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

Kuan Yin—

Intercessory Light for a Suffering World

Raymond Ziemkowski, for The Hearts Center®
September – October 2026 • Vol 4, No 24

Kuan Yin’s Rosary of Mercy

Kuan Yin, in recent decades, has become well known in the West and stands side-by-side with Mother Mary as a mediatrix and icon of mercy and compassion. Both are venerated and prayed to for intercession for humanity’s suffering and woes throughout many cultures, East and West.

I would like to invite you to participate in an in-depth study of Kuan Yin’s Rosary of Mercy practiced by The Hearts Center com-munity. I will be leading a “Spirit Matters” class on September 24, 6:30–8:00 pm on the Patreon platform. We will review and discuss this devotional rosary, then give the rosary in an expanded format that allows a short meditation after each of Kuan Yin’s Ten Vows. We will conclude with 20–30 minutes of sharing by class participants. It will be a powerful experience.

Kuan Yin’s Miracle Mantras—Awakening the Healing Powers of the Heart, by Josefine Stark, with Christine Meiner, Boyd Badten, and Dorothy Soo-Kiu Lam, is an exceptional and comprehensive book on Kuan Yin. It is available at the Alchemy Exchange store in Livingston, MT. It provides background and context to the ancient history of Kuan Yin and context as to how we can employ her intercession in our modern world.

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Kuan Yin’s Miracle Mantras

One of her many titles is Bodhisattva of Compassion. The word Bodhisattva comes from the Sanskrit “bodhi,” meaning enlightenment. The term usually denotes an enlightened or awakened being who has vowed to forgo higher realms and full liberation in order to save and assist those still struggling in the physical world. A Bodhisattva cultivates virtue and pursues his/her spiritual career while on a path of self-sacrifice for the welfare of others and gives compassionate, loving service to humanity and to all sentient life. A Bodhisattva (P’u Sa in Chinese) can be an unascended person still in embodiment on the earth or a celestial being like Kuan Yin.

At this highest transcendent level, the title is mahasattva. Kuan Yin’s Rosary of Mercy begins with the Bodhisattva Prayer. She invites us to step into her shoes, and with her to emanate intercessory light to a suffering world.

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Kuan Yin’s Bodhisattva Prayer

I am a fount of eternal mercy from the heart of Kuan Yin, manifest now unto all life caught in the sea of samsara. I am walking the way of the Buddha and the bodhisattva, dedicating my life to the salvation of all sentient beings on Earth and in all systems of worlds.

Through the light of mercy-joy, I give the gift of my life and being unto all who are awakening from the sleep of non-awareness. Through compassion, kindness, forgiveness and love, I am raising all life unto divine bliss and union in God.

I am an active participant in bringing heaven to Earth, and by the love of all divine mothers, I am fulfilling our mission as bodhisattvas of mercy. Beloved Kuan Yin, bless the Earth and its evolutions with your presence as the Pure Land manifests in the physical octave. Unite all hearts East and West in transcendent love, mercy and joy.

I am of the Buddha, and the Buddha is of me. I am of the Mother, and the Mother is of me. Together we comprise a pure sphere of light and emanate blessings, boons, and benevolence to all beings, quickening them unto the fulfillment of Earth’s dharma and ascension in the light.

Beloved Kuan Yin, seal this prayer in holy purpose as we now radiate mercy-love to all!

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Kuan Yin’s Ten Vows

These vows were taken from the Dharani Sutra, in which the Bodhisattva of Compassion invites all to make these vows with her and to her. Establishing a heart tie to Kuan Yin through these vows and rosary to her, allows her to support us with more light.

  1. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am embodying the teachings of the Buddha.
  2. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am attaining the wisdom of inner vision.
  3. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am ferrying all beings to the shore of liberation.
  4. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am attaining good, expedient means to enlightenment.
  5. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am boarding the boat of transcendental wisdom.
  6. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am transcending the sea of karmic suffering.
  7. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am internalizing higher principles, the consciousness of formless awareness,
    and the way of the Buddha.
  8. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am climbing the mountain of ultimate enlightenment.
  9. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am abiding in a state of non-duality.
  10. In deepest reverence to the sacred name Kuan Shi Yin,
    I am uniting with the body of all essence.

After our Rosary and meditation, participants of our “Spirit Matters” class will have an opportunity to share their insights into these ten vows and devotion practice with Kuan Yin.

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Rosary to Kuan Yin

Hail, Kuan Yin, full of mercy,
The Mother Light is with thee.
Blessed art thou among Buddhas
And blessed is the mercy that flows through thee.

Holy Kuan Yin, Mother sublime,
Pray for us, bodhisattvas divine,
Now and ever as we emanate with thee.

In Buddhism, the Buddha nature of perfection is acknowledged as already within us, just not yet self-realized. Through devotional prayer and ritual, we nurture our own self-realization while serving to set all life free.

By consciously directing the flow of forgiving love as the Flame of Mercy, in visualization and in our words, feelings and actions, we can create miracles. Join us to bless life and be blessed, by giving this ritual which is a gift from the heart of Kuan Yin!

To participate in this “Spirit Matters” class,
follow the link below to register with Patreon:
Patreon.com/SPIRITMATTERS

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.

Want to learn more? One way is to explore The Alchemy Exchange bookstore either online on in person. Visit HeartsCenter.org and click on “Shop” in the menu bar. Call (406) 333-7172. When in Montana, explore our brick-and-mortar store at 130 N. 2nd Street in Livingston. We’re open Mondays and Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.

2026-09-02T07:29:50-06:00The Metaphysical|

The High Ideals of Freedom and Liberty in Aquarius

As We Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary

Raymond Ziemkowski, for The Hearts Center®
July – August 2026 • Vol 4, No 23

The High Ideal of Freedom and Liberty in Aquarius is based on governments and institutions championing first the sovereignty and liberty of the individual. And second on a citizenry that functions within the Golden Rule of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

The founding fathers of The United States of America crafted a form of government and a Constitution that required a spiritually educated public living within a framework of self-discipline and enlightened understanding.

Following the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin, after being asked what form of government the delegates had created, defined it as: “A republic… if you can keep it!” His comment was a warning about the fragility, as well as the responsibilities, demanded to sustain a republican government.

Republics depend on active civic virtue in its citizens and institutions. They can fail if citizens become corrupt, apathetic, or allow concentrated power. “If you can keep it” puts the responsibility on the people to preserve liberty through participation, education, and vigilance.

A functioning republic requires laws, checks on power, and leaders that respect limits. Otherwise it risks falling into factionalism, oligarchy, or tyranny.

Maintenance of a republican form of government is an ongoing task. A civic culture of virtue, a spirit of cooperation, and institutions that allow a routine and peaceful transfer of power, must be honored and upheld.

Benjamin Franklin, experienced in dealing with the infant and fragile colonial states, knew that declaring the new nation a republic wasn’t a final triumph but the beginning of stewardship.

Over time, our democratic republic has become so compromised by political and corporate special interests and a public that largely no longer understands the personal responsibility of self-governance that our country has nearly fallen into an abyss of self-destruction.

A deep state of special interests has, over time, usurped many of the institutions of American government and society. This deep state is more than just a stain on our national identity. It is a cancer that has nearly destroyed its host.

These interests of imperialist and corporate greed throughout the world have worked for decades to program generations of youth to hate America. Our universities and educational systems have made every effort to indoctrinate students into believing that America is the villain and must be taken down.

American imperialism, based on corporate greed and conquest, is not so much a flaw in our system of government but the result of a collapsed citizenry and failed educational system. It is our responsibility to understand, engage and champion the checks and balances of self-governance within our republic.

America is still the best hope of humanity. America requires civic/spiritual redemption and transformation, just as individuals require transformation and redeeming when they have erred.

Many Americans have become so fixated on the flaws in institutions and humanity in general that they have lost hope in America and humanity. They do not understand that the jewels of freedom and liberty come with a price of an illumined self-governance and self-discipline. And that this requires a spiritual path.

Servant leadership, based on the Golden Rule, must replace the special interests of the deep state and the bureaucracy state in America.

Whatever your spiritual path may be, as we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, America requires your prayer, your love and your hope to weather the storms of these times.

God bless America!

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.

Want to learn more? One way is to explore The Alchemy Exchange bookstore either online on in person. Visit HeartsCenter.org and click on “Shop” in the menu bar. Call (406) 333-7172. When in Montana, explore our brick-and-mortar store at 130 N. 2nd Street in Livingston. We’re open Mondays and Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.

2026-06-26T11:41:25-06:00Current Events, The Metaphysical|

The Illusion of Good & Evil

What Would Buddha Do?

Raymond Ziemkowski, for The Hearts Center®
May – June 2026 • Vol 4, No 22

Occasionally in new age circles, I encounter individuals who express the belief that evil does not exist or who hold the perspective that Lucifer was part of an internal schism, coordinated with God, to create the polarity of good and evil as our creative framework in time and space. They propose that there is no real objective superiority of good over evil and everything we encounter is just experience. They hold a perspective that all potential outcomes in the universe are valid and that we need not be concerned with the evil we see in the world. Just ignore it, they say, and don’t give it energy.

I have spoken at length with individuals who carry within their metaphysical beliefs a perspective that enables them to sincerely say, even as the Twin Towers fell in New York in 2001, “There is no real threat.” They argue, “It is an illusion. Just tune into a different reality. Everything is in perfect balance in the Universe.”

Other individuals are much the opposite in how they perceive and deal with evil in the world. They take it very personally and are deeply pained and wounded by what they cannot control and do not understand. They lash out at the Military Industrial Complex, politicians, capitalists and dynastic wealth, or greedy warmongering men in general. All of these and more become the target of their frustration, fear and anger.

Words can be chameleons depending on how we express them and from what point of experience or internalization of the “Word” we offer and receive them. Today it is probably easier to create division rather than unity with words given the many landmines of division already in place within our assumptions, opinions and judgments. Often, we are divided and conquered because our best intentions are lost or misunderstood.

The Nature of Evil
What is evil? Does evil exist? Are good and evil equal partners? Was Lucifer just playing a role when he fell? Just what is meant by the term, “fall”? How should lightbearers respond when confronted with circumstances and energies that we typically identify as evil?

Do we accept the perspective that all potential outcomes in the universe are valid and we need not be concerned with the evil we see in the world? Do we just ignore it and not give it energy? Do we lash out at “them,” whoever they are, and become victims and pawns of powers we don’t understand? Is it possible that there is a middle road, one that takes us beyond the extremes of mental detachment and denial or emotional lashing out at the atrocities of war and suffering on our planet? To borrow a popular phrase, “What would Buddha do?”

What Would Buddha Do?
Gautama was challenged by Mara to give up his seat of meditation and abandon his pursuit of enlightenment and a solution to elevate mankind’s suffering. Upon enlightenment, he could have entered Nirvana. Instead, he chose to remain here on the earth. He touched the ground with the earth-touching mudra, in essence saying, I will remain here. I have a right to be here! I have a duty to be who I am and to fulfill my mission!

Our Spiritual Source
Students of the ascended masters are taught that our spiritual Source is our I AM Presence. And that the blueprint of being is our Higher Self or Christ Self. Our individualized soul as “potential” has free will to choose to be or not to be the Higher Self. We understand that, because we have been created in the image of God, we have the authority to also create. In fact, the very flow of our life-stream is a self-creative, self-affirming process.

Further explanation by the ascended masters, tells us that from the I AM Presence descends a crystal cord, delivering divine energy that sustains a threefold flame, centered in the crystal chamber of our heart chakra. This energy gives us life, distributing light throughout our four lower bodies and chakra system. It is from the point of the threefold flame within our heart center that the soul begins to qualify God’s energy—heart, head and hand. And according to the free will of our soul, we either externalize the Christic potential of our thoughts, words and deeds or we create an energy veil (evil) of human substance.

This substance is still God’s energy but trapped so to speak because it has lost its polarity of perfection. It becomes a karmic signature that reprograms our DNA and ties us to physical plane karma. It sets into motion the cause-and-effect karmic relationships that are intended to help us make better choices as we learn what we sow, we shall reap.

The Energy Veil (Evil)
When God’s energy passes through your heart, do you express the patterns of love and compassion that underlie the unity of all life and complete a figure-eight flow of energies between Spirit and matter, as above so below? Or do you, at times, create an energy veil (evil) of hatred, division and hostility, playing out a wounded psychology of pain and separation? This created energy veil (evil) is God’s energy locked by the soul’s free will into patterns and vibrations that no longer mirror the perfection of Spirit. And we are tied to them because we have allowed them to pass through our heart.

The Fall of Man
One interpretation of the “fall of man” is an incremental separation between God and man, as the soul chooses to create and qualify God’s energy, chakra by chakra, lifetime after lifetime, outside of the patterns of Spirit’s perfection.

Like a lotus in a pond (our I AM Presence represented by the flower and our soul represented by the plant in the muck and mud) our souls in the muck and mud of our human creation have in time become completely oblivious to that part of self, our I AM Presence (the flower) that we are tied to by our crystal cord. That muck and mud is the humanly created not­ self, the cumulative patterns of imperfection and misqualified energies of the soul. It is still God’s energy—just waiting to be released, balanced, repolarized, and returned to God by the soul.

Planetary evil, that which we encounter of darkness on earth, has a relative/physical reality because it is God’s energy given form by free-will acts of the life streams, the soul’s incarnating on this planet. The same is true of our negative personal karma. It also has a relative reality. The misqualified energy can be played out physically as the violence and cataclysm we see on earth.

 To Be or Not to Be
The real choice of the lightbearer today is the archetypical conundrum of Hamlet, “To be or not to be.” To be on the cross of initiation and transmutation, transmuting and repolarizing the energy veil (evil) that sustains the illusion of separation between Spirit and Matter—or “not to be” and walk away to leave for another day the working out of our karma.

The ascended masters teach us that we must balance our karma where we have created it. So, in a sense, all the potential universes and potential realities imaginable have little relevance when put into perspective with the here and now of our physical incarnation. The question is: when life becomes difficult because our negative karma is upon us, do I or don’t I determine to “be here now,” as Ram Dass might say?

Am I determined to face, as Gautama did, the wind and the storm of personal and planetary karma? Am I determined to balance and garner the energies of my lifestream and be a shining example, “as above so below,” to ensoul, transmute and repolarize the energies of the physical plane to create heaven on earth? Or do I succumb to Mara, satisfied to continue to pour my energies into an impermanent clay cup, an energy veil of seemingly endless experience of human maya?

Mankind Today
Mankind today is a composite of spiritual reality and potential, as well as impermanent, self-created human patterns of unreality—patterns that sustain a sense of separation from God and the synthetic humanistic world we live in. The human potential is not the God-potential of our Spirit or I AM Presence. The human self is the composite self in the synthetic world of maya. The human self does not evolve. In fact, the human self is that part of our being that is devolving away and apart from God’s perfection. The human self is what the Apostle Paul spoke of in Scripture that must die daily, increment by increment, if we are to realize our spiritual potential and inner blueprint of perfection that already is!

In our search for enlightenment, like Gautama Buddha, each one of us is on a path, separating out that which is real from that which is not real within our being. We have a right to be an extension of Spirit in Matter. We have a responsibility to be who we really are and challenge the illusion of separation. We have a duty to show the way, that others might be set free. We share a vision that our Earth might once again be restored as a platform of soul-evolution, free from the energy veil (evil), Free from pain and suffering. Free from sin, disease and death.

May peace and enlightenment be realized within our hearts!
May Earth be restored to a Golden Age!


“I AM” Affirmations & Prayers

When we affirm the name of God, “I AM That I AM,” in the Spoken Word, we release the creative potential of Spirit into Matter to complete the blueprint of our statement and intention.

When we say, “I AM” we are affirming that: “God in me is….” If you say, “I AM healthy,” you are affirming that God in me is healthy and releasing the light of Spirit to complete that manifestation.

Center in your heart with devotion to God. Make your attunement with your Mighty I AM Presence and Christ Self. Release your affirmation or decree with feeling and authority. Visualize light emanating through your heart and out into the world. Accept and claim the manifestation and realization of your affirmation according to God’s will.

I AM Emanating Violet Fire
by the Divine Director

I AM emanating violet fire
To blaze and transmute all desire.
Now I charge the Earth with light
Living in pure God-delight.

I AM emanating violet light
Transforming all with mercy bright
Charging Earth with freedom’s flame
Miracle love in the I AM name.

Click HERE to view a video of the above prayer recited as a dynamic decree.

Prayer #70.018B. Inspired by the Divine Director. Sept. 13, 2023. Copyright ©The Hearts Center®. All rights reserved.

Want to learn more? One way is to explore The Alchemy Exchange bookstore either online on in person. Visit HeartsCenter.org and click on “Shop” in the menu bar. Call (406) 333-7172. When in Montana, explore our brick-and-mortar store at 130 N. 2nd Street in Livingston. We’re open Mondays and Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.

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.

2026-04-27T06:30:25-06:00The Metaphysical|

Thanks AI,

but I’m Holding Tight to God-Magic!

Janet Little, for The Hearts Center®
March – April 2026 • Vol 4, No 21

AI, Artificial Intelligence, of course, is upon us and it might just be a lot of fun—using it to summarize a batch of books, to find a Bible reference, to type out notes. I’m getting to know Claude, my AI app (which just sounded friendlier to me than the more widely known ChatGPT), enough to have rudimentary philosophical discussions with him. Read, very rudimentary.

However, I can already tell that I must keep redirecting Claude back from strictly analytical content. And I am pretty sure the internet is feeding me untruths. I clicked on one story about a rare, wild Pallas cat being mistaken for a housecat, and now it seems that finding the little feral creatures is relatively common. It’s not. Celebrities appear to be melting down everywhere, yet just how many of these have anything to do with reality? Which videos are legit and which are completely AI-generated? Its already nearly past my ability to discern.

I can feel the pull of an artificial mass consciousness. Star Trek: The Next Generation got it right: “We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”

The Borg in that culture of TV science fiction is a collective of passionless, cybernetic beings governed by one mind, bent to the inevitable assimilation of individuality into their collective consciousness. My buddy Claude says about the Borg that they don’t negotiate or even really fight in a traditional sense. They just absorb you and everything you are.

In The Book of Divine Magic, (Prosveta USA, 1989), Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, the Bulgarian mystic, says, “The intellect, left to itself, has no sense of right and wrong, and this means that, when it is given the upper hand, its only concern is to put more and more highly sophisticated technical and scientific means at man’s disposal. It never asks what they will be used for.”

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900–1986) was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

We humans, on the other hand, are meant for far more than the combining of man and machine. We are meant to find our own place in the Universe, meant to fulfill a destiny. Then, how do we keep from allowing AI to take us down dark rabbit holes?

Master Omraam—whose oral lectures have been translated from the French and compiled into many small books like The Book of Divine Magic—discourses on dissatisfactions humans have with their life circumstances and their temptations to use whatever means at hand to get what they want. He identifies negative words, even derogatory thoughts or beliefs about another person as a kind of black magic, creating a karma that we will most certainly have to face someday—in this life or the next. This is certainly not the kind of magic that is going to save us from AI absorbing our very souls!

However, Master Omraam also offers a positive spin on the future: WHITE MAGIC! He says, “True magic, divine magic”—I have long called it God Magic—“consists in putting one’s powers, all one’s knowledge, at the service of the Kingdom of God on earth.” He explains, “There will come a day when human beings will look at each other just as God looks at them. They will have no more evil thoughts for each other and every man will give free expression [to] love by means of his eyes and his smile. A glance is the language of God. God and the Angels speak with [a] glance… which, if you are conscious of it, you will remember for eternity, and which will heal, illuminate and save you.”

I believe God magic happens in our lives when we open our hearts to the absolute love of God, when we see God in each being, when we begin to love each of God’s creations, including ourselves. God magic is being open to God’s will for our lives, living with an open heart, feeling appreciation for and delight at the wonders around us.

Master Omraam advises us to “Go and stand by a stream or a bubbling spring and see in it an image of the true source of life that must flow within you. Go into the presence of the sun, contemplate it, open yourself to it so that it can awaken within you the warmth and light of the spiritual sun. Go and talk to the flowers; ask them for the secret of their fragrance and lis­ten carefully to what they say.”

Omraam loved roses, said they smiled at him, and that when he looked at them with love, they opened him to other roses in his heart and soul. He even taught that the spirits of roses are entities from the planet Venus, come to earth to help human beings!

Try your own hand at white magic, divine magic. Manifest more God magic in yourself: Sit quietly or meditate until you calm the mind and find yourself thinking with your heart. Then, pulse love and joy and peace to a person or a troubled spot on the planet. Spend a day where you walk around sending happy, positive thoughts to people, even ones you don’t know. Try sending a silent blessing or compliment to each one. Then, watch for the special kind of smile you get if they happen to look up and see you! That’s what I mean by God magic.

AI will change our lives, is changing our lives, in some ways for the better. My antidote to the dangers it brings will be to hold tight to better receiving and sending God magic to all creation throughout my life.

Janet Little is a psychotherapist and editor, currently living in Livingston, MT. She calls herself a Christian Buddhist and is active in The Hearts Center Community.

Discover more in The Book of Divine Magic and other small books compiled from teachings of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, available at The Alchemy Exchange. Visit HeartsCenter.org and click on “Shop” in the menu bar. Call (406) 333-7172. When in Montana, explore our brick-and-mortar store at 130 N. 2nd St., Livingston. We’re open Mondays and Thursdays from  11am to 3 pm.  —Enjoy!

Visit The Alchemy Exchange, our local bookstore, for all sorts of other treasures… If you’re not local, visit the Hearts Center’s Online Store.

2026-02-25T08:44:33-07:00General Wellbeing, The Metaphysical|

Snowbirds?

Omraam’s Teachings on the Inner Life

Raymond Ziemkowski for The Hearts Center®
November – December 2025 • Vol 4, No 19

It’s getting to be that time of year that the snowbirds begin to head south for the winter. Especially in higher and remote mountain retreats, the exodus has begun.

When new to Montana, locals often ask, “How long have you lived here?” If you have lasted three years and not put your house on the market to leave because of the winters, they’re usually ready to accept you as a Montanan… I am not sure how that calculus works for snowbirds though.

A typical conversation at the local hot springs this time of year revolves around what date in October someone is planning to close up the house and head south… Some are drawn to the water, some to the dessert, and some to the larger cities. Even the hummingbirds leave their feeders before the big freeze and go as far as Mexico to winter.

I have always been drawn to the mountains and my wife the ocean beaches. These represent the earth and water elements. Many of my friends go to the desert in winter, which represents the fire element. So, by default, let’s say the big cities represent the air element. Each has their unique lessons, challenges and rewards in different seasons.

A study of these elements (fire, air, water and earth) in our inner life is well presented by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov throughout numerous books published by Prosveta in his Izvor Collection of forty-four small books.

In Man’s Psychic Life: Elements and Structures, Omraam associates the physical body of man’s lower nature with will, the astral/water body with feelings and the mental/air body with thought. In the higher nature of man, the Causal body corresponds to Divine Wisdom, the Buddhic body to Divine love, and the Atmic body to Divine will.

In The Mysteries of Fire and Water, Omraam teaches that fire is associated with Spirit and the masculine principle. Water represents the feminine principle, the original cosmic matter that was penetrated and fertilized by primordial fire, the spirit of God. Omraam’s teachings (1900–1986) were nearly all given orally and compiled from transcribed or recorded sources. They are insightful and full of deep wisdom for individuals on an inner initiatic path of self-discovery.

As we course through our lives, most of humanity will have opportunities to navigate through many different environments and life experiences that help us grow on our spiritual journey. Wherever you may be spending your winter, enjoy the rewards and benefits of the season there. And embrace the lessons and challenges of both the outer and inner/psychic worlds that each environment brings to you.

PS: I never quite figured out how the meadowlark, that migrates south for the winter, gained status as Montana’s state bird. I think the magpie, who endures the long Montana winters here, got slighted!

Happy Winter to North & South!

Visit The Alchemy Exchange, our local bookstore, for Omraam’s books and all sorts of other treasures… If you’re not local, visit the Hearts Center’s Online Store.

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.

2025-10-27T10:00:22-06:00The Metaphysical|

Let’s Get Serious About the God Star Sirius

Exploring the Idea of Solar/Planetary Evolutionary Cycles and Soul Evolution of Life Beyond Our Planet

Raymond Ziemkowski for The Hearts Center®
September – October 2025 • Vol 4, No 18

With billions of stars in our galaxy, is it even plausible that sentient life has singularly evolved only on our planet Earth? This article is also an introduction to my Spirit Matters class of July 24, 2025, presented on the Patreon platform with the above title. (See info at end of article to access this replay.)

Background

Sirius is one of our closest stellar neighbors at 8.6 light-years from our Earth, and it is the brightest star in our night sky. Astronomers acknowledge that Earth’s solar system is part of the more evolved system of Sirius, which revolves around the Great Central Sun of our galaxy. It is theorized that the Sirian system may be one of twelve systems that revolve around a Great Central Sun (likely a massive black hole), the same way our precession of the equinoxes takes us through our zodiac. It takes 225 million years  for this greater solar system to make a complete clockwise circuit around the Great Central Sun. In Hindu cosmology this is referred to as one year in the life of Brahman.

Modern astronomy has held that Sirius is a binary or double star, generally referred to as Sirius A and Sirius B. Sirius A is a vast low-density star and Sirius B a smaller extremely dense white dwarf. One cubic inch of a white dwarf is estimated to weigh approximately 1.5 million tons! In 1995, astronomers revealed that there is also a third star Sirius C that is not visible to the naked eye.

The Dogon of Africa (some 700 years ago!) and ancient Egyptian cosmology have recorded the importance of Sirius A, B, and C and its relationship to our sun and planet Earth. The Dogon believed that Sirius B is the starting point of all creation and orbits Sirius A. In Egypt, Sirius was called the eye of Ra (creator). It was so important in ancient Egypt that its alignment was central in all of their temples. Sirius A was linked to the chief goddess Isis and Sirius B to their head god Osiris. Similar alignments that highlight a relationship with Sirius are present in Mayan temples and in Machu Picchu, Peru.

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I began my research for this class with what might seem an off-the-wall question to ChatGPT, “What events led mankind to accept that the Earth was round and when?” ChatGPT responded:

The acceptance of a round Earth (spherical in shape) was a gradual process that developed over many centuries. Here’s a timeline of key events and figures that led to widespread acceptance of the Earth’s sphericity. This is a summary of that timeline and key events:

In the Ancient Period (6th–5th Century BCE) • Early Greek philosopher Pythagoras is credited with proposing the Earth was spherical. Also, Parmenides and others began describing the Earth as round in systematic ways. In the 4th Century BCE, Aristotle offered observational evidence. He observed that the Earth casts a round shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse and that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon.

In the Roman Era (1st Century BCE) • Knowledge of a spherical Earth continued, with writers like Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy accepting and elaborating on a spherical Earth.

Middle Ages (5th–15th Century CE) • Contrary to popular belief, educated people in medieval Europe such as Thomas Aquinas, largely accepted that the Earth was round in shape.

Age of Exploration (15th–17th Century) • Christopher Columbus (1492), though he underestimated the Earth’s circumference, he sailed west assuming a round Earth. And Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage (1519-1522) provided empirical proof of Earth’s sphericity by circumnavigating the globe.

Scientific Revolution (17th Century, Onward) • By the 18th Century, the spherical shape of the Earth was fully accepted by both scientists and the educated public, and eventually became foundational in modern science and navigation. n

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It appears that the early mystics and philosophers, such as Pythagoras 2600 years ago, had it right from very early on. The Earth was not flat but spherical/round. The religious and scientific power structures resisted this truth for centuries—until it was so obvious that the Earth was round to the general public, that the religious and scientific powers were forced to accepted it.

Similarly, today the big question is: Is there life on other planets? And also, how did human life originated here on Earth? Again, it appears that the mystics and philosophers of today are way ahead of the religious and mainstream scientific communities, especially the mainstream’s interpretation of ancient archeology and its suppression of evidence that Earth has been visited from outside our solar system.

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With that background laid out, I would like to focus on research that David Wilcock has presented in his book The Source Field Investigations:

The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies (published July 31, 2012).

I asked ChatGPT, what David Wilcox wrote about: “DNA information encoded in star light.” I had read this material some years ago and wanted to refresh my memory for this class on this topic. ChatGPT’s summary response was:

David Wilcock explores the concept of DNA information being carried and activated by light—what he refers to as the “DNA phantom effect”—in The Source Field Investigations.

In it, he posits that cosmic energy fields—encoded in star light and frequencies throughout the galaxy—carry blueprints for life, and can trigger evolutionary and spiritual transformations in DNA.

In fact, Wilcock discusses how photons might store and transmit genetic codes, enabling shifts in DNA structure via changes in frequency—what he calls the “DNA phantom effect.”

David Wilcock’s book presents a bold synthesis of alternative science, ancient wisdom, and speculative cosmology. One of his central claims is that DNA is not just a molecular structure shaped by chance evolution, but a conscious pattern encoded in the universe, transmitted and activated by light—especially star light and cosmic energy fields.

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Here is a summary in five parts of David Wilcock’s theory about photon–DNA interaction and its role in cosmic and solar evolution:

  1. The DNA Phantom Effect

Wilcock builds on the work of Dr. Peter Gariaev, a Russian biophysicist who claimed that:

  • DNA can leave a “phantom” imprint in empty space, measurable by laser light even after the DNA is removed.
  • This implies that DNA has a field-based or energetic blueprint—a kind of holographic or light-encoded template.

Wilcock interprets this as evidence that light (photons) carries genetic information and possibly intentional structure, beyond what is stored chemically in DNA.

  1. Stars as Information Transmitters

He proposes that stars (including our Sun)

are not just nuclear furnaces, but transmitters of intelligent energy:

  • Light emitted by stars carries “source field” information that influences evolution, DNA activation, and consciousness.
  • Solar activity—sunspots, solar flares—may correlate with periods of accelerated evolution, such as the Cambrian Explosion or sudden leaps in human development.

In this view, solar radiation seeds planets with encoded blueprints for life, guiding biological and spiritual evolution.

  1. The Source Field

Wilcock uses the term “source field” to describe a universal energy matrix:

  • It’s similar to what some traditions call the Akashic field, zero-point energy, or morphic resonance.
  • He draws on studies in torsion fields, scalar waves, and quantum entanglement to argue that this field connects all matter and consciousness.
  • DNA, in this field, functions as both a receiver and transmitter of energetic information across time and space.

This ties into the concept of “holographic DNA,” where each strand is part of a larger, universal pattern.

  1. Evolution as a Cosmic Process

Wilcock argues against random Darwinian evolution and instead supports:

  • Directed panspermia, where genetic material or informational blueprints are seeded across planets.
  • A cyclical cosmology, where civilizations rise and fall in sync with galactic cycles and energetic influxes.
  • Evolutionary “leaps” are timed with cosmic alignments or solar activity, not just random mutations.

This connects to 2012 prophecies and his belief in an impending awakening of human consciousness through solar and cosmic triggers.

  1. Consciousness and DNA
  • DNA is seen not only as physical matter but as a tunable interface with universal intelligence.

Meditation, intention, and spiritual practice may help align human consciousness with the “source field” and facilitate epigenetic or vibrational up-grades.

ChatGPT offered a Note on the Scientific Credibility of David Wilcock’s research:

While Wilcock’s work is imaginative and draws on real scientific terminology and some fringe research, mainstream science does not support most of his conclusions:

  • The “DNA phantom effect” has not been widely replicated or validated.
  • Evolutionary biology, astrophysics, and genetics do not recognize star light as carrying encoded DNA information.
  • His theories are best viewed as speculative metaphysics or consciousness science, not established science.

“Speculative metaphysics or consciousness science…”

That pretty much sums up how mainstream science and religion similarly dismiss the idea of intelligent solar and planetary evolutionary cycles and sentient life beyond our planet!

However, in spite of mainstream denial and censorship of evidence of life beyond our Earth, we will boldly go where the mainstream fears to tread and investigate mystic and author Tanis Helliwell and her book, Decoding Your Destiny.

Again, I prompted ChatGPT to refresh my memory of one my favorite books and topics that I read more than ten years ago. I asked ChatGPT to summarize Earth’s creation story as shared by mystic Tanis Helliwell.

The following outline is ChatGPT’s summarized version of the Earth’s creation story, as described in Decoding Your Destiny, drawing from her spiritually channeled and esoteric cosmology:

Earth’s Creation Story—A Cosmic Collaboration: A Galactic Council’s Decision

Earth was not an accident—it was a planned experiment initiated by a Council of Light Beings (including the Sirian High Council, the Pleiadians, Orions, Arcturians, and others).

The goal: create a planetary school where souls could evolve by experiencing duality—light and shadow, form and spirit.

Seeding of Life

Multiple star races participated in the seeding of Earth’s life:

Sirians brought knowledge, structure, sacred geometry, and spiritual law.

Pleiadians contributed love, creativity, emotional intelligence.

Orions and Arcturians offered wisdom, healing technologies, and timelines.

Earth was encoded with multidimensional DNA—not just physical evolution, but spiritual potential through choice and growth.

Human Beings as Divine Hybrids

Humans are described as “cosmic hybrids”—physical forms infused with divine essence. Our DNA contains light codes from our galactic ancestors, which activate through spiritual evolution.

The Role of Free Will & Duality

Earth’s uniqueness lies in its radical free will and polarity system. Souls incarnate here to learn mastery through contrast—pain and joy, loss and reunion—ultimately returning to unity. Earth became one of the toughest yet most rewarding evolutionary schools in the galaxy.

Fall from Higher Dimensions

Early human civilizations  (e.g., Lemuria and Atlantis) once lived in higher vibrational states, guided by divine beings.

Over time, misuse of power and disconnection from source led to a “fall” into denser realities—causing spiritual amnesia.

The current human story is about re-awakening, reactivating our divine origins, and returning Earth to its original purpose.

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That’s quite a creation story! And it is just the tip of the iceberg of what Tanis Helliwell shares in her book on the role of Sirius in Earth’s and mankind’s evolution. Is there life on other planets? And also, how did human life originate here on Earth? Of course, we have no empirical proof of specifics and details such as Tanis Helliwell shares in her creation story. But I believe that we are approaching a tipping point that will answer these questions in a broader sense.

The mystics and visionaries of our time, along with AI (providing to the masses and general public easy access to hidden and suppressed historical and archeological proof of life beyond our planet) are answering these questions. At some point, the greater truth to the general public will be so obvious (like the recognition that the Earth is round and not flat) that the religious and scientific powers will be forced to accept it.

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If Star Trekkies and the Marvel Comics are any indication, it would appear that a greater and wider spectrum of humanity is on the verge of acceptance that our Earth’s humanity is not alone and that life is much more universal and abundant throughout the cosmos than a lonely Earth.

You can access the replay of this Spirit Matters class by becoming a subscriber on the Patreon platform for live, monthly classes from David Christopher Lewis, myself, and other presenters. There are various subscription options from free, to $4, to $11, to $25/month,  including replays of past classes. Check us out on Patreon 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 The Hearts Center Community.

2025-08-27T13:14:48-06:00General Wellbeing, The Metaphysical|

What’s with the Violet Flame

You Have the Power to Make Positive Change

Janet Little, Psychotherapist
July – Aug 2025 • Vol 4, No 17

You may have heard of the violet flame or, maybe not. Either way, soon you and everyone else will know about it. Put very simply, the violet flame is a glorious gift to all humanity to help usher in a golden age—the Age of Aquarius.

Let’s first take a brief look at the Age of Aquarius and then explore the violet flame, which is to play such an important role in that era. Everyone may have their own version of what the Aquarian Age is all about, yet it has been described as a time of peace, of economic stability and prosperity, and a time when the arts will flourish. It will be a time when food shortages and homelessness no longer exist, and everyone will enjoy adequate sunshine, healthy nutrition and clean, affordable housing.

Living under Your Own “Vine and Fig Tree”

Consider these biblical quotes: “They shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest, saith the Lord,” [Jeremiah 31:34]. And “Every man [and woman] shall sit under their own vine and their own fig tree [Micah 4:4].” Remember that Gautama Buddha did just that to reach his enlightenment! The only difference was that his was a bo (bodhi) tree. The Golden Age will be like that for all of us—having our own personal and direct connection to our God Source. Now, take a look at the illustration for Your Buddha Nature and imagine the “Vine” as a crystal chord descending into your four lower bodies, giving you life. And imagine your “Fig Tree” as the brilliant God-Presence overshadowing you and constantly blessing you… While it’s true that these aspects of your higher consciousness are already there, in the Golden Age, we will have a closer, more immediate connection to the Divine.

Alegria! Alegria! Alegria!

The Golden-Crystal Age could be like the enchanting Cirque du Soleil classic, Alegria—everyone vibrant and cheerful, busy working and playing, being themselves and having fun. A mood of buoyancy and optimism pervades every activity, and everyone is dressed in personalized, even eccentric, costumes in shades of violet to purple. In the Golden Age, we will know how to perfectly, practically employ the violet fire for transmuting all that is less than an absolute blessing. It will change darkness into light. It will transform a so-so day into the day that it should have been. It will melt hurts away until all that’s left is love.

Somewhere deep inside, we know that the Golden Age is coming and is even emerging now. It’s like we’re all wired with a homing device that is connecting us to that reality. The cool thing is we can begin moving into that new reality more consciously by practicing to use the violet flame now.

A Bit of History

Students of esoteric knowledge may have encountered the Ascended Master Saint Germain’s teachings on the violet flame through various dispensations, such as the I AM Movement, the Saint Germain Foundation, the I AM Activity, The Bridge to Freedom, The Summit Lighthouse, and The Hearts Center.

Ascended master students have learned that “I AM” is the name of God, and that God lives within each of us, propelling us forward into the journey of Self-discovery, where we are ultimately united in our higher being as a permanent part of the One.

The teachings were delivered first through Guy Ballard (Godfre Ray King), who detailed his encounter with Saint Germain on Mount Shasta in 1930. He and his beloved wife Edna were the leaders of the I AM Activity for decades before they ascended in the Light.

The Bridge to Freedom followed in 1951, begun by Geraldine Innocente. The Summit Lighthouse emerged in 1958, through Mark Prophet, assisted soon after by his wife Elisabeth. Following Mark’s ascension in 1972—he is now known as Lanello—Elisabeth launched Church Universal and Triumphant in 1975. Elisabeth ascended in 2009, as Ascended Lady Master Clare de Lis.

Since the late 1970s, “progressive revelation” for our times is now delivered through one of Clare de Lis’ devoted students, David Christopher Lewis, the co-founder of The Hearts Center, an Essene Aquarian Community based in Livingston, MT, which began in 2005.

Invoke the Violet Flame Now!

Each of these ascended master movements has focused on the perfecting of the soul and the use of the violet flame to balance karma and purify the world around us. Lightworkers worldwide are using the violet flame more widely every day, invoking it through simple mantras such as:

I AM a being of cosmic violet fire.
I AM the holy freedom God desires!

I AM emanating violet fire
To blaze and transmute all desire.
Now I charge the Earth with light,
Living in pure God-delight.

I AM emanating violet light,
Transforming all with mercy bright,
Charging Earth with freedom’s flame
Miracle love in the I AM name!

These affirmations are meant to be spoken aloud, even declared emphatically, any time, either once or in repetition. When giving the mantras, visualize a violet or purple light surrounding you, sent to you from the above, from the beloved Holy Spirit, sent to you by beloved Jesus and your favorite angels or masters. See yourself and any situation you wish to change immersed in that violet light, surrounded by the cooling, healing rays of violet/purple/pink. Allow this violet fire to soothe you, erase worries and ease pains, bringing you freedom, mercy and joy.

Visualize yourself living in an amethyst crystal or in an all-purple, spring flower bed. As you feel this, try radiating that light from your heart out to your family and friends, out to the world, and into all conditions that need to be transmuted into something better and more God-like.

Remember always that you are a Son or a Daughter of God with the right and the ability to make a positive change in the vibration of any situations you see and experience, and even of the planet itself. Become a vortex and a beacon of the violet flame! Pray, sing, dance and meditate with the violet flame, and you will help bring Earth into her Golden Crystal Age!

The two mantras above were released through The Hearts Center. More may be found HERE.

Janet Little is a psychotherapist and editor, currently living in Livingston, MT. She calls herself a Christian Buddhist and is active in The Hearts Center Community. Visit: HeartsCenter.org.

2025-06-24T17:29:17-06:00The Metaphysical|

Pool of Consciousness

Live, Monthly Classes at Spirit Matters on Patreon

Raymond Ziemkowski
May – June 2025 • Vol 4, No 16

I would like to share an exercise that is an analogy of our spirit coming into incarnation and experiencing life—our thoughts and feelings, and the material world. Imagine that your spirit is a rock or pebble that drops into a body of water, a small pond, or mountain lake, perhaps into a larger ocean-like body. Water is feminine and receptive. We know that water is a medium that receives and holds the subtle vibration of thought and feeling. So, this rock drops into the water and sets into motion waves of concentric circles moving outwards.

Waves are interesting. We have all experienced a beach or lake shore scene where wave after wave appears to be moving towards a shore line until they run out of water and splash on the shore.

When I was about 19 and lived in Seattle, there was a beach on Puget Sound near downtown Seattle, WA, where I enjoyed watching the waves come in. I enjoyed watching the vertical, up-and-down motion of the seaweed in the water maybe 25 yards out. I would pick a single wave oscillation, then two, then three, etc. until the illusion of motion towards the beach took over my perception, and I lost the perception of the seaweed and the water’s vertical, up-and-down movement.

I enjoyed playing with this exercise to be able to hold larger and larger areas until the horizontal movement of the water towards the beach took over my perception.

Back to the body of water and the concentric waves created when we (the rock) dropped in. As these waves begin to reach the diverse topography of the shoreline, some landscapes create beautiful shorelines that you might surf right up onto the sand. Some landscapes might be rough and treacherous, with tide pools or rock faces that pummel the water back upon itself. You might say that some of these waves were pleasant or pleasing to experience and others were much less so.

Let’s add to this picture numerous rocks dropped into the pool or even the image of raindrops, each creating concentric rings and overlapping interference patterns and interactions. Energetically, all of these rings are interacting and sharing information. Often creating dangerous currents or even riptides.

Does this sound a bit like life?

Suppose that, instead of being taken over by the excitement and activity of the surface waves we are experiencing in life, we remember the rock, the part of spirit within us that dropped in and fell into the body of water. Imagine holding and ensouling the entire pond or lake or ocean. Imagine being the observer within, a witnessing presence that is aware of it all happening. What a different experience! From that perspective, we are not the experience—we are an observer of what is happening. This is the Witnessing Presence—our seat of self in spirit.

Just like we can visualize and imagine ensouling the activity of raindrops in a body of water, we can make the same analogy with groups of people, family, and community, nations, and even a planet.

If we choose, we can hold a spiritual balance in this equation of life and amplify the unity, the beauty, and the magic of life instead of identifying with the likes and dislikes and the personal preferences that interfere with each other on the surface.

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This short essay is part of a Spirit Matters class I guest hosted on the Hearts Center’s Patreon platform on Thursday, April 17th titled: How Discovering The “Witness Seat” of Presence Helps Us Resolve and Unwind the Egoic Mind.

I began this class with a quick review of Eckhart Tolle’s teachings on Presence that originated in his two famous books, The Power of Now—A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, and A New Earth—Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Tolle taught that we experience a deep, transcendental, spiritual state of Presence when we center our being fully in the present moment—the Now.

He taught that we step out of the vertical/centered, higher consciousness states and into what he termed our “pain body”—a horizontal state, when we begin to process our experiences through labels and judgments, based on past experiences. This horizontal, self-created, egoic structure, based on a pain body that originated in the past, works tirelessly to calculate, manipulate and project a future that either shelters us from past pain or brings to us pleasant experiences. Rediscovering the Power of Now and centering in Presence, the Witness Seat, is a profound short cut to self-realization. That’s it—that is the core of Elkhart Tolle’s teachings in a nutshell.

In this class, I explore the teachings of Michael A. Singer based on his two books, Untethered Soul—The Journey Beyond Yourself, and Living Untethered—Beyond the Human Predicament. I consider these books and teachings as equal companions to Elkhart Tolle’s teachings and worthy of our study to complement and go deeper into our spiritual practices.

Like Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer’s profound and direct experience through meditation and mindfulness anchors a transmission teaching that is transforming millions of lives. Both spiritual teachers explore the nature of mind and offer a way out of suffering.

In Michael Singer’s books, he reveals and helps us unravel the physiology of our mind. He shows us how pure consciousness, the simple awareness of being—The Witness that is inside us experiencing life—is forgotten, which leads to a subsequent cascade of reactions that result in the birth of our personal mind/psyche and separate ego.

In this class, I unfold and outline from Singer’s books just what is going on in our heads that keeps us from experiencing reality and higher states of consciousness—and how to get beyond that.

I invite you to subscribe to Spirit Matters on Patreon for live, monthly classes from David Christopher Lewis, myself, and other presenters. There are various subscription options from Free, to $4, to $11, to $25/month, including replays of past classes. Check us out on Patreon 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  HeartsCenter.org.

2025-06-24T17:29:17-06:00The Metaphysical|

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.

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.

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