Everyday Mystic (eBook)

PREFACE

I wrote this book at the insistence of two close friends and two published authors. In addition to the messages, most of the text was given to me by direct revelation during my predawn meditations, not that I was looking to write a book. The Divine would show up, in one of the many forms He assumed and would start speaking. My job was, and still is, to listen and record what I heard.

This is where all my learning took place—in the quiet moments when it was just that all-knowing Source and me. I mentioned this in passing to my dear friend, Linda Fallo-Mitchell, thinking that she may want the numerous spiral notebooks in which I recorded the messages should anything ever happen to me. I figured that if my husband were to find them he’d probably just throw them out—likewise, my kids.

Years after learning about these journals, Linda received guidance that the messages I had received were to be compiled into a book. That seemed like an insurmountable task to me for two reasons: first, because I can’t type; and second, in spite of their source, I thought a lot of what was in the journals might be a waste of most people’s time. Linda was not having any of my protests, and her conviction led her to type almost all of my journal entries that summer. As she began typing she became more, not less, convinced that I had to write the book.

Drawing on her experience as a developmental psychologist, educator and researcher—and using years of puzzle solving skills—Linda took my random, chronologically ordered revelations and grouped them into topics that became the chapters you will read in this book. Linda would send me a series of journal entries on a particular topic and tell me to make them into a chapter, which I would do and send it back to her for further editing. The only writing I did that was not by divine revelation was to connect the dots of my story and to link otherwise random entries to help the story flow more smoothly. In this way, working in God-time, Linda and I eventually gave birth to Everyday Mystic: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary.

The purpose of this book is to tell you that you have the power to live your life on what I call God’s jet stream and to illustrate what a life lived on His jet stream can look like. Judging by my own experience, it can be a wild ride with results more glorious than anything you might have imagined for yourself. It will show you how to align yourself with the Divine, how to have God streaming live, and then how to follow Divine guidance. The title of this book, Everyday Mystic, is not meant to trivialize mysticism but to underscore the profound depth of who each of us is, as a part of, instead of apart from, the One, the Unity, God.

I write not as a learned person, a priest or an intellect. I am here to pass on to you what Jesus has shown and said to me. I was never religious, nor did I know what to believe about Jesus until he spoke to me. Although I use the word “spoke,” it is inaccurate because initially, he communicated without actually speaking. His first message was crystal clear—that the meaning of our life is pure love. That’s all he wants in its deepest, truest form—for this love, which is the Divine within each of us, to be extended to everyone without exception. Extend it as if the person opposite you were the son of God because he is. And no matter how he chooses to live his life here on earth, God loves him no more and no less than he loves you. Jesus gave to me the gift of knowing what these words meant and what it felt like to be truly embraced by, and incorporated into, that kind of love. He allowed me, for what may have been a moment on earth but an eternity in heaven, to exist in his love. It is a love that is so beautiful, so totally unconditional that I did not wish to return. Yet, I did return with the realization that life back here is not as easy as it is on the other side, or is it?

I am acutely aware that many will simply think I am crazy after reading about my experiences and the messages I have received. But I assure you I am not—wait, isn’t the first sign of mental illness that you don’t recognize your own condition? I was the first to wonder about my sanity after my earliest mystical experiences, which I was careful not to share with anyone. Looking back, I see how much resistance I had to them. I completely shut down the first two experiences and returned from the third one intrigued but beguiled as to how I would apply what I learned in my own life.

I was concerned about how I would defend the messages I received and then realized that it would be impossible, so I won’t. I received them in states of elevated consciousness or union with, dare I say, God? Quite probably considered by some as the basis for quackery. But how can the messages be quackery when they brought inner peace, love and joy into my life? My journey, this book, is taken from private journal entries that were never meant to be shared; in fact, the journal entries themselves would never have been written, were it not for the insistence of my mother. It was she who encouraged me to document my revelations even though I was working full-time and taking care of my two children. Knowing that initially I wasn’t following her instructions, my mom started writing a few notes whenever we spoke. Eventually, I relented and started scribbling notes myself.

Linda is convinced that the story lies in the ordinariness of my life and the extraordinariness of the revelations—the message being, as author and medical intuitive Caroline Myss describes, that we can be mystics without a monastery. My story is about how I began, in the course of my daily life, to see and hear God. My premise is that if I can see and hear Him, so can you. I am here to tell you that you already have a direct relationship with God, if that is what you want. You already have God communicating with you in many different ways—you just need to open yourself to the infinite possibilities. I wrote this book so that those of you who are already having mystical experiences, or would like to, don’t have to go through the same resistance that I did.

I hope that through the example of my journey, this book will guide you onto a practical path that can lead to mystical experiences, while helping you to make living the messages a reality. Once you put the principles in this book into action, you will have taken the first steps to making your ordinary life heaven on earth.

I am a mother, a wife, a friend and a volunteer—all those things that many of us are, have been, or will be. I have an MBA in Banking and Finance and worked 60 hours a week at IBM for 18 years, which included most of my kids’ childhood. In 1998, I walked away from half my salary to work part-time—30 hours a week. I worked part-time for a year until I finally quit, walking away from my salary and our family’s only source of medical coverage. My husband was starting a new business and our financial future was less than certain. However, I felt that my path was leading me home—not only to my children but also to my life’s purpose.

I have never had the luxury of experiencing the traditional life of a mystic or chanting the sacred OM on a mountaintop. Instead, I share my time, my love, joy and sorrow with my husband, children and friends. Many of my early revelations came when I was balancing family and corporate life. The revelations continued as my life evolved from corporate executive to homemaker and volunteer, to full-time Reiki practitioner and teacher, to founder of the Global Peace Movement and Channeled Grace Healing Circles. My list of responsibilities and activities is long, just like yours. In my social life, and in life in general, I believe in having fun and in laughter—lots of it. The only thing I may be doing differently is finding time each day to sit in quiet solitude to listen to what God has to say. Sometimes I have a question for God, but many times I don’t; I simply listen to, or look at, what He chooses to reveal to me.

I know that you can do this too. Sharing the story of my path is not intended to highlight how I am different from you. This story is about all of us. What makes you and me special is our divinity and unity with each other and all that is. Years ago I was asked by a woman, let’s call her Eloise, for advice on a relationship issue. I decided to meditate on it and received a message for her from God. I was excited to pass it along because, as is always the case with God’s messages, it was a beautiful, simple solution in which everyone would win. Her response surprised me, but I suspect it may be the response of many others. It was an angry, demanding, “WHO ARE YOU TO THINK YOU CAN TALK TO GOD?” I responded that I was nobody—that’s the whole point. I am nobody special and God is talking to me, so that must mean God is talking to everybody.

It is my hope that the messages I have received will help you on your journey of self-discovery and will lead you to a life of inner peace, love and joy; that they will help you to discover that you are in Him and He is in you; that you will learn to love yourself unconditionally because that is the way God loves you. All of the messages from God and His messengers have love at their core, an unconditional love of oneself and one another.

The Light burns within you—it is you. Begin to see yourself as the physical manifestation of the Divine. As such, direct revelation is already there for you. Make time to sit quietly and listen to and see what God chooses to reveal to you, and out of the ordinariness of life will come the extraordinariness of a relationship with the Divine in you.

With love and...