Author: Barbara Thomas

Now my first year at Amity Lodge is still a big deal for me but fits into the category of Elegant Simplicity. A large Christmas tree of white lights and close to 100 little gnomes and gnome faces with tall hat, big nose, and large white beard. The house Gnomes are proud that they are the feature of this season. We all are grateful that while all of the other Christmas decorations went up in flames, The Raphael print of Mother and Child that has been the center of our Christmas focus since Peter was 1 year old was in the studio and did not burn.

I have been indulging in a sweet review of Mary Jane’s Blogs. I want to collect her research and awareness of teachers and writers sharing their knowledge and experience of the elemental and nature consciousness. When I reviewed Blog #34, I reread my own story and decided to share it with you once again.

REMINDER from Mano: It is my desire for each of you to know from experience the love and joy available when relating with the consciousness of nature. The little elves and gnomes are so desirous to work with you and learn the ways of human. They want to make your life easier. REMARKS from Barbara: When I am aware of the nature spirits in my house it gives me sweet joy and a feeling of love and protection. I just shifted my attention from the computer to the…

I have noticed two ways of thinking and interacting. I have identified and experienced havi­­­ng a deep mind and a surface mind. My Deep Mind is where Mano and my Council speaks to me and the Surface Mind is where my family and friends speak.  Guidance comes to the deep mind as a word or thought floats to the surface. Once walking into my bedroom, I heard the word SANCTUARY emerge from the deep mind. I realized I was to create that room as a Sanctuary for prayer and inner work as well as the place I sleep.

Barbara missed writing the July blog, and is resisting writing this blog for August. She does not want to turn to Mary Jane for support, so I, Mano, am stepping forth to take over writing the blog. Since I want you to know what is going on in Barbara’s and my life, I will take over and write to you. It is really quite exciting to talk to you directly rather than through Barbara.

REMINDER from Mano: Meditation, prayer, and intentions are all ways to accomplish the major work of bringing Spirit into the material world. This creates such a blessing in your life. Explore and consciously experience how your life changes when you consciously align with spirit. REMARKS from Barbara: I am getting closer to moving into my new home, ready almost two years after the fire. I send blessings to Mary Jane in gratitude to be able to share her blog this month since I felt too busy to write…

REMINDER from Mano: Humanity lives under the protection and guidance of the Spiritual Hierarchy, sometimes called The White Brotherhood, sometimes The Company of Heaven or The Ascended and Angelic Family. Special dispensations are released each year, 40 days before Easter and 40 days before Christmas. Today humanity is in great need, being faced with trauma on many levels. A special dispensation of love, kindness, respect, and courage has been released. I would like for you to consciously receive these blessings from above and send them out horizontally to…

Mano used a social date of tea and danish with a dear friend to give me an awareness I did not know and information he wants to share with you in today’s Blog.

We all have a Guardian Council. Mine is composed of Angel, Elemental, and Ancestor. When I first started awakening to the reality that Rama is my Guardian Angel I was led to the 23rd Psalm in the Bible, as assurance this is a gift from God. “God has given his angels charge over thee to guide thee in all thy ways.”

My friend and I spent hours catching up with life since we last were together. Later, thinking over the amazing changes that have happened in her life: surprising immediate answers to a financial need and a new found harmony in a home situation that had looked like a big inconvenience when we last talked, all turned out to be a blessing, I felt Mano’s presence reminding me, “Everyone has Angelic and Elemental Guardians that watch over their life and supplies their needs.”

My current personal practice,” she affirms, “is to live in love. This means I must make the big shift from head to heart. To support this practice and prepare me for this current blog on Love and Compassion that Mary Jane was writing, Mano reminded me last week of a time in the late 1970s when I was meditating with friends. One woman saw a large gnome come into the room and place small, limp, pale gnomes around me. Slowly the small gnomes regained color and vibrancy. This experience was Mano’s first connection asking me to be of service to the elementals.” 

This month’s post is written by Mary Jane Di Piero, originally presented in November, 2015:

One thing I keep thinking, particularly as I read the daily news, is that a significant missing link in the ongoing conversation about climate change is the consultation with nature itself—with the trees, the nature spirits, the elements. Although my own steepings and ramblings in the nature spirit realm continually build my trust, I can’t even imagine how a New York Times news article or op-ed piece, or, for that matter, a climate change book-club conversation, could convincingly advocate for learning to listen to what the plants and animals have to say about their own survival needs and understandings. Our culture has been away from that reality for too many centuries.