David Christopher Lewis (et al.) – The Hearts Center

The Hearts Center—

Your Livingston Neighbor

Carol Wells
March – April 2025 • Vol 4, No 15

Explore the Aquarian Essene Community that is The Hearts Center! First, let’s  take a look at what we offer locally… then we’ll review your online and worldwide opportunities…

The Alchemy Exchange Bookstore

Did you know that an awesome metaphysical store is right around the corner? Our Alchemy Exchange, located at 130 N. 2nd Street, in the Masonic Building in Livingston, Montana is a great resource for all things spiritual. Every book, piece of artwork, crystal, orgonite, and gift item will assist you in connecting more deeply with your inner divinity and wholeness. Stop by and meet our great staff. They love to chat and will help you find just what your soul is looking for.

Our winter hours are Monday, Thursday and Saturday, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. When our sidewalk sign is on display, we are open. Please call us at 406-333-7172 with any questions you may have.

The store entrance is on the south side of the Masonic Building across from The Murray Hotel. Enter the double doors, ascend the stairs and turn right. We will be looking for you!

Livingston Services at The Sanctuary of the Heart

On most Sundays, 10:00 to 11:30 am, public devotional services are livestreamed worldwide from the Livingston Sanctuary of the Heart in the Masonic Building. These services are often led by David and include prayers, songs, meditations, new-age rosaries, and live HeartStreams.

Our online, worldwide community also provides many opportunities to enhance your spiritual journey. These are…

“Spirit Matters”

“Spirit Matters,” via the Patreon platform, are monthly interactive lessons taught by David Christopher Lewis and other presenters. David is the co-founder of The Hearts Center Community, a global movement whose mission it is to share current ascended master teachings to the world. In addition to teaching, he is a musical composer and the author of 15 books of revelatory teachings for the 21st century and beyond.

During Spirit Matters sessions, you will be able to…

  • Participate in life-changing group practices
  • Receive revelatory Aquarian Essene teachings
  • Unlock new ways to shift your consciousness to higher levels
  • Receive answers to questions relating to your spiritual path

You can learn about cultivating healthy relationships, communing with angels, how to increase your abundance.

Join discussions on the development of greater discernment, greater ability to forgive self and others. These and many other topics will enlighten your heart and mind, and help you move forward on your spiritual journey.

For a monthly fee of only $11, you will receive live teachings from David and other guest teachers, as well as access to a growing library of past classes. During live classes, there is always opportunity to ask questions. It’s encouraged! Spirit Matters is a perfect way to explore the deeper teachings now being released to the planet.

If you opt for the free version of Spirit Matters, you can access Hearts Center content such as a free eBook, HeartStreams from Saint Germain, and a free guided meditation video: “Meditation on Our New World.”

Join Spirit Matters. It is a joyful and effective way to be more in touch with your Higher Self and deepen your spiritual knowledge. Here is the link: Introducing Spirit Matters.

Meru University

Meru University is a forum for higher learning. It supports the advancement of spiritual aspirants on the path of adeptship, initiation and personal enlightenment through the Teachings of the Ascended Masters. Offering a vast array of online and in-person courses, Meru University inspires, enlightens and empowers students by presenting spiritual topics,  including advanced studies on the human aura, sacred alchemy, the solar sciences, divine magic, and accelerated healing. Meru University will assist you in raising your consciousness as rapidly and continuously as you allow. Our courses are meant to feed your soul and your spirit by instructing you in divine wisdom, enlivening you with divine love, and filling you with divine power to co-create a new you. To learn more, visit: MeruUniversity.org.

HeartStreams

HeartStreams are up-to-the-minute messages from the ascended masters through David, anointed spiritual director for our movement. These heavenly messages vibrate with the love and wisdom of the mind of God through ascended masters, archangels, Elohim, and other cosmic beings. They anchor light in the Earth as they are being delivered and even when they are replayed in audio or video format.

HeartStreams teach, exhort, bless, uplift and direct us in specific actions required to facilitate our inner transformation and planetary change. Nearly 7,000 of these inspired messages have been released

by over 200 divine beings since 2004 and to the present. View our HeartStreams Library here: Messages from the Masters.

Livestreaming Devotional Services

Worship with us online! Join us for prayers, songs, rosaries, meditations, teachings from the ascended masters, and sharings from heartfriends Bless the Earth and yourself by connecting with us as often as you can! Services are livestreamed through our website daily from broadcast points around the world. The times of these services can be found on our Homepage Calendar.

More about The Hearts Center and David Christopher Lewis

The Hearts Center has sprouted local groups around the world, offering their unique variety of activities. We gather in person for our quarterly conferences at the equinox and solstice times of the year. Every two years, an international congress is held, hosted by the International Hearts Center Council.

Our spiritual director, David, has been a student of the ascended masters and the world’s major religions for five decades. He began receiving telepathic communications from the ascended masters in 2004, instructing him to launch a new movement. On February 26, 2005, The Hearts Center came into being.

Along with co-founding The Hearts Center Community and Meru University, David assists his wife, Mona, in the work of Paradise Permaculture Institute, where regenerative agriculture is taught and practiced.

Our Mission & Vision

Our Mission—

Within our Hearts Center Community, we realize personal enlightenment through our Higher Self and share the ascended masters’ teachings and our love-wisdom throughout the Earth. 

Our Vision—

We live in sustainable Golden-Crystal Age communities in joy and in harmony with Mother Nature, using solar sciences of the Spirit. We radiate light, and we live and love as one.

Visit HeartsCenter.org.

Carol Wells is the Communication & Writing Team Leader for The Hearts Center Community. She hosts introductory Zoom classes monthly on the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, and she has been a student of those teachings for 38 years.

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2025-02-27T06:27:54-07:00The Metaphysical|

Spiritual Intelligence: “What Would Love See Here?”

Wisdom, Compassion and Love in Action

Jennifer Butler for The Hearts Center Community
January – February 2025 • Vol 4, No 14

What would love see here within us and within the world around us? How do we get to that place of seeing with the eyes of love, feeling with a heart of love, and thinking with a mind of love? Have you heard of spiritual intelligence? You may already possess it. One way to define spiritual intelligence is the ability to act with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner peace, regardless of the demanding situation occurring in the moment.

Innate within the soul is a longing to be connected to something larger than ourselves, a connecting to something sacred, divine, and noble. The actualization of this longing can be said to be the attaining of spiritual intelligence.

We are all innately spiritual beings; yet, we may not necessarily have mastered spiritual intelligence, which requires the mastery of certain skills. Just as emotional intelligence evolves in us as we apply a set of skills— such as: becoming aware of our emotions, learning how to manage them, understanding the emotions of others, the ability to give empathy readily—spiritual intelligence takes work. What a wonderful work it is!

Goaded by Example

We have all known examples of individuals who have displayed both emotional and spiritual intelligence for the benefit of everyone around them and for millions they have never met. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, the High Lamas of Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal, and Mahatma Gandhi are some. When looking at these exemplars who embody the best of humanity, we can see certain capacities that set them apart. Let’s take a look at some of these traits.

Compassion and wisdom are two qualities that emanate from those who embody spiritual intelligence. These admirable men and women seem to have combined to perfection the heart and the head, resulting in love in action at every turn.

Love in Action

A brief definition of spiritual intelligence might indeed be love in action. And those actions are not just acts of prayer and meditation—they permeate every activity of our daily lives, every relationship, including the most frustrating ones.

Spiritual intelligence can be recognized by the way people we admire relate to those challenging circumstances. They show courage, tenacity, and the capacity to keep going no matter how difficult the way ahead. They are able to reframe what they are seeing or experiencing, transcending negative reactions to maintain an inner peace and harmony. There is a nonattachment, an openness, an ability to see clearly. They watch the drama and do not enter into it.

When we move into com-passionate self-awareness and awareness of others, we are growing in spiritual intelligence. The experience is transcendent, allowing us to become…

  • Effective agents for global change,
  • Wise decision-makers,
  • A calming and healing presence,
  • Aligned with the ebb and flow of life and of the highest good.

We develop an appreciation for, and no longer fear, the mystery of spiritual growth. Growth and self-mastery are now embraced as innate capacities to be cultivated. We expand our love to include all of life, unconditionally, and all forms of creation. Various perspectives and points of view are received with an open mind and heart. There is no longer the desire to be right.

Reframing

One of the major skills that leads to greater spiritual intelligence is reframing. It is the ability to listen to the stories we tell ourselves from a place of inner peace. When we release inner turmoil, we are free to create a new and different story about our self or a new story about an interaction with another individual or group.

We can watch our interpretation of events, the meaning we attach to a story, and ask if that interpretation is true. Might there be another story we could tell? We can question all our interpretations and ask ourselves, “What would love see here?” When we do this, we are widening our perspective to include compassion and wisdom.

So stories we have told ourselves about ourselves—or our spouses, parents, or colleagues—that once triggered upset and distress appear less and less in our purview. We are creating valid stories that flow from a new depth within us, a depth of forgiveness and love, and a depth of spiritual intelligence.

As we choose to reframe, we gain greater understanding of everyone’s situation, everyone’s feelings and thoughts. Miracle of miracles, we feel an inner spaciousness and so much less reactivity! We are now a part of the healing of any conflict. What a high and worthy, yet absolutely attainable, goal for which we all can strive.

What would love see for you and for our planet in 2025?

Jennifer Butler trained as a Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and works with adults and children. She practices both Christian and Buddhist forms of spirituality and is a teacher of mediation and Iyengar yoga. Jennifer is a long-time member of The Hearts Center Community. To learn more, visit their website or drop by the Alchemy Exchange Bookstore in Livingston.

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2024-12-27T08:26:22-07:00General Wellbeing, The Metaphysical|

End Times Prophecy

Brings a Message of Hope and Resolution for these Apocalyptic Times.

Raymond Ziemkowski
November – December 2024 • Vol 4, No 13

Scholars, preachers and spiritual pundits of all kinds have interpreted apocalyptic end-time prophecy for their times since 1000 AD. Is it possible? Could we be witnessing the ultimate Battle of Armageddon playing out in our world here and now, today?

End-time prophecy in the West is based on Judeo-Christian Biblical scripture, particularly the Book of Revelation. The deep ethos of Judeo-Christian values and teachings embraces a mysticism and tradition that has, more often than not, been obscured by the very institutions and structures of religion that have outwardly championed it. At its foundation is the age-old battle of light versus darkness; a creator God and his creation; a fall from grace; an evil that opposes that creation (man) from returning back into God’s grace; an apocalyptic battle that ends all battles.

The Bible chronicles that within the framework of man’s fall was a covenant of redemption and return. As man chose to live in alignment with that covenant, he was blessed. As he chose to live outside that covenant, he was subject to outside forces that tormented him—evil. Whether our upbringing, our education or life experience views the Biblical record as fiction, metaphor and/or historical truth, it is still the most influential book ever written in the West and deserves our attention.

The Dragon’s Prophecy by Jonathan Cahn, published in 2024, is an epic dive into prophecy and revelation. It bridges and connects our modern world and state of conflict back to the ancient historical Middle East recorded in the Old Testament. We are witnessing today brutalities on the world stage that corroborate prophecy, such as the October 7, 2023 raid at a music festival in Israel and Israel’s unremitting retaliation in Gaza and the West Bank, both attacks beyond comprehension. Jonathan Cahn takes us into the Biblical history and record and offers a profound insight into the “spiritual forces” that span millennia and are behind the hatred and brutality and war-ring in this region.

Let’s be honest with ourselves. We in the West have enjoyed a sheltered world view and been greatly insulated from the struggle and strife in much of the world. What is emerging today in the Middle East requires our attention, our prayers and compassionate understanding. The New Age phrase, “It’s all good,” has its context and place, but we cannot ignore what is happening on the world scene today. Each one of us has a responsibility and a role to play to secure and preserve our individual and collective liberty and freedoms.

The Dragon’s Prophecy gives us insight as to why there has been the rise and fall of oppressive dictators and tyrants throughout our known history and a seemingly unending cycle of hate-driven war and conflict. It also offers a message of hope and resolution.

Apocalyptic end-times prophecy is not a template for the destruction and end of the world but for the end of an epoch of conflict on our planet, its final resolution, and the beginning of a new age. An age of Peace and Prosperity!

Raymond Ziemkowski is a native Montanan. He has been a student of many spiritual teachings since he was a teenager, often experiencing visionary dreams and insights. For most of his adult life, he has sold crystals, gems, and books spanning the esoteric teachings of the world religions. “Over the years,” he says, “I’ve listened deeply to the customers in my store. I consider the highest teaching and path, and the best book for them, to be the one that guides them to the next steps on their spiritual path.” Raymond is a long-time member of https://www.heartscenter.org/

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2024-10-28T14:36:31-06:00Current Events|

Take That, California!

Might Livingston, Montana Displace California as the Breadbasket of America?

Raymond Ziemkowski
September – October 2024 • Vol 4, No 12

Some of you may be familiar with “The Sleeping Clairvoyant,” Edgar Cayce’s readings and prophecies, which stated that, as our planet moves into Aquarius, cataclysmic Earth changes might occur, resulting in a dramatically different landscape of our planet—changes that would result in much of California and the West Coast falling beneath the ocean, and our own Livingston becoming one of the world’s five major food production and distribution centers. Take that, California!

If this idea is new to you, a 1977 article (LINKED HERE) by Owen Jones of the Livingston Enterprise was printed in Helena’s The Independent Record that documents and explores the details of this Cayce prophecy. Jones writes in this article, “If predictions come true, California will fall into the ocean, New York City will be destroyed, and the greater part of Japan will be under water. But Livingston will emerge from it all as the food distribution center of the world.”

Jones interviewed Billings resident Joan Galles, who was a regional representative for the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), which is dedicated to preserving and researching Cayce’s more than 14,000 readings in their library in Virginia Beach, Va.

According to Galles, geologists have studied Cayce’s predictions about Earth changes and found them believable. “Some of the changes could happen if the Earth were to shift on its axis,” she said. Many people believe deeply in the Cayce prophecies and some have moved away from “doomed” locations to areas predicted to be safe, like Livingston.

As to the timing of such an event, Jones quotes Galles, “No one really is sure when the Earth changes that Cayce predicted will come about,” adding that, “Cayce’s research has timed the changes to begin when two famous volcanoes erupt simultaneously. When Mounts Pele and Etna both start erupting, people in California have 90 days to leave or learn to swim. And Livingston had better prepare to be the most important city on Earth!” Okay!

Whether or not an Earth-axis shift triggers Cayce’s scenario of cataclysmic events, there is an “axis shift” occurring on our planet right now in how global food production and distribution is feeding our populations. And like Edgar Cayce’s prophecy, Livingston and surrounding regions are right in the middle of it.

Big, industrial agriculture, based on toxic fertilizers and pesticides, GMOs, mono-crop farming, centralized packing and processing, and inefficient water and soil conservation are all creating a backlash of environmental and health issues around the globe. Our ability to grow and distribute food to feed our populations has never been more vulnerable.

To counter these problems and to return control, security, and food sovereignty back to local communities, new holistic strategies and initiatives are gaining traction. This will return us to smaller, local and regional production, processing, and distribution of our food—not only here in Livingston and Paradise Valley, but also in rural communities around the globe.

New technologies are creating super-rich soils. Accelerated growth and yields are being developed and put into practice. Innovative water-conservation strategies are working with Mother Nature to hold moisture in our soils and landscapes rather than being lost to evaporation and runoff.

Here in Livingston, Paradise Permaculture Institute, a non-profit started in 2014 by Mona Lewis, is right on cue, sponsoring a workshop by Mark Shepard, author of two groundbreaking books, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers, and Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agricultural Water Management Methods on Your Farm. Event dates are September 6th through 8th, 2024.

Mark Shepherd’s New Forest Farm located in Viola, Wisconsin, has evolved from worn-out row-crop fields to a 106- acre showcase, commercial-scale, perennial agriculture operation. This is one of the most famous agroforestry permaculture systems on the planet—plus it’s economically successful!

Mark Shepard heads up Restoration Agriculture Development and Forest Agriculture Nursery, but he’s most widely known as the author of his award-winning books. Restoration Agriculture is based off his experiences at New Forest Farm and represents his belief in the ability of sustainably-grown, perennial food crops to feed us into “our resource-compromised future.”

From his more recent book, Water for Any Farm, (and by taking the workshop), you can learn about his keyline adaptions and ways to optimize water across your property.

This workshop is an opportunity for all gardeners, farmers, ranchers, conservationists, permaculturists, biological researchers, scientists—and anyone who cares about the future of world food production—to experience hands-on methods of moving and saving water on the land that will increase the production of animal and food crops, rebuild soil, and contribute to local food sustainability.

Check out Paradise Permaculture Institute and details of the upcoming workshop with Mark Shepard HERE.

Raymond Ziemkowski is a native Montanan. He has been a student of many spiritual teachings since he was a teenager, often experiencing visionary dreams and insights. For most of his adult life, he has sold crystals, gems, and books spanning the esoteric teachings of the world religions. “Over the years,” he says, “I’ve listened deeply to the customers in my store. I consider the highest teaching and path, and the best book for them, to be the one that guides them to the next steps on their spiritual path.” Raymond is a long-time member of https://www.heartscenter.org/

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2024-09-02T08:55:44-06:00Gardening & Herbs|

Aspiring Toward Good Stewardship

Cultivating Your Best Relationship with Money

Raymond Ziemkowski
July – August 2024 • Vol 4, No 11

In 1955, Christian mystic Flower A. Newhouse wrote a short pamphlet titled, “Aspiring Toward Good Stewardship.” This 23-page booklet offers profound instruction on abundance, Providence, supply… all things related to our relationship with money.

Flower shares that “a seriously mistaken concept most persons have is the belief that their security was mainly dependent upon finances.” To that, she firmly writes, “our only security is God.” And that “our outward income depends upon values that are God-given. These values consist of good health, useful knowledge, creative resourcefulness, and good mental and spiritual development.”

She offered four symbols and modes that portray mankind’s general attitude and stewardship towards money. These four are:

  • The Closed Hand
  • The Sieve
  • The Measuring Containers
  • The Ever-Renewing Pool

In her pamphlet, she writes in the voice of her Christian Mystic Ministry on each of these symbolic representations in the order above. As you might intuit, she teaches that the fourth symbol, the ever-renewing pool, is ideal. And she discusses the limitations and restrictions that are inherent in the preceding three modes and attitudes toward money.

Whether we are responsible for just our personal and family finances, engaged in business pursuits, or on a board of a nonprofit or charitable organization, our relationship with money requires our attention in today’s challenging times. Flower’s voice and message on this topic is as profound today as it was in the 1950s. Enjoy! —Raymond

The Closed Hand

Flower wrote, “The hand has always expressed service and sharing in religious symbolism. A closed hand denotes the repressing or withholding of giving or sharing.

“Those who are afraid to spend money either possess excessive fears in regard to their security, or they are victims of a compulsive neurosis in regard to saving. Neither of these states is good from the standpoint of normal, psychological well-being.

“Persons with a savings complex need to learn to open their hands, their hearts, and their minds where money is concerned. Because their hold upon money’s outgo is so obsessively tight, their income and general attractions from life are consequentially limited. Their lack is the creative result of their wrong attitudes and practices.

“Reminding themselves of what their negative conduct is called in the terse, forthright terms of the world should help such persons to drop these un-wholesome habits. Smallness, meanness, greediness, stinginess, and hoarding are associated with this first type. Their characteristics are the opposite of kindliness, faith, and outgoingness.

“Let those who find it hard to deal trustingly with money devote themselves to a deliberate, sustained cultivation of faith in supply. They should form the new, constructive habit of investing in happiness every day. Smallness can only be mastered by large-heartedness persistently applied.”

The Sieve

Flower wrote, “Those who are inclined to emulate sieves where money is concerned are the very opposite of the first type. Their emotions lead where their minds should be in charge. Here we find desires unchecked and out of control.

“There are two types of extravagant spenders. One kind splurges consistently on anything that delights or benefits him. The second kind is not as lavish on himself as he is with others. An extravagant individual’s trust is fool-hearty, because it is not tempered by discrimination, patience, and wisdom. These spenders think only about the moment at hand and so, will purchase temporary pleasure at the cost of meeting tomorrow’s rent or the monthly bills. They are indeed ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul.’

“There is nothing wrong with this second type’s trust in Divine Provision. To their faith they must add qualities of good stewardship—self-control, accountability, and self-denial—wisely exercised.

“As a means for overcoming imprudent spending, the sieve type should practice the best qualities of the budgeter—the third symbolic type. These good traits are wise self-denial and objective patience.”

The Measuring Containers

Flower wrote, “The symbolic outpicturing of the third type of steward is that of measuring containers, such as pint, quart and gallon jars. The one who lives within his income intelligently, frequently does so because he budgets his earnings to cover his monthly needs and investments.

“A budgeter realizes the value of practicing self-sacrifice in the present moment in order to achieve a reserve, which will ease and benefit his living in future months or years. He is honest and discriminating. He does not buy what he cannot afford at a time when there are not funds. He

purposefully and creatively does without extras now in order to be in a better position to afford them when the time is favorable. Because there is a plan behind his self-denial, the budgeter does not suffer from self-pity or a case of imagined martyrdom. He makes interesting use of the time, materials, and utilities he now enjoys. From an inner viewpoint, we would say that the budgeter is involved in learning how to handle finances capably.

“As admirable as most of the qualities and characteristic of this stage are, a worthier concept or realization is yet to be attained. The third type needs to guard against cultivating negative tendencies during his budgeting stage. Budgeting itself can be-come a rigid habit. If it tends to make one inflexible in his attitude towards money, then there is danger of the budgeter becoming too narrow, circumscribed, and cautious in financial matters.

“A good steward needs the enthusiastic faith of the sieve type, plus the self-control and patience of the budgeter type. Yet he needs even more development before he is worthy to be a trusted steward in the House of his Lord. He must advance to the stage where consciousness is diligently maintained as an ever-flowing, creative pool in the center of Being.”

The Ever-Renewing Pool

Flower wrote, “A pool fed by an everlasting spring symbolizes the fourth type of steward. Man’s pool of consciousness, in order to be clear and pure, requires the continual circulation of spiritual currents, powers and ideas.

Since every person’s Pool of Consciousness is fed by God’s Inexhaustible Spirit, his resources are limitless and are composed of infinitely varied combinations of opportunity. Like a natural pool that both receives from the larger stream and returns to it the overflow of its contents, man needs to share eagerly and willingly of his ever-inherent plenty.

“Most spiritually interested persons tithe regularly. They find it a remarkable experience in ever-deepening awareness of appreciation for God’s countess blessings. The practice enables them to participate in the enriching events of supporting the Work of Christ in the outer world. Few things are so satisfying as to witness the progress of a spiritual movement one has helped with his tithes. The building of a church, the broadcast of truth through the spoken and written word, and the widening arc of Light-radiant lives are benefits that follow the faithful support of sincere spiritual movements.

“One, who has achieved the stage of stewardship designated as the ever-renewed pool, always realizes a generous sufficiency for all his needs, as well as his desires. He has learned the secret of purposeful containment and of giving gladly from his overflow.

“This fourth type possesses no money complexes, fears or compulsions, because his renewal is continually realized. He is not spend-thrifty, since he understands that he is as responsible for maintaining steadfast reserves as he is for the constant circulation of overflow. He is beyond smallness and meanness, just as he is above devious or calculated giving. This symbolic type reveals an ever-widening source of knowledge. His is a productiveness that is stimulating and original. The beauty by which he is surrounded is keyed to purest simplicity and is devoid of artificial sophistication. Few contain such a zest for gracious living or for wholesome enjoyments as this kind of steward.”

Flower A. Newhouse (1909–1994) founded, with her husband Lawrence (1910–1963), the Questhaven Retreat and Christward Ministry in San Marcos, CA in 1940. She is a well-known, twentieth-century Christian mystic who wrote and lectured extensively, reawakening humanity to the reality of the Living Christ, the Inner Worlds and the Angel Kingdom. Today, Questhaven continues to offer visitors a quiet and sacred space for worship, study and renewal as a Christ-Centered Spiritual Retreat and Nature Preserve, located on 655 acres of pristine wilderness nestled among the coastal hills of San Diego County. You can investigate their books and many offerings at Questhaven.org.

In the Hearts Center Community, we are committed to spiritual practices that support and create true alchemical changes in ourselves first and then outside at large in the greater community. Through meditation and the science of the spoken word (prayers, songs, chants and decrees), we draw upon subtle spiritual energies and technologies as we transform ourselves and our planet. We hold the space of Aquarian Love in our hearts and send it out into the world to bless all of life. Visit: The Hearts Center Community.

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2024-06-26T14:08:23-06:00Mental & Emotional Health|

Who Am I Now?

Cultivating Joy, Awe and Gratitude

Janet Little
May – Jun 2024 • Vol 4, No 10

New beginnings of spring—a favorite of mine is crocuses, which are in bold gold and royal purple and warm white—in complete overcoming of snow and ice. They survived the winter—outside!

It’s not always as easy to see the new beginning in ourselves. Oh, we may be walking outdoors more, perhaps celebrating sandal weather early by getting a pedicure, maybe throwing balls with kids. Yet, what is new and different in us? How did we survive the snow—or whatever else happened during the winter? What did we learn? How did we grow? Who are we now?

Who am I now? It’s a question I like to ask clients, just to get them thinking. It prompts further inquiries, like what is important to me now, what are my immediate priorities and my long-term ideas? What makes me happy? What do I believe now? What is still true? Are some of the positions I defend outmoded in my own reality? That is, do I really still believe them or was it because I wanted the kids to grow up a certain way? Would my perspective change if I opened up to new research or evidence?

Dye My Hair Indigo? Why Not!

Blessed are those who have the time—or determine to mindfully take the time—to examine their perspectives, to allow the opportunity to modify the constructs or thought- forms that may have given them structure—or imprisoned them. Anything that is about something we’d like to do but ends with the question, “What would people think?” is probably one of those.

Really, why don’t I dye my hair indigo? Follow that train of thought to see what it has to say about who you are now. You may find it’s less about what would people think and more about not desiring the attention, positive and negative, that would result. And there it is—insight into who you are now.

Why don’t I use the pasta attachment that fits the mixer? You might find it’s not about time, or what I’m going to do someday, and more about I don’t care that much, and I really don’t want to clean up the mess. Or I’m gluten-free now. (And that’s a whole other story!) All of which leads naturally then, to why do I keep it?

Now you’re on your way to de-cluttering. And isn’t it easy how you got somewhere you knew you wanted to go—someday. And that day is now! I’m telling you—someday can be now.

Time to Reinvent Who You Are

Asking “Who am I now?” allows us to reinvent ourselves to fit our lives as they are or can be right now. Letting go of a disdain for landscaping gives way to designing a natural, low-maintenance front yard with native plants that you do like. It be-comes a whole new creative pursuit, and maybe even leads to a new friend in the neighborhood who admires the effort.

“Who am I now?” is a good question to ask after any transition—and maybe even during one, when your old situation is like a burning island and everyone on it takes to the water. Whether in a motorboat or a dingy or swimming with the sharks, everyone must leave the island. You haven’t a clue where you’re going, only that you can’t stay where you were. Even then, ask the question.

I am no longer Jason’s partner. I am no longer mom to Max, the golden retriever. I am not now a teacher. Who am I now? You may even re-member that once upon a time, you always thought you were going to be an artist, or a writer, or fly planes—or fly fish!

Embracing the Wonder of It All

In his book, “Awestruck: How Embracing Wonder Can Make You Happier, Healthier and More Connected,” Jonah Paquette PsyD, makes the point that we can cultivate awe, that we can open ourselves to being more awestruck—with nature, at the arts, through social connection, and through habits we can learn and practice.

In Montana, there is no shortage of awe-inspiring scenery, darn-good food, and beautiful works of art. “Who am I now?” makes us ask, “What is my response to the pure magic of this state? Do I revel in the moment and appreciate all that is here? Can I learn to be child-like and open to wonder and awe and the new experiences that God, or the Great Universe, brings to me?”

If the answer is no, then the next question is, “What do I need now?” We may have learned a lot about giving, but have we learned to give to ourselves? The flight attendants are right about the oxygen-mask thing. You know—put yours on first before assisting others. Give yourself the love, the compassion, the smile, and the sleep that you would wish upon another human being.

Once you have given yourself the care you need—and it may take a while—then go find evidences of gratitude. Appreciate the neighborhood cat who somersaults to greet you and to experience the warmth of the sidewalk. Go where you can overhear a tourist exclaiming over a wonder feature of your state, no matter what language they speak. Take responsibility for your own happiness and ask, “Who am I now?”

Visit The Alchemy Exchange store and look up the book, “Happiness,” by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. Discover the magic of gratitude. Recapture your moments of bliss!

In the Hearts Center Community, we are committed to spiritual practices that support and create true alchemical changes in ourselves first and then outside at large in the greater community. Through meditation and the science of the spoken word (prayers, songs, chants and decrees), we draw upon subtle spiritual energies and technologies as we transform ourselves and our planet. We hold the space of Aquarian Love in our hearts and send it out into the world to bless all of life. Visit: The Hearts Center Community.

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Out of the Energy-Veil (Evil)

Into a Golden Crystal Age of Aquarian Love!

Raymond Ziemkowski
Mar – Apr 2024 • Vol 4, No 9

I would like to share a quick overview of the etheric, mental, emotional and physical archetypes of a Golden Crystal Age of Aquarian Love, and how we, as Initiates, are instrumental in realizing and championing the Age of Aquarius through accelerating light in our consciousness, being and worlds.

  1. Aquarian Love, held in the Etheric Quadrant, is at the heart of our blueprint within the Unity Field of Being.
  2. In the Mental Quadrant, Ministering servants and servant leaders, mentor and guide humanity.
  3. Unity and a cooperative Brother/Sisterhood permeates our planet and cultures in the Emotional Quadrant.
  4. In the Physical Quadrant, Self-reliance within com-munity creates shared abundance.

In order for humanity to move forward into an Age of Aquarian Love, we require a grounding and understanding of where we are, where we have been, and what we are moving into.

Since the Fall of Man out of Grace and into the illusion of separation from his God/Source, there has been a successive un-folding of the energy-veil (evil) within the maya/illusion of our 3-D world. Over time, each successive quadrant has further manifested the illusion of separation. Thus, the maya of human duality has become more and more concrete. Within this energy-veil, forces of evil actively step in to fill the void of this emptiness of separation in a bid to control mankind. The slippery slope goes something like this…

  1. Mankind accepts the illusion of separation from Source and forgets the God-Self within.
  2. Mankind gives his divine identity and sovereignty away and allows outside governmental or religious bureaucracies to govern him.
  3. A false and engineered culture of lack and competition creates separation and division amongst peoples and nations.
  4. Mankind is eventually herded into a slave state of limited resources, disempowerment and authoritarian control.

I in order to reclaim our individual and planetary sovereignty from fallen power structures that have enslaved mankind for ages, we now require a clear-eyed and mature understanding of what this energy-veil is, and we need to understand how its machinations have operated—in most cases, hidden and surreptitiously (behind the veil)—within our lives and worlds.

An important part of the vital “Great Awakening” or “Great Remembering” taking place in the world today is the clear perceiving and addressing of the darkness and evil that moves, point/counterpoint, within the field of duality, to oppose the Light!

As Initiates in greater numbers among mankind begin to step into Unity Consciousness and begin to stop energetically feeding the matrix and illusion of separation, the curtain is drawn away from those operating be-hind this energy-veil. Call them the “Deep State” or whatever you choose to call the forces that opposes the Light in this world of form.

In my thirty years of experience working with New Agers and the public in general, this point is a big stumbling block for many. They simply cannot accept, or even entertain the idea, that an active or intentional force of evil opposes the Light.

Many become passive and submissive to the tyranny of people, governments, or institutions that abuse their power and enslave them. Saying, “It’s all good,” or “They’re doing their best but the system is corrupt,” does not bring change to the equation of what is at this plane of experience. We have to ad-dress what is right in front of us in the physical, while also pursuing our spiritual practice to step out of duality consciousness and back into the Unified Field of Being!

It’s interesting how the psychology of our human predicament quickly unfolds as Mankind chose to experience life/creation outside of this Unity Field. It all begins with accepting the illusion of separation from Source/God which then results in fear:

  1. Fear creates want, lack and perceived limitation.
  2. Lack and limitation create dependency and acceptance on outside authorities over the sovereignty of Self.
  3. Competition over engineered, con­trolled, and limited resources and isolation create division and strife among people.
  4. Fear, want, dependency, competition, isolation, division and strife—all of these pummel mankind into a collapsed state of enslavement, escape, sleep, and disempowerment.

But have hope! All of these aspects of our modern-day culture can be transmuted and left behind as mankind begins to embrace Aquarian Love and the foretold Golden Crystal Age Culture.

In an Aquarian Renaissance of love and compassion:

  1. Realigned with our Source and I AM Presence, everything we require we will acquire through higher laws of abundance and grace.
  2. Looking within to our Christ/Buddha Self, we will begin to champion our unique gifts and talents to bless and serve all of life.
  3. A Brother/Sisterhood of Unity and Cooperation becomes the standard and a “win/win” attitude blesses all people.
  4. Self-reliance and shared abundance within communities will create the chalice and security for a new Aquarian Golden Age Culture to thrive!

Although it may seem perilous at times, these are truly exciting times to be alive—there’s never been a time of promise and opportunity as there is right now! Most of us came here with a mission to fulfill. As spiritual Initiates, we have to “thread the eye of the needle” of higher consciousness that neither polarizes with or fights with evil in a personal way, nor denies that it exists within the framework of duality in our 3D world. Many spiritual traditions, such as the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, the dispensations of the Violet Flame, the Ho’Oponopono Hawaiian tradition, and Taoist non-duality, all give us profound tools to work with to overcome, transmute, and transcend the evil, which has no power, since all power comes from God.

When Initiates of the Sacred Fire and more among mankind begin to hold this field of accelerated light and consciousness, the world as we know it WILL change—and the Golden Crystal Age of Aquarius will begin to dawn on this planet.

In the Hearts Center Com-munity, we are committed to spiritual practices that support and create true alchemical changes in ourselves first and then outside at large in the greater community. Through meditation and the science of the spoken word (prayers, songs, chants and decrees), we draw upon subtle spiritual energies and technologies as we transform ourselves and our planet. We hold the space of Aquarian Love in our hearts and send it out into the world to bless all of life. Visit: The Hearts Center Community.

Raymond Ziemkowski is a native Montanan. He has been a student of many spiritual teachings since he was a teenager, often experiencing visionary dreams and insights. For most of his adult life, he has sold crystals, gems, and books spanning the esoteric teachings of the world religions. “Over the years,” he says, “I’ve listened deeply to the customers in my store. I consider the highest teaching and path, and the best book for them, to be the one that guides them to the next steps on their spiritual path.” Raymond is a long-time member of The Hearts Center Community.

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It’s a New Year!

Keep on Reading, Learning & Growing!

Raymond Ziemkowski
Jan – Feb 2024 • Vol 4, No 8

We know from the recorded lives of Saints and Sages of the world’s diverse religious traditions, that enlightenment and direct connection with God/Source is a possible and experienced reality. Each unique story and path adds to a “collective revelation” of our potential experience of God and unity, beyond our human sense of limitation and separation.

The “ultimate” Venn diagram of mankind’s course from separation to unity, includes the unique circle of experience and perspective of each of us. The more overlap we see and know, the more unity and cooperation we will experience in our lives and our world.

A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles or other shapes to illustrate the logical relationships between two or more sets of items. Often, they serve to graphically organize things, highlighting how the items are similar and different.

Every new person we meet… every new book, teaching or idea we discover, contributes to expanding our circle of understanding and compassion and offers an opportunity to bring us together towards an ultimate unified circle of oneness and unity.

Do you have a favorite saint or sage, or teacher and teaching, that inspires you to expand the circle of your understanding and your love/ compassion toward all life?

It’s a fun and rewarding exercise to sit down and distill a list of the top ten books that you have read, that have influenced your life and understanding. You might be inspired to read again and reboot these tomes that have inspired you on your life journey.

Two books, A Dweller on Two Planets and An Earth Dweller’s Return, by Phylos the Thibetan, published by Borden Publishing Co., are in my top ten esoteric book list. Collectively, these two books chronicle the progression of “classic” karmic entanglements of a group of souls, as well as larger national, ethnic and planetary karmas playing out (the battle of light and darkness) from their root causes in Lemuria and Atlantis until finding resolution in 19th century America.

These books can be read as fiction or embraced as an Akashic record of our soul’s individual and collective struggles through our earthly journey in time and space. Some of the most powerful imagery of the written word that I have ever read, are within these books.

It is comforting and brings co-measurement to our understanding of the world we live in today, when we see and understand what has been set in motion in our ancient past and is come to our doorstep for resolution today.

I’m convinced that planetary peace and unity will never be achieved by political or militant force. Peace and unity will ultimately be won by the work that we do on ourselves, as within so without. Imagine a planet and culture that honors each individual’s sovereignty and unique path to experience life, learn and grow. Separation and division will decrease, and unity and cooperation will rule the day.

I am grateful for a new year of self-discovery and service. I am grateful for this opportunity to share with you my love/wisdom through the Natural Life News online magazine.

Peace, Joy and Blessings to You Throughout the New Year!

Just Published!

Kuan Yin on Mercy, Forgiveness and the Bodhisattva Path
by David Christopher Lewis, with 15 Illustrations by David Keil

Kuan Yin shares her wisdom and love to move us forward to walk the bodhisattva path and fulfill our divine mission on Earth. She speaks of the grace and compassion of mercy, of how mercy is the greatest form of justice and how to accept the flame of mercy in our hearts as a transformative power and life-changing virtue.

“Mercy is required for true healing at all levels of consciousness. The mercy flame impels each being to see the divine within all. The voice of mercy-peace will help end war upon Earth even while merciful, compassionate communication is key to ending all conflict.”

Within these sixty poignant messages, Kuan Yin unveils for all the mystical path of mercy, bodhicitta and bodhi-sattva love. You do not have to be a Buddhist to enjoy the Presence and powerful radiance of Avalokitesvara—another name for beloved Kuan Yin.

The books mentioned here and much more are available at the Alchemy Exchange Bookstore in Livingston, MT, or from their Hearts Center Online Store. Also available at Amazon.com.

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Partnerships in the Age of Aquarius

Books & Teachings to Assimilate & Become!

Raymond Ziemkowski
Nov – Dec 2023 • Vol 4, No 7

Partnerships in the Age of Aquarius

Books and Teachings that Are Ushering in the Age of Aquarius—
Meant to Be Read and Reread, to Assimilate and Become!

In the Age of Aquarius, toxic and worn out hierarchical structures, which are based on authoritarian fear and control paradigms, will be replaced by partnerships. We see this in many new ways and teachings that have emerged in recent years and within our lifetimes.

Without question, hierarchical structures are part of the fabric of Creation. It is also without question that toxic, authoritarian, hierarchical structures are a part of our collective “human creation” and the collective mess that we have made of our planet!

Our understanding and attitudes about organizational structures are at the core of our transition to new possibilities in Aquarius. Central to this shift is the understanding that the spiritual sovereignty of the individual is the foundation upon which any collective can be truly successful. Our individual spiritual sovereignty must be acknowledged, understood, and championed within organizations, institutions and governments of our world.

Marshal Rosenberg’s books on Nonviolent Communication, move us from typically authoritarian communication modes into a heart-centered space of empathy and respect that honors each individual’s voice and needs. Mastering deep listening skills, learning how to make observations without judgment, how to communicate our feelings, and to make clear requests will transform our relationships, our communities, and the planet.

Conscious Language, The Logos of Now, by Robert Tennyson Stevens, teaches us the language of the adept. We learn how to speak, how to form out intentions and words: first-person-personal, conscious-creative and outcome-oriented. The “Word” is a creative force and our subconscious mind works overtime to create exactly what we speak! Mastering thirteen domains of speech that can self-sabotage positive outcomes, can transform our lives from lack and want into prosperity and abundance.

Personal ownership is at the core of our mastery and initiation on the spiritual path. Numerous books on Ho’oponopono, including The Book of Ho’oponopono, The Hawaiian Practice of Forgiveness and Healing, by Bodin, Lamboy and Graciet, give us a framework to practice radical ownership and radical forgiveness, to transmute our karmic entanglements in the material world and forge our self-mastery.

David Spangler’s autobiographical book, Apprenticed to Spirit, shares valuable insights into new frontiers of partnerships and spirituality emerging today. His life story chronicles the emerging New Age in the 1960s and his participation in the early years of the Findhorn Foundation spiritual community and his partnership with Spirit throughout his adult life. His journey is our journey, as we champion a culture of blessing and honoring the God within each other and shed paradigms of labeling, judgement, justification and blame.

We are emerging from a period of extreme separation and duality on Earth. A collective and personal narcissism has eclipsed our experience and connectedness with our Source and the greater evolutionary emanations of life evolving both on our earth and throughout the greater creation of stars and planets of the cosmos.

Egocentric modes of interaction based on separation, fear, lack and competition serve the status quo of just that—separation, fear, lack and competition! Clearly our world requires a new model if we would truly create Heaven on Earth—as Above, so Below. Non-duality teachings challenge and dissolve every facet of human limitation and dysfunction that is born of any sense of separation.

Eckhart Tolle’s two epic books, Power of Now and A New Earth quicken our awareness to begin to discover the “observer within” and the “witnessing Presence” that is at the source of our Being.

Michael Singer’s trilogy of books, The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment, and Living Untethered, teach us how to say “yes” to the present moment and embrace an accelerated spiritual growth, whatever life brings to our doorstep.

And if we choose to engage in a path of personal and planetary self-transcendence and service, Saint Germain on Advanced Alchemy, and Advanced Studies of the Human Aura, by David Christopher Lewis, provide a comprehensive framework to engage in our spiritual adeptship.

Our individual and collective remembering of our origins is shifting the axis of our awareness from a personal, separate, egocentric axis to a new axis that is based on partnerships and felt connections with all life. Our remembering is opening the door to new opportunities of Aquarian Love and Freedom.

I believe these books complement the ongoing and emerging culture of ownership and mastery through our personal Christ/Buddha self. And I invite you to read or reread and study these books and teachings on your path of self-realization.

All these books and much more are available at the Alchemy Exchange Bookstore in Livingston, MT, or their online store. (See ad on next page.)

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Are Chemtrails Reel-able?

After My Fishing Expedition, Flyovers Beware!!

Raymond Ziemkowski
May – June 2023 • Vol 4, No 4

I was born and grew up in Montana. After living much of my adult life in the Los Angeles area, I recently retired and moved back to remote Montana. I am often asked what life is like on the mountain, and if I miss California.

Well, my favorite response is, I can get up in the morning and fly fish in the Yellowstone River from my front porch! What could be better than that?

And on a clear sunny morning, I can see the splash of the fish jumping in the river. Never mind that my porch and Paradise Valley mountainside home is three miles away from the Yellowstone River, as the crow flies, and 1100 feet above the valley floor!

Now, if you are not familiar with fly fishing, the idea is to whip your pole and line forward, and just before the line is about to fall on the ground, you whip it back behind your head.   Letting out some more line in the process. And when it is about to fall on the ground behind you, you whip it again in front of you, letting out more line again.

You keep repeating that, until you have just enough line out to land the fly at the end of the line exactly where you want it to land on the river surface where the fish might be.

Well, as you might imagine, with three miles between my front porch and the Yellowstone River, that is a lot of fishing line to reel out and to keep track of and keep in the air, all while whipping it back and forth to get that fly just where you want it to land on the river.

The other day as I was looking up in the sky and following the lines path behind my head to the right, I saw in my peripheral vision, off to the left, the end of a chemtrail that was just about to disappear.

Without thinking, I whipped my fishing pole forward and back two times, letting out more line and changing the direction to the left. I then whipped the pole as hard as I could toward the chemtrail and caught the tail end of it. The leader wrapped around the chemtrail and held fast, so I started to reel it in.

What I didn’t consider, was that the chemtrail was still attached to the jet at the other end. The chemtrail, being pulled from both ends simultaneously, was quickly being pulled tighter and tighter, like a super stretched bungy cord.

It became thinner and tighter and thinner and tighter, until I realized that I didn’t have a fish but had caught a jet on the other end of the line!

Well, it took me nearly half a day to reel that jet in, until it was about three football fields from my porch. But just when I began to think about how I would get the jet into my net, it got away.

I’m not sure if the line broke or the jet just let go because he was low on fuel. But off it went, making a hard right in the direction of California. That’s where, I hear, there is a chemtrail operation at the China Lake Naval Base.

After that pilot tells his buddies about almost being caught, such as he nearly was, I don’t expect any chemtrails over Paradise Valley any more. And I sure won’t miss them!

All those hours reeling in that jet left me reel-ly hungry. Really! And fortunately for me, my wife, who was making gluten-free blueberry pancakes for breakfast, just kept stacking them up all day. So, the rest of the afternoon I feasted on blueberry pancakes while appreciating the view of the Paradise Valley and the Yellow-stone River and thinking about that catch that got away.

Oh…. I’m also thinking that I might get myself a bigger reel for my fishing pole, just in case any more spy balloons pass over Montana. If those guys in Washington had half a cent of sense, they would put a bounty on those balloons and let us Montanans take care of them!

Connect with The Hearts Center Community online at www.HeartsCenter.org. Our Alchemy Exchange Bookstore is located at 130 North 2nd Street, in Livingston, Montana. (See ad.) Drop by or shop online. Call the store at (406) 333-7172. Mention this article for a 10% discount on all store items through June of 2023.   

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