Woman of the Ages

Life has a way of taking form sometimes without you even noticing. That is what happened to me one winter day in Michigan. The event occurred a few years before we moved to California. The day was freezing cold and the icy streets were deserted.  Wrapped in my heaviest coat, I braved the weather and walked along the lake feeling serene and isolated from the world. As I gazed out at the frozen lake, I heard the Ancient Voice. I had come to regard her as the Woman of the Ages because her voice sounded so old and so very wise. She hadn’t spoken to me in quite some time so I was happy to connect with her again. Her voice usually sounded like a caring teacher but this time it sounded different. In a very serious tone she said, “Women have changed and society has changed along with them.” She had often advised me to pay attention to certain things, or she presented a way of thinking that was different from the way I usually processed my thoughts. I waited for her to say more but that was it. When I heard nothing else, I finished my walk and returned home. Looking back on that morning, I realize that a single sentence can give direction to the rest of your life.

Several days passed without further contact but her comment continued to ruminate in my mind. I tried to figure out what women the Ancient Voice might be referring to, and what she meant when she said that society had changed along with them. In time, I forgot the incident-or so I thought. I was writing steadily during that time and had begun gathering the hundreds of scraps of paper I had been writing on since my Awakening. I was sorting them out by subject matter with the thought that perhaps they might become a book someday.

During one of my writing sessions, I wrote the Ancient Story. The Woman of the Ages has always been very patient with me; this time was no exception. It took months of reading and rereading for me to recognize the symbolism and teachings contained in the Ancient Story.  The story itself was meant to jar our Ancient Memory and for me to use as a teaching tool. I would spend the rest of my life delivering its life affirming message.

We think of ourselves as human beings, but in reality we are all separate parts of an all-knowing Universal Source of Light Energy that is powerful enough to transform the spiritual ignorance about ourselves and each other into the light of understanding who we truly are, why we are here and the true purpose of our lives. We are drawn to this Universal Source by an attracting vibration known to us as Love. We are spiritual energy in motion. We consist of spiritual energy that flows to and from our Universal Source and that energy is meant to be used to learn how to integrate our spirituality into our physical, human lives. There have been many insights that have changed the way I view my life but nothing has been as powerful as seeing myself as spiritual energy in motion.

Learning how to integrate our spirituality into our human, everyday lives involves an exchange of spiritual and physical energy. Love for our Universal Source, love for ourselves, both physical and spiritual, and love for each other keeps our spiritual energy moving continuously inward and outward. Loving thoughts, words and actions coming from ourselves and others are powerful enough to draw our spiritual energy outward to be integrated with our physical energy. The physical energy is then transformed into spiritual energy and drawn back in again. That transformed energy then flows back to the Source and becomes enlightened. Each exchange of transformed, enlightened energy strengthens and empowers us. The purpose of this vibrational process is to reach our full potential as human beings. By giving and receiving love as easily as breathing we become Open Systems of Love.

As revealed in the Ancient Story, our spiritual energy also contains equal portions of our Universal Source of Light Energy’s masculine and feminine energy. An awareness of how to use this masculine and feminine energy is important in order to keep ourselves physically and spiritually balanced in our external world.