Author: mysticheartsong

After thirty years of teaching Inner City, Special Education students and forty-five years of metaphysical studies, I have decided to share my life's philosophical understandings on this wonderful website. For me, everything in my life has been a spiritual experience from being raised in an alcoholic household, to marriage and teaching, and finally caring for an Alzheimer parent. I have sought at least fifteen, personal psychic readings to try and assist me as a wife, teacher and caretaker. I want to share the wisdom that I have gained from following the valuable spiritual guidance from my inner knowing and from heeding the advise of channeled answers from trusted psychics. At almost 70 years old, I am writing, traveling and enjoying retirement in Florida.

Connection Is The Real Cure

I’ve come to realize something simple…

Something I wish more people felt safe enough to know.
Connection is the real cure.
Not another tactic.
Not more advice.
Not even more understanding.
But real, human connection—the kind that sees you without needing to fix you.

The kind that says, “I get it… and I’m here.”

I’ve watched people shift in moments—not because they learned something new, but because for the first time in a long time, they felt accepted.

No masks. No judgment. Just compassion.
It’s wild how much healing happens when someone feels safe enough to be who they really are.
No pressure to change. No shame for where they’ve been. Just love.
Love isn’t fluffy.
It’s fierce. It holds space. It listens without interrupting. It reminds you that you’re not broken.
When we offer that kind of space—for ourselves and for each other—we stop surviving… and start living.
This is what transforms people.
Not perfection.
Not performance.
But presence.
Let’s stop trying to fix everyone—and just start seeing them.
Because truth is, we all just want to feel that we belong somewhere.
And maybe that somewhere… is with each other.

 

 

Josiph Alvaro, facebook.com/joalvaro64

Finding A Deeper Relationship

“Without the knowledge of one’s inner self, there is little possibility for a truly rewarding and successful relationship.  A relationship is not something that exists just between two people.  Any relationship involves a multitude of selves in each person that interact with similar or opposite selves in the other. We have to learn who in us is interacting with our partner at any particular time.

Also if you surrender to the process of primary relationship, then you must learn to listen to your partner.  This does not mean that you must obey or agree with your partner, just that you must truly listen and feel your partner’s reality.  If you cannot listen or you do not hear what your partner is trying to say, then you must find out why this is so. You must continually give energy to the process of relationship and do whatever is necessary to move through the roadblocks that inevitably develop between partners.

Further, it is not easy to find a balance between this process of understanding a relationship’s capacity for choice and freedom and your own need to feel and behave like an independent human being.  If you do something that goes contrary to the requirements of your partner, you must learn to understand the viewpoint and feel the pain of your partner.  You must carry both of your realities, yours and your partner’s.  You cannot just fly off into rebellion or power to prove that you are tough and strong and independent as you go off to ‘do your own thing.’

The key here is that each of us must learn to feel our own vulnerability so that we can feel the vulnerability of our partners.  This deepens connections.  Embracing our vulnerability is a very threatening thing to do in a relationship because it means meeting the other person without defenses.  To learn to live with our vulnerability in an emotionally healthy way is to learn to live in a relationship in an undefended way.  This does not mean that we give up our power and become victims; it just means that we must feel our vulnerability.”

Partnering A New Kind Of Relationship – How To Love Each Other Without Losing Yourselves, Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra L. Stone, Ph.D., pgs. 24 – 26.

Solitude And Relationship

“In solitude, we affirm and renew our direct experience of thorough, undeniable presence.  But life is so much more than our individual experience.  And so, through relationship, we absorb and integrate the experience and presence of others.

Whales and dolphins are great teachers in how we move from solitude to community and back.  These mammoth creatures are air-breathing, which is quite miraculous.  And though they can stay submerged for long periods of time, they must surface to breathe or they will die.  But they can’t stay on the surface indefinitely because they must be immersed in the deep or they will die.

This is a helpful metaphor for how we, as souls in bodies, must continually submerge ourselves in the deep, only to break surface into the world.  The only question is:  What is your personal rhythm between depth and surface, between solitude and community?  How do we make a practice of breaking surface to serve the world and diving in the deep to renew our soul?”

Paramhansa Yogananda, the wise Indian guru says, “When you are with others, be with them whole-heartedly.  But when you are by yourself, be alone with God.  Spend ever more time with Him.”

German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, wrote, “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength, Mark Nepo, pgs. 61 – 62., The Essence Of Self-Realization, Paramhansa Yogananda, J. Donald Walters, p. 181., Arthur Schopenhauer Essays on Solitude.

Going Within And Listening

Ask questions. Ask questions ceaselessly. Never be satisfied as long as you have suffering or pain. Ask others, of course, but the greatest answers to your questions arise when you go within and touch the soul.

With the soul ignited, in soul awareness, you then touch a higher power. That higher power has the answers you seek, so ask. And how do you receive the answers? You cease asking and wondering every now and then and simply listen.

Listening is completely silent. It is expectant. It waits passively until something arises in the silence.

This is the ‘within’ – the silence that is full of possibilities, and when your intention is to tap into the highest and greatest possibility that will serve you and the greater good, then the answers are received.

Try it, why don’t you. Ask the questions by going within and listening.

You are so very loved.

suzannegiesemann.com

 

 

The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene – An Easter Message

“As the first witness to the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene was considered by the apostle John to be the founder of Christianity.  In most theological studies she has been depicted as a reformed prostitute, the redeemed sinner who exemplifies Christ’s mercy.  However, Mary Magdalene’s role was far more profound.

The Gnostic gospel of Mary Magdalene repeats many of the New Testament words of Jesus.  Here is Christ’s Easter Message which, in part, is also found in the New Testament books of Luke and John during the first appearances of Jesus after his resurrection!

In The Gospel of Mary Magdalene on Page 8, Christ said, ‘Attachment to matter gives rise to passion against nature. Thus trouble arises in the whole body; this is why I tell you: ‘Be in harmony … If you are out of balance, take inspiration from manifestations of your true nature.  Those who have ears, let them hear.’

After saying this, the Blessed One greeted them all, saying: ‘Peace be with you — may my Peace arise and be fulfilled within you!  Be vigilant, and allow no one to mislead you by saying: ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ 

For it is within you that the Son of Man dwells.  Go to him, for those who seek him, find him.  Walk forth, and announce the gospel of the Kingdom.’

Many search for peace where there seems to be the most light – the light of explanations, reasons, and justifications; the relative light of our small worlds and our supposed knowledge.  But the abode of peace is not to be found there.  Sometimes we must venture into the darkest rooms of our house and search in certain corners of the unconscious.

The teachings of the Gospels and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene all agree on this point ‘For it is within you that the Son of Man dwells.’ As long as our peace is dependent on any kind of external reality, it is not Peace; as long as our love for others and for the world is dependent on attitudes and feelings toward us, it is not Love. To the extent that our life depends on the material circumstances and conditions that constitute us, it is not Life.  It is still within the domain of the outer person, who is destined to fall in ruins.

Only within our true being do we find a Reality, a Life, a Knowledge, a Love, and a Peace that are not dependent.  These are present in the Son of Man who is also the Son of God.  This Reality is who we are and what we must become.  As The Gospel of Mary Magdalene says, ‘Go to him, for those who seek him, find him.’ “

The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene, Jean-Yves Leloup, p. 27, 70 – 72.

John 14:27 – “Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful.”

Luke 24:36 – “Now while they were telling these things, Jesus Himself suddenly stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be to you.”