Showing posts with label Shawn M. Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shawn M. Cohen. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 October 2018

Happy Solar Return to my Blog, Shelter From The Storm! And Now We Are 6 Years Old! Jesus Wept!

Happy 6th Birthday to my Blog today! I started this blog filled with hope and excitement 6 years ago today exactly, Oct.13th, 2012,  that I would somehow be able to write my little Metaphysical Heart Out all about the JOURNEY and its many (and I mean many!) Ups and Downs, Spiritual Mentors and False Prophets & Gurus and occasionally a person who was a trusted Spiritual Teacher who suddenly "finds Jesus" and renounces all their previous work as "The Devil's Work"! (Madam Doreen Virtue!) Oh Yes, I have witnessed and heard it ALL and I mean ALL.  I want to write about this today as a kind of "what I have lived through on this path and some even recently" for my Blog's anniversary...Poor Doreen Virtue, the Queen of Metaphysics, leaves it all behind, even the profit from all her work because Jesus suddenly appears to her and tells her she was fooled by the Devil! Not only that but all her previous work must be denounced, that is a heck of a lot of LIGHTWORKER and ANGEL THERAPY WORK! (she is sadly deluded, would Jesus really say this to her, come on, she was helping millions!) Could be husband number ?? is a Born Again and Doreen got tired of them stealing her millions as previous ones did? Can't beat em, why not join them, huh Doreen?

*JESUS WEPT! (see picture below)  Yes, because HE said, "Ye Are Gods! Thou shall do even greater things than Me.."
and what is greater than Knowledge applied with love and care to the world? LOVE Heals but LIES misdirect the Soul, getting so caught up in "Jesus"  they have no life, no identity anymore and even decide to imitate every action of Jesus...using Jesus' story as some way to Big Themselves UP!

As a Metaphysics Teacher and a Spiritual Being in a Human Meat suit for 62 years I can not tell you how many people I have met along the Path who have thought they WERE JESUS!
Yeah, you heard me right...
but it gets funkier than that...
How about "Jesus is my boyfriend" said one close friend of mine who used to run a New Age shop I worked in once...and for this I was truly sorry to say, I had to go, whatever happened to her in the time between our last connecting she became clearly delusional. She claimed Jesus was her boyfriend coming to her nightly for you-know-what and she also sat/gathered/convened with Buddha too...she was so spiritual but that...I could not go for and isn't Jesus chaste? Like a Nun?

Or the Radioshow Host who was born on December 25th and thinks he is Jesus in disguise because he gets upset about animals who are abused. No lie, he does great rescue work and for this he should be proud and yet screams obsentities on air every week to Democrats and Liberals because he thinks HE is RIGHT about HIS  Right Wing politics! Constantly insults them like they are morons, constantly calling them names...would Jesus do that? I don't think so... Now I am good friends with him and it had taken some time for me and some close friends to say, "Look, Pal, you ain't Jesus!" I think he finally got it...even if the logo of his show has Jesus on it! And I don't dare tell him I am a Democrat and a Liberal and if I really want the wrath of Hell, since I live in London, into Socialism too, hey, what the heck! (In case no one knows, the Church admitted there is NO Hell, they made it up along with many other henious things to control the people with fear...don't forget to give that hard earned money to them too when they pass that basket!)

And let us not forget the enormous amount of people who celebrate Jesus' birthday on December 25th when we know damn well he was not born then! The Church took the Pagan Holiday Saturnalia, which is the same time/date and made it a combo of celebrating Christ's birth with Jupiter (Santa Clause... the big and fat and jolly man with the beard and red suit,  giving loads of presents which is exactly what any good Astrologer would tell you is what Jupiter represents!  Since it is the Biggest planet in the Heavens, it represents all the beneficent, happy, optimistic, luck and abundance! Saturn is old school, stoic and stern and the disciplanarian of the Zodiac...but I digress...much of the Christian religion is made up of Pagan Holidays, FACT. Every old Church has Zodiac symbols in them on the walls and even in the Vatican,  which also has the oldest Astrology library in existance, yes, FACT! Christianity comes from Astrology, no wonder they ban it and all "occult" knowledge, they would not want you to know the TRUTH now, would they?? You might Wake UP, we can't have THAT now can WE??? Stay asleep and brainwashed, by all means and you will go to Heaven or Hell. (Insanity is when we always do the same thing and expect a different result!)  I prefer the TRUTH, thanks, which is we are all Spirits in yet another Human experience and we will all return to Heaven.

How about the Father of my only child...he was told when he was a child, as he was adopted, that his biological mother never had sex! That is right, apparently her name was Mary, she was THE Virgin Mary and so she somehow concieved a baby (him) without sperm entering her! I have to say when he told me this, I laughed out loud. He was dead serious and I said, "So why dont you find your real mother and see if it is true?!" Needless to say, he eventually did and somehow he still carries this craziness inside of him. And so what has he done, at 57 years old in his second Saturn Return and after 20 years of virtually ignoring me and our daughter,  not paying money towards her, never a birthday card or a Christmas card, no phone calls, not-a-thing for her, his only child, his daughter! But he got in touch to declare himself all "healed" now when she was 10 and ran away again, would not even pick up the phone, so hurtful to my daughter, and I was just filled with rage towards him for the lies and the pain he caused us both and then when she was 19 years old he started following her on Instagram, stalking his own daughter, unreal...and eventually she and him created some sort of relationship. He asked for forgiveness and pays her some money, which he complains about (I know, he is Jesus right, why shouldnt he walk on water and just manifest money?!) And 3 years later, with yet another broken relationship behind him,  he decided to ger baptised and go to Church every Sunday on the off chance the meshugina idea he IS Jesus! He is now sure all the New Age knowledge he has is sacrilegious so the huge crystal he hung around his neck did not make the women swoon or make him rich...GEE, maybe if he cleanses his pain and suffering and bullcrap in his head in Church he will be ok? mmm... He drives a cab and works as a cook. It must be a huge disappointment to know that running away from your own responibilites, your only child, and did not care about what happened to her or me for that matter is now "all healed" and therefore...did not Jesus say, "Love thy neighbor as they self?"Or did he mean just some people, not your own flesh and blood? When my daughter started University at 19 he came back strong...and all because I had done ALL the work, paid ALL the money to take care of her myself and he no longer had any women interested in him and he was old now, yep, such is the madness of men, some men, especially it seems the ones who think they might be Jesus!

Now you would think this is enough but OH NO, there is more, much more! It is like a plague upon the Planet, will the REAL JESUS please stand UP??

Personally, I wish I was done but there are so many more examples, sickening examples of people using Jesus as their so called Savior then committing henious crimes in his name, or at least not much morality within them...it offends ME and I am not Christian!

If I sound particularly offended here is why...imagine my upbringing, my mother was born a Catholic, my father a Jew. Neither of them practiced their religion and hats off to them for even making such a bold move in 1952, when it was completely looked down upon to marry outside your religion.
Now we lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh and most of my friends, not all, but most were Jewish and with a last name of "Cohen" hard not to be considered one of the Tribe even with the "shickza" face...(look like my Irish/Scottish Catholic Mother!) and so this then brings me to being a Jew, as I decided I wanted a Bas Mitzvah like the rest of my friends. My father had to literally pay the Rabbi off so we (all 4 of us) could be Bat and Bar Mitzvah in the synagogue as my mother was Catholic and had no desire to convert to Judism...and why should she?
I did my Haftorah, learning Hebrew every week after school in Hebrew school. I witnessed my older brother's Bar Mitzvah and all my friends too and then it was my turn. I did not even really understand what I was saying in Hebrew but with a Rabbi older then time standing next to me, I recited my Haftora like a Princess (a Jewish one at that!) and was happy to be pronounced (and now you are a man, no...now I was a woman, only 13 years old).  What is funny is that every year we had a Christmas tree and in this mostly Jewish neighborhood, all the kids, including my Jewish girlfriends would come and decorate it with us. They loved it. It was not a sin to do this, was it?

Years later...I fell in love with an older man, 28 years older then me and he was my Boss at the Jazz nightclub he managed and I found myself waitressing in,  which is blogged on my other blog, (The Pittsburgh Phantom and Me) a Heavy weight boxer 28 years older then me named Art. The story between us was beautiful in 1976-1978, some of 1979 too but we parted, I felt too young to marry then and because of the death of my first boyfriend Glen which opened my natural psychic gifts up, I knew I was meant for more. We met up again when I was 38 and he 66, the year was 1994 and I was home from a 9 year stint in London and spent time travelling and working in Cyprus, Italy, Israel, and in the UK and USA. I was back with my mother in Florida. And I had a dream about him, so I called him and we agreed to meet up. It did not go well but the final blow was this ex heavyweight tough guy, handsome dandy of the ring, manager and character, cigar smoking brute of a man, tall and big had become a born again Christian! He forgot to tell me that as he left his wife, lied and came away to Florida to meet me! I also neglected to speak about my career as a Psychic and Metaphysics Teacher and the Tarot and Astrology Consultations I was giving for the last 11 years professionally. But when we finally got a moment in Florida in 1994 to speak, just the two of us, I told him I wanted to tell him something...so I began to speak about my other boyfriend I had before I ever met him who died in 1979 and why I could not go back to him because I was processing him coming to me in my dreams and explaining he was actually not dead and so on and how this led me to seek more information and hence Metaphysics and healing spiritually people and teaching... to my utter shock...he got UP and WALKED AWAY FROM ME! Such was his FEAR about what I was sharing with him, very quietly and gently in the little diner we went to.
He refused to speak to me, so the next day I was leaving and then he begged me to stay...
of course the damage had been done, he had become BRAINWASHED and I would never want to be with a BRAINWASHED BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN! But I did love him, still and said I would come back, to wait for me and I will get some more clothes and so on. I left with a hug and a kiss and the promise he would wait as my student big heartedly drove me and her across the state to see him. He had come from Pittsburgh by a 3 day bus so clearly he wanted to see me.
We drove 5 hours across the State and I have to say I was upset...of course I was. I called where he was staying with a friend, who funnily enough was also into Metaphysics and we had both studied similar things (and had worked together with him too) and he told me he left, went back to Pittsburgh. Say What?!
Then I called him, but sent him my press from London in the mail. I waited until I thought he got it and called trying to reason with him..."What is this crap you sent me?!" I was shocked, "They are articles about me and how I help people with my work. You were in the press many times, I thought you could understand more about this if you read about me in the London Newspapers and Magazines." His response? "You're doing the Devil's Work! Don't ever call here again!" I shouted back, "NO I am NOT and you KNOW ME BETTER THAN THAT! I help alot of people with my gifts, God Given too!" He hung up on me...
I carried that wound for a decade until he came again into my dream one Sept. 15th, night, 2005. I was now a single mother, as Jesus number second decided I was not good enough for him to investigate me or our daughter so he was long gone...from the conception really! Left the country...off across the world to the Maldives, being s chef in a big resort over there and well, he was not pleased. No interest and said he would send money...he didn't.
So I am on my own, ill with a thyroid disease, unbeknownst to me attacking my body (called Hashimotos) and it was still not treated right (since her birth) and I was still so ill, tired, broke, and pretty much hoping for a miracle, asking for it every day, begging that God who sits on his white cloud looking down at us, fools for even coming here in this wretched plane of existance, where is all the help I gave others? Where is the "good Karma" and what about the Nursing, I went to bat for so many patients and I can't even find a doctor to heal me, having tried everything??
I was so alone words could not express the aloneness of it all, no family here and even if I was with them what would they do? I was their black sheep, because I was the psychic...the one to make fun of  so they could feel better about their own useless lives!
Next: in comes this dream and in it I am still mad at Art for the way he treated me in Florida and afterwards...he says he has a present for me, he is younger and looking good in his suit, an elevator going up behind him and he looks like he is sitting in an airport lounge table and chair...so he tells me to go home and see this present he got me, so I melt, "you got me a present?" I smile at him..."Yes, go see, it is on your bed at home..."Next scene I am home, in my current bedroom and there is a present on my bed, I unwrap it and what is it? A very sexy slip which I saw myself wearing in the mirror! I woke up laughing...this single mother was so out of touch with her own sexual self and so unwell I had not felt like that for years! My daughter was now almost 10 years old, so I was always dressed in jeans and a tshirt and some trainers (gym shoes) and so...what was he telling me...the feeling was undenable, he was trying to tell me something. I googled his name, being a famous boxer he always had press...and there it was, his obituary!
In the end, his love of Jesus did not condemn me anymore nor did he see me in any bad way but just shared his love for me. The pain of the lost opportunity to finally be together was palatable, I could not stop crying. He appeared to me two weeks later off my back door balcony in a blaze of white light looking so handsome, dressed in a white tux with a bow tie to tell me, (and he put this thought directly in my head, while my jaw was on the floor gazing out at him, 11:30am) "Shawn, Love Never Dies"...
He has been with me ever since in so many visitations and ways.. that is my other blog "The Pittsburgh Phantom and Me" please check it out.

So I was like a widow, with so many experiences and my mediumship soared.
It was like Art came back to tell me (and he did many times!) I am sorry I hurt you and I am sorry I judged you, I love you and of course I NOW KNOW how much you HELP people, forgive me! And I have, of course, he helps me in my work too, like he did when he was my Boss in the Encore! lol The best evidence is when I found out 2 years after his death when I went back to Pittsburgh to see his grave that the so called Born Again Christian Family of his left him high and dry in an unmarked and unpaid for grave! The poor man didn't even have a headstone, those hypocrites!! It was me with my little money, still sick, still raising my daughter on my own who paid a chunk of money on his gravesite and got the Retired Boxer's Foundation in to help get the rest done. I swear to God, you can not make it up! It took another year...no wonder his spirit came to me, those hypocrites with all their Church going bullcrap left him like that, a distinquished Boxer in his day, fought Joe Louis and was funny and filled with charisma. I am proud I could help him out and he is a true love of mine.

If Doreen Virtue wasn't already married to a Born Again Christain and claimed Jesus appeared to her and told her all she was doing was the "Devil's work" SHE COULD BE WITH the inevitable line up of people who think they are Jesus!
In all cases I would see this as Brainwashed and perhaps Possession! In each case the person has had some sort of illness or mental breakdown and in each case the person was so insecure or fearful that they just could not handle their own lives. PERIOD.
If Jesus wants to come and talk to me about his choices in this world I will be only too glad to listen, as long as he is not going to brainwash me to become one of his lambs to the slaughter, oh, suffer ye little children bull crap! I am DIVINE and SO ARE ALL OF YOU and becoming a MASTER is what we are here to DO, not just worship Masters and False Prophets who have come and gone before us!
I reckon with the state of our world....vaccines which kill, maim and harm, oceans filled with plastic, toxic air, water and soil from Chemtrails, war still raging somewhere on this planet constantly, the sexual abuse of children in the CATHOLIC CHURCH in numbers too many to mention, the homeless and hungry, AIDS and ALL DISEASES, the rapid extinction of animals and plants and precious insects like BEES (no pollinators, no food!) and so many other HUMUNGOUS problems in this world, you don't need to be a friggen Jesus Freak to see the world needs ALL HANDS ON DECK not some moron thinking he and only he is Jesus and therefore only HE can heal you!!! POPPYCOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wakey,wakey YOU HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED!
AND FINALLY, Jesus...with all due respect, if you even existed at all (and there is a good case to say he never did, see the Pagan God ,Mithra and you will see so many similarities to Jesus it is nuts!)
So Jesus, why don't you finally show up and tell all these crazy people the TRUTH...huh??
That you are not the Messiah....but a very naughty boy for telling lies! lol And that your Church is built on a million lies too...like no reincarnation, lie. Like Baptism...everyone goes to Heaven, not just those who are baptized or Born Again!) Billions of Atheists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and yes Buddists actually get into Heaven every single day! And finally, why we are all here?? Tell them that one, why don't you??? Not just to worship Jesus or God but to bring our own gifts here and use them to help others, learn and grow...so how can we do that when we are slaves to a religion or to anyone? I say we need to learn critical thinking and how to grow spiritually inside as well as practice what we preach! If we come to Earth to learn, to grow, how can asking God to do everything (and I mean everything!) for us make us independent intelligent Beings? The Soul IS Intelligent, it comes to Earth to EXPERIENCE itself in a HUMAN form and therefore all that goes with that.


To all those who have a "Personal Jesus"...go on and have one, what care I? I NEVER SAID don't Worship HIM or GOD, No, I did NOT. (So don't even THINK about doing a JOHN LENNON on ME!) Poor John, all he said was the Truth, "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus in England" and look how they twisted his words and made him pay for it...clearly with his life!! Burning the Beatles albums, instructed by some moron in the South of America, this DJ rightwinger who declared their work, precious and filled with LOVE, as evil!!! Sick Bastards. I know how you feel John...dare to tell the TRUTH, just DARE to DO it and see how the SHEEPLE run to make you the BAD ONE!

I have visited Heaven so many times  as a Spirit Medium with Art when he died in 2004 and Glen before that who died in 1979 (who was Jewish) and not once did either of them, after their death, through their own telepathy with me or with any Medium I went to say anything derogatory about my work as a psychic, mystic, medium , tarot reader, astrologer, past life regressionist or writer and teacher on Esoteric Subjects....and how both of them actually helped through their passing and coming back to me and showing me their spirit and communicating with me, when I did not even know they had died...opening those doors for me! How blessed was I??  Now put that in your PeacePipe and Smoke it!
For those who use Jesus' image, name, person and think they are his "girlfriend", "he abides in me" santamoneous ignoranous who also uses Jesus to  chase  New Age women and  shame them for their sacred work saying "You have lived your whole life for yourself, you are selfish and you will burn in Hell if you don't love Jesus!" The (so called )Twin Flame who played me like a violin with cute nicknames and so many insults inbetween said this to me and more, in fact I have over 600 emails between us, many where he is interested in me, then denounces me,  where he was taking the P in every concievable way there is...but "Jesus abides in him and he will pray for me!"  (I call that Narcissitic Personality Disorder!)  or  My daughter's runaway father, age 34 when she was born, saw her once when she was 2 weeks old and walked away for ten years, even got a lawyer on me to say "do not ever contact me again" when I was asking for money to help raise her, even a little as I was so unwell...yeah, he MUST BE JESUS because"my biological mother had a "virgin birth"! (Honey, you are delusional, you get it from your own Mother who at 26 years old could not grow up enough in 1961 to take the consequenses of her shag on Holiday in Italy!) And so...  "I was born on Christmas therefore it makes sense..."

NO WONDER JESUS WEPT!



Although Yeshua Ben Joseph, a Jew from Israel and therefore subjected to all the Jewish Laws at the time, like a Bar Mitsvah and Marriage before a certain age... (For SURE under JEWISH LAW he married Mary Magdelene and what did the Church do because it has such a high opinion of women?? Made her a Prostitute, of course! ) Jesus may or may NOT be the ONLY son of GOD...(what are we then? Chopped Liver?) I know in this matrix of madness, confusion reigns...so easy to believe you are HIM or HE is YOUR BOYFRIEND than actually DEAL with your own pain, delusions and madness, eh? I have another friend who went through hell on earth believing, after a Reiki session, he was Jesus! He lost his mind, ran down to St. Paul's Church here in London, interupted everything declaring himself Jesus! He was carted off in a straight jacket to a mental institution but at least HE got HELP and realized that he was NOT Jesus but was having a Kundalini Rising, awakening experience. Today he is right as rain and a working actor and I am so proud of him, he helps others who go through spiritual crisis too.
Fair dues to you, all those above I have cared for, even created a child with, so excuse me while I tell the truth...for I chose to be the Truth Teller, the one who says, "sorry Emperor , you have NO Clothes on!" If Jesus did come back why would he chose you? If he came back to heal the world why doesn't HE/YOU??????????? In essence, please just stop...it is boring already and not true so there, I said it, I said it ALL! 
Blessed are the TRUTH TELLERS for they tell the Blessed TRUTH!

Just so you know...if I were to give YOU advice as I have done for thousands, it would be to just be yourself, stop trying to be someone special like Jesus and just be YOU. I mean there is NO ONE else like YOU throughout all the Gallexies and if you hide behind Jesus, then you lost yourself. It is ok to drop the ego...but I tell you now, God Made YOU to be YOU Not Jesus. He already has one of HIM. 


Shelter From the Storm, A Metaphysical Blog by Shawn M. Cohen (c) ) October 14, 2018 "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode, video used with fairtrade and no copyright infringement intended. Image from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (all copyright theirs) Jesus Wept painting by James Tissot .

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Maturity by Shawn M. Cohen


"I Never Thought I'd Live to Be 100"
by, The Moody Blues

It has been a long time since I have come to write upon this page and this blog.
It has been a long journey and so much happens that it seems almost impossible to document it all, nor would I want to. 
Just the highlights, just my thoughts, experiences or what I have felt were, are important to say. 
The video above sets the theme of this long coming blog entry: Maturity. 
I look around me at the ripe age of 58, soon to be 59 in 4 months and I see I have come upon the stage of my own life where words like, "retirement" and "Second Saturn Return" light up my Metaphysical and Astrological mind. 
I came all the way from America to the UK in my first Saturn Return, age 29, which was in 1985. Now, almost 30 years later and a full Saturn cycle later, I am once again hearing the bells ringing of Saturn, the Old and Wise Taskmaster, who says, "It's Time" (which Saturn rules)  as he makes me aware of the next leg of both journeys, human and divine. 
Who amongst us can remain a Puer *? (*A person who can never mature and will always act Forever Young)... For does it not set the stage for extreme disaster to not grow, mature and allow the world to spin, not to see it, perceive it and actually acknowledge it for what it truly is? Puers and other immature people keep the fantasy of the young, youthful wish-fullness; themed with endless fairy tales that MUST come true and Handsome Princes and  Beautiful Princesses who always live happily ever after? Does the world play fair, give us what we desire, meet us as equals and provide us what we want/wish it to be? NO. The Mature person understands this, having lived it out and seen and experienced it for themselves. The Puer says "I won't grow up, I don't want to be an adult!" As in the song, from Peter Pan,  declares! (Peter was the ultimate Puer, also played by the late, great Robin Williams, who had just hit his 63rd birthday and could take it no more, killed himself to all our shocked disbelief...he was also a true comic genius whose childhood was lost and could not find it except in acting/comedy even serious dramas as the " Puer".)   As science has it's breakthroughs,  there are no reasons to look old, with make-up, Botox, plastic surgery, you can look any age, reverse the clock, bring yourself back for a second, maybe even a third chance of what you missed when you were younger and too immature to make the correct decisions for your life.  Men are having plastic surgery now as much as women and this really tells just how sick and sad a society of babies/lost in our delusions, we really are! 
By doing this, we lose so much! Society loses so much! We, who are over 50, even 40, tell ourselves we don't have to be like our Grandparents and yes, we do not. We are the Baby Boomers, The Beatniks, The Hippies, Peace, Love and Freedom! Uranus is in Aries (the sign of the baby, the child) as it was in the 1960's and we see this again. The need to rebel, to create chaos, to demonstrate against the "Establishment"! And I was there the first time around, so I know, it can make changes happen, good and much needed changes which society needs in order to grow, and work for all, not just the rich or the powerful.
I have seen both sides of this. The need to be rebellious, create change and bring in new ideas and information first hand. Now I am of Saturn's age, where I can reflect back on what works and what did not....where change can come through hard work and discipline...two words no one seems to like or admire anymore. 
The society Puer wants everything for nothing and in an instant (gratification)! The children of today push a button, click on a link and all knowledge is theirs, all homework answers available in a nanosecond. We had our fingers to count on and if we were lucky a calculator but we were not allowed to use it in class. 
I look around me at many of my friends I grew up with and many are becoming Grandparents or are already. I wonder if they even understand how their sacred knowledge and time is so important to their offspring's generations. James Hillman is a Jungian Analyst and Author and he wrote a book cheering on and showing why older people's lives can be and should be cherished and embraced, not just by society but also by ourselves, for those of us looking into that last 3rd of our lives.  His book is called, "The Force of Character and the Lasting Life". Here is a video of James Hillman explaining this. 



As you can see by this video, when we do not embrace maturity and all the benefits and purpose of it, we lose. We lose the dignity and grace which follows a long life, where the experiences are many and the opportunities to be remembered and even valued for our contributions, love and wisdom are available. If you leave behind childish things, when you become an adult, you allow your children the insight as to how to grow up, mature and deal with life's many responsibilities, choices, career and health issues as well as their own happiness and love. As you see, a baby can not lead, it takes a mature person to lead, to show by example. Where there is a whiner and a complainer and a person who looks to be saved, rescued and constantly reassured there is a broken inner child who refuses to grow up and mature, always looking for Mommy or  Daddy because they do not want to be responsible for their own life!
How can a child lead or a baby or an infant who has so many unmet needs, looking to plug into the next bottle, tit, nurturer, sugar daddy,  and refuses to see they themselves are refusing the correct path which is always self responsibility and maturity. 
Stay immature at your own peril. Stay in the delusion that Superman, Angels, God, Jesus, The Prince on the White Horse and any other manor of energy we can't see or hear, even our Dead Relatives and Loved Ones in Heaven who do NOT have THE Power to LIVE your LIFE for YOU. Nor can they make you grow up! They can only ever offer some sort of encouragement. This has been my experience as a Human Being, a Psychic Medium and Metaphysician for over 32 years professionally. No, they can not bring down the Moon for you, nor can they magic up the next boyfriend or job or cure your disease! Only YOU can do that. That is called, "Responsibility" and it goes hand in hand skipping down the lane with "Integrity"! 
Remain creative and come again to the inner child for inspiration, love unabashed from the inner child but before you do either, consult the inner Adult for whether it is realistic and viable.  They are two beautiful words when you are a mature adult, they just save you so much Hell, if you listen. 
In conclusion, when a women has a face lift she may get away with lying to the public or even lying to herself but her body never lies. Instead of being ashamed of being older, why not embrace it as the rich and truly rewarding time it should and is suppose to be, one filled with dignity and self worth and truth and the substance of a life well lived? It matters not, in the end, how many cars, houses and phony friends you have who think you are "something" or "nothing" but what YOU think of yourself and your own achievements both internally (emotionally, mentally and spiritually as well as the knowledge you have gained) and physically (did you travel, see the world, help others, make new friends, become part of a community, enjoy your work, contribute to the world, help animals and the environment and love, did you love and were you loved in return??) These will be the only things that matter when you are finished with this life on this planet and in Heaven in a life review. This, then, will be the summation of your life. So make it count, live it fully and not just a repeat of when you were young, which you can  do by growing up and taking responsibility for all you are. If you do not like who you are, or what your life looks like then have the courage and the insight to change it, it is that simple. 

The rest will follow sure as night follows day. "Crones" are  wise older women who have embraced their wisdom, experiences and use them well to teach the youth. The cycle of Saturn is complete and all is as it should be. 


This Metaphysical Blog called, "Shelter From the Storm" is written by Ms. Shawn M . Cohen (c) latest entry called, "MATURITY, using for fair use policy, The Moody Blues song "I Never Thought I'd Live to Be 100" written by the Moody Blues and the interview with Jungian Author and Psychotherapist, James Hillman. No copyright infringement is intended. 
London, Dec. 28, 2014 
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

LOVE IS IN THE AIR, By Shawn M. Cohen


Love Is In The Air, by John Paul Young, here singing as a Guardian Angel to the couple in the movie, "Strictly Ballroom".

What we all want is a sweeping, epic romance that makes for a beautiful and life long happy ending....admit it. But how does one get that and is it even truly possible? These are some of the issues I want to raise here in my Metaphysical Blog, "Shelter From The Storm". 
The thing is, first it is important to understand what is LOVE? 
You may think you know it, it seems obvious, right?? But you would be surprised how many people live in the "illusion of love"! 
Just like in John Paul Young's hit song from 1978, reused here in the 1990 film...his lyrics are; "And I don't know if you're illusion, I don't know if I see true but you're something that I must believe in and you are there when I reach out for you. I don't know if I'm being foolish, I don't know if I am being wise, but it is something I must believe in and its there when I look in your eyes."  

So how do we know when LOVE is real and not an illusion? Learn to distinguish this and you are on the road to Mastery. Fail this and you will suffer all your days looking for "love" in all the wrong places! It can be the single most heartbreaking stumbling block to any hope of joy, happiness and feeling loved OR it can be the most profound spiritual, sacred lesson along the road to Enlightenment and Mastery! Yes, believe it, there is a path to love, a school of love, a relationships Mastery Course and most of the entire world population is on it but they have NO IDEA that they are! Nor how to navigate it, let alone GRADUATE from it! 

Let's start at the very beginning. What is LOVE? A feeling? Yes, that is true. Can it be something else, like a concept? Yes, for many it is. My idea of love may not be the same as your idea...ah, that is interesting...now we may see where the problems will lie. How do we get a concept of love? Go right back to your birth and your entry into your own Mother's arms. Was she there for you, meaning was she looking forward to your arrival or were you just another "mouth to feed"? Were you held and loved and cared for with joy and deep bonding or was she on the phone talking to someone else when she fed you, annoyed that she had to? Miserable about the changes in her body? Unhappy with her partner, possibly your father?? Did she get support when she needed it or was she literally "left to deal with it all herself" and no help, care, support for her while she was trying to care for you. Did she enjoy the daily discovery of you or was she burnt out, angry and resentful of the burden of you and your needs while hers were left "unfulfilled"? Can you see how we all might have a different idea or concept of what LOVE is or what it is SUPPOSE TO BE?? Now, let's go deeper and even further back...to your SOUL. Because in Metaphysics, we believe in the choices of incarnation. We are not forced to reincarnate, we choose and in this FREE WILL allows us all to choose our parents, what sex we will be, what race, socio-economic background, our siblings and even whether we will be straight or gay or bi-sexual and our location. The Astrological Birth Chart which shows the exact time, date and location of the soul's entry into this world and all the planets and their location in the houses as well as the aspects, in the Heavens while that Soul made its entry, will in fact, also show these choices and all the lessons the soul wants to learn in this lifetime, as well as the great gifts and talents it also wants to bring into fruition in this world. Therefore, there are NO ACCIDENTS, we are ALL here because WE choose to be here. And our choices are well planned out, with help from our own Soul Groups, Guides and Masters who know us extremely well, from thousands of life times of incarnating! So how could we get it wrong and incarnate into a Mother and Father who were not happy with our arrival?? Or who thought we were the wrong sex or were too busy, poor, worried about other issues to care about us? Or maybe outside forces and circumstances happened,  a Grandparent died as soon as we got here and one of our parents were in deep mourning, therefore not able to care for our needs as they could of before? You may ask why any SOUL would chose to be abused, neglected, come into a home which was single parent, one sibling was more loved/favored than another,  dysfunctional, broken, fueled with addiction issues, poverty, and even abandonment, put up for adoption??? What kind of GOD would do this to an innocent child? You may be asking yourself this question now or even seeing some of your own history here and saying to yourself, "Yes, that was me when I was born or a baby or a teenager."  Maybe it is still going on in your lives now...
Now look at your love relationships in the world, who you have loved in your past, who you have even married if you did, who you divorced, who was your first love, your last or the lack of love. How do these two scenarios compare? Similar? Opposite?? Maybe a mish- mash of both? 
What is it about the early experience of love that constantly gets brought back to our own personal relationships time and time again and can play out in ALL our relationships...with friends, bosses,spouses, partners, neighbors, and almost always our own children and even our pets! What is the reason for this? Are you wondering now if anything you ever did was clear and clean from this early entry point where your mind and your heart meshed its ideas of "What Love is"? If so, maybe we need to look at what LOVE ISN'T before I continue here and the Universal Laws which govern LOVE and no, it is not a little angel dressed in a loin cloth with a bow and arrow! ( Cupid!) 
The Laws of the Universe are exact and never change in the same way as Gravity is an exact law and never changes unless you go to the Moon! Now here is something that you will surely need to understand and once you do, you will be on the road to Mastery and Graduation from the School of Relationships, so here it is: 
1. We are always attracting that which is like unto ourselves. (Law of Attraction) We do this by who we are, as well as what we think and it can be very unconscious or conscious, the choice is yours. (Awareness)
2. Opposites attract too. (Law of Opposites) That which is the same will have an equal and opposite attraction/reaction too. 
3.We can never evolve until all lessons are learned and completed to the satisfaction of the individual Soul who participated in these lessons. 
4. We do not live for just our own lessons, we sign up to help others too. We show up in their lives at exactly the right time and place as is noted in these Universal Laws (a) There are NO Mistakes. (b) Your Free Will is always being used whether you are aware of it consciously or not. 
5. YOU are the Designer and Creator and Master of your own destiny, always. No Planet, Angel, Extra Terrestrial, Incident or Guide has ANY authority over you, unless YOU CHOOSE to give your own power away to that. Let me repeat this: YOU ARE A FREE WILL AGENT...ALWAYS!
6. Taking responsibility for ALL your choices and allowing yourself to see who and why and with what they are trying to teach you is the key and road to Mastery. IN OTHER WORDS: There are NO VICTIMS EVER! 
7.All of your most important relationships were formed in the in-between lives state (some call Heaven, others call The Astral Plane) and you and they have chosen this lifetime together to play out your own unresolved fears, issues, insecurities and  use your own abilities or the need to help others do the same. The Great Drama of Life is an ILLUSION and what plays out here, stays here and eventually gets healed here. Which is why there is no pain in Heaven! And also why life looks so crazy and why Love seems so hard to find!! 
8. Every word you say, every thought you think, every action you take will be recorded in the Great Akashic Records which you will have complete access to when you pass or can also access in meditation. 
9. There are no secrets. We are ALL psychic, telepathic and intuitive and this is immediately known to those who pass. But knowing this HERE while in the body creates a life which is monitored with love, peace, compassion and good and balanced thoughts and actions. In other words, Mastery.
10. You do have a soul group which you return "home" to in-between lives and they will be loving, welcoming and know you inside out. Therefore, there is no such thing as Unloved, Loneliness, and Abandonment. These are illusions of this world.  For your own Soul Group will constantly be watching out for you and sending you a million little signs and synchronicities that you are loved!
11. No one ever dies; DEATH is the greatest illusion and when we understand this completely, when we know we just move into the next journey, we take all our thoughts, memories, experiences and what we learned back to our Soul Group and share and teach and even laugh about it all, we then know the true meaning of "Enlightenment" which is that we do not fear death, knowing there is none and that love is eternal. 
12. You can never lose anything or anyone. LOSS is also a great illusion and therefore every person you ever loved, including your pets will be there to greet you when you come back "Home"! No one is your enemy either, but all played a part in helping you to become more aware. 
13. Religion is for the masses who once needed structure and discipline in the early days of life on planet earth. No one soul is ever greater or better then another or worse! We are all Mighty Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience. There is no judgement in Heaven, only we judge ourselves, in a life review after we pass,  with our Guides (who are just souls who have already done the work and passed the tests, a step or two or 10 or 10,000 above us but we will all become Guides and Masters eventually). 
14. If you are a male, you are 49% female within. If you are a female, you are 49% male within and this is true whether you are straight, gay or bi. We come into families which mirror this aspect of ourselves and all our relationships will reflect the inner Self, either balanced or unbalanced. Therefore work with your own inner Yin/Yang compliments and opposites. Then you will no longer attract what is out of balance within you but will attract and resonate the balanced components of Self. The work and the choice is always up to you.( Everyone is YOUR mirror!)
15. You can not rescue, save or heal anyone unless you have completed these lessons and trained in these ways enough to ensure you are not enabling/controlling the other. Knowing this is Mastery over the Ego and the greatest lesson of all: "Discernment".

Now, that you know these rules, and they are Universal and apply to all people, what can we now say about Love? 
Those who choose the hardest, most heartbreaking lives are here to bring into alignment their greatest gifts, to discover them and use them and to become Masters. Only those who choose these paths (and not all do, some come for a holiday too, or an easy life after many hard ones, some are newer souls therefore they could not even begin to handle the harder lessons!) A baby can not drive a car! One must first be mature and grown up enough through many lifetimes and many experiences in all ways to take on the hardest lessons. Love is a Mastery course. It is not about the, "he said, she said" b.s. which we seem to think it is! Nor should it be. It is about choosing to see your own reflection of the very issues you came to work on, and to become awaken and aware of them. Then and only then can you even begin the work of Mastering each one of them. When you Master each lesson, understand each experience as the Great Teacher it was/is to you, then you can release, heal, understand it on a deeper level and become aware that it was you who created it all for these lessons you choose to work on in this lifetime! And finally, what we do not learn, our children will bring to our attention! How do they do this? By "acting it out" for you, unconsciously, or just doing the very thing you did not address in your own life: addictions, bad relationships, bad behavior  even self harm and worse! Of course, they signed up for the ride to make sure you will get it and work on it and learn it once and for all! So we always get plenty of chances to graduate!
The truth is we are all working on these lessons to one level or another and our partners who we draw to us, through these laws and the in between life agreements we make before our births are all in it, on to it, and aware of our "contracts" but on a much deeper and unconscious level.
 So: The" abused" becomes the lesson of self love. The "abandoned" becomes the lesson of self reliance. The "cheated on or betrayed" becomes the lesson of never to betray the self, trust the self. The "victim" becomes the victor when they see what they were meant to learn, to stand up for themselves.  The "lied to" becomes the Seeker of truth and honors the truth always.  The "over powered and controlled" becomes the awareness of the right use of power, using it for the betterment of others, not just the self. The "loveless and lonely" becomes the ability to give unconditional love for all of humanity,animals and all life,  including the self.  The "judgmental, criticizing, condemning" becomes the ability to observe and listen to the inner voice of wisdom( called the Intuition) and to communicate with love and acceptance to all of life, including the self, both here and in Spirit.

 The "child within" is constantly asking us  to "play" to "discover" and will also invite these situations into our lives, after all it is the "child within" who is that part of us which loves. Heal that part and you are well on your way. How do you do this? By listening, observing, being rigorously honest with yourself  and correcting any issues and bad behavior, blaming others, etc. on your part, facing your fears, addressing your own needs and finally just loving and accepting your self completely. 

Love is innocent. Love is pure, Love is just that; Love and it is never, ever anything but that. The rest is all down to what you need to learn to get there. The rest are the myriad of games you play to realize this. The players are all on your own team and each one signed up for the assignment. Once you see this, once you understand this and have worked on clearing the debris from all other issues connected with love, and what isn't love....you are on the Mastery road and free to just be LOVE...with no agenda, hidden or subconscious. 

"Love is in the air, everywhere I look around"..and now back to John Paul Young's song: "Love is in the air, every sight and every sound"...now the words of the song become the reality. Now the lyrics become your reality! How does it feel to graduate from the School of Love and Relationships? I'll bet it feels just LOVELY!

By, Shawn M. Cohen 
(C) July 21, 2013

Added note! 
I will be a guest speaker about these very themes of love and the school of love and graduating from it using spiritual wisdom, deeper understanding and will  also taking your calls and tuning in on a Mediumship level on Monday, July 22nd, 2013 at 7:00 pm EST, 4:00 pm (PST) and 12:00 Midnight UK time (GMT) on IN5D Blog Talk Radio. Here is the link:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/in5d-radio/2013/07/22/in5d-radio-shawn-cohen-metaphysician-episode-18
{Please come along and join in, there is a chat room and it is free to call in on Skype! It is a 2 hour show and I will be there to help sort out your worst relationship problems, live and on air. It is free to all, so let's get that path well and truly sorted. Love problems unresolved can be the biggest distraction on the Path to Higher Awakening, which is why I chose this theme for the show. It is time to get it, get off the misery road and get some true love and joy into your lives!  Click the link and it will take you right to the show page.} 

Use of John Paul Young's song, "Love Is In The Air" and the video made is under the Fair Trade usage act and no copyright infringement intended. 

Monday, 12 November 2012

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions. By, Shawn M. Cohen

Pitfalls, Problems, Wrong Turns, Bad Advice, Ego Laden Gurus/Therapists/Teachers, Nonsense Psycho Babble, Dangling Carrots, Backstabbing Bitches and the Road to Hell.


It seems so easy, doesn't it? Meditate and become enlightened. Read the right books and get the answers. Tune in to the Higher Self, Higher Spheres, Angels, Masters and Disciples, analyse it all and find the * PATH*  (I have to laugh)
 (You WISH!)
If only it was that simple! No, no, truth seekers, first you must prove that you are worthy. This means that you will be tested, the very essence of your souls shaken, your heart will break again and again, you will think you have gone mad, you will be brought down to your knees asking yourself or *GOD* or anyone and anything out there that you hope is listening this one question, "Why ME???" and maybe, just maybe, you might, if you are lucky,  find some hope to keep going. Notice I did not say, "the answer". No, that comes much, much, much later when you have sought the truth in such earnest, left behind all you held dear, been ridiculed, fired from your jobs, had long standing best friends tell you that they do not want to know you any more, lovers betray you and leave and soul mates die, and of course, had your very own family disown you! YES. That is what I am talking about. STILL want to know more? Got the balls for this? Think you are brave, conscious, aware, awake, uplifting, a Light Worker, person of integrity, a healer , a person of service who came to make the world a better place??? Think AGAIN. You are under the illusion you are special. No, you are not. Human, fallible, ignorant, scared, curious and naive, more likely. 

Too harsh for you? I am being cruel to be kind, my friends,  for the Road of Good intentions is Paved with Hell! It is sad but true and if you are not willing, honestly, don't bother! If being a sheep;  sleep walking through life, is fine by you, then by all means, stay that way. Some of us rare souls, who come here to the planet asking more of life, who actually want to know more, become more, achieve more on a Spiritual Dimension/Understanding and are willing to put our money, time, all we hold dear where our hearts and mouth are...then this is the truth seeker on the true path. In essence, it is NOT for the faint hearted. Have I scared you off of it yet? No, good, yes, good-bye, then! Have a "nice" life!

How can I tell you, who wants to know, what it is like to have your best friend say, "You want to learn Metaphysics?? That is just too weird! I can't be friends with you then!" Like a slap in the face, it was....but I kept my goals and chose the Metaphysics. How can I tell you that the Dean of my own Metaphysics school forced me (with blackmail) to take her Nursing program because she needed more students (and my money!) by saying to me, "Shawn, you will never make any money being a Metaphysician, so I want you to go to my Nursing school." I was shocked as this was what I loved and longed to do and was in the final year of my BSc. in Metaphysics. I argued that I would make it my career and it would be fine. She argued back that unless I did sign up for the Nursing Program ( a whole year long, full time intensive course  and  the cost was over $3,500. back in 1982, which sounds not a lot when you think of today but back then, it was a lot.) I would not be allowed to finish my degree!  This was really blackmail. I told her that my waitressing work did not pay enough for me to pay for this course. She said she would finance it for me...her rate of interest? A huge, whopping...26%! Yep, even the so called good go bad along this road! Not wanting to have left without my degree and wasted 3 years already of my life, I signed up, actually crying when I signed on the dotted line, to take the Nursing course. There were times I had such little money, friends were sharing their lunches with me and I even slept in my car in between apartments just so I could carry on paying her. That is blind faith and it was also blind naivety. I was using my psychic gifts with my years of waitressing so I knew how to "serve" the public and that part of me which wanted to learn how to eradicate pain, give comfort and healing so I became good at Nursing. My patients, unbeknownst to me, wrote to the school and told the Dean about how wonderful I was. I was shocked when my Dean called me into her office. I thought maybe I had killed someone at the hospital, by accident! She poured out a huge amount of letters onto her desk from a post bag. They were all from my patients I had attended to in the hospital, she told me, who had taken the time to write a letter to her, expressing their gratitude and how great I was as a student nurse and  their thanks for me. I was really awe struck!

 And so, as graduation from both Nursing school and the Metaphysics school loomed near, I ended up being honoured for being the best student nurse for my "clinical rotations". I was so excited to be getting this. It was such an achievement for me. The poverty and hardship I endured just to get through this, to finish, finally, all my education was now beginning to pay off. I attended my ceremony without any of my family or friends there. Most of which had long ago decided what I was doing was "crazy" or  did not think it (I) was important enough to be there. Alone but proud and in a crisp, white Nurse's uniform, I sat with my classmates at my graduation. She, the Dean, pulled me aside before the ceremony of graduation began, to inform me that she had decided to give my "recognition award for achievement" to an older  student nurse who had a husband that was an alcoholic and problem to her,  stating to me this; "She is older and needs this more than you, after all you are only 28 and will probably win lots of awards in your career."  Crushed and so disappointed, I went up when they called my name, took my Nursing Certificate and sat back down. They called Mary Pat and gave her the award that was suppose to be mine. I congratulated her when it was over, for what more could I do? I was young, true and it was not her fault that she got what should have been mine and what I worked so hard for. Did I ever receive any real award for my work.?  No, actually, there is no award for best psychic, medium, Metaphysician, Past Life Regressionist, Astrologer...  so No, that did not happen. I have had in my 30 year career, much press, TV  my own radio show and so on but no, not an official award. But then I also know, the results are in my clients and the work I do with them..this is the true reward. But if I was looking for some sort of formal acknowledgement...I would be one sad bunny, my ego all inflamed with that need! That is the road to hell. Back then, though, I was tormented and clearly thrown, once again, back on the road to hell. Why did it happen like this, you may ask? Well, there is a reason but you've got to know the ins and outs of that road first to educate you, cause it is also ends up being the road to Heaven.

  See what I mean, crazy huh? The road to Heaven is achieved by first going down the road to hell???  Oh the stories I could write...the ways and means of what I learned on the road to hell. I know hell inside out and back to front. I know it so well that it is the reason I can do what I can with my clients, who are coming to me to help them..some are on that road, some about to step or fall into it and some have made it their second home! If I did not walk it myself, live it, breathe it, make all the mistakes, partake in the heartbreaks, the insults and injuries along this path, the wayward turns and tricks of the ego, the mountainous climbs only to be shoved back to the bottom again and again how would I ever know and I mean know how to help another to find the way up and out?
  
There is so much time, time to be distracted, time to make huge mistakes, time to endlessly search for the answers but it all adds up to this: Know Yourself.   Disappointment is a given, seeing your little dreams fall apart at the seems also expected, making more affirmations and visualization than any Life Coach, Guru or New Age Teacher and still not seeing the desired result "manifested"! That is the road to hell, too....but along it, without you even realizing it, without you even suspecting it, comes a form of enlightenment so subtle you could even miss it if you did not awaken to it and that is "discernment". 

Oh how I love that word, discernment. It is like the Holy Grail of words! It taught me to see where I was blind. It taught me to hear that still small voice inside, some would call "intuition" and some would call, "the voice of your soul". It kicked me in the butt so many times when I got it wrong. Especially hard lessons were in my love life, so many upsets, heartbreaks and men masquerading as holding love for me when all it really turned out to be was either lust, illusion or projection. It was a cruel task master along the path but, I must admit, a worthy one. And 3 decades later, I can honestly say, it is still one of my greatest teachers.
  
Friends, family, lovers, pets, even God (or what you deem to be God) can not give it to you...only the pain of making the mistakes when you do not use it and then, at last, the freedom and truth which happens when you finally do learn how to use it. It is the greatest lesson on the path and you will find it being taught all along the road to hell.  Is there a Hell? No, this has been made up by religion to scare and control people. Most know this by now but the hell I am speaking about is always from your own making and it is one heck of a teacher! Look back in your own life and see if that road you took, that wayward turn, that heartbreak and serious disappointment didn't eventually lead you to something better, even if it was to know what NOT to do again. This is enlightenment, too. 

See you next time, when I hope to talk about my other favourite buddy along the path, distractions! Till then, may you find a light upon that road and may it lead you to the inner sanctuary of illumination. 

Shawn M. Cohen
BSc. Metaphysics, L.V.N.
London, U.K.
(c) 2012 
No copyright infringement meant on any artist's songs which I use from You Tube. "The Road to Hell" (c) Chris Rhea all rights reserved. No copyright infringement intended. Nor on the You Tube video creator. 

Saturday, 20 October 2012

New Horizons

Welcome back to Shelter From The Storm, a Metaphysical blog which offer to serve the Seeker on the Path, as well as examines the various ways to seek. I asked last time, do you bother? If yes is your answer and the great desire to "KNOW" is there it may well be a reaction to something painful, an event of some sort or injury, illness, grief or anything which makes you wonder. The myriad of complexities that must arise to confuse, stimulate, incur pain and even grief make rich soil for the Seeker to finally declare, "I must find out WHY?" Therefore seeking answers becomes the quest, the reason for, the objective carrot dangling in the wind; somewhere, somehow, the mystery offering an opportunity. Who so ever quests to retrieve  (that dangling carrot, that answer to their conundrum, the reason why they went through so much pain..etc.) may well be rewarded with an answer. Each quest is different as each answer is to the inner workings of the individual Self. Our journey therefore is always personal even if it is a Universal experience. Many have walked this path before but each has a different reason.
Who dares to challenge the status quo? Who dares to speak the words of "I don't get it and I want to get it!" Who is brave enough to lay down the "normal" and seek the untold, the mysteries of humanity? Who else but The Seeker. He/She knows it will never be acceptable, the status quo will never satisfy, nor the usual answer. In their quest for Why, there comes a journey and that journey begins with New Horizons. They suspect it is outside the norm, but there is no road map for them, but what they seek is actually buried deep in the subconscious mind. Maybe our dreams will allow a few clues in, so we ask within.  Eventually, a Dream comes, amazingly, but it is vague. We look into the symbolism of it, we read a book on dreams and are rightfully told (though there are many Universal symbols), it is what it means to us. We think about it and can not figure it out. We decide it is not important and let it go. In letting it go, something magical happens. One day, as any other day, we get in our car, turn on the radio and on comes a song. Chills run down our spine as we feel compelled to listen and our ears perk up! In the words of the song, we find an answer. How it is possible? Who gave us this? How did that happen?
Psychoanalyst Dr. Carl Jung, coined the term "synchronicity" for this very reason.  He also had these so called "coincidences" occurring over and over again and more importantly, so did his patients. In an effort to understand them, he surmised that the "Collective Unconscious" allowed these clues into the person's path to give them a clue or to wake them up. This was the signal from the Universe or their own Higher Self that the person was, indeed, on the right Path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

Now the journey begins in earnest and this becomes one way to find the way forward, as dreams also provide a very personal way. Our heart awakens to these mysteries by asking even more of us: pain. Pain becomes the impetus for what we discover, for without it, there is no reason or point to seek more. What we know is that if we do not take up the Gauntlet to Seek the Meaning to it all, the pain, the path, the way and the why...we are left in the abyss or the material world with no inner compass to Guide us home. Where is home? It is within, of course, as any truth seeker will tell you. Meditation then becomes the next tool. But first we must get awakened to the need. So our dreams and the world around us are a constant reminder that there is more to know, more to seek, more meaning to be had. A life worth living is well examined. A life of being here with no inner awareness can be mindless, empty, superficial and meaningless. It is the richness of meaning we seek. Purpose comes next, so one asks, "What is my purpose?"  Each and every one of us have one. Do you know what yours is?
 Music, poetry, art, beauty, romance have also been ways to help us, inspire us, lead us to the salvation/inner knowing of the Self.  One of my own personal ways has been music, although I have used all of the tools already mentioned.

 I close this blog with a suggestion. The Progressive Rock band, The Moody Blues, have been going strong now for more than 4 decades but it was their early original works which started me, at the tender age of 14, on the Seeker's Path. I first heard their music and attended  a concert in 1970, in Pittsburgh, Pa., where I grew up. Listening to their music, with full orchestration, was so beautiful and then their mystical, profound lyrics was how I "heard the Word". The times were emotive and turbulent which also meant many were seeking, including the bands of the time.  The Moody Blue's song "New Horizon" is at the top of this entry. Each one of their albums has Metaphysical meaning and profound messages from journeying within. Their songs and lyrics seek to ask and answer many questions so I would encourage anyone to listen to them. The link to their current website is: http://moodybluestoday.com  If you seek wisdom within words, go listen to their music or see them on tour, as they are out there now touring through the USA and the UK. Do catch them, if you have a chance.

  How has music, art, poetry, a song or a dream inspired you to seek something more, given you meaning or allowed you to seek answers to the bigger questions? Please share your experiences. Till next week, be inspired!
Shawn M.Cohen
October 20, 2012
http://www.tarotbyshawncohen.weebly.com

Saturday, 13 October 2012

Welcome to my New Metaphysical Blog

Welcome to a place of Sanctuary in a Sea of Confusion! At least, it is my intention to provide this here. I am a Metaphysician. I have been on the Path since I first started asking the question, "Why?" That was 4 decades ago, so I might have learned a thing or two by now. I would like to share some of what I have learned and open up space for others to share here. It is such a crazy world right now, I felt compelled to offer some sanity and solace and maybe some enlightenment. Can I? How do I know? Many clients come to me for just this kind of help. Working in the field of Metaphysics since 1983, I believe I can help. Hence forth my blog. Let's say it is a calling and I have answered it, yet again! Meta is the Greek word for "above" and Physical well, you know, the earth plane 5 senses reality. So we are going above the physical to the Metaphysical. 

What is a Metaphysical Blog?  It is my attempt to allow anyone who seeks to ask the big questions, share the answers and analyse how it all works. This Universe and how it all spins out, plays out and our place here in this life on Planet Earth. I will incorporate my observations, experiences with my own journey, some of the many clients, students and friends, teachers along the path I have met, helped, taught  and was educated by and with this comes Gnosis= Knowledge, Wisdom, Truth Revealed and so many wondrous things! The word Enlightenment...was does it mean? It is the question of the Ages. I hope to show some answers of what it is, how to "get there" and why we should bother. 

I remembered the times, so many times, I was thrown onto the path, yes, thrown! Seeking answers, looking everywhere, reading anything I could get my hands on which might explain, and all the while asking the questions no one I knew was asking. I had these incredible experiences which no one else I knew had. I was young, innocent, not aware of words like "Karma", "Consciousness", Past Lives" etc., etc. but these experiences kept coming and making me ask and seek the answers to.." Who am I really? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why did this happen to me and what does it mean?" I was no more then 19 years old at the time.
Eventually and quite by chance (later learning there is nothing by "chance", ever!) I sought and found a school of Metaphysics, The American National Institute for Psychical Research and Development in Westlake, California in 1980 and spent 4 years learning the ways of the Mystic/ Metaphysician. In essence, it led to even more learning and discovery of which you could say I am still doing. Having graduated with a BSc. Metaphysics and trained in Nursing with an emphasis on Holistic Medicine in 1983, I was previously intent on becoming a Psychologist, so all my previous studies were in Psychology. I went to many institutes for Higher Learning before and after my degree. What I learned was this: Astrology, Tarot, Past Life Regression, Numerology, Symbology, Dream Analysis, Archetypes, Healing, Laying on of Hands, Energy Work, Chakra Balancing, Meta. 1 (beginning) and Meta. 2 (advanced), Kabbalah, Crystals and Gems and what they can do and how they Heal, Seeing and Analysing Auras, Seeing into the Soul,  Messages from the Great Beyond, Guides, Angels, Archangels, and Passed On Loved Ones and so much more! All of this came to me, as I sought the answers to "Why?" 

It is a very good question, don't you think? Why? So simple and yet so profound. I invite you to ask this question and see where it takes you. I also invite you to enjoy sharing your own path with me or, if you choose, jump on board the Path. What is the Path? It is the Path that leads within, that leads to your Heart, your Soul, your Higher Mind, your inner Self, your Divine Self. Therein lies all your truth, your own reasons for incarnating in this lifetime. Your purpose, your destiny and divinity  all the answers to your many selves...your Multi-Dimensional Self. There are many tools which help, of course, as I mentioned them above. All the "ologies" work very well and I would suggest using them or finding someone to help you who knows well how to use them for Guidance and Insight.
The time of Dec. 21st, 2012 is near. What does this really mean? It is my belief from all I have seen and studied that we are on a wave of enlightenment. Why not catch that wave? Learn this and be made aware or be out there in a Storm of confusion. 
I invite you to, "Come in", she, said," I'll give you Shelter from the Storm." words by Bob Dylan.
Here is Bob Dylan's beautiful song which really demonstrates the Seeker  (individual) who is out there in the storm,(life, ego raging, unconscious, trying to survive, unaware as to what to do or how, finds himself in constant trouble, dramas ensuing) ...he finds comfort in a single act of kindness from a woman with silver bangles and flowers in her hair (the Divine Feminine, The Mystic) who creates a place of safety and comfort for him. My silver bracelets still jangle but the flowers in my hair are long gone with my teens...but were there in the 1970's! The Inner work very much intact, the reasons all answered, so do come in and seek some Shelter from the Storm. Click on the video, look at the words, Dylan's masterpiece of poetry, mood and music created by a man who knows, lived it and enjoy! 

Your comments and experiences  are welcome!  
How has this journey of seeking the inner self and truth been for you? Do you even bother? Is there more then what we see with our 5 senses? Are you a Light Worker, Healer, Therapist, Seeker of Truth? What works for you?

 Peace, love, enlightenment,
 Shawn M. Cohen, London, U.K.      October 13, 2012
http://www.tarotbyshawncohen.weebly.com