A Startling Vision

I had a vision.

I entered into a large, enclosed room. At first I didn’t see anything, but as I looked closer, I saw movement in the shadows at the other side.. Then I saw stripes, and heard powerful breath. I realized… I was sharing the room with a tiger.

Panic swept through my body. I frantically glanced behind me, and the door that I had come through to get here had completely vanished.

My eyes darted back to the tiger. He smelled my presence, and turned around to look at me with intense, predatory eyes. 

He got up and started making a big circle around me, and I could feel how he was deciding how he would kill me and eat me.

There was no place to escape. 

I shut my eyes in terror, and started to pray feverishly. I tried to influence him telepathically by saying in my mind with desperate hope, “he loves me, he doesn’t want to eat me, he wants to keep me alive!!!!” But I could sense that not only did these prayers put me into more panic, but that the tiger was getting more and more enraged because of them. 

I tried again to telepathically control him by putting images into his mind of him wanting to ignore me, becoming disinterested, or even being disgusted by me, but this didn’t work either. When I opened my eyes, I realized that the tiger was now only a couple feet in front of me. 

As he prepared to pounce, I realized that those would be the last breaths that I would take.

 I shut my eyes. 

“If I shall die now, I will die with grace.”

I felt myself…… let go. 

“I accept my death. I accept my fate. I shall leave this world with love. I fill myself with love. I accept. I love myself. I love the tiger. I am grace. I am peace. I am made of pure love.”

Silence.

Suddenly, I felt warm and soft fur caress my right hand, 

… and then the weight of a huge head as it was slowly rested onto my lap. 

What? 

Deep gratitude and awe flooded my every cell. Tears came from my eyes as I opened them again. 

The tiger’s body was circled around me, and he looked up at me with huge, relaxed, angel eyes. 

He purred so loudly that the vibrations shook me, reassured me, and healed me.

The scene dissolved, and I was back in my bed on planet earth.

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What I have felt when asking myself for the meaning of this vision, is that searching outside of ourselves gives our power away. 

If we want to make ANY change in the outside world, we have to change who we are first. 

The moment that I changed my inner state to one of love and acceptance instead of control, the scene shifted irreversibly, and it would have been impossible for me to see the tiger in any other way than love after that.

I wish you all a beautiful Febuary and love you so much,

Ananda

Last Message of 2024

Three months ago, I stood here saying to myself that this was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.

Now, looking at the destruction from the hurricane, I’m overwhelmed with all sorts of emotions. “Where has the beauty gone??”

Where once the dams stood, holding the waters of two serene lakes, are now gaping cavities with wild edges and rocks threatening to fall down onto the running river beneath them.

The sidewalk has disappeared. The pavement from the parking lot has been ripped apart and dispersed. All fences have been washed away, and the once perfectly curved sides of the lakes are rugged and jagged.

I sigh a long, heavy sigh.

“Wait a minute,” I think. 

Was it the concrete-lined bodies of water, occupied by hurried joggers, that made this place so beautiful? Or the green benches, small garbage cans, and dog-bag dispensers that are all no longer here? Certainly not!

I look out at the sun glistening on the water, and see the birds singing, and the sleeping geese on the shore. A wind of peace drifts through the trees.

What made this place so beautiful before is actually… still here.

I walk on the mud and sand where water once was and leave a row of footsteps behind me. I feel the sand shift and sink beneath my feet, and quickly realise that if I stay still for too long, I will sink deeper.

Immediately I feel the symbolism in everything. How quickly everything can change. How important it is not to hold onto anything, and to always continue to take the next steps in life, without dwelling too long.

I was hit with a profound knowing, once again, that birth and destruction are so closely mingled. Death and resurrection, light and dark, new and old, are all so intertwined. 

Life will go on with our permission or not. How open will we be to accept it?

I am filled with gratitude for all of this year’s teachings and lessons. Many intense things have happened that I have not expected, but I feel the grand purpose behind living through all of this. It is like my heart is being peeled back layer by layer, and someday only the purest, sweetest core will be left exposed.

May this next year for all of you be one of great spiritual significance. May the things that you have collected and learned in your precious lives so far be like guiding teachers for what your life has ahead. 

And one more thing; and I forgot where I heard this, but it went something like this: 

If God (or whatever you believe created our reality) can handle the complexities of the universe, from spinning galaxies to orchestrating the cosmos,

Don't you think that he keeps in his heart the details of your life and well-being too?

♥️

I wish you all the most beautiful start to the new year and I love you all so much,

Love, Ananda

Changes are in the Air

Once a butterfly has emerged from its cocoon, it is not going to crawl back into it.

Once the sprout has left the seed, it will never again be so small.

Once you leave an old state of mind; a state of mind that has restricted you, held you back, limited you from spreading your wings, there is no going back.

You can trick yourself into thinking that you can, but once you try it, you’ll feel discomfort in all areas of your life. Despite the same outward circumstances, you’ll realize that your soul is the one that has changed. 

In order to enter into a new state, we have to die to our old state; to our old self.

We must release all that we have thought of ourselves to be. In the end, all that we believe we are, is just that: a belief. It is nothing permanent or everlasting. Both our souls and our human bodies are constantly changing.

Not just us, but the whole earth and UNIVERSE has never before been in this exact point in space and time, and it will never return to the exact point again.

What do we do with this information? How does it feel to know that everything is so fleeting?

The initial reaction might be a sense of uneasiness or even fear.

But there’s another option: we can see it as a gift instead of a burden. That’s what I am learning.

Change is the only constant thing in this universe. And since it is our reality, don’t you think it is our duty to embrace it?

We are given the choice to choose who we are every single second. Nothing and nobody is telling you what to do. You have complete choice of will.

The best and most graceful way to go through whatever changes lie before you, is to completely accept that they are happening for the best reason possible. It may be scary and unknown, but how many times in your life have you lived through a similar circumstance? 

Isn’t it during these big unknown times of your life that the most beautiful miracles happen?

Let’s move into December with an attitude of gratitude for the ever changing flow of life. May we always flow along this Life-River with ease, grace, and utmost love.

Questions inspired by this for the month of December :

1. When I sense a change in myself coming, what do I do? How do I react? Is my state of being open and curious, or is it scared and shut down?

2. What other times in my life have I gone through a time of intense change?

3. What have I learned from these turbulent experiences about myself? Did my life become better or worse after these times?

I love you all, 

Ananda