Phillip’s Wisdom on Governments and Elections

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Diana Rankin

As the US moves through this election year, it is important to look at our responsibility. Yes, we must vote, but that is not all we must do. Phillip explains.

We begin by reminding you that everything is energy. What does this have to do with governments, people who run the governments, and elections?

Remembering that everything is energy, it is about changing the energy if the current government is not satisfactory to the people. We remind you that anger and fear fuel anger and fear. It matters not what political party has power if the energy is strong with fear and angry deeds done, policies made will be harmful to the people and planet.

The healing takes place with each individual. When emotions of compassion and caring overtake those of fear and anger, the political scene will reflect this. We cannot state this strongly enough. Every individual has the power to make the changes in the physical world they want to see simply by changing their own energy.

The current administration, whatever that happens to be, is in power as a result of the energy expressed in the population.

As the individual changes their energy, the population changes, thus, the political arena changes.

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Phillip’s Wisdom on Healing the World

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Diana Rankin

You must hold the world in prayer and cleanse your mind of all but loving thoughts. This is the vibration that will continue to free you and to free the world from tyranny.

Do not be dismayed. There is great hope. The hope depends on your willingness to hold peace in your heart regardless of what you see, hear, or experience. When anger arises, do not ignore it. Instead, see it for what it is and transmute the anger into the action of love. Do the same for all emotions that arise out of fear, which is what anger is—a projection of fear.

This is not to say you are to rollover for those you consider your enemies, but instead to understand you have no enemies. Those you see as enemies, those you see as hurting you, are here to help you look deeper within yourself to see your errors of thinking. Are you to hold others accountable for their errors of thinking? Of course, but first look within to understand who is making the error and why. You will be surprised to see your own struggles manifested in the larger world. Not a single thought of yours is lived in solitude but is instead manifested into the larger arena.

You want peace in the world? It is first to be found within your own heart. Let there be peace in your world and Earth will one day come to know peace. Peace comes from humankind, not from the words of world leaders.

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Phillip’s Wisdom on Enlightenment

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Phillip reminds me that we do not move into enlightenment and stay put. We move in and out, away from and back into. Step-by-step, moment-by-moment, day-to-day, we make the commitment to our spiritual practices and to choosing to live our lives from the place of the heart where grace, love, and harmony abide. This is the greatest work of our lives.

Do we not think the great sages needed practice? Do we not think the Dali Lama spends time every day in communion with the Divine? Did not Jesus spend 40 days in the wilderness? Did not the Buddha spend so much time beneath the Bodhi tree that the people who lived nearby thought he was a tree spirit?

Phillip says— When you walk out of grace, be not dismayed. It is merely the opportunity to find your way back home. Of this you are aided by invisible spirits who guide your walk. You hear the voice of guidance only when you are quiet enough to listen. Return to your spiritual practice. In the silence you will find your way, knowing that others have gone before you to create a path you can then follow. The tall reeds have been laid aside by the trampling of those who have traveled this path before you. It is to them you owe gratitude. If it is up to you to be the first across a great raging river, know there are those in other worlds who guide you. Choose love and they are able to reach you. Even in fear, they reach out to you. It is up to you to reach back.

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Phillip’s Wisdom on Creating

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Diana Rankin

When you want to create, you first become that which you want to create and align yourself with the universal energy of that creation.

You want more love, become loving in your manner. Treat others with respect, kindness, and to them and be generous of heart. You will then begin to attract love. You want to attract a particular form of love, a mate or more friendships? See them already in your life with a flowing of the energy between you. Here we do not succeed because we try to manipulate another by seeing one particular person in our lives rather than seeing love. Instead of forcing your will and trying to force the will of another by saying, “I want love from this particular person,” instead concentrate on being love and saying, “Thank you for this love in my life.”

You want more money, wealth, abundance, prosperity, financial freedom? Align yourself with the energy of abundance of wealth. Give up your envy, fear, worry. Immerse yourself in the language of wealth. See money flowing into you. Give a portion of what you have to others. By doing so, you tell Spirit, “I trust you and I believe you are providing for all my needs. All my needs are well provided for, and I have great abundance and I share this abundance.”

You want vitality and health. Immerse yourself in healthy living in word and action. Align your intention with the needs of a healthy body.

The magic comes to your life as you open to receive. You will receive from the frequency with which you are aligned. Start right where you are. What are you receiving? If what comes to you is not what you want, then look to your thoughts, deeds, and actions to see with what energy you are aligned. Change the frequency of the energy you are focused on and that is what will change your life.

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Creation and the Blue Feather

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Many have heard this story. It’s a story I’ve told over the years in workshops and during speaking seminars. Still, it’s a story that keeps its importance. It’s a story of creation and how to create, or as often said these days, it’s a story of how to manifest.

I had just read Richard Bach’s Illusions, a great book I highly recommend. I was reading the book because I was at a time in my life when I was caught in the illusion of non-creation and needed to be reminded of how to create.

In the book, Donald, the teacher, talks to Richard about creating, specifically how to create. Donald suggested that Richard start with something easy to find to prove to himself that he can create. Richard started with a blue feather.

Richard found his blue feather, thus learning he could create what he desired. I too found my blue feather, but not as easily as Richard found his.

It was a Friday evening when I decided I needed to find a blue feather. I gave myself until Sunday night to do so. All weekend, I looked for that blue feather. Trying too hard actually pushes away that which we want to create, but that surrendering didn’t come to me until later.

First, to create, you need clear motivation. My motivation for creating the blue feather was clear. I wanted to remind myself that I knew how to create and manifest.

Next, visualize that which you want to create. Several times during the weekend, I visualized that blue feather in my hand. I used my senses. I could see it and feel it in my hand. It was real.

Be aware of your thoughts and be grateful for the manifestation. I lived in the city at the time, so I went out to the woods to walk. Surely blue feathers were more plentiful in the country. I lived in the energy of the blue feather and stayed in gratitude for it appearing in my life.

But no blue feather.

Sunday evening came. I was ready to give up. I was so frustrated and down. I felt like such a failure. It was then I gave it over to Spirit. “Okay, I said. “If that blue feather is going to show up it’s going to be on your timetable, not mine. It would be nice if it showed up, but Your timetable, not mine, Your Will, not mine. I had decided what I wanted, did all the work, but until that moment, hadn’t given it over to the Divine Self to do the work.

Within a few moments, I was tired, really tired. Thought I’d fall asleep right there, if only for a few minutes, but felt compelled to go all the way upstairs to the bedroom. We can be so lazy when Spirit speaks to us. It’s so easy to not listen or expel the energy to do what is asked of us. When I finally convinced myself to get up, I heard my inner voice tell me to turn around. Of course, I had to be told more than once, but I did turn around.

There, inside my home, in the city, right next to the box of cat toys was Sesame, one of my cats. She was pulling out a cat toy. You guessed it. The toy was a ball with a blue feather attached. Caught on her claw, Sesame looked up at me as if to say, “Meow, Mom, Here’s your blue feather.”

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Conservation with Phillip on Animals & Food

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Diana Rankin

Question

How can we help the animals? Should we be vegetarians?

Phillip

Humans must align themselves with the animals and learn of their choice. This means that a human is to ask the animal if they are willing to sacrifice their body to feed the human’s body. Animals are more in tune with the energy of their species so the human need not ask the specific animal but instead ask one of the same species.

By this we mean that if you are considering consuming a beef burger it would be necessary to ask Steer if he was willing to sacrifice his body to sustain yours. If the answer is in the negative it would be wise to choose another meal. However, if the steer agrees, the second step for the human is to ask if the beef burger is healthy for this body.

If the answer is positive, the beef burger must be prayer over. A simple prayer of thanks to the steer and to thank the human body for its acceptance of the meal is suggested. Of course, additional thoughts may also be included. The meal should be eaten with awareness and gratitude. This will allow the body to accept the meat.

For those humans who wish to aid the animals, begin by observing them. Learn their ways and provide aid when needed.

Animals have their own ways. Learn their ways and love without condemnation.

As with the aid to other humans, the aid to animals in your world is much the same. Harm not; give to help in time and money; and watch over and protect those you can.

Love is action and every prayer said in love is stronger than condemnation said in anger.

We remind you the evolution taking place in your world will see animals and humans sharing the same peace table. This transformation is already taking place.

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On the World’s Anger; the Way of Peace

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Diana Rankin

A conversation with Phillip, my Spirit Guide

Diana: Phillip, there is so much fear and anger in our world today. We are doing our best to counter it with love but it’s overwhelming. We feel we’re not doing enough, that we should be doing more but we’re exhausting ourselves. Help! We need your wisdom.

Phillip: The anger comes from fear. The human condition for many is to fear what may  be around the next corner. These individuals are not yet able to take the hero or heroin’s journey. They have not yet had enough experience to know the perils are in part what make the journey an adventure.

This does not mean to say their lives lack adventure. It is to say they have chosen to stay in one setting along the journey. This also does not mean these individuals are without pain. Their pain may be quite deep but the fear of moving out of the wound is greater than the pain. The anger will continue as long as the fear remains.

Those who have walked through the fear have a different life experience. You, and those who work with you, have learned it is not about never experiencing fear but continuing the journey anyway. Your hearts have reached a point to where you must help those who are unable to face their wound, so they are unable to heal it, thus they stay locked in fear, and those they bring harm to.

It is not that you are to address every issue that touches your heart. It may not be your role to work on any specific issue. As you explore and learn of your soul’s mission you may learn your calling is to heal one issue, or you may learn your calling is to spend time in prayer and meditation. As you have written the world needs both warriors and peacemakers until neither are required for the world will then live in peace.

Spread yourselves not too thin for then you will harm yourself and accomplish little. In doing so, you add stress to the world when it is your heart’s intention to add peace.

As you learn more and more to live in love you will find the small acts of kindness you give away, the smiles and laughter you give to the world—these are the ways to override the pain caused by those who are in pain themselves. Every time you see beauty in the raindrop and feel the expression of a cloud, you are loving the world.

Do not set aside the good worth of what may seem a small jester—a donation, a prayer, a thank you. These are the ways of peace.

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Phillip’s Wisdom for the New Year

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Diana Rankin

All that occurs in your life and everyone who comes into your life is a mirror for you to see yourself. Many will baulk at this statement, not liking – or not understanding – its truth, so there is need for further explanation.

Humans like to believe the best about themselves, and it is right that they should. However, all of you are within each of you. By this we mean that within every person there is the capacity – and the ability, if tapped – to experience all human emotions and experiences. You have within you the seed of the wisdom of a Gandhi, the passion of a Quan Yin, the anger and fear of a bin Lauden, the hatred of a Hitler, the knowledge of a Buddha, the love of a Christ. It is your choice which seeds you water. You express the blossoming of the seeds through thought and action. Now that you have an understanding of how all of you are within each of you, let’s address how everyone and every experience is an opportunity for you to see yourself.

Like attracts like. This is a basic principle, but you say, “I am a good person, so why are there so many negative people around me?” Or, you say, “Why are people mean to me when I’m always so nice?” These are legitimate questions. Let’s examine the answer.

Is every thought you have a positive one? Are all your actions kind? Most likely you will answer no to these questions. If you see a news report about a terrorists’ attack, are your thoughts to bless everyone – everyone – even the terrorists? Most likely not. We have made our point.

Instead of moving into a place of love where – without condoning the act – you can love each person, you move into a place of fear. You then again and again watch reports of the violence on your electronics, and you speak over and over of the violence to those around you, thus allowing more and more negativity to build up within you, adding to the negativity, fear, and violence in the world. And at the same time, crying, “But I’m a nice person. Why are people so mean to me?”

You see, to live in the grace of joy, you must look into the mirror the other holds up for you and say, “Thank you for showing me what seeds within me I am watering.” Then you are able to wash away that which does not serve your life and feed that which does. As you cleanse your inner world, your outer world will change.

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The Shift to the World of Love

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Diana Rankin

Originally this article was published in The Spiritual Path newsletters in December 2012. Because its message is so important, I decided to add it to my current blog, with a few thoughts about our world today.

In 2012, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, in an address to the United Nations on September 26, eloquently explained the power and importance of what took place December 21, 2012. He stated, “…according to the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012, marks the end of non-time and the beginning of time. It is the end of the Macha and the beginning of the Pacha. It is the end of selfishness and the beginning of brotherhood. It is the end of individualism and the beginning of collectivism…the end of hatred and the beginning of love. The end of lies and the beginning of truth. It is the end of sadness and the beginning of joy. It is the end of division and the beginning of unity…”

Our world today, at the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, seems more divided, less joyful, with less brother/sisterhood among all peoples. Still, I believe what President Morales stated to be true. We have entered a new era, a time of greater love. Over these past years, I have seen an energetic world emerging, a golden, luminous world like a penumbra emerging from our planet. I believe this is the new world being created with love where President’s Morales’ words will be lived.

If this is true, why then does it seem to be the opposite with guns killing innocent children? With wars destroying countries and lives? With so much anger against others?

Why are so many U.S. political leaders waging a war against women’s health care? Why is a political Republican front runner adding so much fear and hate to already explosive situations?

I turn to Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, to give you an answer. The official religion of Persian (modern-day Iran) from 600 BC to 650 AD, Zoroastrianism is a complex religion that explains the duality of good and evil in the cosmos and in the human mind. Forgive me for simplifying it for my purpose here. Since Zoroastrianism influences many religions that came later, you may notice similarities to other religions.

Life is a mixture of opposing forces – life and death, health and sickness, day and night, good and evil, etc. One cannot be understood without the other, so life is opposing forces. Humans have free will to choose, so some will choose evil acts while others choose good acts. It is believed that when all humans choose good acts – and it is believed that day will come – then goodness will triumph over evil.

We all have to make the choice to choose good over evil, each and every one of us, which leads me back to what I wrote in The Spiritual Path in 2012:

Each and every one of us is either contributing to the beginning of joy and unity in our world or we are stuck in our old patterns that no longer serve our lives or the world. In order for our world to survive, we must be the change we want our world to become. We must stop our selfishness and remember we are all brothers and sisters. We must end our hatreds and fears and anger and be love. We must stop our lies and be truth. We must work through our pain and sadness to find healing and be joyful. We are being called. It is time to answer.

It will not happen overnight, this moving from fear to love, each person choosing good over evil. It will take time, and it that period between now and then, we each must accept our responsibility in the process; we each must choose good over evil again and again and again, not letting hate for those who harm move us from love, but instead strengthen our resolve to choose love over fear, good over evil.

I challenge each one of us to answer, to let go of fear and live in love. The time is now, and we are the people.

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Winter Solstice Is a Time for Introspection and Awakening Light

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Diana Rankin

Winter Solstice comes at me always unexpectedly as the days shorten and the nights lengthen. Loneliness can overtake me in the darkness, leaving me feeling empty of energy, and I must remind myself to turn the loneliness into one of deep introspection and honor the sacredness of turning inward.

As I witness the daylight move so quickly away, I want to hold onto it, and I remind myself to remember that all life is a coming and going, with a few precious moments for each experience. As the participant in life’s movement, I must stay present lest I miss the richness that presents itself in the moments of my life. I remind myself of the value in darkness as I let go of the need for more light. As the great bear in the West goes into her cave, I too am led into the cavern of my inner world.

It is within the inner world where I find both the richness and the horror that is my personal human experience that expresses itself out into the world. I come face-to-face with my beauty and my unkindness; with my success and with my faults and failures. It is where who I am and whom I want to be smack up against each other and I cannot hide the truth of my thoughts and actions from myself. It is here, in this inner world, that I am able to delve into myself and move beyond to the point of creation of that which I want to be and want to manifest within my personal world and for the greater world. It is here in my inner world that I meet my ancestors and the ancestors of all. It is here in this inner world where I soar through imagination into other worlds and gather together with beings of immense wisdom and knowledge that I then bring back to my world.

As I remember what awaits me in my inner world, I remind myself to allow the darkness to linger just a little longer in the morning and the daylight to leave at its appointed hour in the evening.  As I let go and give myself over to the shortening of the days as we draw closer to Winter Solstice, a voice from my inner world gives me the gift of knowing that on the awakening of the day following Winter Solstice the light begins to lengthen as the days begin once again to grow longer.

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