In a channeling with a dear friend recently the Fairies told her that I needed to talk to them and get their message about the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace. The following is that experience.

As I sat in my car with a child in meltdown crying and one in an angry huff, I thought; this is my journey to The Jade Buddha of Universal Peace? The Jade Buddha is a Buddha carved from a large boulder of Jade called The Polar Pride that is traveling around the world (to learn more about this statue click here). My family and I have piled in our car, ridden a ferry off our little island, connected up with two other car loads of family and friends, had lunch, and then we went on to see the Buddha. Once we finally arrived I felt like I had trekked up a mountain top and fought off an army to get there. The children had settled (after lots of Reiki and ThetaHealing) and we stepped into the courtyard of the temple. I was struck by the beauty of the whole temple. They have a giant gorgeous Quan Yin statue next to a waterfall and a whole wall of carvings interwoven with planters and fountains that ends in a dragon head. We spent time exploring every intricate statue, carving, and metal work all over the courtyard. First though, we walked straight to the reason we were there, The Jade Buddha. Luckily we were able to go on a Wednesday afternoon and there were very few people in the place. We sit down at its "feet" and all of us "tune in". My message comes almost instantly as I think about my day and journey here. The path to peace can be chaotic. I feel I am sent an energetic knowing of this. It is like when you need to clean, organize, and redecorate a room to make it more peaceful. You first have to dig through everything and pull it all out to sort it. In the middle of the process you can feel like you have made yourself crazy and it is all a big mistake, but you have to move forward because there is no turning back now. Then, eventually everything starts to fall into place and make sense. Once you are all done you are glad you went through the process. I have felt this way many times in my life. So the message I carry from my experience is; if you want to be at peace you have to be willing to move through what is causing the chaos. In the end you will be rewarded by a sense of well being and then you will find another place to start the process all over again. Remember peace is a feeling and a state of being so it will come and go. We are human and this is our experience. If you would like to experience some peace and the Jade Buddha is coming to your town, I suggest you go see it. As my 10 year old son said "Mom, I had a real experience, I don't know how to explain it, but it was good."

I have always had two strong passions. One is spirituality. I don't just mean my own spiritual path. From a very young age I loved going to other people's churches and temples and rituals. I have always been fascinating with the way we, as humans, worship and connect to the Divine. The other is activism. I have always tried to speak out for the "less fortunate", do right by Mother Nature, vote, recycle, and things like that. In the sixth grade I started a petition to make the school recycle the lunch supplies. One of my favorite books has always been The Lorax. You get the idea. Let's fast forward to now and actually the last few months. I have been very active in groups and events lately talking about and dealing with The Gulf disaster and things like that. In this time I have had something that always bothered me become a glaring fact that I could not deny. These two parts of me can be in conflict. I have watched it played out in forums. The activist hold an action oriented view which is very good, but on the downside they often come from a place of feeling victimized or fearful. This leads to the intent and motivation of projects coming from this place. The spiritual group looks for the positive and sees everything as a co-creation and part of the Divine which is very good, but on the downside they are so focused on positive light that they never take physical action. So where does this leave me. I believe that everything is Divine and is happening for a purpose and it is our view point that makes it bad. I also think that because we do create our reality and have great effect on our experience we should be actively changing it both on an inner and outer way. My older brother, Matt, who I do not give enough credit to, gave me the perfect phrase for this: Spiritual Activism. I believe there is a large group of people right now taking part in this movement. It is a movement that brings into balance these two sides of me. Are you a part of this new movement? If so say this:

I have been feeling very lethargic lately; almost depressed. I can't seem to find the motivation to get things accomplished. I have spurts of inspiration but even then it seems the details of life block and complicates things. I finally remembered that I can talk to Fairies and get another perspective. I know that when I keep trying to push one way and it does not seem to work then there is something else I should be doing. This was one of those times. I was not surprised to discover that The Fairies had a message for me and everyone else.

It's been 17 days since my last blog, the longest since I started, I think. I can tell you many reasons why I didn't write; my life has been crazy with dentist appointments and having a tooth pulled, I have once again over committed myself, I have been dealing with issues with my children, or I've been uninspired, etc. The reason is I chose not to. I made other choices that made it more difficult and I chose not to make the effort. Why did I choose not to? That is the real question. Intellectually I would say it is about priorities and where I let my attention get directed. Emotionally I can point to many things I have been processing that made me turn more inward. Physically I would say I just didn't have the energy to do it. This is just dissecting the energy behind my choice.

As go in I am standing in a cave. The walls are smooth and glistening. Even though I see no opening the space is lit as if we were in an open field, bright as day. Sitting on top of a big stone is a wise old fairy with a long white beard puffing on a pipe. He is wearing some type of robe but it is hard to make out under all his white hair. I sit on the stone opposite him (the only other thing in the space).

Empowerment! This is a focus of mine and something I have been thinking about a lot lately. My goal with every client, and really everyone I meet, is helping them connect with their power. Power has gained a negative reputation lately. People often think in power over rather then being empowered. I have been looking at our society and why we have such issues with standing in our personal truth and our personal power. If you think about it our society has set up a system of oppressing the very members that create it. We are actually making the choices that create this. I don’t only mean on a spiritual; we create are reality and choose to be here level. I mean everything that is happening that you like and don’t like is happening because of the choices we make as a society. We make choices everyday to give away our power to someone or something else. We allow doctors and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to dictate to us instead of listening to our own bodies. We believe the fear and half truths that pour out of the education system, government run agencies, and politicians. We trust everything we read online or see on TV and not look for its authenticity or check to see if it rings true in our hearts. We are bombarded everyday with other’s opinions about how we are not eating right, need to fear some other country, fear another person, or how everything is going to kill us. We are told by people in “authority” how wrong we are living our lives. That we must seek an unattainable level of perfection in looks, health, spirituality, morality, behavior, and finances otherwise we have damaged our personal security and should feel bad about it. These are generalizations and nothing is absolute but it is the energy that you push through everyday. People are starting to wake up. The economic crash has people questioning our government, corporations, and these false ideas of security that we have been fed. People who “didn’t want to rock the boat” have had the boat tipped over and are pissed! I’m watching people stand together to demand their rights be respected. As people keep making new choices and voting with their dollar there is a shift happening. Insurance companies now cover; home birth (and midwifery is now legal again), chiropractic, massage, and sometimes acupuncture. More and more products are being created to be environmentally friendly and more companies are making natural and organic products. Families are choosing to home school, unschool, or democratically school their children. Parents are choosing to have one stay at home parent even if it will make money tight. Companies are offering more choices to parents as employees. Co-ops and democratic work environments are popping up everywhere.

I've been asked many times, how can I see real Fairies? First I always say do not neglect the ways you already perceive them. Be aware of your natural talents. Inner sight, hearing wisdom, feeling them, and just knowing information are all valid ways of experiencing the other realms and communicating with other beings. We too often rely on our physical sight to validate our reality.