Category: Spiritual Writings

“Edgar Cayce said we pick our parents.  Before our birth, as we are planning our incarnation, we choose the parents who will be best for our purposes and mission in a particular incarnation.  When I speak around the country and mention this Cayce fact, I half expect some tumult: ‘What? How is that possible? Why would I pick them?’  I have also wondered about this concept. What I do with many of Cayce’s concepts is ask myself, If that were true, what would it imply?

As I look at my life now, I see how my choice of parents was critical. What I learned of psychology in childhood is key in my life now as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and past-life regressionist.  My Catholic upbringing gave me an appreciation of faith and spirituality, which is my deepest connection with the Cayce readings, and my great grandmother’s influence set the stage for the Cayce work on all aspects of the unseen worlds.

But what about those with parents who don’t appear to be a clear-cut constructive choice?  A woman who came to me for a regression session last year began with this: ‘I’d like to believe I picked my parents, but they were drug addicts.  My father killed himself when I was 4, my mother was psychotic, my brother killed himself at 16, and I have battled depression, anxiety, and almost every addiction you can name.  So, let’s find out why I picked these people.’

Why would someone pick a situation to experience suffering? In trance, this woman was able to come into the presence of her guides and ask them why she chose her parents.  They communicated with her telepathically, and she relayed this message to me: ‘They are telling me that I really wanted to learn in this life, and they are telling me how much I have learned.  My life is an incredible success!’

I was reminded, once again, that the soul view is very different from the ego view.  The soul comes to work, while the ego wants a pina colada in Barbados!”

Excerpted from REFLECTIONS – “Peter Piper Picked His Parents” by Peter Woodbury, MSW, EdgarCayce.org.

“Pure consciousness is the awareness of the One Creator.

The infinite Creator creates living fractals of Its Being and extensions of Its Consciousness.

It is who we all are in our innermost being. It’s what gives us life. It is our inner light and our true nature. It is the energy of the heart of our Being.

Without boundaries, it is felt as unconditional love, compassion, and joy.

We all have free will to engage our consciousness with anything we can imagine. If we choose to be only love, we engage our natural creative power to reflect only loving experiences in our future.

We create our experiences by focusing our imagination and empowering our thoughts with our heart-felt emotions.

This creates conditions that will elicit those emotions in our experiences. If we want to live a life filled with love, peace, joy, and beauty, then we will call forth–with gratitude and determination–the emotions that accompany those conditions.

The energetic expression of our Creator appears in everyone and in everything.

We can focus on how we feel best, until it becomes our habit, and we can do it intentionally whenever needed in any situations—especially challenging ones. This is how the divine current of life flows through our being, providing us with continuing experiences filled with loving beings and circumstances of elevated awareness.

This can be our new world. It already exists just waiting for us all to feel it and recognize it. Here we can live entirely within the guidance of our highest nature as expressed through the energy of the heart of our Being.”

“If you are one of the many people who have an issue with their parents, if you still harbor resentment about something they did or did not do, then you still believe that they had a choice — that they could have acted differently.

It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion.  As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?  None.

You are not even there.  The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.  It is a form of insanity.  Almost everyone is suffering from this illness in varying degrees.  The moment you realize this, there can be no more resentment.  How can you resent someone’s illness?  The only appropriate response is compassion.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.  You share the vulnerability and mortality of your physical form with every other human.  You die as an earthly mortal. A humbling realization of your shared humanity leaves little room for pride.

‘Forgiveness’ is a term that has been in use for two thousand years, but most people have a very limited view of what it means.

You cannot truly forgive yourself or others as long as you derive your sense of self from the past.  Only through accessing the power of Now, which is your own power, can there be true forgiveness.

This renders the past powerless, and you realize deeply that nothing you ever did or that was ever done to you could touch even in the slightest the radiant essence of who you are.  The whole concept of forgiveness then becomes unnecessary.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power.  You do not need it anymore.  Presence is the key.  The Now is the key.”

The Power Of Now – A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle, pgs. 196, 228 – 229.

“There is one Consciousness or Prime Creator and that infinite, eternal energy became ‘Manyness’. While we appear separate and individual, we all came from this one Source. And that Source is experiencing itself as ‘Infinite Manyness’. We are many facets of one diamond (universe) of endless, innumerable others!