could hope for would be that the council members would decide to approve the proposal for lowering the fluoridation level in the water and that, based on the opinions of people who spoke, would decide to eliminate the fluoridation at some future date. But that’s not what happened.
One longtime council member asked when the current fluoridation program had been implemented and was told it was initiated in 1955. She and other members began to reveal that they were not in favor of continuing to add fluoride to the water. Then a council member submitted an amendment to the proposal stating that no more fluoride would be added to the water. At this point, one of the council members and the mayor stated their opposition to the amendment, saying that they sided with the professionals (dentists) who felt this would create risk for the public. By now, I was starting to feel encouraged that the change I desired might actually occur. The tension between the two sides was palpable, and amplified by the applause that would break out when someone spoke in favor of a particular position.
At one point one of the council members favoring discontinuing fluoridation spoke about her memories of being a child in 1955, riding her stingray bike and following the cloud of DDT that was being sprayed to control mosquitoes because it was fun. Another council member recalled that in 1955 smoking was considered harmless and regularly included in TV shows such as “I Love Lucy.” I was really appreciating their human-ness and also struck by the similarity between their views and mine. Several talked about having researched this issue on their own and come to the conclusion that fluoridation of water wasn’t safe. I realized that I was surprised to find their point of view so similar to my own and, in that realization, saw that I have an assumption that politicians and people in public office aren’t going to support my values and choices. Witnessing their process helped me to release that prejudice.
Finally the vote was taken. By now the suspense was quite high, and my friend and I both sat and counted on our fingers as the votes were called out. Six council members voted in favor of discontinuing fluoridation and one voted against. I was elated and a little bit in shock. The outcome was better than I thought was possible.
The final addendum was that one of the council members suggested that the money that was now freed up be earmarked for one of the local dental clinics that works specifically with low income patients.
I went home on a cloud, feeling like I’d participated in a moment of history being made and higher consciousness breaking through. I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears that change is possible. And I contributed in my own, perhaps small, way to creating the world that I want to have.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Arielle: The Art of Living in Joy
Received through Mercedes Kirkel
May 14, 2012
Greeting beloveds,
This is Arielle speaking. Some of you may not be familiar with who I am, as I am from a distant place and not one of the more usual Guides who communicate with you. But I am very moved tonight to come through and to speak, and so I am here to be with you, to bring blessings and wisdom that I am able to offer, help that I am able to give, and to answer questions, which I joyfully do.
I am here on the wings of joy. It is a joyful spirit that has brought me in, like a wind that blows through. And I am attracted by your joy, for I feel your frequency of joy rising. I feel it growing and multiplying amongst you and amongst so many people in your world. This is a very good thing. This is a very good sign. For joy is one of the hallmarks of raising your frequency and raising your consciousness. It is a sign that this is happening for all of you, that your frequency and your consciousness is growing and expanding. And with this you are experiencing more joy.
As you do this, the beings of joy are more and more attracted to you. For that is the way of the universe. The frequency that you are vibrating with, that you are amplifying, attracts those same frequencies from all different parts of the universe. And so I am attracted to being here with you tonight.
And I wish to share joy with you. It is an interesting thing, because it is not something that can be explained in a mental way. Joy is a state of being. It is a state where you feel your heart and your heart openness. Can you feel it right now? Can you feel this greater openness in your heart? I am bringing this with me and it is part of my gift, to help you to experience this state of joy and how it manifests as a feeling sense in your heart.
It is possible to anchor this in by coming to know this state, by remembering it, by inviting it to be always in your heart, like a home that you come home to again, and again, and again. You have this ability. You can contact this state in your heart. It is always there. It is always possible. But it takes a certain freedom and a certain baseline, you might say, that you are vibrating at, that your frequency is holding, to be able to merge with this feeling and to know it fully.
There is a way that you can meet with others in this space. Many beings do this. It is a way that you shine this frequency out, kind of like the way a flashlight shines light out in a certain direction. And you connect with other beings who are doing the same. It looks a little bit like fireflies who are all connecting and their lights are going out to each other. It is a joyful thing to do, like a game almost, but so much fun, so much joy.
Often people think they can only have this when they have the experience of falling in love. But of course, you can have this at any time.
It is somewhat like a game. It puts you in a space that’s very childlike. Truly children often feel this and are more open to it. Oftentimes adults don’t realize that’s what going on with the children, but this is their state. Perhaps you can remember it being your state.
In this state, it is easy to play. It is easy to be play-full. That is another thing that is a very wonderful thing to call into your life—play. That, too, is not just for children, not restricted to them. But it helps if you have this feeling in your heart, which motivates you to want to play, to be silly, or to do things for no purpose, just for joy. It’s like you’re spreading fairy dust of joy all around when you do that. Do you like this state? It is available to you and is truly where you are going.
Sometimes people feel uncomfortable with this energy. It feels like it’s a little too much, a little too fast, a little too full. So it may take some time to adjust. Sometimes people need to receive it in small doses at first. Little by little you’re able to be with it for longer periods of time. This is one of the reasons why change in general, and especially the change you’re going through at this time, is happening over time in a gradual way. If it were to all happen at once, it would likely overwhelm you. This way, you are able to be comfortable, and not afraid, and are able to open to it at a pace, at a speed, that is right for you.
Even so, most of you are changing at an amazing rate. It is quite remarkable and you are to be commended for this. For change is not an easy thing, in general, in the third dimensional world. And you are allowing so much change, at a rate that is quite remarkable for the third dimension. Congratulations to all of you for doing it. You have called this in and it is a sign of your strength. It is a sign of your commitment to this process of opening to God. We all are most impressed and grateful to all of you for what you are doing.
But I do not want to become too serious, for I am an ambassador of joy and riding the waves of play tonight. So I think that may be enough for me to say. The experience is so much more than words. Words can dance around it like embroidery around a picture. But the experience is the primary communication.
I invite you to a very simple exercise. Right where you are, without changing anything, imagine, or feel, picture, sense—whatever is easiest for you—that there is light extending out from your body to all the other beings in the room right now. Feel, sense, see yourself connected in light to all the beings.
Just rest in that for a few moments. Let yourself just experience what it’s like. Don’t try to tell yourself that it should be one way or another. Just notice and feel.
Now go into the space of your heart. Imagine your heart like a rose. See this rose opening up, its beautiful fragrance emanating out. Imagine the fragrance of your rose mingling with the fragrance of all the other roses of the people you’ve connected to, the beings you’re connected to by light.
Now return back into your own energy field, once again seeing the rose of your heart, experiencing your rose’s fragrance.
And with this I leave you. I celebrate our time together. I thank you for your openness to being with me, inviting me into your sphere. And I leave you with my blessings of joy.
With much love,
I AM Arielle
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, www.intotheheart.org, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
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