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Working for Spirit

When I first began my spiritual/metaphysical path, I was of the impression that, once I began working with Spirit, I would get rewards, and life would become easier. The truth is, it became harder. The reason for this? There are many reasons. I did not come to the awareness until many years later, but basically, before one can get the rewards, one has to work through any karma which is outstanding and repay any karma which is due. One cannot move on and work with Spirit while debt is due. It is as simple as that. In the beginning, I found that many people did not like me. I am not surprised as in a past life I had hurt and caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. In this life I had tried so hard to be the ideal person but, of course, I had all of my past-life issues which needed to be ironed out.

Terrible things happened to me, from people being quite nasty (I was nasty in past lives) to people ripping me off money-wise, or starting to work with me then leaving me to “carry the can” so to speak. I did not realize the onslaught of past-life energy I needed to repay or experience. Just because I was working with Maitreya did not mean I was devoid of these experiences.

It was actually after I merged with his energy that things got a lot worse, and they did not finish until I did the UN talk to a metaphysical group in 1999. It was seven hard years of learning, repaying past debts, and hard lessons about fear and trust. Looking back, I really never knew it was happening, but it was and, by the time I realized it was like this and that I was working on past-life issues, it was too late. Years had gone by and I could not go back!

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Accusations and Redemption

Margaret’s video blog today deals with what to do if you find yourself in a situation where you have been accused of doing something which you have not done. She give you a simple exercise to do that will lighten the burden from your shoulders and give you immediate redemption from the negativity of the situation.

 

2011

The time is coming when, once again, we welcome a new year. It does not seem a minute since we were celebrating the millennium of 2000, and now we are heading into 2011. From the 1980’s to the year 2000, many people began the journey toward metaphysical understanding. During that period, the Mind Body Spirit and Whole Life Expo shows were active around the world. People began to find out about a whole new way of life. Unfortunately the advertising at the time was, “Try this and it will make you immediately better.” So many people believed that and, when it did not work, they lost interest altogether in what they had tried and in what was then known as the “new age” movement. I do wonder whether anyone understood that spiritual development is a life-long journey, a lot of hard work, and not to be taken lightly!

We were just consumed with the new energy, the philosophical teaching, and also the personalities who brought the messages – Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Choprah – people with beautiful energy who spoke to the spiritual part of us. I started my own path in 1985, first studying with some amazing teachers and then professionally as I moved into my career. When I look back, I wonder how I survived – how I have not fallen by the wayside – because the road at times has been so hard. How hard has it been? Well, I have a Cancer midheaven in my astrological chart that makes change very difficult for me. I think most of us do not like change because it brings out fear in the Self – fear of change – fear of what is ahead and how will we cope with what is going to happen. Recently one of our regular website viewers who is in a very professional career wrote that she has chosen to give up her career and leave her job. I cannot imagine the fear she will face as she does so and moves on.

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Why? – Continued

The interesting thing is the fact that I always had enough not only for my own needs but also for those of Maitreya. Recently, I have been counseling a graduate student who gave up their job and went into spiritual work full time. They are going through what I went through in the beginning – learning to have trust and faith. It is a scary time as they see their bank account decreasing. I know they will be provided for financially – perhaps only what they need. The rewards will come later, but they will come, and much fear is being removed by the situation at hand. You have to give and give and give when working for Spirit. So many people write to me and tell me that they want to work for the Masters, yet they are not willing to give anything of themselves to do this. They will not even make a donation to the Maitreya website. It is even worse when it comes to study work and doing courses with a Master. However, the more you do give – whether in time or money – the more will come back to you. It is an actual law of the Universe. What you give out, comes back!

Over the years, I would often be awakened in the early hours of the morning and asked to write a newsletter for Maitreya. I would get out of bed and do it, while the Self part of me wanted to stay in bed. When I was asked to do something for Maitreya, I would do it regardless of time, distance, or finances. I remember a friend calling me once from the US when I was teaching a course in New Zealand. She told me that I would be doing a course in the US in October of that year. It was then May, and there was no way I could visit the US. I did not have the airfare for both my husband at the time and for myself. It did not look good, but she insisted I was going.

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Why?

Somebody asked me the other day why I am so lucky and seem to lack nothing to do my work. I told her it is because I personally feel that I have given so much over the years – especially in the early years of my work. Maitreya has also made sure that there was enough financially to do his work and to help us achieve it. We got into a discussion about spiritual/metaphysical work and how many people struggle to do this. I have to be honest and state that I have never found it hard. From day one when I went into my development (albeit with a short learning term of about a year), I always had what I needed. Sometimes it would be only what I needed, but it was always there.

I did not realize in the beginning that it is all about faith, having the faith and belief in Spirit – or as I have always called them, “those upstairs” – and learning to let go of fear, which is soooo very hard to do. But in the beginning, it was about me having faith and trust. I was not earning any money when I began my path. My then-husband was the sole wage earner, and we managed financially, even though some weeks it was hard. Once I started earning money (if I recall, it was less than a $100 a week to begin with), I thought we had died and gone to heaven because we not only had his income, but an extra income with what I was earning. I remember being able to go away for a weekend to a holiday destination once we had the extra money! As I got better at what I did and earned more money, life got a lot better financially. In the beginning though, I always had a small income.

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