You ARE Love

By Lee Harris
Published in May 2012 Shaumbra Monthly

You ARE Love is a chapter taken from the forthcoming book Energy Speaks, which features 8 channelings from Zachary, Zapharia and Ziadora plus an interview with Lee on his journey of channeling and a foreword by Geoffrey Hoppe. Energy Speaks will be released on Amazon on May 16th, and Lee’s work is found at www.leeharrisenergy.com. At Lee’s website in the ‘Audio Gifts’ section, you can also freely download an MP3 of You ARE Love.

You ARE Love is interesting because it is a unique recording. I was not exactly channeling – I was in a kind of half-state. I was conscious and present, but it was literally a case of ‘hit record’ and talk for 10 minutes. I was pleased with what happened because it felt like such a complete, cohesive, powerful, yet simple and short journey. It seemed to cover many areas of my work over the years in simple terms. A real invitation to live in the now.” ~ Lee Harris

You are clear. You are ready. There is nothing in the past in the way of your future. There is nothing in your future that will be anything like your past. You are clear. You are ready. This path you’ve been walking has taken you in many directions. You have felt feelings that you did not expect to feel. Feelings of love, feelings of grief, feelings of anger, feelings of joy. The spectrum has been experienced. Continue reading

Aspects, Virus or Mass Consciousness?

By Jean Tinder
Published in May 2012 Shaumbra Monthly

It can be a challenge to sort out all the confusing energies that are coming our way these days. We’ve learned to open up and feel, but the downside of that is we DO feel and we ARE open to every passing doubt, fear, chaotic thought and bubble of confusion.

Without closing down tightly again, how do we handle it all? How do we sort out what voices to listen to and which ones to toss out with yesterday’s news? In an intense moment, how do we know if an aspect is showing up to integrate, if the sexual energy virus (SEV) is rearing it’s ugly and ever-changing head, or if we’re just picking up on passing thought-waves from the world out there?

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter. But in the meantime, a little clarity and understanding can go a long way towards peace of mind. Here’s what works for me. Continue reading

How SES Changed my Life

By John McCurdy, Crimson Circle Advanced Studies Teacher

Published in Shaumbra Monthly – March 2012 edition

I have attended a lot of workshops in my life. Some of them have been very profound and life-changing experiences, some have been educational, and some, well, let’s just say that they didn’t live up to their promises. When Tobias first created the Sexual Energies School I knew right away that it was something I needed to do, but it took me more than a year—and two failed relationships and a very broken heart—before I was willing to spend that much money on learning to love myself.

As it happened, when things got so bad that I had nothing else to do and I could feel my soul begging me to take the class, I had no money. But there was a class coming to my area and I knew I needed to be there, so I made the decision to attend and informed the teachers of that intention. And, as always happens when you make an unequivocal decision from your heart, the money showed up just in time. Continue reading

10 Spiritually Transmitted Diseases

September 1, 2011
By Mariana Caplan

It is a jungle out there, and it is no less true about spiritual life than any other aspect of life. Do we really think that just because someone has been meditating for five years, or doing 10 years of yoga practice, that they will be any less neurotic than the next person? At best, perhaps they will be a little bit more aware of it. A little bit. It is for this reason that I spent the last 15 years of my life researching and writing books on cultivating discernment on the spiritual path in all the gritty areas—power, sex, enlightenment, gurus, scandals, psychology, neurosis—as well as earnest, but just plain confused and unconscious, motivations on the path. Along with my partner, author and teacher Marc Gafni, we are developing a new series of books, courses and practices to bring further clarification to these issues.

Several years ago, I spent a summer living and working in South Africa. Upon my arrival I was instantly confronted by the visceral reality that I was in the country with the highest murder rate in the world, where rape was common and more than half the population was HIV-positive—men and women, gays and straights alike. As I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly “infected” by “conceptual contaminants”—comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles—that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted disease.

The following 10 categorizations are not intended to be definitive but are offered as a tool for becoming aware of some of the most common spiritually transmitted diseases. Continue reading

The Eyes of A Master

April 16, 2011
By Jean Tinder

I’ve been noticing something over the last weeks and months. It’s actually nothing new, but I’ve been seeing it with a broader and more personal vision. This “something” is the fact that the world around us very accurately reflects the world within us, and most of us understand this to one degree or another. I have also come to believe that this reflection can go both ways. In other words, by finding wholeness and balance within, we literally offer those same potentials to the rest of the world.

Something happened in my life recently that brought this home in a very pointed way. In this lifetime I have the privilege of being “mom” to four amazing people. Two of them are not yet grown and, for various reasons, live with their father and his partner. And, because they live far away from me, I’ve gone through many rounds of tears, pain, worry, and letting go around the fact that I only see them a few times each year. Even though I know they are thriving, my mother’s heart (i.e. “mommy aspect”) still frets and worries that I’m not protecting them, teaching them, helping them, or loving them enough. Continue reading