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MARY MAGDALENE: The Feminine And Masculine Forms Of Meditation
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Given to Mercedes Kirkel
On February 25, 2014
Question: I recently read that while in deep meditation you should place your attention on the Ka body (energy body) to build energy, and that if your mind wanders to fantasy you reduce the energy to the Ka. Many teachers/mentors suggest something quite different, saying you should use your meditation to visualize your desires or intentions. They say that during meditation the brain is in an alpha/theta state and you can release dross from the subconscious mind and replace it or reprogram it with compassion or a visualized intention. Can you clarify this for me?
Mary Magdalene: Greetings my beloved. I have heard your call, and I am here with you and happy to answer the question that has been asked. This is a valuable question, as it points to confusion that others may have.
There are many different meditation practices and many different ways to meditate. Fundamentally, the purpose of meditation is to move you into a higher state of consciousness and to experience and rest in, at least for a temporary period of time, the higher frequencies of manifestation, which you might call a higher dimension and which correspond to the higher state of consciousness you have reached.
There are two fundamental forms of meditation. One is a consciousness form and one is an energy form. These two forms can overlap. The consciousness form relates more to the Divine Masculine approach, drawing on the qualities and strengths of the Divine Masculine, which in its purest form manifests or is experienced as pure consciousness. This is rather difficult to describe and express accurately because of the limitations in your language, which don’t allow clear and direct expression of these concepts. Your language difficulty stems from the fact that, in the third dimension, there generally isn’t clear understanding and experience of these concepts and states. So they are generally expressed as best as possible, given these limitations.
The energy form of meditation is based in the Divine Feminine approach, because energy is a characteristic and quality of the Divine Feminine. This is all explained in great detail in the book, Mary Magdalene Beckons. It would be best to reference what is already contained in that book to understand the qualities, attributes, and differences between the Divine Feminine and Masculine in greater depth.
Fundamentally there are these two broad types of meditation, and there are many ways to access and deepen in both. There are also forms of meditation that draw on both the Masculine and the Feminine, to a greater or lesser extent.
The traditional spiritual forms of meditation that were developed in the East, especially in the traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, tend to be primarily oriented to developing and growing in consciousness. In these practices, you are primarily working with your mind, quieting the lower mind and allowing the higher mind to be accessed. You have concentration practices, such as counting your breaths, becoming aware of your bodily experiences, becoming the witness or observer of all experience, asking questions into the nature of existence, and repeating mantras. All theses are techniques for bringing discipline to the lower mind so that it can relax and subside, thus allowing the higher mind to be accessed.
When the higher mind is accessed, you start to function from a higher consciousness and higher dimension. For most people, this will initially be the fourth dimension. Once the higher mind opens, there are various things that may happen. You may continue to focus on the pure state of consciousness and go more deeply into that state. This may feel like letting go of everything—all aspects of your body-mind—and resting in a state that is deeply refreshing. There may or may not be energy experiences that accompany this, such as a blissful feelings, visions, sounds, appearances of higher beings, etc. It is the choice of the practitioner how they want to proceed when the higher mind opens. They have the choice to continue into a greater connection with pure consciousness or to choose to go into the energy experiences. Neither is right or wrong, better or worse, higher or lower. But they will tend to have different results.
I suggest that you be clear what your intention is in choosing to meditate. If your intention is to clear the mind and refresh yourself deeply in the well of pure consciousness, then choose a meditation that supports that, and follow that form. In those meditations, when the higher mind opens, you will continue to connect as deeply as possible with pure consciousness. Then the instruction would be to not get involved in other phenomena that arise, such as energy experiences, creative thoughts, or various other experiences.
However, you may have a different intention in your meditation. If your intention is to solve problems, manifest a certain experience, or connect with higher beings, etc., you may choose to allow and follow these when they arise.
If I may use you as an example, Mercedes, you spent many years practicing a consciousness-based meditation and became very strong at that. At a certain point, quite a few years ago, you went through a profound awakening in consciousness. In your case, that consciousness practice was supported by other practices of disciplining your physical body, emotions, and energy, which are Feminine aspects of your being. Bringing discipline to them supported you in coming into balance and peace, freeing you to become more aware of consciousness and to go more deeply into the state of pure consciousness.
If the physical body, emotions, and energetic self do not have that kind of balance and peace, they will tend to distract you. Then it’s more difficult to become aware of the higher states of consciousness and to follow those into a deeper union with them. This is why spiritual life is generally engaged with accompanying lifestyle changes and practices, such as having a pure diet, or making choices about the company you keep or the kinds of stimulation you bring to your mind, body, and energetic self. These things all support you becoming more free to focus on and become attuned to pure consciousness.
I have been speaking about meditation up till now in its more Masculine form of uniting with pure consciounsess, bringing the practitioner into a greater sense of liberation, peace, and a certain kind of deep ecstasy of union with God, in a very pure form. I would also like to clarify the more Feminine form of meditation, which has to do with focusing on energy. Ultimately, the Feminine is all about energy. As you know from your scientist, Einstein, and many others as well, energy always has a counterpart in matter, form, or manifestation. This counterpart can be at a much subtler than the physical. You may experience energy as sound, light, or sensations that don’t seem to have a physical base. Creativity is another form of Feminine manifestation, as are the manifestation of subtle beings, such as angels or beings in higher dimensions. All of these forms of energy may become a focus for the Feminine form of mendation.
An example of a more Feminine-based meditation would be to focus your attention on manifesting a certain outcome or on finding a creative solution to a situation or problem. Shamanic journeying is a Feminine form of meditation, because it is based upon experiences in subtler realms of manifestation. It is often guided by a drum or ingestion of a substance that moves you into a different state of energy, as well as a different dimension of existence. Sacred sexuality practice is a Feminine form of energy meditation, because it follows the energy of sexuality to move you into higher states of manifestation. Certain forms of breathwork, such as holotropic breathing, can be practiced as Feminine forms of meditation, as they make use of the energy of the breath to move the practitioner into an altered, or higher, state.
As I said earlier, it is not that one way or the other is right or wrong, better or worse, superior or inferior. They have different purposes and outcomes. So it is to your benefit to become aware of the outcome you desire and to choose a meditation practice that supports that. It is also wise to be aware that different meditation practices appeal to different aspects of your being. Whether you are naturally strong in that aspect of your being will influence whether that form of meditation is accessible or easy for you. Many people have tried the more Masculine forms of meditation and concluded that they’re not capable of meditating, because they weren’t able to quiet their body, energy, or lower mind to the point that their higher mind opened up. Often, that is a sign that these people are not naturally strong in the more Masculine aspect of their being. If they were to engage a more Feminine form of meditation, such as shamanic journeying, sacred sexuality, or a manifestation process, they may have a very different experience, with much greater ease and success.
Truly, you are all both Feminine and Masculine. Ultimately it is to your benefit to develop both Feminine and Masculine approaches to meditation. That is the most direct route to growing into the higher dimensions. If I may use you as an example again, Mercedes, you now practice a form of meditation that is very balanced. It is both a consciousness practice and an energy practice. It allows you to rest in greater and greater connection with pure consciousness. At the same time, you use a portion of your meditation time for manifestation and for connection with higher beings. This has proven to be very effective and powerful for you in regularly accessing the fourth-dimensional state, with it’s attendant higher consciousness and higher abilities in the energy realm.
Most people in your culture at this time are not so easily able to relax the Feminine parts of their being and move into the pure Masculine. This is interesting, as you tend to live in a Masculine–dominated culture. Yet the Feminine and Masculine are always in balance, so in any given circumstance, if one is predominating in a certain way, the other will always show up in another arena as a form of balance. For most of you, it is at the subconscious level that you are mightily attached to the Feminine, even as your conscious life tends to be dominated by the Masculine. The strength of your subconscious attachment to the Feminine, in the form of your physical body, emotions, energy, and sexuality, as well as your tendency to be engaged in creative thinking (without the ability to set it aside through intention), tends to make it easier for most people to access meditation in a more Feminine form in your present day and age.
However, as I said before, the Masculine and Feminine are always in unity and ultimately cannot be separated, even though one or the other may seem to be the primary experience you are having at a given time in the third dimension. This is part of the third-dimensional consciousness and experience of separation. In the third dimension, the Masculine and Feminine seem to exist in separation. This is an illusion, but you will not fully realize it as such until you move beyond the third dimension.
Because of the inherent unity of the Masculine and Feminine, any meditation that you engage will ultimately involve both aspects of your being. While a consciousness-based meditation will lead you into a purer form of the Masculine gift of pure consciousness, it will also lead you to higher states of manifestation and abilities in those states, either during the meditation itself or afterwards in your more “ordinary” life. Similarly a Feminine-based, energy-style meditation will not only lead you to new experiences and states of energy and energetic manifestation. It will also lead you to higher states of consciousness.
Thus, any practice will ultimately lead you to the whole, because all is truly whole and in union. It is simply a matter of whether that practice leads you there more directly or more indirectly. It is also a matter of whether that practice is easy and more accessible for you. My suggestion is to choose the practice that is most natural and accessible to you, based on your own abilities, qualities, and strengths. It is also important to be aware of the intended outcome of a particular practice. Choose a certain practice based on whether it focuses on the outcome you are seeking. If you are able to connect with your higher self and your own guidance, this is the best form of directing you to the practice that is right for you. If you are not able to connect with your higher self or guidance, use your body, feelings, and intuition to guide you to the practice that is most attractive to you and to which you are drawn. Then observe the results and see if those are the results that you value and desire. If not, adjust your practice or seek a different one.
As always, you can pray and ask God to guide you to the practice that is best for you. I recommend prayer often in my messages and I do so intentionally, because so many of you forget that you can always ask for help and it will be given. My hope is to offer this reminder as a loving support, guiding you to the loving help that God always provides.
I hope this has been helpful in finding the form of meditation that is most supportive for you. Meditation is an important practice, which I highly recommend as a valuable aspect of living a spiritually-based life and experiencing the fruits of the higher dimensions and higher consciousness. May you all enjoy this. It will transform you and your world.
With much love and blessings,
I Am Mary Magdalene
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Mercedes Kirkel is a multi-award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. Her book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. Mercedes’s forthcoming book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene, will be available in July, 2014. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
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MARY MAGDALENE: What Will Support You Most In Living In Your Heart
Part 3 of a Message
Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On October 3, 2013
Question: Which chakras or areas do people need to work on right now for their full illumination? What do you recommend to remove these blockages?
Mary Magdalene: Thank you for asking this question. I want to begin by saying that, obviously, it is unique for each person what their individual challenges or blockages are, what they need to work on, and what would be the best avenue for them for doing that work.
Nevertheless, there are patterns right now in your world and your culture, as far as what blockages people are experiencing, in general, relative to their chakras or to different areas of their lives, and what they can do about these blockages. I focused on this a lot in the first series of messages I gave to Mercedes, which are contained in the book, Mary Magdalene Beckons. I urge people to make use of that book for a very full and deep discussion of just this thing—the blockages that are presenting themselves and the specific actions people can take to move beyond these. But I will briefly reference what those are in a summary way right now.
The number one blockage that most people are experiencing, and which I believe is holding most people back in their spiritual growth more than anything else, is their blockage relative to emotions. Specifically this occurs when people are dealing with painful emotions. This is related to the second chakra, which is the chakra where most people have the most challenge. This is also the chakra of sexuality and relationships, and these are areas that many people are challenged in, as well.
The wonderful thing is that your challenge is also your opportunity. Your emotions, sexuality, and relationships are your greatest opportunities for spiritual growth at this time. This is related to what’s specifically being called for at this time for most people, which is to strengthen your inner Divine Feminine. Most people are underdeveloped in their inner Divine Feminine. It is an area that has been held back and actually withheld—culturally, educationally, and in many, many ways—for a very long time in your world. Most of you have developed your Masculine side rather exclusively, so now you are overdeveloped in your Masculine side and underdeveloped in your Feminine side. This is true for women and men. Everyone, regardless of your gender, needs to be strong in both.
At this time there is a great opening for the Divine Feminine. There is also great need for the Divine Feminine. It is required that the Divine Feminine become strong so that she can come into balance with the Divine Masculine. This needs to happen within all of you. Really it’s even greater than coming into balance. It’s coming into sacred union, the Divine Feminine and Masculine coming together in wholeness and oneness. It is a great, great beauty when you experience that.
I was most blessed to have that experience with my beloved Yeshua. It is not different from the experience that all of you will have, even within yourself, when you experience this union. It is a most wonderful thing. It is what you are all being called to, and in fact, what is required for you to make the transition into the new age before you.
Many of you are doing wonderful work in this area. But there is a great deal to be done. When this strengthening of the Divine Feminine is strong and full, it will allow you to live in your heart, as an ongoing, continual experience. I know that so many of you long for this, and it is underway. The thing that will support you the most in this is developing strength in your relationship to your emotions, and especially your painful emotions. That is the number one area that will help you more than anything else.
As I said earlier, I have explained how to do this in detail in my instructions in Mary Magdalene Beckons. It’s really quite a simple path. But for many, it will not be easy, because you are so trained in other ways that have excluded this. The basics are given in that book and I encourage all of you to make use of it. Transforming the way you respond to and make use of painful emotions will help you and your world more than anything else.
Thank you for your question. I send you my love and blessings.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, Akashic Record Readings, Spiritual Instruction and Support, and Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction. 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: Empowering The Feminine Within and Without
Part 2 of a Message
Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On September 5, 2013
Question: For women, particularly of the Middle Eastern descent, is the essence of the Divine Feminine being allowed and supported at the moment?
Mary Magdalene: Your question is a beautiful one. What I feel in this question is your compassion and your concern for the Feminine and women who are incarnate on the planet at this time, especially women in the Middle East.
It is absolutely true that women are not being supported in all the ways that would be optimal in allowing the Feminine to come forth. You might say the Middle East is one of the more extreme areas in your world right now where the Feminine is still quite suppressed and held back. But sadly, it is not only the Middle East. It is in all places. The suppression of the Feminine is perhaps more subtle in the United States or your western, more developed world, because in those areas the suppression tends to be internal rather than external. Even in the external, most women are still not related to in a way that places them as equal in value to men.
This is not the same as saying that women are the same as men. This is one of the errors that occurred earlier in your opening to the Feminine. What happened for many women when they initially tried to claim their power, which they had not done for a very long time, was that they assumed the Masculine form of power. There is nothing wrong with this. All beings need to have access to the Feminine and the Masculine forms of power and embodiment. But it was done in a way that still did not bring forth the Feminine power, the Feminine strengths, and the Feminine arenas of manifestation.
Bringing forth the Feminine is still called for and is still a challenge for most people, in all areas of your world. The work of bringing forth the inner Feminine, which I am focusing on, is something that virtually everyone needs access to. But it is nonetheless true that there are areas such as the Middle East, where women are still denied many of the privileges in their outer life and outer form that men have access to. This is affecting those women in bringing forth their full Feminine power and Feminine strength.
In your world, both the inner and outer are very important. It is important that women be valued as women, as human beings. They must be supported in coming forth with all their strengths, having access to all aspects of your world, as much as men. At the same time, the inner work is also essential. For example, you must bring forth the Feminine in your relationship with your own body, as well as to the physical altogether.
In your world right now there’s so much destruction being done relative to the Earth and your environment, so much callousness. The extent to which people are not feeling how valuable the earth is and how important it is to protect the Earth, to honor the Earth, to treasure the Earth, to be in relationship with the Earth—this is a reflection of the way that so many people are cut off from their own physical body. If you were truly in relationship with your physical body, you could not do this to the Earth. You would see that the Earth is alive. The Earth is a living being, just as you are a living being, and the physical Earth is Her physical body. You would see it as the same.
Yeshua gave the exquisite instruction to relate to all others as you relate to yourself. This instruction is so profound and so far-reaching. You must begin with your relationship with yourself and inevitably that will be reflected in your world. When all of you change your relationship to this one aspect of the Feminine within—how you relate to your own body and treasure your body as a temple of the divine, specifically the Feminine form of the divine—you will see a huge change in your world. This inner work is essential. But I do not in any way suggest doing this to the exclusion of the outer work. I hope that is clear.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, Spiritual Instruction and Support, and Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction. 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: What Is Most Critical At This Time
Part 1 of a Message
Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On September 5, 2013
Hello everyone,
This is Mary Magdalene. Thank you to all of you who are listening and all of you who will be receiving this message in the future. I am so very happy to connect with all of you.
I wish to say a little bit about myself at this point. Some of you may already know this and some of you may be less familiar with what I’m about to share. I feel like it’s important to begin from this base of understanding about me and what I am bringing through at this time.
Many of you are familiar with me as a person who was recorded in the Bible as one of the followers of Jesus. My preferred way to refer to Jesus is through the name Yeshua, which is his Aramaic name. Aramaic was the language we were speaking at the time of his and my incarnation, two thousand years ago. So I will be referring to him as Yeshua, but this is the same one that many of you know as Jesus.
My relationship with Yeshua was a very sacred relationship. Everyone who was touched by him, who was involved with him in any way, had a sacred relationship with him. I had the great, great blessing and tremendous gift to be very close to him, in fact to be in sacred relationship with him. This is something I have explained in detail in the book Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love. This is something that was not recorded in the Bible, for various reasons. The Bible was recorded long after our lifetimes. Those who decided what would and what would not be included in the Bible had their own decisions they were making and their own purposes. As part of that, it was decided that my story would largely not be included, except in very skeletal form.
But in fact, it is the case that I was Yeshua’s partner and we were in sacred relationship together. The reason for this is quite deep, quite complex. One aspect of it is that we both had work—very, very profound and important spiritual work—that we were bringing forth. It was understood that my part of this was to bring forth what I refer to as the Divine Feminine, or the Feminine face of God. I was incarnated with Yeshua as an example and a modeling of the union of Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, in the form of a human man and woman.
But we also understood—Yeshua and myself, and others as well—that the world at that time was not ready for this aspect of our work and the teaching that we were bringing forth—the aspect of the Divine Feminine, the aspect of sacred relationship, the aspect of God having attributes or aspects that were both Masculine and Feminine. (Another way of saying this is Father-Mother-God.) At that time, two thousand years ago, the world was not prepared for this. We understood this. Even back when we were both physically incarnated, we knew that it would be two thousand years before the world was ready. That time has come. This is the time now. Not only is the world ready to receive the divine in Feminine form, and to receive my teaching of the Divine Feminine, but the world needs this. Receiving the Divine Feminine is very crucial to your time period right now.
There are many who are aware of this. I am not the first to say this and this occasion is certainly not the first time of this being stated. Many, many people who are aware, who are conscious, and many people who are tuned into higher beings are quite cognizant of this, that this is the time of the Divine Feminine coming through and coming forth, and that this is absolutely necessary right now.
This is one of the reasons why I have been coming through to Mercedes, as well as to other people. Part of my work is to be a leader in the transformation that humans are in the process of undergoing. This is a transformation from having the Divine Masculine as the predominant message you received and incarnated for a very long time. That message has predominated both in terms of your spirituality and also in terms of your more mundane world and aspects of that world—your politics, culture, education, and personal development. All of these have been quite dominated by the Masculine, what you could call the Divine Masculine. Now it is time for the Divine Feminine to come forth, to be incarnated, to be understood, and for all of you—men and women alike—to become strong in the Feminine, so that you can come into balance between the Masculine and the Feminine.
First and foremost, this must happen within yourselves. You all have your own inner Feminine and Masculine, which is a reflection or manifestation of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. For all of you, this is where the work originates, within yourselves. For many of you, this will require strengthening the Feminine, because this has not been supported and developed for a very, very long time. Even those of you who feel great love of the Feminine and the Divine Feminine, who feel very positively oriented toward the Feminine, even you often have work within yourselves to do to strengthen your inner Feminine. This is very practical work. There are very practical arenas that need to be developed for this to become strong, because it has been withheld from you, in so many ways, for so very long.
As I talked about in the messages that are recorded in the book Mary Magdalene Beckons, there are three primary arenas where the Feminine needs to be strong. It is within these three arenas that many people need to examine themselves and see what work they may have to do to complete the strengthening of the Feminine within. This is so important for people to do at this time. First and foremost, this is work for you to do with yourself, for your own strengthening and balancing. Secondly, this work needs to be done for your sacred relationships you will be engaging in your life, that these can come into balance. The third very important reason is that you are not only doing this work for yourself. You do this as service to humanity, for your whole world. As you transform, as you strengthen and develop and grow yourself, you are affecting what is accessible for people, what is available to people, and what is becoming strong for your whole world. Any time you do growth and transformation work for yourself, it affects everyone. That is very, very important at this time.
You are all at a very critical juncture, where there is great opportunity opening up for your world, and for human beings, in particular, to transition into a higher level of consciousness. This will be reflected in a higher dimension of reality coming in and being the realm that you all inhabit, that you know, that you live in and are manifesting in. This is the great opportunity you have at this time. Those of you who are on your spiritual path, who are light-workers, very likely those of you who are listening to me at this time, many of you are quite aware of this. I, and so many beings of the higher realms, thank you for all that you are doing to support this amazing transformation that is underway in your world. This is not only affecting the Earth. This transformation is so vast and involves so many places in your universe, all of which you are affecting through the spiritual work you are doing. It is most important. We thank all of you for this.
I am aware that I have wandered away a bit from where I started, which was explaining about the Divine Feminine and the arenas through which this manifests within each of you. Now I wish to return to that. What I want to explain is that there are these three arenas that are the foundation of the Divine Feminine within each one of you: the relationship with your physical body, the relationship with your sexuality, and the relationship with your emotions. For each of you, these are the places that I strongly urge you to examine and see what may need strengthening within yourself. This is what I talked about in great depth in the messages I gave in the book Mary Magdalene Beckons, along with my guidance and instruction as to what each of you can do to strengthen these areas. As I said at that time, of these three, the area that is most critical for the most people is the way that you respond to pain.
The area of emotions, for many people, is quite confusing. Your emotions are truly a gift from the divine that is rather unique to human beings in your realm. Yet many of you do not yet fully understand how to receive this gift that has been given to you in the emotional realm and how to work with emotions, particularly your painful emotions. This is the part that is most challenging for many of you. You did not receive help and support and guidance in understanding the pathway of how to respond to painful emotions, how to receive the gift from God that’s being given to you through these emotions, and how to make use of emotions to support your spiritual journey, to support your uniting with God.
Because you did not receive that instruction and that guidance, and because you do not fully understand it, I especially focused on that in my earlier messages that are recorded in Mary Magdalene Beckons. I gave detailed instruction about how you can respond differently to your painful emotions in a way that will be most supportive of you, most supportive of your spiritual connection, and most supportive of your forward movement in your spiritual evolution. I did this because, from my vantage point, this is the area that is holding most people back from their spiritual growth in general, and specifically from the incarnation of the Divine Feminine.
This is why I said earlier that while many of you are so positively oriented to the Divine Feminine and the Feminine in all her forms (which is a most wonderful thing), even so, for many of you there may still be work to do in these three arenas, and especially in the emotional arena in terms of how you respond to pain. I urge you to make use of the instruction I have given and to learn these pathways of incarnating the Divine Feminine, which will support you and help to transform you, and in that process, transform your world.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, Spiritual Instruction and Support, and Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction. 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: Finding The Inner Marriage
Part 4 of a Message
Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On July 21, 2013
Question: If you and your loved one have separated, in what ways can you embody the Masculine and Feminine on your own?
Mary Magdalene: All of you have your inner Masculine and Feminine. This is something I spoke about in great depth through the messages that were given to Mercedes and then recorded in the book. [Mercedes’s note: Mary is referring to the book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love.] It would be very helpful to familiarize yourself with the different paths of the inner Masculine and Feminine first. Then you can consider if there is anything that needs strengthening within yourself.
For most beings on the Earth at this time, there is an imbalance happening in the inner aspect. Most of you are developed and, in general, dominated by your inner Masculine, while being underdeveloped and weak in your inner Feminine. This is true for men, as well as women. It will often show up in different ways for men than it does for women. But both require their inner Feminine and inner Masculine to be strong.
Once you educate yourself about these different ways that the two manifest within, you can take stock and evaluate if there are parts of yourself that are underdeveloped. For most people, that will be the Feminine. Even for women today, it is still often the Feminine that is underdeveloped and causing imbalance. This is one of the things that causes many problems in relationships between partners. If you come into a relationship not being in balance yourself, you place demands on the relationship to try to establish that balance. These demands are often a great strain and even can be a breaking point for the relationship.
It is very important, as part of your spiritual work, to become familiar with these different parts of yourself, which are ultimately different parts of God. I call them the Masculine and Feminine face of God. For some people, referring to them as Feminine and Masculine is not comfortable. That is fine. They can find other ways of referring to them. But I think it is helpful. It is the way I see them, and know them, and have been trained to understand them. So I speak of them this way.
This is important for your own spiritual growth. A very important part of what is going to allow you to engage the ascension process is to complete your own inner work in the Masculine and Feminine. They must be in balance within yourself so that you can find the inner marriage, which is a wonderful state to experience and know. This is the inner marriage of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine—ultimately the marriage of your heart, which is the seat of the Divine Feminine, and your sacred mind, which is the seat of the Divine Masculine. When these come into union through this sacred inner marriage, it becomes the doorway for moving into the next higher dimension.
This is quite important and valuable work. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with what I have offered in the past, because I believe that this will help people in ways that many people are not aware of yet.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, and Akashic Record Readings. 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: Finding The Relationship You’ve Dreamed Of
Part 1 of a Message
Given to Mercedes Kirkel
On July 21, 2013
[Note: This message was received at a celebration of Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day.]
Blessings my dear ones. This is Mary Magdalene and I am so happy to be here with you tonight. I thank you so much for gathering together, for honoring me through this celebration, through this day, which has been selected as a time of remembering me and connecting with me. I am so happy to be here to connect with you and to have this time with you. Thank you so much, dear ones.
My heart is so full of love in this moment. I hope that you are able to feel it. I am full of love for all of you. I am full of love for all beings. But in this gathering at this time, I am especially full of love for all of you, so grateful to you for your opening to me and to so many beautiful beings of light. Of course, you are also a beautiful being of light. I see you that way, and more and more I see that you know yourself that way. That is something that I also celebrate, for that is part of what humanity is growing into at this time—each of you knowing yourself as a being of light, which you absolutely are and always have been. I and others are helping you to recognize this, to grow fully into this, and to be the manifestation of light that you have come to be.
So I am celebrating you at this time. And I am celebrating this amazing time on Earth, which, of course, I have spoken about in the past. But I feel it so strongly that I want to acknowledge it once again. This is an amazing time, which you have all chosen to be here for, to participate in, to support, and to help others in their passage through this time, in their evolution and growth into a new age, a new consciousness, most definitely a new world for all of you, and a new time of knowing yourselves in a much greater way as the beings of light that you are.
This movement into a new age is well underway. There are many things that will need to happen before you have fully made this transition. But it has begun and you are in the midst of it. It is unstoppable. There is no question that this new age will arrive. And you are all a part of ushering yourselves and all beings into this new age. It is so exciting.
In our time of being on the Earth—Yeshua and myself—we, too, were a part of this transition. 2000 years is actually a very short amount of time in terms of these kinds of openings and changes. It was the beginning, which is still going on. Many of you have a connection to Yeshua and to myself from that time, and we are still so deeply connected to you. It is a continuation.
Of course, when I speak of time, this is my effort to try and reference it in ways that make sense to you in the third dimension, at this time. (She laughs quietly.) I do not relate to time in the same way, in general. So for me, we have always been together. There has been no separation, no passage. But I understand that for many of you it seems differently. And that is fine. However you are seeing it is perfect to what it supporting you in this moment. And that will change over time, in the perfect time. It is nothing to be concerned about.
But yes, I say “hello” to you across the time, to so many I have known in different periods. You are all so special to me, so absolutely beloved. I wish I had better words with which to express this, to make it so clear to you how much I value you, how much you are a part of my heart and my joy.
I am checking to see if there is anything in particular that I sense is important to talk about at this time. (space of silence) One thing that I want to speak of is a change that is already in progress, but you may or may not be aware of it, and it may or may not have affected you directly yet. This is a change relative to relationships between men and women in your world. Part of this transition—and I have spoken of this in great depth—is the Masculine and Feminine coming into balance, into harmony, and into union with each other. This always begins with the Masculine and Feminine within each of you, and in the greater sense with all of you recognizing the aspects of God that you may refer to as Masculine or Feminine. But for many of you, it will also very much involve being in a relationship, which brings forth these qualities of the Masculine and Feminine in your relationship. There are many who have been wonderful, powerful beings of light at this time who have longed to have a relationship and have wondered when they would be in relationship, and if it was going to happen for them—particularly a relationship that was an inherent part of their spiritual path and their spiritual journey. It is this that I wish to speak about.
This is coming in for many of you who have not been in relationship and have longed for that, have wanted that, have hoped for it. This is part of the transition that we are in, that you are going to see more and more around you, and very possibly in your own life. More and more people are finding the relationships that they have been dreaming of. They are moving into relationship and finding a great sense of peace, joy, and fulfillment in this relationship. I am so happy to share this with you, because I have known the wonders of relationship with my beloved and having that inextricably woven with my spiritual path, with my spiritual work, with my heart, with my soul, with the essence of who I am. I am so happy to be able to share with you that many of you, if you have not already, will be finding this relationship and experiencing this wonder and joy in relationship. So that is very happy, very wonderful news that I have to share with you.
Some of you have not chosen to be in relationship and that is absolutely fine. You will know this wonder of the union of the Masculine and Feminine in other ways—within yourself, within God. It is not a limitation in any form. Both are fully empowered, fully wonderful in their own ways, simply two different paths that are possible.
You are going to be seeing many changes in your world. Some of them may be wonderful, some of them may be surprising, some of them may seem challenging. It is all part of this “changing of the guard,” you might say, this release and letting go of so much that has been a part of your world, so much that has been a part of your consciousness, your reality for a very long time, and new things coming in. So there is both a death of the old and a birth of the new happening simultaneously.
There may be aspects of the letting go, the release, the death process that may seem difficult or even perhaps scary. I have given a great deal of instruction that has already been received and recorded in the book by Mercedes about how to relate to this kind of thing, how to make use of situations, even where you feel afraid, to bring you to God, to stabilize you and strengthen you in your connection to God. That is what is most important. It has always been important. But at this time it may seem or appear even more important that you absolutely maintain your foundation and your stability in your connection to God.
Whatever it is that supports your connection to God—whether it’s a daily practice that you have; whether it’s the company that you keep, including being inspired by books or communications that you receive through the internet—whatever form it is that strengthens you, that maintains your absolute, unwavering connection to God is only going to become more important. I urge you to support yourself in that way. Through that you will be supporting yourself and also so many others.
Your own connection to God is the greatest form of support you can give. It is an important service at this time, to the world and to other beings, that you strengthen and increase, to the maximum you are able, that grid of connection to God. It will help make this passage easier, gentler, more graceful for all. I ask that all of you do your part, as much as you are able, to make this possible, to strengthen this, to help others, to help all in this way. And of course, it will make it most wonderful for you to do this, as well.
I am reaching out and sincerely asking for everyone’s help. Each person who participates in this way will make an enormous difference. The number one thing is your connection to God. Beyond that there is blessing, prayer, sending light. All of those things are most wonderful, but they are secondary. The most important thing is your bond, your oneness with God. That will make the greatest difference. It will also guide you and let you know what you are to be doing that is perfect for you, through all these changes. You will have clarity, you will know. It is important for yourself, as well, to have that clarity and guidance.
So I beseech you to maintain this practice, this disposition, what you might call “this asana” of connection to God with the greatest strength that you are able. Call upon your guides, call upon God directly. Ask for help in whatever form seems strongest for you and you will receive it. I thank you for doing that. It is so important that this be held on the Earth, as well, and not simply by the higher beings, who are doing so much to support this. You have your part to do, too. And it is very important.
[End of Part 1]
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, and Akashic Record Readings. 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: The Essenes Are a Model for You
Part 3 of a Message
Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On June 16, 2013
Question: We each have the Masculine and Feminine within us, and some have stronger aspects than others. In relating and supporting the Masculine and Feminine, we can sometimes be off balance. What is a good reminder to get back in balance?
Mary Magdalene: It is always to return to whatever connects you with God and realigns you with God, using whatever form you have developed for doing that. It is most important that everyone have a form that they engage with regularity for connecting and aligning with God. For many it is meditation. If this is the form you use, it is most important that you meditate with regularity. Do it when you find yourself out of balance or find yourself in struggle in any way. Return to balance through your practice of meditation.
Your practice may take other forms. Perhaps your form is prayer. Perhaps your form is being in nature. Perhaps your form is music. Whatever it is that reunites you and aligns you to God in the highest is what you should call upon. That will inherently rebalance you.
This is oftentimes one of the challenges that couples get into. You’re struggling and you keep trying and trying to work it through. Yet the more you try, the more the situation seems to devolve. Your trying seems to take you away from your access to God and your higher self, your higher nature. One of the aspects of consciousness that the Masculine can bring in—and of course this can be through a woman or a man, whoever is strong in it, but it is most wonderful if it can come through the man—is to have the clarity, the insight to say, “Let us stop. Let us take space to reconnect with God, to realign ourselves, and come back when we are refreshed, when we are balanced, when we are whole.” This is an aspect of the Masculine coming in to support both people in the relationship.
The Feminine will never stop. (soft laughter) The Feminine is the force that will give until she dies.
Question: What was your relationship to St. John?
Mary Magdalene: St. John was a beautiful being who was a great support to me, because he understood the Feminine and honored the Feminine. He was a great support to Yeshua’s mother, Lady Mary, as well. In some ways he was like a younger brother to me, a most beautiful high being, very pure in his own right. I loved him immensely, as did Yeshua.
You must understand that all of the beings who were involved with us are part of our closest soul family. We all came into that time period with our own roles to play, our own parts to bring in, in support of all beings. And we knew this. We loved each other immensely because we recognized our eternal bonds, our huge commitment, our great love and strength in God, together.
Question: Were you part of the Essene community, because that was very important in those days for continuing the traditions and the knowledge.
Mary Magdalene: We were very much a part of the Essene community. Yet we were bigger than the Essene community. I had very powerful roots to the Temple of Isis. Yeshua’s training and influence was enormous. It included so many beings, so many traditions. But the Essenes were our closest family and greatest supporters. They had a very important role in allowing us to do the work that we did and supporting us.
In many ways, the Essenes operated more like the way that we operate at the higher dimensions. They are a wonderful model for you in your world of what is possible in spiritual relationship, at a more expanded level than just the man-woman relationship or the parent-child relationship. They were very high beings. And they held a force-field through their spiritual relating that was essential for the work that was being done. So it was more than the physical, much more.
This is what you are all being called to grow into today. Part of coming into the third-dimensional plane and reality involved breaking very far away from this kind of spiritual relationship that soul groups embody. This was intentional. It was for the purpose of learning, growing, understanding, and experiencing this kind of individuation in its most extreme form.
Now you are ready to return. For most of you, you are complete and you are in the process of opening to these deeper and most wonderful relationships. The man-woman relationship is an essential part of this, as the Essenes understood and honored. It expands out from there to relationships that are spiritually based with whole groups of people. As you move into the higher dimensions, this will be naturally occurring for you and will be part of the beauty and wonder that you experience. Some of you are moved to try to create this on Earth, in the third dimension. It is not easy here, but it is possible. The Essenes were a wonderful model for that.
We shall end here. My heart is filled with such loving depth of openness and compassion, reaching to you in love, receiving your love. Thank you so much for this time together. I love you greatly, as do so many.
With this, I leave, with my blessing. I AM Mary Magdalene.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, 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 an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. 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, including Evolve Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, and Akashic Record Readings. 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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