The Clear and Simple Way

Today I return to Los Angeles, met by at the airport by my good friend, Fay. Fay is 81 and has more energy than many people half her age. She takes her 3 dogs for long walks, takes classes, and travels to exoctic places in her spare time. She's amazing. Like my mom. At 81, my looks much younger. She still works! And she shovels snow in these hard and long northeast winters. Her mind is great and she likes to do  crossword puzzles. I am blessed to know amazing people of all ages who live vital lives. I just read about a man over 100 who ran a 26 mile marathon, and my mind thought, "oh yeah, but he's been doing it since he was young and built up his stamina." The the next sentence said he'd only started running when he was 80, for charity. Isn't that an inspiration! It is possible to begin anew anytime, so long as we believe we can.

Walking is one of the best things. So simple. Just put on your walking shoes and open your door. Of course, one needs good enough legs, a safe area, and the inspiration to walk. Here in New York State, October is a perfect month for walking. Just cool enough that walking warms you up and gets your circulation going. The leaves on the ground provide a perfect picture of red, gold, yellow, orange, and green. I love walking. It is one of my favorite activities. Soon I will be back in the Los Angeles area. Winter is a good season to be there, so long as I can go into nature to walk, and frequent the farmer's market for fresh local produce. Life is so fragile, so fleeting, we may as well enjoy it as best we can.

Seeing deer whenever I am visiting in New York State is one of my favorite things to do. And so easy. I just go walking in the woods. And yesterday I found a wild turkey feather, quite large, which shall join my collection of feathers. My favorites are the owl feathers I have found in Southern California. They are so soft.

Registration is still open for The Los Angeles Angel Seminar held this year in beautiful Los Feliz October 29 - 30. The mornings begin with gentle yoga led by Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, Thomas Leininger. Delightful vegetarian meals prepared by our cook, Stefanie. And of course I will give readings to everyone present. Learn, grow, and have fun! Register now!

     I am once again in Jamestown, New York, with my mom, and will return soon, in time for my Los Angeles Angel Seminar in Los Feliz, CA.  Registration is now open for the seminar which is October 29-30. The seminar location is an exquisite natural setting.

      The European Tour was amazing. I am always astounded to watch the way it expands and evolves. The people were all great, ready to move forward in their spiritual lives.

      I just published a new message THE PAST IS ALREADY BURNED IN THE FIRE OF TIME, the monthly message for October/November 2011.

Good Morning! Well, here in Jamestown, NY it is time for oatmeal with raisons, ground flax, chia seeds, almond milk, and honey. I usually like nuts too, but I ran out. At home I roll my own oats, but I can't carry my oat roller everywhere. One of the best things about living where I do in California is that seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables are available year round at the local farmer's markets. I find it uplifting just to walk through an outdoor market!

Students of the The Clear and Simple Way School are busy as little beavers reading their new lessons. Speaking of beavers, I was at a lake near here in Alleghany Park when I saw a big branch with bright green leaves swimming across the ocean. Closer inspection revealed it was a beaver hard at work! I also saw a grey fox crossing the road. I didn't even know there were grey foxes. I thought there were only red foxes.

One thing I have noticed being here in the world AND being a student (well, yes, and teacher) of the school . . . . learning about dark and light . . . . is how harsh bad language sounds to me now. The vibration, even when someone is using it lightly, as part of their every day conversation, is hard and shocking to my own energy. The more I am in the school, the more my way of seeing changes. This is what the angels mean by SEEING.

As students continue in the school, their seeing continues to expand and deepen in amazing ways. They literally become new. They become not less of who they are, but more! As all that is not you falls away, the true you is revealed in all its radiant splendor.  

Walking in the woods yesterday with my little dog, Penny (Penelope Sparkes Parsons) I came across a doe with triplets! Yes, three young fawns. And the other night, I startled a deer who startled me, just 6 feet from me, who ran right across my path, so close I could feel the air move and hear its hooves upon the earth.

Aren't these moments of grace? Moments when wild animals choose to appear before us? Moments when we sense and connect with an energy that is free and spontaneous, existing in the moment, not trying to be anything but what it is? Such moments give us a chance to experience something other than our own energy, something different from the ego that knows nothing about living in the moment.

Hey! It's coming! The LOS ANGELES ANGEL SEMINAR. Join us in our beautiful seminar location in Los Feliz, California. Connect with the angels and your own intuition. Learn to live more intuitively and happily in your world.

Good Morning wherever you are! I just wrote a new monthly message, LIVING IN UNICITY. Since I wrote it the weather has already changed. A wind is blowing and it looks like it could rain, though one never knows here in Western New York State, where I happen to be visiting family and friends, land of short summers and springs, gorgeous colorful falls, and long hard winters.

I haven't been writing on this blog so much. That's because I write so much for my School. By the way, a new semester begins SEPTEMBER 8. Do now is the time to enroll and deepen your spiritual understanding and live more happily in your world.

Happy June Tunes & Moons . . .and maybe some silver spoons, singing lunes, happy runes, and bountiful boons! Relax and read the new monthly message: Cathedral of Nature. Learn how to turn bad moods into June tunes. 

I don't know if every country sets aside a day to honor mothers. The USA does. I think it is not about spending a lot of money, more about remembering our mothers with the our hearts. So easy to get separated from our hearts in the harshness of the world. And the world is harsh, is it not? So much violence on every news channel, TV programs, the voices of the radio, in our own voices far too often. It takes a concerted effort to remain in the world but not of the world. Anyway, I have just published the Message for May, Mother's Day Gratitude, and you can read it by clicking it on the navigation bar. And as a spiritual exercise, why not remember to be aware and listen for any violence in your own voice. Think it is never there? Listen carefully. Our spiritual life ought to be about doing everything possible to be awake and aware in a sleeping world.

Poem by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

Scientists and their studies are discovering what we already knew -- sugar is poison to our system. So are artificial sweetners. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/04/22/135578811/sugar-may-be-an-empty-nutrient-but-is-it-poisonous

Personally, I also do not "believe" in eating low fat and no fat foods. Take yogurt, for example. They take out all the fat and load it with sugar. How stupid is that? Apparently no stupider than the thousands of Americans who load up their fridges with the stuff. I eat only full fat everything, without sugar. And so far I have no weight problem. Of course, I am mostly a vegetarian and eat no wheat, some fish. I find when I eat low fat yogurt, for example, that I am not satisfied, crave more food, and feel yucky. Well, I need to start making my own yogurt. I've been planning to do that for a long time. Just have to do it. I found an easy recipe. I'll let you know when I finally do it. All right, that's enough of this rant. I don't usually rant, but it's late and I am too tired to say things nicely. Good night.

Just a few words to honor the passing of Phoebe Snow, whose beautiful music remains with us.

What can we learn from the recent cataclysmic events that have come over the world, some natural and some man-made? Read the angel message for April, UNCLEAR POWER,  by clicking Monthly Message in the Navigation Bar:

The new monthly message is now posted and you can read it here: THE END OF THE WORLD.

Awoke to blue skies and sun shining on freshly fallen snow sparkling in the light. A perfect beginning for Twelfth night. Attended a celebration of Light this evening at a church and listened to medieval singers, followed by pie, punch, and coffee. There were 4o pies! Pumpkin, coconut cream, lemon, apple, blueberry, cherry, pecan, lemon, and on and on . . .

The new monthly message TURN TO GOD is now published. As the ancient Psalm writer said, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, will we not fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” –Psalms 46

In another week I will return to Los Angeles and leave the snow behind. There have been some beautiful days here. Blue skies and sun shining on the white snow. A few weeks of winter is lovely. Seeing friends and family is also lovely.

The Winners of the December Gift Contest are:

Jutta of Germany won the Gratitude for your Body Guided Meditation CD. Jutta is also a student of The Clear and Simple Way School. Here is her winning entry:

Hello Judy,  Here is my application for your CD: A really short short story:

One day, Jutta had the desire to listen to one of  her teachers daily messages. She imagined how it would be, if Judy will read her own message to her: The words will caress her ear, they will flow like a calm river from her ear to her heart. Judy's voice will point out the might of the angels words as well as the hidden humour. It will awake the facets of the words to let them sparkle like diamonds in the sun. So as an attempt, Jutta copied and pasted the message into her "ywriter software" to use it´s reading function. "Microsoft Anna" read the message with her coolish voice . . . Sorry, Microsoft Anna, you are only useful!

Walk in beauty, Jutta

Debra of Los Angeles won the 3 months School Scholarship. Here is her winning entry:

The following quote from the school website sums up my current situation: Are you tired of trying to "be" someone? Do you recognize the futility of trying to be anyone at all? Do you long to let go of the limitations and negative beliefs that hinder your life?

As they say in the 12 step programs: "My best thinking got me here." My best efforts, too. I long for recovery to be "uncovery" of my essential self, and a letting go of what blocks my ability to engage life, serve, and emanate joy.  Indira's angel.lesson quotes have nourished me during these challenging times I am experiencing. I believe that going deeper into Indira's teachings can help me go to a deeper level of recovery and uncovery.