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Permalink Reply by Whitewolf on October 30, 2009 at 11:57pm

Here's what I was responding to:

Featured in Soul Light #6 & 23 (where might this be found?)

Blessing Money When you receive or give money, offer this simple blessing: May this money be blessed.It is a symbol of divine substance and energy.May it be redeemed from every impure influence, from every attachment and craving.I appreciate it and keep it as a divine gift.I shall use it only for good, right, appropriate purposes.In using it, I again bless it and give thanks for it.© The Sundial House Group

Permalink Reply by Sharon Houck Russo on December 7, 2009 at 9:57am

Hi, this is the first thing I am trying on this new lovely website. Just a beautiful website with its artwork, topics discussed, and people partipating here. Really an awe-inspiring find for me which I am so grateful for. I am starting from scratch with the orientation session--please forgive me if this is not exactly the most suitable response to your offering. I am a bit overwhelmed with it all, not being very computer savvy. I like this blessing on money--I have often thought money could be regarded as energy like you mention here. How would you phrase a blessing for giving money--this one seems to focus on receiving money, which is very rare for me, unless there is something I am missing about what you have said above. I have had advice from a financial analyst who helps people for free to manage their finances. I have just retired and am on a fixed income and a budget for the first time in my life. I find I have great difficulty sticking to the budget and the accountant's way of looking at money--you decide before you spend money and even go into a store, how much money do I have to spend today and exactly what can i buy to stay within that guideline , knowing before you even enter the store what the item will probably cost--doing research about how much most of the items you buy generally cost. And keeping account of each item you buy and theh price of it on a tablet in the store as you put each item in the cart and adding it up as you shop. And asking yourself at each item--do I need this or want it? If I want it, it goes back. It is no fun and is very restrictive, so I have trouble keeping to it. I have thought that a different approach more suitable to me would work better, such as regarding money as energy and the buying process of the items in a store as a flow of energy. The financial consultant's way seems to be based on lack or attachment. There must be a better more fulfulling way to stick to a budget. If I look at it something like this: kind of like I envision a monk would: money spent for the benefit of others, and for myself, perhaps for my most essential survival needs;when deciding what to spend, think--does it provide love to another person or to myself and increase my or another's well being; when I think about whether to make a purchase--ask myself that question. If I feel a warm loving feeling, buy it, if it doesn't produce that feeling, don't buy it. Depending on the intensity of the warm feeling or upon if it leads to a fearful contracting response--let that be the sole guide of whether to purchase an item. And also extend that to: does it lead to care of the environment and see what feelings come up when I ask that question about a potential purchase. And completely use that method instead of keeping a tally of every single item price as i go into a store and thinking, I only have so much money to spend at this particular store so I can't buy this or that for that reason,which seems restrictive and not coming from a place of abundance. I spend most of my money on things to heal myself, like healing classes, psychotherapy, books, DVD's and CD's, especially now that i am going through a major life transition. I like to give donations to charities but have had to cut back since my retirement. And I need to restrict those purchases, although they are healing and necessary. Most of my purchases now would probably lead to warm loving feelings within myself, which is my proposed new way. Kind of funny, isn't it? How do I restrict the healing purchases and calibrate and decide which are the most important based on my feelings of love? Well, first I would have to get a general broad view of everything I usually spend and my feelings toward them. Of course, necessities like auto insurance and the utilities bills would not be included in this scheme--it is really my variable expenses like food, herbs and supplements, practitioner healing visits, classes, books, CD's, creative supplies, like art supplies which I use to heal myself, subscriptions to websites like Agape.com where a monthly fee is required for online services, plants, lectures, concerts--these are the areas that I have flexibility for spending-- the rest I really have no flexibility in the budget. And of course these expenses change all the time depending on what comes up in my environment. It is really hard for me to have to cut back on these healing expenses since I am not working now. It is a choice i have made not to work and yet I made the choice because of the transition I am going through and needing the time and space and privacy from the mundane world to deal with the stress accompanying this change. I am grateful I have the resources to be able to not work. Most of the world is not in that situation. So from what I have said here, and granted, it is probably not completely clear to others reading this, I am guessing, what the whole picture is--does anyone have any suggestions or any similar experience to what I have described? Has anyone worked with keeping to a budget based on their feelings towards potential purchase items when in a store? Has what I have come up with in this regard be incorporated with the energy blessing above to help someone like me to stick to a budget? Has anyone discovered an energy approach to help me stick to a budget that would be more comfortable to me than the strict accoutant's approach to doing that? More specifically, has anyone discovered an energy approach for dealing with variable expenses in a budget that would lead to better managing of my finances? Is there any energetic approach that would bring in healthy goddess energy like Lakshmi (not sure of exact spelling of this Hindu goddess) that could be incorported with loving energy testing of myself when trying to stick to a budget while in a store? Just ideas that are occurring to me as I write. Well, thank you all for listening to my tale of woe and for providing the space for me to express my ideas as they arise in my consciousness. It's kind of fun for me to be able to express myself in this way here--there are few places where one can be oneself in this way. Take care, and I wish everyone on this website love and peace. It will be interesting to see if this sparks anyone imagination and I do hope someone else benefits from this besides me. Love, Sharon Russo. My e-mail is 121846sharonhrusso@msn.com. I don't even know if this writing will go through or where it will end up! I guess it will be a mysterious treasure hunt adventure to find out! We'll see what happens and if I have any companions along the way! Great fun for me tonight with this--thank you for that! One last question--I am guessing I click "upload files" to find a copy and print out a copy of the paper listed in white wolf's blessing above?

Permalink Reply by Sharon Houck Russo on December 7, 2009 at 11:45am

Sharon back, I just saw the first entry above--as to what you are responding to below. My earlier response is really in a different vein than yours and I will now try to respond to what you are saying, now that I see more of the big picture and have more info.
So you are saying, the ring itself, in the Lord of the Rings story at least, is a symbol for money, both created by dark impure forces of the universe? Both are impure and can't be redeemed or blessed because they were produced by dark impure forces--you mean redeeming or blessing money and the ring won't transform the dark forces and lead to a positive outcome because those processes stem from goodness or divine love? That is what white wolf said? And the Sundial House group responded to white wolf with the blessing below about divine love? I am really confused here as you can see!

To add to this confusion--ha!--I'll just say that I, too, think money and the ring can be blessed even though the above passage says they cannot because they are impure creations by impure energy. That doesn't even seem important to me--the ring and money are just manifestations of energy, whether impure or divine. The impure and divine energies are just 2 forms of energy that dissolve and go back and forth into each other--like divine energy changing into impure energy and impure energy changing into divine energy--like constant change and dancing back and forth between these 2 energies which the ring and money are just manifestations of. So it is not the money or the ring per se that are important and need to be concerned about. To me all forms or external objects and even internal objects, like emotions, have these 2 qualities of energy associated with them. And there is a constant dance back and forth between the 2 energies associated with the object. Not to be caught in either the dark and light energy, and of course the object doesn't even enter into it here--but to just be aware of the dance and the constant flux between the 2 energies, regardless of the object associated with the energies--is my way out. When I am aware of that constant flux, it releases me from the grip of the energies and the dance between them.
So I am really confused now as to what you are saying here in all of this and how it relates to my understanding and experience. I don't know how to go further right now in the discussion without some more input and clarity as to what you all are saying.


So,you are saying that regarding and blessing money as divine love energy solves the problem about money as presented in the passage above? The blessing leads to release of the attachment and craving? Offering a blessing of this nature and looking at money in this way--the act of doing that leads to wholesome use of money and goodness and light in all interactions involving money. It's almost like saying, by setting the intention of looking at money as divine love energy and perhaps saying a blessing internally to oneself when receiving or giving money in an interaction--you are suggesting these 2 actions as ways to lead to a healthy and wholesome use of money in the world based on your experience and knowledge?
I am confused about what the soul light article and exactly what happened when in your responses posted here, white wolf, so I am just going to end now to prevent further confusion. Maybe what I said so far will be of benefit.

And actually thank you for writing this, because it brings up an interesting idea to me that I have forgotten about and needs more contemplation and investigation:
maybe this will be food for further thought:
you seem to be suggesting that the transformation of impure or dark forces lies in offering divine love energy to it by blessing it? You also talk about transcendence and going beyond it or rising above dark energy. Are you talking about 2 different ways of transformation here? I have never been clear of that difference in my experience nor am I clear as to the definition of the 2 ways if that is what is I'm picking up here. Would you provide some clarity?

And I am guessing there is a difference between the alchemical process of transforming dark shadow energy into light or bliss--like lead into gold and the process of being aware of the flux between dark and light energy that happens more on a smaller scale--like an emotion with dark energy changing moment to moment into an emotion with light energy and the awareness of this change happening leading one out of that flux of the opposite energies that one is being caught up with. When one is caught in the dark or light energy or emotion regardless of the object associated with the energy, I find that being aware of that process or flux or dance leads to release of the whole process I am preoccupied with. So I am released from being caught in either extreme--the light or the dark. Does this also apply to the alchemical transformation of the shadow into light energy? I don't know.

Please see the last paragraph below--it is to be inserted here--somehow it got transposed to the end and belongs here. Thanks for your patience.

Well, now that I am thoroughly confused, I am also enjoying the confusion. It is good confusion to me and I am thankful for your bringing this up and giving me the opportunity to express all of this confusion and put it together in one writing--it makes me think and stimulates me into coming up with some insight about all of this perhaps bringing experience and conceptual thinking about the experience together in the form of an insight, which is kind of my way of discovering self-knowledge. Kind of like one of my intuitive processes of combining heart and mind through writing that leads to insight or wisdom? Even though many spiritual teachers I have studied under have stressed that thinking as part of the process of discovery or in the pursuit of self knowledge just does not work. Well, I guess that is their trip and not mine and that is okay. To each his or her own, I guess, and to thine own self be true.
So this is my second entry in this website. I hope it is acceptable what I have expressed and that I don't cause anyone any harm by it and that you all understand this is all about me and my discovery process and is not about any of you per se. It has been a very hard and exhausting journey for me to express what is authentically true for me--it seems to raise people's hackles for some reason and ruffle many feathers. I probably wrote too much for my first 2 entries into this website already and deviated from the traditional ways of expressing oneself here already. Probably you'll all send me hate mail and want to throw me out. That happens a lot as I express my truth more and more. And you know what is really funny? I think I can live with that now and choose to go on expressing my truth regardlesss and not get so upset about it. It seems worth it now and more wholesome to just express myself and take the consequences rather than deciding not to do that and remaining silent instead. So thank you all for the opportunity to be me. If I have erred, perhaps you all would tell me how I did that and how to follow your protocol of what's acceptable. Take care, love to all, Sharon

How does transcendence of dark energy and offering divine love energy to dark energy fit in here? 2 separate, different processes and how do these 2 processes fit in with the transformation of the shadow energy into light and the more microscopic dance and flux of light and dark energy of the emotions from moment to moment?