Soul Cords

One of my favorite quotes is by the philosopher Nietzsche.  He said, “The most spiritual human beings, if we assume that they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but just for that reason they honor life.”  Even as a very young child, I would verbalize that Love was bigger than anything that could ever happen to me.   In suffering, I knew Love (my expression of Divinity) was the most powerful Being in all of creation.   I know now, I was being saved so I could share that light – that faith – that Love! 

That being said, seers, mystics, healers, those who have agreed to support human BEINGS in their individual spiritual evolution, should also strive to evolve.  My connection to the Divine, truly is my everything and it is why I do the work I do and why being broken open was/is necessary.  Rumi said, “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”  I have always prayed for more – more Love, more Light, more Compassion, more Grace and most of all more of a connection.  I want to be LOVE – UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Almost four years ago, by a series of synchronistic events I met Bernadette and Mino with Shabeta’s Healing Garden.  Over those four years, I truly have been blessed to call them my friends and teachers.  I have had approximately six or seven healing sessions with Mino.   I feel like at this juncture in my spiritual development I could already write a book about my encounters with both Bernadette and Mino.  Bernadette is an earth mother, a curandera, a plant whisperer, a seer, a soul soother, a medicine woman and an incredibly wise person.   She is the manifestation of Love.  She is all heart and honestly, deserves and I will at another point in time express my immense gratitude for her expressions of unconditional love and spirit.  I would call Mino a holy man but, he wouldn’t like it because he is before all things a humble man.  Never once have I heard him take credit for the divinity that channels through his being.  He is a true healer.  In the western world, with our western minds, we want to label experiences and people.  We want to name people or events something  . . . a shaman, a healing, a ceremony, a ritual, a prayer but, the truth is some things and some people defy language.  All I can do, is try to honor the divinity of it all in the space between my words. 

My life, my spirit and my soul shifted after my first session with Mino.  I have experienced PROFOUND physical, emotional, spiritual healings, clearings, and awakenings working with Mino.   Mino was raised in a small indigenous community in the jungles of Peru and from the moment of his birth, he has been imbued with a spiritual connection and language that I truly believe most of us will never attain or fully understand.  We may dance around the perimeter of such wisdom but, as I recently was shown, my western brain is the size of a tobacco seed (which trust me is smaller than a mustard seed).   Mino uses his cultural and spiritual wisdom and allows himself to become the hand of God.  I don’t say that lightly either.  I have “seen” him transform into the hand of God.  

The more time I spend with Bernadette and Mino the more “mysteries” of the Universe – of the Soul I am offered glimpses of.  There is a truth to the biblical quote “Where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” When I am with them our collective energy – our collective soul expands and that window to the Divine opens just a little more.   We have all read about “spiritual beings” who are able to transcend the limitations of this realm.  We have all had our moments of human doubt and wondered if those holy people are real.  Yes, yes, yes – they are!  Mino will say “I am just a man” and there is truth there too but, to say he is a gift to our wounded world – to our own limitations is truly an understatement. 

As a “seer”, a “mystic” and a person always immersed in energy, I was recently guided to do two consecutive intensive treatment sessions with Mino.  Mino will ask a person who has a session, “What can we help you with? What do you want to work on?”  My answer was ALWAYS the same, “Whatever Spirit thinks is for my highest good AND I want to deepen my connection to Spirit.”  I do this because I believe we dream small, we see small, we feel small in the shadow of Creator.   I want my dreams, my feelings, my insight, my wisdom to be as big and broad as Creator sees for me.  This time, though, I pushed myself.  I recently was in a class about secondary trauma and given my first profession, I have more than my fair share of that, but in this class, we were asked how often we did something we weren’t masters of.  I realized I let fear or pride stand in my way of experiencing more.   I know I like to be in control – it is one of those illusions in my life I am constantly struggling with.  When Mino asked me what I what they could help me one of the things I told him was I want to surrender. 

There are people who view the spiritual realm as non-reality but, I know that realm IS reality. What we see, what we do, what we experience there is intricately woven within the universal matrix of truths.   My fear was always if I allow myself to be cleansed in the sacred healing waters that remove all that is no longer needed then what would be left? Who would I be or become?  What was I holding on to that limited me?  Would I drown in my own failings?  Each person who experiences a session with Mino – with the Spiritual Brothers and Sisters, will experience something different.  Every session is different.  Sometimes, you return to this earthly plane of consciousness renewed, filled with joy or love, or physically healed and sometimes, you return to wholeness differently.  Sometimes, there is a period of adjustment – of uncomfortable – a soreness – a tiredness in the body . . . the deeper you are willing to dig – the more you will feel.  But, honestly, isn’t that the purpose – to dig so deep into ourselves that all that is left is holy?  

My two sessions with Mino were indeed ceremonies.  I surrendered and because I let go of the me I thought I was – the Spiritual Brothers and Sisters — the holy beings were able to flow through a man named Mino who humbly offers more of himself than any human being I have ever known.  I experienced lifetimes of teachings laying on that table.  Much of which, I am still processing.  I fully surrendered and survived – born again – pushed through a different womb door into a world of Light.   

I tell Mino and Bernadette often that I do not know what I did right in this lifetime to be so incredibly blessed to call them my friends – my soul clan but, the truth is they are both such incredible healers and humans that all anyone has to do is reach out.  There is Infinite Wisdom waiting for us.   The Universe does indeed gift to us what we seek.

“The clear night sky tried to prepare me for
what it knew would someday happen;

it began to show me ever deeper aspects of
its splendor, and then one evening just directly
asked, Will you be able to withstand your own
magnificence?” (Hafiz) 

Blessings and Love, 

Elizabeth

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