Only Love Is

What is Love? 

Who are You really? 

What inspires You?

How did you get here?

4 Letters so far:

Jewel, Jan 1 2009 

Rev Myron Jones, Jan 30 2009

Jewel Feb 20, 2009

Jewel re Nouk & Tomas March 5, 2009

1 January 2009 from Jewel...

Happy New Year!

Thank you for reading this...  It is my enthusiasm that is writing to you.  It's a little update on me...

Some of you know me as a soul-directed energy healer, others as a cranial-sacral therapist, and others just as a woman, or a friend. 

Most of you would easily guess that I have spent most of this lifetime questing for the meaning of life!  (smile)

For me, the answer is Love.   Not personal love, but all-encompassing, never-ending, eternal, pure, complete, unchanging, absolute unconditional LOVE.

I am immensely grateful for the journey that has led me to the peace and freedom I experience NOW, just as I am...  knowing that i, as an ego, don't exist, but that I, as Spirit, as Love, exist in such measure, words can never explain. 

For me, this 'I' that I am, is all of us without exception. 

Call it Source, Creator, Self, or Higher Self;  Christ, Buddha, or Eternal Self; Oneness, Mind, Soul, or Spirit; Love, Peace, Light or Truth... 
They are all just symbols of Home and what Exists throughout and beyond all that appears to be.  This is us ~ minus our dream of separation from It.

I have been lucky this life.  I had a mother who actively encouraged my spiritual curiosity through psychology and eastern religion.  I had a brother who taught me about astrology and the I Ching even while i was still a young child.  As a teenager, I even lived in a house with an active ghost, just to keep my mind open and my fear at bay! 

I also had many mystical experiences throughout my formative years.  They taught me that physical life is a dream; an illusion of separate bodies bound in time and space, and not real.   I knew even then, nothing is as it appears.  There is something more, underneath, beyond, and all through-out; patiently awaiting our recognition.  How wonderful!

Later, as a healer/therapist, I learned first-hand that a supremely-evolved LOVE is ever-present, especially in the places in our mind or body where we imagine It is missing.
It is simply this LOVE that facilitates all experiences of healing. 

But it wasn't until 2005 that I actually found a "spiritual path" which had a title, where I could say, "yes, this is It!  This is the way I know It to Be."

The path for me is: A Course in Miracles.  It is a self-study course, a one-one-one metamorphosis within us, between our perception as 'ego' and our True Self as eternal unchanging LOVE.

My purpose here tonight is to share that I have recently made a new website, dedicated to this LOVE.

Naturally, tee hee, it is called: www.OnlyLoveIs.org 

Maybe you might find something interesting in it?  Maybe not.  I'm not trying to convert anybody.  I'm just joyfully sharing where I'm at NOW and how peacefully fantastic it is to be me!  Knowing that i am you too...  It's all good!

LOVE to every One and New Year's Blessings of Peace and Joy today and all days, all ways.

Jewel

Letter from Rev Myron Jones

http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

Taken with permission from my Facebook ACIM Group where Rev Myron Jones writes daily on each Workbook Lesson through 2009. She is a wonderful teacher and I liked her summation of the central teaching of the Course given here.

Lesson 30:

What this lesson means to me:

Ahh! Now everything begins to make sense. God is in everything I see because everything I see is an image created by my mind and God is in my mind. God is in everything I see because there is only God.

This lesson leads to vision and vision will change everything about the way I see. It explains that I am going to go from projecting to separate, to projecting to join, which is why everything will be different. Projecting to join is vision, while projecting to separate is how I see now.

I know that the world I see is not real. It literally is not there. It is just an image, a picture of what is in my mind. I am projecting from my mind all the guilt that I don’t want to acknowledge, in an unsuccessful effort to get rid of it. This is what the world is. But this lesson is telling me that there is something else in my mind. Behind all of the guilt I refuse to look at, is God. So, instead of seeing the world as a reflection of my guilt, I can, if I choose, see the world as a reflection of God.

This sounds like a really good thing, so why don’t I just do it? I think that it is also a very scary thing. First, the Course makes it clear that the way to get past the guilt is to stop trying to project it away from me, and just look at it with the Holy Spirit. In this way I can allow it to be corrected for me. But there is something inherently scary about looking at guilt. That is why I projected it in the first place. I was trying to protect myself from guilt by seeing it outside myself. “There, that person is guilty, not me.”

Sometimes it is easy to see projection. My boss is upset about something and blames it on me. I feel upset. I am responsible for making myself upset but that is not acceptable to me so I project the guilt. He made me feel like this. It is his fault. And if I didn’t do what he claimed I did, then my projection is all the more believable. It really is his fault. He is the guilty one. I see this kind of projection going on all the time in my life and in the lives of those around me. Why are we so afraid to claim responsibility for our own stuff? Why do we need to make someone else guilty instead?

I think the reason it is so hard is that I set this whole world up to protect myself from God by projecting guilt outward. The thought of separation is not a creation of God and seems to be an attack on God. The idea that I attacked God is frightening and causes intense guilt. I push away the guilt by seeming to place separation outside myself. Hello world!

Now I have a place to put all the guilt I am so afraid of. “Look God, I didn’t do anything. It was him. It was her. It was them. I am innocent, but only because they are guilty.” In defending myself from guilt, I was really defending myself from God. My guilt says that I sinned against God and now I must protect myself from His wrath.

The Holy Spirit in the mind remembers the truth and stands ready to lead me out of the maze of lies I have created as a place to hide from God. The way I do this is to look at my guilt, with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to show me my innocence. In my innocence I will not need a scapegoat for guilt, and I will show my brother only his innocence. The only reason to hesitate is fear. The part of my mind that set this protective device in place to begin with, is terrified to see my defenses go. That is why releasing the guilt is frightening and sometimes painful. The ego part of my mind is still trying to defend against God.

If it was that easy to look at guilt then I would not have projected in the first place. I have been practicing this idea of looking at my guilt with the Holy Spirit for several years now and I know it works. I also know that if I go too fast and take on too much guilt at once, it can be very frightening and very painful. The more I do it, the more comfortable I become with it because I see that it is a good thing. I am strongly motivated to continue. And now things are moving along at a faster clip, but I can still get blindsided in the process.

How can I apply this in my life right now?
Guilt comes in many forms; fear, anger, hatred, frustration, depression, unease, and doubt are some of the forms guilt takes. It can be very subtle and so I am vigilant for thoughts that do not bring me joy. I also watch for thoughts that place blame for how I feel on others or on situations. I will keep looking with Holy Spirit at the guilty thoughts as I become aware of them. But I am also going to focus on the part of my mind where God is. I think this will help me to see differently, and it will be encouraging to work, not just at getting rid of what I don’t want, but to also be aware of what I do want.

My message from Holy Spirit
Me: Holy Spirit, I have been doing this process for a long time now, and I sometimes feel like it is endless. Can you talk to me about this, or about anything that will be helpful to me as I do today’s lesson?

Holy Spirit: Myron, you can live the happy dream while you are here. Much of what holds you back from doing this is the lingering resistance to experiencing joy. This is what happens when you think you are guilty; you don’t allow yourself to feel the joy that is yours. You don’t have to earn this joy, Myron. It is in the part of your mind where God resides. You do not have to be completely free of the ego mind where the guilt is in order to experience God.

You are doing such good work, Myron, and all of the Sonship benefits from it and praises you for what you do. It would also be helpful to the Sonship if you allow more of the joy and love and peace of God to come forward. It is there, and all you need to do is look at it. You may look at it with Me if that would be helpful.

Letter from Jewel  Feb 20, 2009

"The sight of Christ is all there is to see.
The song of Christ is all there is to hear.
The hand of Christ is all there is to hold.
There is no journey but to walk with Him."

-T.475/510

This Is It!!!!  So simple!

I will be speaking on ACIMGather once a month now, guest teaching on the 3rd Saturday night of each month, so tomorrow evening at www.acimgather.org (You can find directions there to listen on line if you wish).

I have mainly been a recluse for a long time and I must admit, it is activating much unconscious fear and guilt for me to be publicly speaking.... how silly is that! ~ the mistaken belief in sin showing up again and again.

As I just rest in Only the Christ that I Am and it Is, my fear dissolves, but resurfaces again in other ways, on other days, ever vigilant to keep charge of the idea that I am a body, separate and sinful/victimized/right/wrong/better/worse/blah-blah/ groan!  Gentle laughter!!!  Forgiveness, which overlooks all "problems," dissolves again the raucous screams and hidden hates.  Only Love Is.  I Am Still as God Created Me.

I love this path.  I love that the Holy Spirit uses our relationships to undo the nightmare of guilt and fear...  I am so grateful, even though so uncomfortable at times.  My lumbar spine has been in spazm now for two weeks!  A symbol of the onion releasing its terror to the Light of Christ which it Only Is. Only ever was.

The variety of ways the ego finds to reinstate its dream of separation from LOVE (Truth, Spirit, Christ) astounds me!  The dream of death mesmerizes and distracts, and still it is nothing.  I am not a body I am free.  Love Created Me Like ItSelf.  God Is The Love in which I dwell and Only God's Love Is Real.  I Only Want You God!

The Christ that I Am is identical to the Christ That Is You ~ and you and you and you and you ~ whether we appear to be galaxies or adamantine particles, a waft of air, a dead skin cell caught in my dog's fur, the sun, a flower, an ankle bone, blood, chair, tail pipe or a stone.  The hologram of Oneness peeks out from every seeming perspective.  The solution to all of it is all the same One thing.  Love.

Peace my brothers and peace to my self, for we are Truly One in the Heart of God and all that appears to exist in the dream of a tiny mad idea.  Only Love Is.  Halelujua!

Seeing Only Christ's face everywhere is the alchemy that dissolves the dream and I am so grateful that This Is so!

Love ~ Just Peace & Love ~ Jewel

www.OnlyLoveIs.org

~ Workshops ~

 I share through workshops as guided.  I'm not actively planning any new dates at this moment, but will as Guided.

* Let me know if you want me to repeat any of these *

 Metaphysical Origins

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 ~ Only Love Is ~

A Bodyworkers' Guide to

A Course in Miracles

with Jewel

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Divine Paradox!

The Course teaches we are not a body, in fact we are not even in a body, so....

How can we apply J's teachings while appearing to walk in this dream of individuality?

It's simple but not easy.

Practice complete non-judgment in  through applying quantum forgiveness, see the face of innocence and serve as guided.

"He will show me what to say..."

Recognizing Only Love Is.

 There is only one problem and one solution.

Practice seeing only Love. Only Light, Only the Truth in your brother (your patient) and yourself.

"As you see him so you see yourself." 

By surrendering every instant to inner Guidance,

"I need do nothing."

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 This workshop invites Christ's Vision all the way into your therapeutic practice ~ into your  relationship with every cell and atom in their imaginary body and yours.

 My teaching style is highly experiential so it is impossible for me to say what is going to happen ahead of time.  Holy Spirit is in charge.  I just follow along and Trust each instant as it seemingly appears to occur. 

Only Love Is.