In Two Years I Will Be 100

Invitation to Wake Up

February 2014, age 87

WAKE UP
To a new dimension of living
To the consciousness of the Seventh Golden Age

MOVE OUT of the matrix of collective consciousness
Out of the shopping mall mentality
Out of the fear of being different
Out of concern to speak your truth

HERE AND THERE PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP
Waking up to the truth of their inner being -db-

WAKING UP TO THE REALITY
They are more than they know
More than their mind
More than their body
More than their family, their history
It is their soul that makes them whole

WAKE UP TO THE REALITY
We are more than humans who have a soul
We are souls having a human experience

THERE IS MORE TO US THAN WE REALIZE We are not alone
We have an inner life, an inner reality
We are a part of a very large picture
We are a part of a very large consciousness
A consciousness that is love.

LOVE EXPANDS AND CONNECTS
Fear contracts and separates

LOVE EXPANDS AND CONNECTS US
With a large matrix of spiritual beings
With angels, Ascended Ones, Masters and elementals
With those who make up the Company of Heaven

WAKE UP
To the assistance, the intervention
The help that is available
We are not alone
Some set intentions to connect with this reality
Others offer prayers

OUR JOB
Is to act on our inner guidance
To take responsibility and ask for help
To name what we want
For ourselves, our family, our world

OUR JOB
Is to live from the inside out
To be honest, open and free,
To let people see who we really are
This takes the rawest kind of courage

IT IS OUR JOB
To be courageous, to be original, unique, different
To be who we truly are

THIS IS OUR GIFT TO LIFE
Our gift to the evolution of the human race
Our gift to the earth
Our gift to God

The Real Barbara Thomas

On August 19, 2020, ten days after I turned 93,
my sweet cottage burned to the ground
in the Santa Cruz fires of 2020.
I evacuated to live in my apartment in Capitola Village.

With the help of my son Peter, I started plans
to rebuild immediately.
The words, “I am going to build a Japanese-style house”
floated out of my mouth without ever touching my mind.

My Guiding Spirits were immediately present
to support me through this trauma and transition.
Their first guidance was to tell me that
the burning of the cottage was a “sacrificial offering.”
Now, eight months later, a hint of the story has been revealed.

The night that Jim died, early in 2004,
when I went to bed, an audible, loud, sarcastic voice said,
“Will the REAL Barbara Thomas please step forward?”
I was shocked. The voice was so strong and powerful.
I was intrigued; I had never lived alone.

I wondered, just who is the Real Barbara Thomas?
I was challenged, curious and excited
to find out just who IS the Real Barbara Thomas.
I was ready for the adventure of self-discovery.

Jim and I had planned to live in Europe that summer,
starting with a tour of Ireland with Mara Freeman
and ending the summer with a workshop and tour of Wales with our teacher, R. J. Stewart.

I decided to invite a friend to go with me on the Irish tour,
to come home between trips,
then take another friend to the workshop and tour of Wales.

Both of the trips were focused on visiting
Neolithic monuments and ancient sacred sites.
I met a part of myself in the cairn at Loughcrew
and had another transformative experience in Wales.
I returned to Europe for the next two years
to visit sacred sites in Cornwall, Scotland, and England.

Opportunity came to study tarot with Pamela Eakins,
which I did for the next seven years.
Now I use the tarot as a daily conversation and for guidance with my Council.
For more than four years I studied the Ubunda teachings
of the elements and elementals with Tina de Susa.
In all of these travels and studies, I was picking up parts
of the Real Barbara Thomas.

From 2014 through 2020, I spent time every day
for the three months of summer
doing small ink drawings, using a stick from the land,
recording the energies of the spirits who live in the sacred site on my own land, the Amphitheater.

Last night it was revealed that the transition is in process.
The sweet little cottage I shared with Jim
in the heart of the redwood forest
was the home of Barbara and Jim Thomas.

The new Japanese-style home I am building
is the residence of the Real Barbara Thomas.
The musings in this book record the years of transition.

May My Life Be A Flame

May my life be a flame
to honor all life

May my life be a flame
to bring light to the world

May my life be a flame
to shine forth the Great Mother

May my life be a flame that sends forth
sparks to light the flame in others

May my life be a flame to bring comfort
to my children as they face the challenges
of life and death

May my life be a flame
that lights the way in the dark

May my life be a flame to expand my vision
and see the larger picture

May my life be a flame that brings the rainbow
of colors into all I do

May my life be a flame that brings
colors alive with life in the
paintings I paint

May my life be a flame
that guides my family to find their own light

May my life be a flame
For my children to be a light for others

May my life be a flame to warm the heart
of the earth with my love

May my life be a flame
as I walk the Divine Plan prepared for me

May my life be a flame to open the way
to explore what the light reveals

May my life be a flame to reveal truth
to my ancestors who lived in the dark

May my life be a flame
of joy to all I relate with

May my life be a flame to warm my heart
to rest within the love of the Mother

May my heart be a flame
alive with the Great Mother’s love

May my heart be a flame
of all that has been and all that is to come

May my heart be a flame
that brings comfort to my dear ones

May my heart be a flame
that sings joy with my granddaughter about to give birth

May my heart be a flame
to my grandchildren about to get married

May my mind be a flame that shines
the truth that guides my life meaning

May my mind be a flame
for the Christ of God to bring clarity and justice

May my mind be a flame that reveals
the unknown with clarity and comfort

May my mind be a flame
of truth, respect, and wonder

May my joy be a flame that reveals
the small pleasures that bring great promise

May my life be a flame that enfolds
the light, the love
and the law of the four directions db.

May my life be a flame of transformation,
transmutation and transfiguration

May my life be a flame that anchors
the future into the presence

May my life be a flame
that sees and lives the perfection of the future

May my life be a flame bringing perfection
into the simplicity of my daily life

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