| Beloved
friends,
Here is an article
I wrote for the May-June 2008 GLOBAL
FOCUS OF MEDITATION
at: www.earthrainbownetwork.com
on the theme of: HARNESSING
THE POWER OF BELIEF
What I can share as a healer
by Lou Bognon
Since being told
for the first time that diamonds are of triangular
shapes, I never again looked at rocks or even
at all the sand in the sea the same way. Imagine
my joy and wonder when I discovered along the
Namib Desert coast that sea sand was filled
with billions and trillions and quadrillions
of tiny little triangular shaped “diamonds”.
The power of belief
is like that coastal sand – where I see
diamonds, others see rocks, and still others
see rubbish, stinky sea weeds, or silica or
plain discomfort for their shoes, and most see
simply, nothing at all.
Belief is the
greatest gift of all and for those of us who
have kept their heart open like a child, we
actually start with a great advantage at all
levels of life – after all for us there
is always something more wondrous than the ordinary
out there, everything is more marvelous than
it actually looks, more magic, more fascinating,
and as a bonus, belief also makes us feel more
deserving, more powerful, more connected and
more special than the ordinary.
In fact with an
open heart and with an open mind, no-thing and
no-one, is actually ordinary – how could
it be otherwise?
Ordinariness would
be the absolute anti-everything: like anti-wonder,
anti-magic, anti-joy and anti all the qualities
and attributes that actually define our belief
in all things DIVINE if you will.
So, as the years
passed, my heart opened even more – and
at 52, it has now been a few years since I have
made a choice above all others – to always
keep my heart open and for ever opening. I look
to it for guidance, I listen to it for love
and wisdom and I really choose to use it best
when I am offering myself as an instrument for
giving healing to another. My belief being that,
as an extension of the Creator of all, of Love
Itself - through us, all healing is possible.
I choose to walk this road blindfolded to ensure
that all physical, material and intellectual
distractions will not disturb my belief that
I am indeed Love.
Now, being a healer is something
that most people often visualize and imagine
as being either: hard, tiring, exhausting, or
at worst really freaky or weird – the
stuff of wicked and/or illuminated, crystal-wearing
long-robed, long haired carrot-munching nutty-case
types. Unless of course their heart too has
remained open - and then their own healing -
happens!
For healing to happen –
just like for music to be created, heard and
enjoyed – first someone needs to tap into
it, hear it, then play it – which means
using an appropriate instrument.
Music – like healing and
like love – is always there – everywhere
actually – and upon request, intention,
attention, need - it just flows. I hear the
music in the rain, in the wind and the way the
elements move in the sea, in a river, in a storm,
in the echo of a mountain’s body, actually
everywhere. I could say that I feel the healing
and I feel the love in the exact same way. There
is no place where they are not for they are
inseparable. For me this is not plain belief
– this is my reality.
Belief is that which, in quantum
physics terms, we are all just starting to grasp:
the observer affects the thing being observed.
And in the same way our (greater or smaller)
capacity to keep the heart – and the mind
- open, will also affect all our other capacities:
what we believe we can do, we shall and what
we do not – we don’t, can’t,
and won’t.
The words of the Great Master
sum it up perfectly: let it be done onto you
as you believe, ask and you shall receive, knock
and it shall open, search and you shall find.
The question we all need to
ask ourselves is this:
If it all depends on our belief
capacity, our choices, intentions, and open
heart-mindness – from living better, healthier,
happier lives, to claiming our gifts and abundance
from the never ending source of IT ALL, to having
the sort of blind faith in ourselves that we
can indeed do, create and achieve anything –
why then - do we still make choices of belief
in things such as lack, failure, judgment, criticism,
poverty, war, disease and the like?
I have chosen to keep my heart
open for joy, love, abundance and so much healing,
that my intentions, my thoughts, my words and
my actions will carry the love of my heart forward
to all of creation and back to the Creator.
In practice, when one comes to
me for healing I say silently, telepathically
the following prayer:
Thank you Beloved soul, to have
come with an open heart – may I be the
instrument of the Creator’s Love for you
and may I help you return to the perfection
you can be, for Perfection is indeed the sole
predestination you and I are here to be.
May the healing flow.
May you remember that you are
Love.
May you remember that you have
the healer within.
May the Light, Love and Healing
of all the helpers in the Healing Universes
be with us.
My Divine Presence embraces your
Divine Presence.
This is how belief feels in my
experience, how belief IS my experience.
With Love Light and Infinite Healing
Lou Bognon
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Beloved Friends,
It is my honor and pleasure to inform you that
Channel Africa has renewed my contract to continue
to produce and present my inspirational radio
show The Inner Voice both in its original English
version and in French for the 2008-2009 season.
As the program enters its fifth year I will
most certainly endeavour to, at all times take
it to the next level and hopefully continue
to make a difference in the beloved Mother Africa
and in the world at large.
Mother Africa is now poised to bring into the
Light her own ancient wisdom and I can predict
that from the pain and the suffering of the
people of Zimbabwe, the world will learn to
chose its leaders with greater care and change
them faster when they start being overtaken
by the love of power instead of being guided
by the power of love.
To use one of my favorite quotes attributed
to Jimmy Hendrix:
When the power of love will overcome the love
of power - the world will be OK.
Cannot agree more.
Love and Light to you.
Lou Bognon
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Dear Friends,
Enjoy the empowering information
I share in this most recent article I have written
for Biophile Magazine
www.biophile.co.za
FROM
A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO.3
EARTH CHANGES – A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
Before I resume my writings on
the elements I thought that I needed to share
with you the deeper insights that came through
me from the higher realms of understanding.
It all happened quite un-expectedly
– during my monthly meditation group where
I had, as I have done for the past six years
– focused on ways of sending love and
healing to our beloved Mother Earth.
As I sat with my wonderful group
of likeminded light workers and prepared to
give an outlook of the particular focus for
that day, I recall vaguely having said something
to this effect: thank you for being so committed
to join me on this sixth year of our meditation
group and together let us pray today for Mother
Earth, that in her need to do whatever she needs
to find her balance and healing, her whims will
not hit or surprise us with too much pain…(…)
We all sat in silence as we usually
do and as is customary in our group, we allow
each one to meditate and to send love and healing
as they feel guided in their heart.
What happened next, was not only
un-expected but also very special and this is
why I want to share with you.
To the best of my ability I shall
proceed to give you the words I was asked to
transmit by the Council of Love and Wisdom,
who dictated my third book: The Divine Laws.
Greetings Beloved Friends,
We come to correct many misconceptions
that are circulating about the so called “whims”
of Mother Nature.
The information we wish to share
with you today will be beneficial and important
also to our messenger as she is ignorant of
the more scientific aspects of the interactions
and dynamics of energy – correction –
very ignorant – not being a scientist
herself.
All of you present here today
are visitors from a past age where again the
cycles of nature played similar scenarios. Back
in Atlantis you lived through the times when
those who were deeply connected knew in advance
that if men continued as they did then, the
climatic consequences would be the very sinking
of their land. Still the voices of love and
wisdom then, like now, were silenced and ignored
and so that civilization, where you all played
somewhat relevant roles, over a long period
of time decided to continue on a dangerous path
that ended in the demise of that continent,
culture and civilization.
Just like you had then, you now
have the denialists, the ones that have grown
so disconnected from the source of all Life
that they not only have forgotten the sacredness
of their own lives but the sacredness of All
Life.
And so they destroy, separate
and engage in the practices that have brought
you to this place where, once you have forgotten
that you are all part of the same energy, you
start tearing at each other, at the very fabric
of life that holds you together.
From a more scientific perspective
this means the failure to understand and more
serious still - to teach that all is indeed
energy in your world and in all worlds, that
all is connected.
So, what you think or understand
as a simple whim of Mother Nature – is
no more and no less than a mere reaction or
return of the same energy that you have sent
out and generated in your world. Think about
it this way: where are the greater points of
what you also call freak energy or freak storms
as you like to call them? – are they not
happening in the places where most people live
in a disconnected state from Spirit and Life
itself and then fall into entire masses of hopelessness
and helplessness as if hey were forgotten children
of God Himself? Beloved Ones, the real question
is: who is forgetting Whom?
Mother Earth is simply sending
back to you – albeit many times amplified
- the energy you constantly send out into the
ethers, this word being just an aid to your
understanding.
Energy dear friends, attracts
itself by similar resonance, frequency and vibration
– your destruction is being given back
to you collectively, your inner turmoil and
emotional pollution is also being given back
to you as we just said – amplified –
sadly many thousands of times over.
Know then – that you have
the power to send not only thoughts of despair
and destruction – but also thoughts and
intentions of love and healing into the entire
energy matrix of creation and that powerful
and pure thoughts of love can – and will
- stop the greatest storm, redirect the biggest
cyclone and dissolve into nothingness the seemingly
impossible task ahead of you. Nature and all
climatic conditions are simply mirroring your
collective energy. Change the energy you send
out and you will change the way Mother Earth
is responding. You can change the climatic conditions
you are experiencing. Send out more love, more
gratitude and more reverence.
More than ever, you need to remember
that Love Changes Everything.
We bless each and every one of
you.
There you have it – Let
me have your feedback and share as widely as
possible, if this message resonates with you.
Lou Bognon
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FOR
BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
www.biophile.co.za
FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO.2
HALLUCINATING FIRE
The first article
of this series I set out to write on the four
elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth,
ended by saying that Mother Earth was bathing,
and that her bath was running over…And
what do we do when we come out of a long running
bath? We reach out for warmth of course - just
like she is doing.
Focused on the
fire element, I can not help but think how Her
elements seem to be working not just in intelligent
sequence but also in perfect sync: all over
the news we have been witnessing the fires devastating
Southern California, where some of the most
rich and famous earthlings live.
And yet not too
long before the Californian inferno, the lungs
of our planet were literally chocking with fire
- yes – the Amazon was burning…but
the same corporate mass media the world over
(that had showed us California burning), had
not found its fires news worthy. Why should
they? How many celebrities live in the Amazon
anyway?
Plus who cares about the “what is its
name? zone”, the more it burns the more
land is “freed” for grazing so that
the masses of the world can continue to eat
hamburgers…This reminds me about the disconnected
thinking, which was literally decapitated during
the French revolution, saying of the then starving
masses: if there is no bread let them eat cake.
Now the thinking goes: let them eat hamburger.
Yeah! 21st century…Hallucinating I agree.
According to the
UK’s Independent article of 5 October
2007, by Daniel Howden and Jules Steven: Vast
areas of Brazil and Paraguay and much of Bolivia
are choking under thick layers of smoke as fires
rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest,
forcing the cancellation of flights.(…)
Roberto Smeraldi, head of Friends of the Earth
Brazil, said the situation was out of control:
"We have a strong concentration of fires,
corresponding to more than 10,000 points of
fire across a large area of about two million
sq km in the southern Brazilian Amazon and Bolivia."
Each year at the end of the dry season, in anticipation
of the first winter rains, farmers and cattle
ranchers throughout South America set fires
to "renovate" pasture land. (…)
Mr Smeraldi was clear on who was to blame for
this year's fires: "They are mainly, I
would say more than 90 per cent, the result
of expanding cattle ranching." The first
rains have arrived but they are weaker than
usual in most areas and have been useless against
the fires.
Yes – you read right: 10 000 points of
fire across an area of about 2 million sq kilometres.
We definitely
live in a world of disconnect from our Mother
Planet – in fact most of humanity is so
disconnected we may just as well be living in
another planet or in some parallel universe
all together.
Nobody seems to
want to connect the dots, to realise that the
fires that devastated Greece this summer, parts
of France and Portugal, as well as those of
Australia, South Africa – and of course
California (twice in a month), were just little
steps by mother nature in her dance of hallucination
that has now reached the beauty and vastness
of the Amazon in a massive, albeit non-reported,
scale.
From a spiritual
perspective, fire represents the whole consuming
flame that cleanses, transmutes and purifies.
But fire also represents the Light essence -
that which allows for things to be created and
re-created anew – the blueprint of divine
codes and information. Mentally and intellectually
we often equate fire with passion and in its
positive aspect fire is truly the motivator
and the great generator of energy. In our physiology
and materiality though, fire often means fever,
which when too high results in delirium and
hallucination, powerful signals that the body
is in trouble and fighting an invading enemy.
Given my deep
connection of love to Mother Earth I honestly
feel that her message for us at this time is
one of feverish hallucination. The infection
has been going on too long now from her perspective.
As we continue to refuse to change, she feels
somewhat past our “promised-pill”
dates, drips won’t do it either at this
stage – and so we can expect more fever-fires
of the sweeping kind we saw (and those we didn’t)
recently on our television screens. Mother Earth
is now really raising her temperature as a defence
against all the invading viruses and bacteria
we have become to her body.
As a healer I
often compare Her pain to that of rape victims:
they share the same sequence: sadness, water
to wash everywhere, till the bath runs over,
then the rage, anger, confusion, the shivers
after having gotten cold physically and spiritually
and finally the struggle to decide to heal and
fight - the resulting fever of survival. From
what I can see, this is where Mother Earth is:
she has already engaged her own fever process.
She is now starting to use the awesome power
of all her elements for her own survival, not
just for ours.
Given the sequence
of things, we can expect her to use more of
her other elements: air and earth – in
combination and in the sequence; no longer just
water and fire but volcanoes and earthquakes,
and perhaps all of them simultaneously in a
multitude of combinations and permeations…but
that is what I will be writing on next.
Till then, again
I ask you: plant more trees, plants, flowers,
walk upon the body of our beloved Mother Planet
with love and reverence, expressing as you go
along as much gratitude as you can master for
the blessings and the bounty of her gifts, for
they no longer can be taken for granted.
And more than ever – let us not forget
to tell her of our love – by consuming
less, driving less and smaller cars, eating
less meat, inflicting no harm, doing what we
can, by making a difference…only love
can make a difference now…
Lou BOGNON
is a spiritual healer, author, teacher, producer
and presenter of The Inner Voice, an inspirational
program on Channel Africa which is broadcast
internationally in English and French.
email her at: lou@loubognon.com
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Dear Friends,
Here is an article - in what I hope will be
the first of a few dedicated to the elements
of Mother Earth - which I wrote for the most
wonderful South African Magazine - BIOPHILE
- whose motto is: for the love of our earth
and all those who live on her.
Enjoy.
FOR
BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
www.biophile.co.za
FROM A SPIRITUAL
PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT
1. WATER-WATER EVERYWHERE
This has been
a season of water rising records.
In China alone more than two hundred million
people were displaced or affected in some way.
In just two of India’s provinces another
20 million people were left homeless and hungry
for days before help on such massive scale could
cover the enormity of the area and the numbers
of people.
As for low lying Bangladesh by the time it was
evident that half the country was under water
nobody bothered to estimate how many more millions
were affected.
Main stream corporate
media suddenly stopped reporting about England’s
worst ever floods which of course by then looked
almost benign when compared to Asia’s.
As I write this column, Switzerland, Germany
and parts of France are starting to be added
to the list and this is not to mention Eastern
Europe’s storms and flash floods that
did not even make it to the world news for us
all to notice. Same could be said of the washing
and killing rains of Sudan, a country we are
more accustomed to associate with war, genocide
and desert.
Now, we all have
– in every continent, without exception
– come to understand what global warming
is all about – or at least the palpable
tangible effects – or should I say side
effects of it. Scientists are still divided
in camps of “told you so” and “what
global warming?’ – even though the
latter camp seem to be marginalizing themselves
in the face of such powerful evidence now before
us (and them) even before those paid to look
the other way by some major political and economical
lobbies.
Al Gore and his
documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”
showed us images that speak louder than any
of his own or anybody’s statements, especially
those pertaining to the melting of the glaciers,
the rise in temperatures and how the world maps
are likely to change.
From a spiritual
perspective, those of us who are deeply connected
to Mother Earth and all life forms evolving
on Her, we know that this she is a nurturing,
sentient and intelligent being trying to cope
as best she can with the unbearable pain we
have inflicted upon her, her creatures and upon
each other through our collective greed, carelessness
and mindless consumption.
Our collective
pollution is not just the visible rubbish we
have accumulated, from our own homes to the
waste dumps, but most serious still, is the
emotional pollution we have created with the
belief systems that have separated us, drove
us to “just”, “liberation”
“independence” “holy”
and all kinds of wars, creating unbearable suffering
and exploitation of all kinds and in general
brought us to this sense of dirt and clutter
that prevails.
And what would
each one of us do if we were to feel dirty,
cluttered, raped, violated, used and lonely?
We would want to wash it all away – and
that is exactly what she is doing. Mother Earth
is washing herself now. And her bath is just
filling up. Like a pained and overwhelmed mother
she is allowing the bath to run over. This season
she will not care - all she wants and all she
needs is water-water everywhere.
Become her life
line – send her your love and gentle words.
Act for Her:
sell your gas guzzler, plant more trees, walk
on Her body with your bare feet and tell her
you love her often, become a mindful consumer,
live from the heart, and whatever you do, buy,
create, invent, sell, connect to her to find
out if it is good for her and all the life forms
she supports.
She needs our collective healing love. Now!
The more of us do this the faster she will choose
to heal.
By not changing anything in our lives and in
our behaviour, we choose to experience the alternative:
sleep in the bath water with her and perhaps
never wake up again on her loving heart.
Lou BOGNON is a spiritual healer, author, teacher,
producer and presenter of The Inner Voice, an
inspirational program on Channel Africa which
is broadcast internationally in English and
French.
www.loubognon.com
lou@loubognon.com
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