To Edward about Visionary Experiences (was This Week it is Shiva)

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Edward wrote

>> ...So, last year I saw that Mataji and Swamiji where in Napa, I felt I wanted to connect

>> then, but wasn't the right time. Now, again I am connecting and it

feel stronger. And after >> hearing Mataji's voice, that did it for

me, my heart just opened up, giving me a tickle, as I >> like to call

it. It is the same when I am "tickled by the Lord.>> Having vision of

Shiva with Trident and matted hair on top, It is felt that I am

becoming to >> understand more and more...

Dear Edward ~ thank you so much for sharing your experiences,

including your visionary ones. This is part of me also, though,

culturally, most of my nonordinary experiences seem to have a

shamanic or Native American appearance or context. I believe this is

so close to me because of two recent past lives, both as an Indian,

one as a male, one as a female. Both of them had challenges and

gifts, and it seems that much of my life this time has been learning

new ways to express both of these aspects of myself, to take the

challenges I didn't do so well with last time and have them become

strengths, to be grateful for the gifts and share them to my full

capacity. I have had several lovely encounters with Swamiji when my

hope in being part of the group seemed to be lagging.

I really like what you said about being "tickled by the Lord." What a

wonderful way to describe the indescribable. It is so hard to

describe that I never truly knew what it meant until it happened to

me. I thought of myself as a spiritual person, interested in

spiritual experience and evolution; I thought of myself as a devotee.

I had no idea. I was still in kindergarten. Now I understand when

someone says "I fell in love at the first sight of my guru," or "I

knew the moment I looked at a picture of Her/Him." Shree Maa and

Swamiji have opened their hearts, and I fell in love. Jai Maa , Jai

Swamiji ~ Linda