Prayers

A Way to "Vision" Ourselves

Prayer is powerful. It is a way to vision ourselves into a new reality. Occasionally in various situations where I want something to materialize very badly, I hear Janis Joplin in the back of my head crying out, "O Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends!" I wish it were that easy to ask for what we desire—to make a Mercedes appear, or a boyfriend, or rain, or a long life.

Often it seems that effort results in nothing. However, once we give up, miracles occur simply and naturally—think how often you vision something into being despite your hard work and pushing!

Prayer is a powerful way to vision something without effort. It allows the universe to provide for us. From within our deepest being, and in alignment with the universe's highest principles, we create the vibrational frequency that magnetizes and pulls the corresponding result toward us—seemingly out of the ether.

Sound as Prayer

Sound is a powerful prayer: mantras are prayers, sutras are prayers reinforced over the ages by millions of drumming humans who have turned those sound waves into tsunamis of intent! "Om" is probably the simplest prayer of all, invoking the God presence and sounding out the name of the creator. "Ham-sa" breathing is also an incredible prayer modality.

Drumming sets up vibrational force that has amazing healing power, and spins chakras into health and well-being, clearing and cleansing on the deepst levels. Each one of our chakras (and there are well more than the main seven) have their own sound/vibration. Likewise each of our seven main etheric bodies has a vibrational frequency that connotes well-being.

Honoring Others

The Sanskrit word namaste (pronounced nah-mah-STAY), commonly thought to mean "peace to you," or used as a simple greeting like "hi", in fact has deep significance as a way to honor another human being's presence.

"The spirit in me honors the spirit in you" is more accurate, and this message calls us to create a sacred space around ourselves and merging with another that truly recognizes our deepest selves. Namaste is just as effective a prayer when expressed silently as it is when spoken outloud.

Make it up! Shake it up!

Prayer is something especially personal and can be most powerful in the moment! Opening our hearts and letting God speak through us is another way to ask for what we need, or to offer gratitude.

And always and everywhere we acknowledge the power of the Creator to call forth miracles when we offer our personal will up to the source of all creation, "Thy Will be done!."

A Collection of Prayers

This translation of the Our Father prayer has a wonderful intimacy to it. It proffers a way to "vision" a world where we are implementers of a profound Cosmic creativity and vision—beyond our personal expectations and desires, but born from them.

The realities of quantum physics show us that we are experiencing the world and ourselves as waves or particles expressing energy. In this quantum reality, everything is potential until it is thought or perceived by us, by you, by me. Anything we can imagine has the potential to express itself immediately, synchronously, for us. This is a cosmic law, the law of quantum energy.

In this context, you will know yourself and everyone else, all things seen and unseen, as pure "radiance and vibration" from the Father of profoundly expressive, ulimited, formless creativity.

This prayer is an invocation to creating a vision for yourself where you can easily produce everything anyone needs to grow and flourish. Imagine! Envision!

Our Father

Directly translated from the original Aramaic

O Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration!

Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide.

Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission.

Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.

Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.

Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate the opportunites of the present moment.

For You are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, power and fulfillment, as all is gathered and and made whole once again.

From "The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean," translated by Doreal. There is much veiled wisdom and guidance in the cryptic text of these tablets.

On Seeking the LIGHT

Mighty SPIRIT of LIGHT that shines through the Cosmos,
draw my flame closer in harmony to thee.
Lift up my fire from out of the darkness,
magnet of fire that is One with the ALL.
Lift up my soul, thou might and potent.
Child of the Light, turn not away.
Draw me in power to melt in thy furnace;
One with all things and all things
in One, fire of the life-strain and
One with the Brain.
Great Light that fills all the Cosmos,
flow thou fully to man.
Make of his body a light-torch
that shall never be quenched among men.

Put forth thy effort in gaining LIGHT
on the pathway of Life.
Seek to be One with the SUN/state.
Seek to be solely the LIGHT.
Hold thou thy thought on the Oneness
of Light with the body of man.
Know that all is Order from Chaos
born into light.

Free, let thine soul soar ever upward,
free from the bondage and fetters of night.
Lift thine eyes to the Sun in the sky-space.
For thee, let it be a symbol of life.
Know that thou art the Greater Light,
perfect in thine own sphere,
when thou art free.
Look not ever into the blackness.
Lift up thine eyes to the space above.
Free let thine Light flame upward
and shalt thou be a Child of the Light.

I consider this song by John Lennon to have been channeled from Divine Source. It has inspired many many people.

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.

From an unknown Native American author, this poem was repoduced in Depak Chopra's, "The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire." It reminds us that the field of our being is beyond, but encompassing, three-dimensional reality, the reality of our senses and physical self. We know in our hearts that our spiritual "home," the nonlocal Self, is everywhere and timeless. The local self, the "I" that we understand as our consciousness, is, as Chopra says, "the transient and impermanent behaviour of the nonlocal self. It comes and goes while the nonlocal self continues to evolve into higher experiences of abstraction and creativity."

Transition

Don't stand by my grave and weep,
For I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
In the soft rush of the morning light
I am the swift bird in flight.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there,
I did not die.

A concept presented to me by Christine Warren during her Life Walk course in Tesuque, NM, this next prayer calls each of us to know the true value of our life experience, day by day.

An Evening Prayer

I am deeply grateful for all of the varied gifts that were bestowed upon me this day: the inspiring and joyful, as well as the trying and uncomfortable. As my LIFE is a gift, as each DAY is a gift, the EXPERIENCES within that day are what Life gifted me. These experiences WERE MY DAY! So now at day's end, I acknowledge that I freely gave a day of my life to experience those particular things. And I am truly grateful.

From Dan Emmon's book, "Life Force," comes the idea of Life knowing and presenting to us, moment by moment, the "BEST NEXT THING."

Best Next Thing

Let me go to the Heart:
Source of knowing,
And, in trust that Life
Knows best, let Life
Moment by moment
Create for me
The Best Next Thing
Ensuring the promise
Of paradise on earth.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, in his book of talks, "I AM THAT," speaks of focusing on the "I AM" to find out what you really are. It is as simple as I AM.

I AM THAT I AM

I AM THAT I AM THAT I AM

A prayer/chant to call upon the healing presence of Sai Baba Shirdi.

Sai Baba Shirdi's Prayer

Om Namah Shirdi Sai Baba
Om Shirdi Sai Baba Prasanam

Om Shanti Om Shanti
Om Shirdi Sai Baba Prasanam
Om Shanti Om Shanti
Om Shirdi Sai Baba Prasanam
Om Shanti Om Shanti Om Shanti

"OM SHANTI OM SHANTI OM SHANTI OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI OM"

May your days be filled with magic, love and joy.
May your life be blessed with joy, love and miracles.

Messages

"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"
- Sai Baba
"Spiritual teaching has always pointed to the fact that everything in creation has a sound, its own unique vibration. As conscious listeners we may perceive more and more of what the universe is saying to us by the simple act of listening. We can learn to appreciate each and every sound."
- Katherine Le Mee "Chant"
"There is only one religion,
the religion of Love;
There is only one language,
the language of the Heart;
There is only one caste,
the caste of Humanity;
There is only one law,
the law of Karma;
There is only one God,
He is Omnipresent."
- Sai Baba