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*The Changing the Paradigm CD series Volume 1 was recorded in late April/early May and has a release date of mid July. The cover design is now finalized and looks beautiful. I am looking forward to sharing it with you. Once the CDs are ready, we’ll also make the mp3 version downloadable from the website.
*The Katherine Dever Interview (audio $10 and transcript free) is available at: www.jeddahmali.com/store
* The Pathway to Enlightenment 20 week course is now at week 10. It has been a wonderful experience to spend my Saturday afternoons with this terrific group. I’m very grateful to Learning Strategies that they have hosted the course so well. The messages of discovery and awakening from participants have been particularly heartwarming. In the first 10 weeks we have covered how to identify one’s true awareness, how conscious intention drives this awareness to take form (energetic or physical), how underlying doubts and fears can sidetrack our best intentions and how to work with the energy centres to increase the flow of awareness which in turn heightens our perception. And still more to come…
*Many of you have requested information about retreats. Learning Strategies have said that February in Minneapolis is a possibility. My wonderful business manager, Dylan Roberts, is scouring the US to find a suitable venue for us to do one sooner (ideally in October). We’ll announce it in this section of the Newsletter as soon as its finalised.
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Welcome
Welcome to my Changing the Paradigm newsletter. Each month there is an article from myself in REFLECTIONS and one from The Great Brotherhood of Light, who are the masters that I work with, in MESSAGE FOR MANKIND. We also include a question and answer section, Q & A, where we choose one or two of your questions each month and answer them for you. If you would like a question answered in the newsletter, please email it to info@jeddahmali.com and put NEWSLETTER QUESTION in the heading. And finally we have our NEWS section at the end where we announce courses, retreats, product launches. We hope you enjoy our newsletter. If you have a suggestion on articles or sections you’d like us to consider, please send them to info@jeddahmali.com and put NEWSLETTER SUGGESTION in the heading. As you go about your day, don’t forget to smile, to be kind to yourself and others and (as my favourite sticker says) “Cheerful Whistling Permitted”.
Apologies for the span of time that has elapsed since my last newsletter. It is due to travel, recording and deadlines for the CD project. The good news is that the July newsletter is just around the corner. You see, every cloud has a silver lining….
I am sending you all much love,
Jeddah
Reflections
The Power of Language
Language and speech have fascinated me since I studied Speech as part of an anthroposophical training many years ago. Last month I spent 5 days in a recording studio recording a series of short discourses and meditations. It involved many hours each day getting the intonation, inflection, quality and delivery of the voice just right. It was an illuminating experience. The equipment is so sensitive that every tiny sound in the voice is picked up. When I heard it played back through the huge speakers in the studio, I marveled at the signals that our everyday voice carries.
There are so many elements to our speech. Most of them are not registered consciously, but we instinctively and accurately ascertain what they are nonetheless. This is particularly fascinating, that most of what we sour communication is not actually what we say but how we say it. Experts in that field say that 95% of all communication is non-verbal. That’s a huge percentage (and gives husbands everywhere a great deal of ammunition).
Our language is a wonderfully rich area of communication. It never ceases to amaze me how our language reflects deeper truth. And because our language is so instinctual, we often rattle off words without pondering on their use and meaning. But if we do take the time to choose our words wisely, they can become transmitters for our inner being, revealing who we are to ourselves (often surprisingly if you have ever heard your words played back to you) and others. Those of you who join me on Saturday mornings for the Pathway calls know that I take every opportunity to point this out. I love the versatility of language as an art form, from poetry of Wordsworth to lyrics of Leonard Cohen and the depth and beauty of Shakespeare’s plays to the wry humour of Oscar Wilde. Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian visionary and seer said that our words were a powerful reminder of our creative abilities – that as we spoke we moved the spiritual worlds into form. This is certainly true. As we speak, we make known our beliefs about ourselves and the world. We cement our beliefs each time we utter them. How often we complain without realising the extent to which our words effect the formation of our experience!
John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) and his wife Bonnie have become friends of mine in the last year or so. He often gives very humourous and enlightening talks on the subject of communication between the sexes. He says that our tone of voice can convey a completely different message to the one our words are forming. So if we are holding onto resentment or disrespect, the tone of our speech often gives away much of what we think stays hidden, as in “I’m completely happy with the way things are going!”Our tone where we show our true colours even when we are trying to hide it. So too with our intonation which gives speech its lovely rolling quality. These are all aspects of communication that convey what we are thinking and feeling.
We cannot divorce our speech from our inner being. If we attempt to do so, our inner self reveals itself in our spoken and unspoken gestures nonetheless. This goes back to Rudolf Steiner’s point. As we speak, we are stating our beliefs. Beliefs power the Sea of Awareness into form. To state our beliefs in words shows our commitment to that belief. And we move the spiritual worlds into the form of energy patterns. These energy patterns are tangibly felt by ourselves and others. How often have we felt the ‘sting’ or the ‘soothing’ in words.
Our intention behind our speech is a powerful form of communication. What we believe to be true is encoded into our message. Our intention is inextricably bound into the words to reflect our exact meaning. But here’s the bad news – that meaning is unique to us! We have uploaded our whole belief system into that message, along with all the attendant tone, intonation, gesture. It is an audible package that reflects the state of our inner being at that point in time. However, for someone to download the message- to decode it and understand us perfectly, they must have all the same reference points and that is extremely rare. This basic mismatch lies at the heart of every miscommunication and misunderstanding.
On the spiritual planes, beings are completely without guise. As they communicate, their aura changes colour, texture and hue so their true intentions and thoughts are revealed fully. Because of this it is impossible to hide anything. As we are, so we appear. Literally! Imagine how our communication would change here on Earth if our inner being were laid bare like this? If we could see our thoughts in the air around us and feel the true meaning of our words. We would clean up our thought-life pretty quick. We’d take better care with our words, we’d spend them wisely. We’d invest in words that heal, that care, that bring about expansion and good feeling. We’d work harder at seeing the best in ourselves and others. We’d take steps to turn our inner being into an environment where anyone could visit and feel refreshed - to hold thoughts and beliefs that served us and others. Miscommunication and misunderstanding would be a thing of the past.
Well now for the good news… We can do all those things right now. There’s no need to wait until we are residents of the astral planes or beyond. Communication is the advertisement of our whole being. Every single day, we’re given an opportunity through our speech, our language, our intonation and our tone to spread a little more light in the world. Very soon we see how deeply satisfying this form of communication can be.
In love and remembering,
Jeddah
In love and remembering,
Jeddah
Message for Mankind
In the coming times, we will be called on more and more to find our steadiness within. This does not happen overnight. And it doesn’t need to. Please remember to be gentle with yourselves as you seek to find your steadiness. Do we look in disgust at the newborn foal that totters on uncertain legs? Of course not. We look in wonder at the miracle of life that calls the foal to its feet despite just being born! This is how we look upon the Earth – with love and wonder. We see Mankind answering the mass call to find its feet. We see Man striving, seeking to find steadiness. And because you are presently in a physical body, your orientation is presently to matter and its forms. There is a natural tendency on Earth to seek reassurance in form. But form has no inherent steadiness. It is constantly in flux and flow. Constantly changing. If we wish to experience true steadiness – one that can withstand the turbulence of Earth – we must look within, to our formless qualities. Far from being insubstantial, our inner qualities are reliable in their constancy, their immutability and their natural tendency towards upliftment. This is the nature you were born with. Start to rely on its presence. You’ll find it a wise and faithful guide. And if you stumble occasionally, no matter! Like the foal in its repeated attempts to stand steady, our inner being draws us on and eventually secure our success. We are with you, every step of the way.
Ceaseless Blessings,
The Great Brotherhood of Light
Questions & Answers (Q&A)
Hi Jeddah,
Are you familiar with the map of consciousness by Dr.Hawkins. If so, where on the scale of consciousness do you calibrate? If not, it is best material on truth that I have seen.
--Ken
Dear Ken, I am not familiar with the material, although I have heard it mentioned in the past.
I calibrate to the Truth, plain and simple. This means that no matter what we experience in our formed existence, one is simultaneously able to know the levels of truth reflected in each situation. One is able to experience all the resonant states of being represented in the chart and to know the energy that coalesces into these patterns in its original state also.
A distinction I would like to make is that one’s perception determines one’s experience and so as perception expands, the experience of truth is revealed further and further. Therefore, one can experience love at different ‘calibrations’ until one experiences the original form of love.
Another important point is that the formative energy of existence is in all things at all times and there is nothing outside of this. Therefore, it is helpful to remember that in truth, there is no scale of desirability in these states. The original state of being cannot be divided or dissected in any way. It also cannot alter its nature. So whilst it can be shaped into different signature patterns, as we see on the map of consciousness, it never changes from its pure form. This allows us to see the beauty of the original energy in all forms. This perspective also allows us to have compassion and understanding for those who resonate differently.
If we place our consciousness on the one energy underlying all states of being, we can partake in the wonder of creation and have complete freedom of movement within that.
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to my attention. I enjoyed hearing from you.
Warmly, Jeddah |
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