Heaven on Earth

teachings from the realms of light for a life of joy

Session 7: Nest and Egg

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Music by Thaddeus: on ISF072J, Surrendering from Initiation; on ISF074J, Rising into Light from Initiation.

Notes

A key understanding that can be helpful for this part of the course relates to the nature of the phoenix: it is both of us and other than us. In the introductory talk I use the analogy of the mitochondria, structures within the cell that are considered to have originated as independent organisms which long ago migrated into cells to create an evolutionary symbiosis that we as physical beings depend upon for proper cell function. This theory quietly calls into question our familiar notion of ourselves as independent self-contained biological units. Similarly the idea that the energy Sananda has termed the phoenix has this ‘of us/not of us’ relationship with us can help us release old ideas of ourselves as separate units of consciousness. With the relinquishing of the fixed ‘I’ we can find a greater freedom to enlist the help of beings like the solar angels or this energy presence, the phoenix.

What, then, is the phoenix? As ever, your own experience is what matters most. But it may be helpful to give a few suggestions. In this session we begin by configuring the solar fire within the heart centre in a new way. It takes on a form that can look a little like a nest to your inner eyes and also has that function. For with the gift of solar fire new possibilities open up. We become more able to engage with certain forms of living light that require, or benefit from, an environment of solar fire for us to be able to relate to them. This living, conscious, fire being, the phoenix, is able to arise within us from a nest of solar fire. We may consider that the phoenix hatches from the egg that you are given in the angelic solar temple or that this gift enables the release from within your own being of a living fire that is, and perhaps always has been, an aspect of your being.

Of course, another characteristic of the phoenix is its ability to be reborn. In myth its nest of fire is the pyre that burns up its old form while providing the heat that hatches its new form. For us too the phoenix arises within us as a means by which old forms are given back into the formlessness of fire, out of which new forms, appropriate for who we are now and who we are becoming, are born. In subsequent sessions we will explore this potential for renewal the the phoenix offers us.

Session 8: The Phoenix Flies

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Music by Thaddeus: on ISF082J, Strands of Light from Becoming Your Soul; on ISF084J, Illumination from The Spiritual Sun.

Notes

Now you come to know the phoenix more directly. Sananda guides you in the first inner journey to discover points of contact between yourself and the phoenix that enable you to move into resonance with the phoenix and then to merge consciousness to a degree that allows you in the second inner journey to fly with or as the phoenix (this is how Sananda often expresses that ambiguity of relationship we have with the phoenix). You might think of this process as a way of allowing the gift of solar fire to spread beyond containment within the heart centre to be recognised as a presence suffusing your being and experienced throughout your energy field, either actually or as a potential state.
Notice the different qualities of light you may encounter in these journeys. When connecting with the solar angels from within the light of the angelic solar temple, Sananda introduces that additional causal dimension that allows you to find yourself in a constant and continuous relationship with them through all time or outside of time altogether. This multi-dimensional space of light then easily develops the quality Sananda calls amniotic light, a nurturing light that facilitates the arrival of the phoenix, itself an elemental expression of the fire aspect of the solar light. The phoenix helps you also to understand more of the nature of solar light by guiding you as move within the ocean of light the Sun offers. Here, as you fly with the phoenix, you may find a sense of the solar light opening to reveal countless further possibilities.

Session 9: Being Fire

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Music by Thaddeus: on ISF092J, Angels of Beauty from Angels; on ISF094J, Spiritual Sun Opening from The Spiritual Sun.

Notes

As part of the ongoing process of realising more of the solar fire within us, we now focus on your connection with the solar devas and the help they contribute. In the first inner journey you fly with and as the phoenix, expanding into the light, so that the devas may help you free up the internal relationships of the forms of your energy field. Their connections remain but the relationship between connections becomes more flowing – like a frozen fishing net thawing on a warm morning.

Another interesting area of ambiguity which Sananda draws our attention to is how movement, direction and destination relate to one another. When moving through the light you may find either a sense of movement or stillness or even both together, just as when riding in a train your experience will vary depending on whether you focus on the passing landscape or on the carriage you are riding in. More importantly, there is the sense that movement with direction can be joyful, even without any known destination, and that when destination is known it is not necessary (or perhaps it is even unhelpful) to know your rate of progress or even whether that destination is growing closer.

These shifts in our familiar perspectives can be seen as facilitating movement back and forth between core and local reality, and the emergence of your divine self. It grants us a kind of fluency in relationship to the light that makes movement between engagement with the particular and the stillness of the divine self more easy, and that perhaps even allows us be comfortably resident in both states simultaneously.

This fluency, fostered by the solar devas in our first journey, is developed in the second inner journey as you begin to experience yourself as fire. Connecting with the Central Spiritual Sun as you journey towards it assists you to take the fluency the solar devas help you to realise to another level, where it becomes the freedom and dynamism of fire. Allow this to be an ongoing process, a continuing renewal of your relationship with the Source of All expressing itself through the Central Spiritual Sun.

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