Hanging by a String's
Inspirations
Issue 11 - January 25, 2004
Publisher: Marilyn Gibson
mailto:herrictrio@aol.com
http://www.hangingbyastring.com
© Hanging by a String
Circulation: 150
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"To the Greater Connection
that we all share"
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Please forward this ezine to anyone you know who needs
inspiration, comfort, direction, and connection with the greater
force that is directing their lives.
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In This Issue
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1.The Apex of Power
2. Whom do you listen to?
3. Our Satellites
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1.The Apex of Power
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We are here today in a conundrum or sorts. On the one
hand, it is believed that there is a sublime perfection awaiting
us in the inner realms. This is, indeed, the truth. However,
on the other hand, we live in the physical world. So, how are
we to merge these two understandings?
Our lives often consist of a battle between our position, or role,
in the world, and our desire to escape from it. Because of this,
it is often an enticing prospect to attain spiritual advancement.
Indeed, many of the advanced qualities that do develop contain
aspects of joy, bliss, connection and power that entice or tempt
us to follow this direction.
Because of this, it is important that we develop a plan or a system
to ascend our apex of power. Our plan or system must include
steps, or a narrowing of the base into the pyramid shape, or the
apex. Our consistent effort will lead us into the higher aspects
of our journey if we become disciplined and constant in our approach.
To that end, we must entail what we look for in the spiritual
foundation that we set in order to ascend to the apex. Our spiritual
foundation requires many hours of reflection---inner reflection,
which is in many forms. It can take the form of someone who is
a great thinker, a great writer. Someone who is able to look
within themself and find a dialogue there. This dialogue has
to do with coming into an awareness of the voice that one listens
to.
Herein we see that the first step towards spiritual advancement
requires this simple task of thinking, or reflecting. Once one
begins to reflect on the nature of things as they are and why
they are, one begins to reach certain conclusions. Here we have
the process of figuring out which voices to base our conclusions
on. And it is here that the process becomes more intimidating.
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2. Whom do you listen to?
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We have many, many voices today. They begin on the
lower realms, even the demonic realms, and these voices can often
be quite compelling. They are the voices of addiction, the voices
of evil or wrong choices, the voices of transpiring against those
who would be in connection. They may even be voices of making
alliances with those who are transgressing against others.
In addition, there are the voices that exist around you in the
environment that you have created. There are the voices of your
children, if you have children, or your pets, or your spouse,
your siblings, your parents, or your extended family in any way
that might be defined. These are voices that are constantly
orbiting around your personality and are thus clamoring to be
heard. As an obligation, one needs to heed these voices. However,
as an inner guidance they may, at times, be completely wrong.
They may, at some times, be exalted sources of guidance and they
may at others lead one astray. They may at other times be cacophony,
or white noise that could be blocked. At other times they may
show the value of love, commitment, duty, and promise.
So we see a wide spectrum here of the voices in our everyday physical
world. However, these voices, on some level and at some time,
have been created by your personality with conscious choices.
At every point in which you allowed these voices into your awareness,
there was a choice made to do so. And now, if these voices are
becoming difficult to deal with, or leading you astray, it is
important that this be known. Indeed, having an inner guide to
this process is extremely important.
As we move further into the spectrum of understanding here, we
realize that there are other connections to be made. Because,
although you may have orbits around you, you are indeed an entity
alone. In some sense, you are completely alone in that you are
born alone and you die alone. In another sense, you are completely
connected in that you come from the realms of light in which you
are well aware of your soul connections to the powerful forces
in the pantheon of light, understanding, wisdom, power, and all
knowledge.
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3. Our Satellites
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Although you come from this awareness, you siphon yourself
into the head of a pin in your human form. In your human form,
however, you become comfortable and you develop relationships
so that they become real to you. Within these relationships,
there are many important levels of power. The power of becoming
a dominant or submissive person within a single relationship is
an integral facet here. So, in the many relationships, some of
which you may be guiding and some of which you may be guided,
you are like a marionette with many strings. It is important
to understand the nature of the strings: how you are pulled, in
what direction and why, and how you may have dominion over this
or understanding of it.
It may be that you are here to serve one whom you bring into your
life, and you are also here to have that one as your companion
and to learn. On the other hand, there are processes that are
as complicated as jigsaw puzzles between any two humans. And
the working out between these two processes in a life is one which
is vibrant and important to know. So, on a level of understanding
or examination, you may find that there are points or elements
of your relationship that need to be examined in the light of
reflection. Your capacity for reflection will enable you to
deepen your relationship, to redefine your relationship in terms
of your individual approach to it. Because it is true that one
cannot be drained of one's vital life energy. One needs a replenishing
time or point or system in which one can then return, refreshed,
and with an expanded knowledge base.
There are, in turn, other alliances that may be made, not only
within the family structure, but within the greater career sphere
or world environs, in which a life may be expanded and the power
base broadened to a considerable degree. From here it is then
available to influence on a profound level, or even on a worldwide
level. Those who have gotten to this point in advancement will
have been able to do a reflection through learning the processes
of wisdom development.
From this first, or foundational, level of understanding, we examine
the satellites in our lives—not only around us in our family,
but also in our career, in the larger arena of people whom we
contact, as well as society, and our point in time and space and
evolvement. Here we see that having this process gives us time
to seek or to sift through relationships and influences and expand
our awareness into the next level or ray of understanding, for
which we will continue in a later ezine.
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Marilyn Gibson
www.hangingbyastring.com