Thursday, April 16, 2009. My brother Jerry emailed me this morning, “Interesting that we talk about this physical reality actually being a holographic image that our minds have constructed.  Then we do everything we can to have all these things that the illusion tell us exist, rather than seek to have the “higher” things that exist beyond this illusion, the very things that ARE real.   We seek friends, fame, fortune, power, sex, and a myriad of other things.  We say we seek to follow our bliss, when actually we’re following nothing but our desires.  Even the best of us are doing little more than bull shitting ourselves.  No damn wonder people have trouble reaching a state of higher consciousness, an observer state, they’re just too wrapped up in the game.  They want to play in the hologram instead of being focused in the higher vibrations.  Have the cake and eat it, too?   In effect, we think we can bring higher consciousness right into the hologram with us, and play with it like some damn ball.  We don’t want to exist in a state of higher consciousness because that would mean we would lose all these neat little toys we have to play with in our make believe existence.  It’s just a fact, people aren’t willing to give up the hologram.  They love it and will be stuck until their make believe hell freezes over.

Hmmmmmm, I admire you and how you control your time.  Your alone time gives you a chance to better control how much you bite into the illusion.  Yes, of course you’re right it the middle of the holographic game sometimes.  Playing just as hard as anyone else.  But at least you work to control it.”  Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Last night I hung out all night  with Jimmy Fallon.  Well, in my dream anyway.   In the dream, I was living back in Miami and parked in the lot of a condo complex on Brickell Avenue. We met in the elevator as I was leaving and he said he was glad he saw me, he had something to give me.  We went to his condo and he began seaching through boxes and drawers looking for the item.  It began a long dream segment of him saying “wait here, I think I know where it is.”  I got tired of waiting so I fell asleep on the couch.  I woke up several hours later and he was in his bed reading.  He said he didn’t want to wake me.   I reach for my keys to leave and cannot find them.  He says “that’s ok” and gives me his door key.  I turn my purse upside down on the living room table and finally find my car keys in a secret pocket I never knew I had and leave.  When I get out on the street, I cannot find my car.  I walk around and around the block looking and can’t find it.  It was hard to walk, like a big weight keeping me moving slow.  I have learned when that happens in a dream, I usually begin grabbing on to the side walls and pulling myself along, or else turn and walk backwards. I go back up to Jimmy’s and knock and he asks “didn’t I give you a key?”  I ask if I can look from his windows down on the street to find my car.  It’s nowhere to be found.  We keep running into people we know, so there are lots of introductions. To one of my friends he introduces himself as another name and says “yes I know, I look just like him.” The rest of the dream is Jimmy and I driving around looking for my car.  In the car, he talks about how nice it is to do just regular quiet things and not attract attention everywhere.  We never do find my car but somehow that’s ok.  The dream continued even after me getting up several times in the night. Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Yesterday was really a busy day for me as I worked on final layout of the May Horizons Magazine.   I took several breaks to run around the yard putting out black oil sunflower seeds for the cardinals who are nesting in the bush next to my back porch.  At lunchtime, I sat on the porch watching the mama cardinal on the nest and saw two young raccoons scarfing up the sunflower seeds in broad daylight.  Well, not so broad daylight under the mulberry tree where there is such deep shade, but I usually don’t see the raccoons until sundown.  It was like dinner theater as I watched dozens of little finchy wrens descend upon the mulberry tree. I had the sprinkler going to water in new cuttings, and it was hitting the lower branches. These little birds – whatever they are – were taking turns bathing in the sprinkler. The cats were yards away, looking at them, transfixed.  There had to be 3-4 dozen of them.    Continue reading →

Anytime I feel emotionally triggered by something, that means I’ve got emotional work to do.  It’s the same for all of us.  It usually has to do with forgiveness. There is no shame in that.  We’re all here doing the same thing.  We’re doing it together, so it’s useless to play the Us against Them game.  There is no US that is different from Them.  We are I.  We can’t be offended when someone doesn’t use the same words we use.  In every instance, look past the words to the meaning of what they are trying to convey.  Seek content over form every time.  I don’t care for the word psychic.  If I use words like “spiritual advisor,” then someone who doesn’t know that term will keep looking until she sees the word “psychic.”  So I use the words my clients will be looking for: psychic, clairvoyant, since that is their term for what I do.  Talk to people in their own language.  Meet them where they are.  Seek first to understand.  Twenty years down the road you’ll have the aha that “We Are ALL The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.” All of us, together.  Really.

Sunday, April 12, 2009.   Happy Easter Sunday. I’m so lazy today, I’m not even going to exercise my brain.  I like having these mindless segments sometimes.  When I get in these moods when I am at work, I usually sign on to Facebook for a few minutes and make some short post and it gives me a breather.  So instead of a blog post today, which I’m too lazy to even think about, and in the spirit of recycling, below are what I’ve posted in Facebook the past week.  In Facebook, when you “make a post”, your photo and your name appears in front of each post:

Andrea de Michaelis  is lazy… eating spinach out of the bag while jasmine brown rice cooks.

Andrea de Michaelis I mixed 3/4 jasmine brown rice with 1/4 Thai red rice tonight. Double yum. I’d lose 20 pounds if I didn’t eat 2 cups of rice every day…she says eating rice.

Andrea de Michaelis chatted with Arielle Ford this morning, got some good info. Continue reading →

Friday, April 10, 2009.    Happy Good Friday.  And happy birthday to me. I love it when my birthday falls at Easter.  I could never figure in advance when Easter would be until I started following the moon phases.  Then I realized it’s always celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the Vernal equinox.  I love the whole idea of resurrection, rebirth, Spring renewal.  I also like that my birthday falls on the 100th day of the year, except on leap years.  It’s not just that I like seeing zeroes at the end of a number, either.  I just like the number.  To me it means whole and complete, 100%, something I strive to be.  100% conscious, that is, 100% of the time.  Ok, all my buddies are laughing themselves silly right now. I didn’t say I was 100% conscious 100% of the time, but at this stage of the game, I can recognize pretty quickly when I start to drift.  I can usually know as soon as I’ve made an unconscious remark, and keep myself from making the next one.  But it wasn’t always that easy.  That’s for sure. Continue reading →

Thursday April 9, 2009.  It’s been a busy week in AndreaLand.  I’ve been finishing up some personal projects which have kept me – surprise – at the computer almost around the clock.  Why would I spend my week off at the computer, where I spend 12+ hours a day working?  How is that different from the magazine work? It’s just a shift in perspective.  In my mind I am in a completely different place, so it barely matters where my body is, if my mind is happy.

Yesterday was my “official” day to water according to the new city rules, so I had the sprinklers and hoses going.  Moving them from bush to tree, it can take all day to get everything watered.  It’s also a welcome break to hear the timer go off, signalling I need to get up from my desk and go outside every hour.  The loquat and mulberry trees are now full of fruit, and full of birds and squirrels clamboring for them.  I took a walk around at sundown yesterday, as I usually do, checking everything out.  There was so much critter activity that I took my dinner outside to the wrought iron table and chair I sit at when I dine al fresco, just to watch the show. Continue reading →

I received this from a Unity minister friend. Now I know why I have a magazine and a blog.  This is what I live for, to pass on news like this and bring minds together for purposes like this.  There are two links for you at the end.  Andrea

Dear Spiritual Awakening Student –    In early February, we, along with other area ministers, attended a reception and presentation at Innisbrook Resort and Country Club at which the featured speaker was Deepak Chopra.  At that event, at Deepak’s request, 1,000 people, including us, stood and took the pledge to support Deepak in something called – The Global Coherence Initiative, in concert with a group of modern day New Thought leaders working under the name of The Evolutionary Leaders Counsel.

Basically, we pledged that night to focus on peace, prevailing in all of the conflicted areas of the world – and to support that peaceful outcome by creating a consistent climate of peace in our own hearts and minds. We found it very easy, especially boosted by the synergistic energy of a group of like-minded people, to make that pledge.  Since then, we have found (no surprise) that maintaining peace in our minds and hearts at all times has its challenges – but – we’ve been working on it.

NOW WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEW NEWS –
Below is the message we just received from the Evolutionary Leaders Counsel: Continue reading →