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spiritual intelligence agency
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Daily I am aware of two things: 1. the world’s view of how wrong everything is and at the same time 2. how perfect and elegant everything is.
Like everyone else, I am a dual-vibrational being. The first vibration is that of my human mind focused here on Earth. With my body and mind I navigate this physical planet, experience physical things and translate them with my miraculous Self. Some things I love and adore, others not so much. All the while my Higher Self, some 96% of me, remains in Well Being knowing the utter perfection of this World, this Universe, and the Laws that operate unfailingly to produce the sunrise every morning and the seasons in their appropriate time. The degree to which I am happy and content is the degree to which I am master over my human mind, closing the gap between my human mind and lining it up with my Godmind. This, my friends, is True for every one of us.
We are growing in numbers, those of us who choose to awaken from the dream of this “reality” to create the one our hearts know to be True. If we had but eyes to see, we would awaken every morning in Paradise right here on earth. This is a time of great awakening. You, too, can be a part of this, because you come from the same Substance as the rest of us who have held the Space of this Knowing for a very, very long time.
I came across this poem by Brian Piergrossi. Isn’t it time you joined? Don’t let your ego or pride stop you. You have nothing to fear, nothing to loose and everything to gain. Join us, won’t you at Applied Spirituality? Books and online courses. Affordable Life Transformation Coaching.Whyever would you wait?
appreciating the past: beaver,pa
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I just did a whirlwind 36 hours back to my past. The effects are stunning. I have come away remembering some things, but more I realized for the first time how much I gained from those 4 brief years spent in Beaver, Pa from age 12-16. The occasion of this trip was a collective class birthday party held at Two Mile Run Park.
Beaver, Pa on the Ohio River
Beaver, PA has become a jewel along the Ohio River. However it was also the site of Fort McIntosh during the Civil War.
However, what I value is the great Quality that this community added to my life during my time there, which is still there. It was, looking back, a Camelot experience. In Beaver I had the great good fortune to be taught by a school system that placed a high value on quality. I learned to love music. Not just love music, but I was taught how to play the instrument and had my first experience of creating music whist playing Igor Stravinsky’s, Firebird. At that time three men ran the music department, Robert Jones, Mr. Schwartz and Mr. Howarth. While they nourished my Spirit in music, Mrs. Hughes was busy enlivening us with her interpretation of Caesar’s Commentaries and Pliny in Latin. Ms. Coleson was passionately instructing us in grammar, insisting that proper grammar was essential in clear communications and accurate personal expression using the written word. Mr. Payne was mad about math, and excited even the most marginal students to understand and use algebra in everyday encounters. On and on, each teacher was inspired and inspired us.
But another thing happened in Beaver. We students never became competitors with each other. There were many excellent students. Yet even all these many years later we agree that we were somehow inspired to become better rather than compete with each other. It took a visit back to remember this and check in with my old classmates to verify if my perception of this time was theirs, as well. And it was. Now I understand that since then, I have been looking for this same Quality of experience: Love, support, all for one and one for all, community of appreciation for the individuality of each as complimentary to the Whole.
How blessed I am to have had this Quality benchmark so early on in life. There’s enough for everyone; everyone is Valuable; and Joy is the essential experience be it in math, Latin, music or business. Most certainly this was the birthing grounds for Applied Spirituality.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
Desire: Summoning Life Through You
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Recently I came across this video of Paul Vasquez seeing a double rainbow at the Grand Canyon. I was particularly interested to watch it, as I’ve had the wondrous experience of seeing doubles and on one occasion a triple rainbow in Montana just after a storm. I totally understood his reaction. The thrill of lining up with Source Energy is what you’re hearing from him, because there are literally no words to describe the feeling of that alignment with God and It flowing through You in the moment. It’s so big; as he says, “intense”. Watch.
One might wonder how this incident came about for Paul.
Desire. Paul had a powerful desire, which summoned Source Energy to him.
Paul in someway at some time had the desire to “feel God”. It might have been verbal and conscious, it might not. It could have been unconscious and cellular; but a powerful desire to feel his Oneness with Source issued forth from him. Perhaps a prayer to “know God aright” or “to understand Reality”. Whatever the prayer, desire, the answer was tailored made just for him. The response, when allowed, is universal. We have no words.
Then, one day when he was relaxed and allowing It, he was witness to this event. He could appreciate it. He was available for it. He was willing to have the experience; so Paul let It in. The wonderful part is that he had his video cam on so that we could, in part, witness both the rainbow and his alignment with Source.
He kept asking through his tears of rapture, “What does it mean?”
It means, Paul, that you asked; and it was answered. It means that you aligned your human mind with your Godmind and had quite a moment of Oneness. It means that you are the deliberate Creator of all you experience. It means, your emotions are the indicator of your alignment or not. It means that everything you need to understand about Reality is there for you and all of us to “get”.
You don’t have to travel to the Grand Canyon and see a double rainbow to experience your Oneness. It’s available to you anytime you are desiring Love, Beauty, Goodness, Abundance, Health, etc. and you are looking for It, expecting It, and allowing It in. You’ll know It by the way it “knocks you over” with Well Being. It’s the way we ought to feel most of the time. Hmmm
Very well done, Paul, indeed! Thank you sooo much for sharing It with all of us.
Thanks for reading,
Kath
freedom + love = JOY
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Our Founding Fathers
On July 3, my son Judd, married his beloved Kelly at the National Constitution Center in Philly. As you might imagine, it is quite the dramatic venue, dedicated to our Constitution and its signers, our Founding Fathers. Add this to the national holiday weekend, throw in a military wedding and oh, yes, a funeral; well, you have many, many layers of Love present all at the same time.
I was on an emotional roller coaster most of the time choking up over one thing or the other as my heart opened wider and wider, letting go of past and expanding to embrace more and more Love – Daring us each to be more Love. By the by, I wasn’t the only one. Anyone in the vicinity of this wedding was feeling the Power of Love and is forevermore transformed even if just a little.
From the very first when the kids checked into the availability of the National Constitution Center as their venue back in September, 2009 and found July 3 available, somehow we “knew” this was prophetic of something that had the potential of being big, transformative, and profound. Paradoxically, the week long festivities began with a funeral. Kelly’s grandfather, Pop, passed away June 24. Kelly’s birthday was June 25 and Pop and was buried on Monday, June 28. In the spirituality business we soon know to pay close attention when paradox or irony appear -for truth is now available to those who would but see. It was Pop’s idea, I’m sure, to prime the pump and get our hearts opening up. By his returning to Well Being – back into the fullness of Love, he beckoned us to reach into consciousness and follow him to feel the fullness of what he is now.
Peg, Kelly, Francine and Aileen at Geno's, Philly
With our minds now quietened to some degree and our hearts more available, we were pulled forward into the wedding which by now had a life and momentum of its own well established. By we, I mean my new family, the Kelly’s. This family is applied spirituality in application. They immediately and without hesitation or reservation opened their homes and hearts to me. We went to the funeral together, to the fitting of the wedding gown together; we wept together and partied together. I slept in Kelly’s old bedroom, and was even welcomed by their life-long neighbors. I had no idea going to Philly that I would come home with a new family let alone of such heart and quality. I knew my dream of having a daughter was coming true, but little did I understand that my life was expanding to include the entirety of family. How amazing is that? Did I mention the food? Turns out that Philadelphia has it’s own food that one has to try: the Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, Tastykakes, and Water Ice to name a few. I tried them all; I delighted in the Water Ice (sort of a cross between gelato and a slushy). Tastykakes are the answer to Twinkies and kinda fun. The Cheese Steak Sandwich was not my cupper with cheeze wiz. But, what the heck, it was so much fun eating it with my new family.
Jarrod and Judd Sing The Power of Love
On Friday evening Judd and Kelly hosted a party at JDMcGillacudy’s on 7th. True to the concept of love including, not excluding, the kids chose to include everyone who had traveled from out of town for the “rehursal dinner”. This was a magical evening of family reunions, karaoke, dancing and of course, more food. Everyone was caught up in the party. One by one, then by twos, threes and even more, people got up and belted out their favorite songs on stage whilst everyone else danced and enjoyed the music. Later in the evening I was surprised to see both my sons doing a duet to “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and the News and the movie, Back to the Future. Come to think of it, Back to the Future and The Power of Love pretty much describes the whole event vibrationally speaking. It was past; it was present; it was future; it was love of family, country, friends physical and nonphysical. It was gratitude; it was appreciation; it was joy; it was fun; it was delight; it was magical; it was meaningful; it was expansive, inclusive and fulfilled. We were in our Oneness, aligned with Who We Really Are.
On Saturday once the Constitution Center closed, the events people magically transformed the interior for the wedding and reception. Everyone appeared one by one dressed in the finery. Grandparents, parents, friends, cousins, mothers (both Kelly and Judd have two each), fathers and brothers were all there to witness and be immersed in this multi-layered event. The music continued to be the clues to the plethora of vibrations present: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring summoned Love at the beginning, followed by the The Secret Wedding from Braveheart and the recessional to All You Need Is Love as the newlyweds went through the sword arch. Readings were from 1st Corinthians 13, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, and the poem, The Master Speed, by Robert Frost.
Upstairs with the view out to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell the reception commenced. First, there was dancing! No usual order or predictability to this reception. Everyone was bid to join in and did. Later, there were toasts and speeches. Between every course there was more dancing. Everyone danced with everyone in groups, pairs, singles, circles. On the wall was a slide show of Kelly and Judd growing up 3000 miles apart. Judd at the Pacific Ocean boogie boarding; Kelly at the Jersey Shore. Judd playing baseball; Kelly rowing in high school. Judd at Ohio State; Kelly at Annapolis. Judd getting his aviator’s wings; Kelly getting her masters. With each slide they were winding their way towards each other finally meeting on their first deployment to the Middle East on the USS Belleau Wood. On Tuesday, July 6, Judd went out to sea trials on the USS Boxer.
I wish so much all of you could have been enveloped in this. I truly wish the whole world could have, for but a moment, felt all that we felt: the beauty, the healing, the possibilities, the magic and come away changed forever for the Good as we have. Life IS! We expand and become More, which is the perfection of the way it is and the perfection of being natural Creatures – Source Energy in physical format – all of us in this Universe of Love playing in Joy. Enjoy a few more pictures. And, of course, thanks for reading! Kath
 The Groom, Judd |
 Kelly and Dad,Harry |
 Mr. and Mrs. Judd Kirk |
for the fun of it
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It’s just come to me that we just don’t play enough; be silly enough; do something just because it’s fun to do…like kids. I listen a lot to Abraham-Hicks. I can’t for the life of me figure out how I missed this underlying message of “just get happy”.
I think, like many of us, that I have had this underlying belief that unless something’s productive, meaningful, useful, etc…well, then, it’s a waste of time. ARgggg! How could I have missed this for so long? Well, no matter. The point is I get it now and now is the place where all my creative power is. So, new order of the day? Get Happy. Do things just for the fun of it. My new credo.
To this end I salute the folks who created this video – but who must have had a blast creating this invention which does absolutely nothing useful, except open the drapes to a brand new day. And that – a brand new day – is something to Be Happy About. Enjoy!
And, oh, thanks for reading! Kath
non marketing: the essence of caring about you
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One of the things I have resisted most in owning all my businesses has been the marketing. Marketing in the strictest sense of the word has come to mean the manipulation of your psyche. They do focus groups; test ’til the cows come home, all in the effort to understand how to manipulate someone into buying a product or service. This springs forth from a sense of lack and scarcity. A Marketer is the new salesman. Nothing is more distasteful to me, because I know that people can determine for themselves if something is right for them or not; and I know my Well Being is not vested in you, but that I am my Supply.
Once during my advancement through the Toastmasters program to my ATM Silver, I had to give a speech on Persuasion. I didn’t know what to do about this speech. I was supposed to persuade the audience into something. After much angst, I hit on the idea of writing my speech on the art of allowing people the benefit of their own wisdom and their own Internal Guidance.
Today I was listening to a short video posted by Aweber, my beloved autoresponder server. Aweber is one of those companies that just provides good service, because they care about me, their customer. They are a small outfit in Pennsylvania that actually has real, knowledgeable and caring people at the other end of the customer service line. I recommend them heartily. Anyway, Justin Premrick was interviewing Chris Guillebeau, a very successful online marketer and Guillebeau struck my heartstrings. Here’s a guy who is living Who He Really Is in his life and in his e-mail marketing. He sincerely builds relationships. His “list” are not “customers”; they are his friends.
This is how I view the lovely people who sign up for my list. I constructed my site with content. My thoughts, my views, my encouragements to people. I try to post things that will give people an idea of Applied Spirituality in action – the natural, authentic life. Those who are inclined to live a more True Life for themselves will, hopefully, read this content and want to be supported more in their journey to actualizing that life for themselves. I don’t try to “sell” you my books and online courses or the teleclasses. I believe that if you find support, comfort, upliftment, a laugh or two here at this site, that you will want to be in the slipstream of Applied Spirituality so you become the Master of your Self.
So, this blog is about finding kindred souls in non marketing, Justin Premrick and Chris Guillebeau and wishing for each of you that you find the slip stream that supports your journey into the realization of Who You Really Are – Source Energy having a rollicking Good adventure on earth in the time/space reality known as your Life.
Thank for reading!
Kath
Enjoy the video!
national day of prayer: a wish is a prayer
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Today is National Day of Prayer. Seems there’s more controversy than peace over this national declaration, but there need not be.
We are energetic beings, which is to say spiritual mostly, rather than physical. Everything we create is created by thought first, whether you understand that or not, it is True. Every hope, wish , dream, desire, prayer, supplication, idea is – a prayer. Even atheists pray, whether they call it that or not. This feature of desire for more Good, more Love, more Joy, more Abundance, more Peace is built into each of us. We are always choosing from our current experience and by experiencing things we don’t enjoy (contrast). We pray a million times a day either consciously or unconsciously.
The vast, infinite Universe (God) responds to each of us without bias, granting what we have wished and prayer for. All that remains is for us to line up with that expansion to manifest it here in the physical plane known as Earth.
Be not dismayed at what others are up to; keep your own mind and heart stayed on the fulfillment of your dream, and it is so. It can be no other way, for it is Law.
Bless us all, aren’t we amazing and wonderful in our infinite diversity? An infinite reflection of the infinite Universe, each of us being a “chip off the old block”. Beautiful!
Amen.
Thank for Reading!
Kath
consciousness and social media marketing
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It’s a gorgeous cool Spring morning here in Ohio. Definitely an 11 out of 10.
Of late, I have been studying social media marketing in conjunction with applied spirituality, wondering how these seemingly disparate topics merge. To discover this last night I attended the keynote speech for the Social Media Success Summit 2010 sponsored by Mike Stelzner. Mike’s the go-to guy about whitepapers and has recently become an expert voice in social media marketing. I first came across Mike, a San Diego guy, when I was still living in San Diego. He’s an upstanding and quality individual, which is always what catches my attention. Read More→
in honor of Earth Day 2010: progess and wishlist
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Earth Day is 40 years old today which means the consciousness shift that we are experiencing more forcefully now began all those many years ago with the Hippies and Baby Boomers. Seems we’ve been at this awhile, holding the space of Oneness and Love. Never say die!
In so many ways consciousness has expanded and things are so very much better and improved! Civil rights, animal rights, the new “green” movement (again), the internet, and most importantly the blending of previously polar ideas such as spirituality and business. I continue to be encouraged and excited to see the shifts in the evolution of man in my lifetime. We are starting to understand how Connected we are in Oneness. I imagine that was my intention to be here for this event at this time in history. How cool is that?
On the still to do list:
Common ordinary litter….I thought that was included in Environment 101. So shall we resurrect the “Don’t Be A Litterbug” campaign from the 1960′s?
Clean water. Clean water means we have to let go of this obsession of having a putting green for a lawn! It’s spring here in Ohio and every weed killer and fertilizer made is being rigorously applied. They even sell these products at the gas station!
It’s not rocket science folks: chemicals applied to the lawn and garden go into the soil. When it rains, these chemicals wash into the ground water from which we drink. Here in Ohio the water tables are pretty close to the surface. So that drinking water is laced with those chemicals you just put on the lawn. One might as well mix the chemicals into a glass and just down it. So, get out an old screwdriver and dig those dandelions out one by one. If you don’t spray them, you could put them right into your evening salad.
Organic Food Supply
Same arguments mentioned above in water applies to our food, only more. When foods are industrially grown using artificial pesticides and fertilizers, they don’t have to “struggle” to grow. It is this very act of struggling that imparts to the food its nutrition for us in the way of antioxidants, vitamins, etc. Organic foods have up to 60% more nutrition than industrially grown foods. Vote with your dollars, folks. The organic industry has grown from $1 billion in 1990 to nearly $25 billion in 2009 by people making that choice at the grocery store. Pay now or pay later, but the point is you are a Live, Organic Being and organic foods have more Life in them for your beautiful bod.
Hydrogen Fuel: I suppose I’ll keep harping on hydrogen engines until they actually give us what we want. Zero emissions. But hey, if we can travel via sound as an energy source, I’m open to that, too!
It’s Spring. Go out there today and just take it in. Everything that can be in bloom is. Life renews itself no matter what we do. Life Is! As you let your eyes feast on the abundance that is just there for us without our having to “do” anything to make it happen, consider that the same Life that enlivens nature is the same Life that enlivens You. We are truly One. Appreciate. Appreciate. Appreciate.
Thanks for reading,
Kath
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hemp & marijuana: isn’t it time, yet?
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The subject of today’s blog was inspired by a clip that I noticed on the Auto Insight Online Community today.
Did I know that in 1941 the Ford motor company produced an experimental automobile with a plastic body composed of 70% cellulose fibers from hemp. No, I did not know that; so I set about doing a little Google research. Watch this:
How much different would the world look today if we had followed the vision that Henry Ford set forth rather than changing course in fear. What fear you ask? The hysterical and irrational fear of cannabis.
It has always been a wonderment to me that alcohol is legal and cannabis is not. Just in observation in the course of my own life, I’ve never seen a group of people high on cannabis starting a war or getting into a fight. Yet, the effects alcohol has on the human body and psyche are well documented, and most of them not pretty. As to the argument that marijuana is the “gateway” drug. Posh. Everything is a choice. If that’s the argument, then root beer is the gateway to beer which is the gateway to the “hard stuff”. Every body gets to choose how far they go with anything in life. These decisions are personal; not the domain of government or others.
Prohibitions on cannabis began as early as 1906 but found substantive traction in the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 which required growers to register so as to pay the tax. Oddly, during WWII, the US Government encouraged farmers to grow hemp for the war effort.
In 2005 Ron Paul introduced the Industrial Hemp Farming Act which was referred to committee, where it still languishes. Hemp, marijuana, cannabis – by whatever name – is one of Nature’s gifts to man. Such a useful and amazing crop would mean so much in the area of sustainability. Where so much by-product of a toxic nature is attributed to steel and plastics, what would using hemp mean if engineers and scientists found ways to utilize this crop to produce automobile bodies and homes? What would this mean to the farmer in North Dakota?
What would legalization of marijuana mean in terms of revitalizing the fabric and garment industry here in America? What would it look like if you could go to an herb shop and buy a few ounces of legal marijuana to bake into some cookies for a party or smoke if you so chose to do? Would the world come to an end? Probably not. Would fewer people drink alcohol? Who knows. Are people going to go hog wild and be doped out at work? No more so than those who go to work drunk or have a beer at lunch. These are personal issues of self and spiritual development.
An initiative to legalize marijuana will most likely be on the ballot in California’s November election. As with most things, this is finally being made possible because of the economics of the times. The cost to prosecute offenders outweighs the benefits; and California is strapped financially, looking for new sources of growth for the economy, just like North Dakota.
Fears are always irrational; but it is always fear that keeps us from the realization of our Good. We are being asked to grow in our spiritual development from children to adults. We are being asked to release our fears and move into Oneness with Source. Here is where we can release one more fear and find many blessings, not the least of which is communion with God enjoying with gratitude the bounty of this precious and amazing herb. This is only Common Sense.
Thank for reading!
Kath
All arguments aside, the bottom line through the lens of Applied Spirituality is that this is a natural substance like any other herb that is part and parcel of our Natural world. It is up to the individual to choose what things they will participate in, pay attention to, use, or reject as a matter of personal choice like hot dogs over hamburgers. No more; no less. What is available now is the opportunity to drop the fear over something and move on to enjoy the many benefits and blessings that this blessed seed will impart to all of us looking for new and better ways to honor the planet. We can start by giving thanks for hemp.
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