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My 5Gateways adventure...

Sherri Sunnygirl — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:51:22 +0000

My 5Gateways adventure...

Hi Open,

In reading the 5Gateways book that arrived recently, I'm realizing in Gateway 5 that I have had so many of those gifts in operation long before I started to awaken. How can that be when I'm just certain I'm only at the beginning of Gateway 2? It's very obvious I still need to remove more of the karmic and shadow parts, which the book says can take years. That's really a downer that it could take so long, but I know the surrendering is very important. I don't even know yet how to find those karmic events or what they are.

The 9 steps methods are very similar to what I've also been doing the last few years to remove foreign energies, blockages, implants etc... And bringing the golden light down into my body and chakras.

So it's good to know I experience almost every gift you mentioned, yet I don't feel I'm very far at all into the Gateways. I'll most likely finish the book tonight and then plan to buy the Divinicus book next.

Is it possible I could be further into the Gateways than I think since these multi-dimensional gifts are operating? I've even (stood nearby?) watching great numbers of souls moving into a portal that I now recognize from your videos has the torus flowing down into that portal. I thought it was just a dream but not so sure now. SO many things in your book resonate very strongly with me.

Many things I have seen, I think were just dreams, but almost all the multi-dimensional gifts have been in operation during my waking hours, many confirmed, many prophetic that took place later, psychic becoming almost second nature. So much happening, yet I don't feel advanced into the Gateways very far. It's so odd.....has anyone else had these experiences?

I'm grateful for your articles, videos and now the book. It was obviously time that I found all of this.

Namaste

Sherri

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Relation to the 5 Gateways

thomask Wed, 03/25/2020 - 12:04

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Hi Sherri,

very nice to read about your adventure through the gateways. While reading, i get a sense of calm and softness, like an angelic feather. You might want to read the angelic space here on Openhandweb:

https://www.openhandweb.org/angelic-space

I remember reading the 5 Gateways book some years ago and started instantly judging myself by as how far advanced i would be on my spiritual journey. Back then I was very confident to say that i already crossed the second gateway and was very much approaching kundalini and enligthenment. My ego felt very proud about that.

Later i realized more and more that i somewhat came in 'sideways' into the gateways, so working on all five gateways at the same time before even really finalizing the first gateway. I guess that now, after some more years of processing, i am somewhere in the vicinity of gateway three even though i have processed massive amounts of karma in the fourth gateway. But hey - who cares?

Like Open says, the 5 Gateways concept is ment to be a framework for inquiry. That means each of the five gateways can give you a hint on how to deal with your current consciousness. It's not an objective of life to pass the fifth gateway as fast as possible and to become a super enlightenend holy being. It's about life itself.

A notion - why don't you purchase the Divinicus e-book?

Much love from Mali,
Thomas

Relation to the 5 Gateways

Sherri Sunnygirl Wed, 03/25/2020 - 20:51

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Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your kind words. There is so much I feel I need to learn. It would seem I came into the process in reverse. That would be sort of typical for me. I've always started reading books, magazines, cookbooks, etc... in reverse most of my life. I always seem to start things in reverse, except for the 5 Gateways and for once I started at the beginning. So the universe must have a sense of humor as big as mine for me to find out this process of mine would appear to be in reverse also.

About the Divinicus book...I ordered the actual book just a few days ago and it has shipped today! My energy has tended to blow electrical things sometimes so with the actual books, I'll always have them to read over and over. I use a laptop computer and don't own a smart phone. I'm very excited it's on the way here in about a week or so and can't wait to read it. I'm sure it'll be hugely helpful.

I will read the link you suggested. I appreciate your suggestions as I'm always willing to learn and grow. Thank you!

Much Love from the Oregon coast, U.S.A.

Sherri

A starsoul's experiences of the Gateways can be in reverse

Open Mon, 03/23/2020 - 18:14

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Hi Sherri,

I'm glad you're enjoying the book. Do you recall the introduction where I said that the pathway can appear as if in reverse when you're a star soul? That's because often, a starsoul comes in awake, still interconnected with the multidimensionality (what constitutes Gateway 5). And often their challenge is to embody into the lower densities.

So I would say that's probably when you need to focus - more in the physcial, emotional and mental expressions in life and work to unravel any attachment in those experiences.

Also the Gateways should not be viewed necessarily as linear. More a multidimensional stair case, where you might be working in several of the Gateways at a time. See then more as a framework for inquiry, and work that way, from the influences you resonate with.

Your experiences of souls moving into a portal sounds very interesting. What more can you recall of it?

Much love

Open

Starsouls experience of gateways can be in reverse

Sherri Sunnygirl Tue, 03/24/2020 - 04:12

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Hi Open,

I recall your book said it can be in reverse. But, I don't have any knowing or recall that I AM a starsoul or not. I never thought that could apply to me. I feel like my memory is so blocked or hidden. I died when I was 2, an angel told my mom that night and I was in the hospital at the time, had to be resuscitated. (But I'm not a walk-in like you, or so a channel told me when I asked.) I was always sickly as a child, in the hospital 38 times, and yet have this powerful healing energy coming out of me for others. Never could heal myself with it though.

I definitely have had a powerful healing gift since I was about 6 or 7 years old even though I was always sick. Others who don't know me somehow "know" I have the healing gift because they've had me do healings. I've worked in free healing groups and seen the powerful energy that flows through me that boggles my mind and others. I feel I'm just a conduit for it to flow. That energy has even blown people next to me out of the way when I reached to touch someone for healing, like a powerful wind. I've never questioned the gift, I just know it's not like people who take Reiki or other modalities. Mine is something that just flows, I don't control it, it does what it wants. Sometimes it will drop a person to the ground, they'll get up after a bit and say they're healed. It's like a 240 current coming out of my hand. Powerful but doesn't harm.

If I'm a starsoul, that's a surprise to me but it brought up the urge to sob when I read your comment. My memory needs to come awake. I feel I'm so close. It will be about a week before my Divinicus book arrives. I can't wait to read it! I don't remember who or what I am. I know I have the gifts, that's all.

My dream of the souls going into a portal (?) was bright daylight and I just suddenly popped in and was watching. There was flowing water about knee deep in all directions around this hole, like a waterfall all around the hole, and flowing into it. I was standing in the same flowing water watching people of all ages, fully clothed, walking, running and/or jumping into this hole. They seemed eager to go into it, laughing, excited. I remember watching for a bit and then it was over.

I think I travel in my sleep as I've healed people at night too and so has my 1st cousin. We've had identical healing dreams when we were younger and shared them with each other. I have a name I call her that I don't know where it came from but it sounds like Wee Soppa. I've always called her that since we were little. Her real name is Lisa. The women of my maternal family line have all had some kind of healing gifts, my mom, grandma. Some healings have been documented. I was told I've been a shaman, and healers in many lifetimes.

So...after starting to read 5Gateways, I dreamed that first night I was in a house that had a spiral design in the floor. There was a man, a woman and some children. I was going to be a part of that family in the dream. Her name was Trinity and I felt such love for her. I think it was your Trinity (?) who has a cookbook that I was drawn to and bought it. I felt such an affinity for her. I don't know if my dream was prophetic or past life or what, don't even know if it was your Trinity. But she said that was her name in that dream. I hadn't even read in the book what you'd written about her yet, so I don't know why I had that dream. I just want to remember. It drives me nuts sometimes. Hopefully Divinicus will blow my memory wide open. I've never felt I belonged on this planet.

Thank you for writing the books. Time for me to start remembering if I am a starsoul or not. Maybe I'm a part of your soul group....

Namaste :)

Sherri

What a powerful story you share

Open Tue, 03/24/2020 - 09:25

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Hi Sherri - wow what a powerful story you share. I've seen and heard plenty of things yet was quite bowled over by it.

Many people who are here, and especially those who find their way to this work, are clearly, to me, starsouls. I can frequently see in their vibrations the constellations they've likely traveled through. Like the Pleaidies for example. Although I refrain from simply calling it or saying so - I don't wish to create realities for people. I'd much rather offer supportive facilitation - particularly at the workshops. It's also essential to say, that the location itself is much less important than embodying the vibration. That way you build a bridge right here, right now - you bring home here so to speak. So another part of the Openhand meditation work is helping people build those bridges. These then can become portals - which it sounds like you're already experiencing.

The DIVINICUS book should indeed help. Because it will paint the karmic picture of why the situation here is so convoluted and where many starsouls came from to support the realignment here.

Just a question - have you ever experienced angellic presence? Do you ever notice white feathers around you?

Many people come here and lose their memory of where they're from. No worries. All will come back in time.

Much love

Open

Re: what a powerful story I share..

Sherri Sunnygirl Tue, 03/24/2020 - 21:38

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Hi Open,

Yes, I see white feathers sometimes and have seen one angel in my room one night in another state I was living in. Something caused me to wake up in the very early hours, around 3 a.m., as I sensed the presence. It was a huge angel, far bigger than my bedroom doorway, which he was guarding. He sent me the thought that I need not be afraid, that he was Gabriel and he was protecting me. I never was afraid and after watching for a couple of minutes I went back to sleep knowing I was in good hands. I thought maybe there was an intruder in the area or something, I never knew. That was the only visible angel I've seen. I've heard the audible voice saying someone needed food. I seem to be guided in many forms. I've dreamed I was on a planet that had 2 suns and the water/ocean was still, no waves. Not sure they had oxygen there. I do travel in my sleep for sure!

That made me think last night that the portal thing I shared with you maybe was souls moving into the portal to go to incarnations somewhere? They were all joyful and happy to be going into it.

I don't see auras or some things, my gifts are different but I've had other spiritual and healers tell me I have a large number of guides and angels around me for this incarnation. So maybe I am a starsoul, I won't dwell on it if I am. I've been guided and had these gifts most of my life so I just trust the process now that I've seen it work so much. But I did really fear I was way behind in the Gateways. I started re-reading 5Gateways last night and that helped.

I hope my Divinicus book arrives in a week or so, they've not shipped it yet and so many places on lockdown now, even my state got locked down yesterday. I thought about seeing if I could find the book locally, will check with a healer friend. Would be nice to get it soon.

On a joyful note: I was out planting onions and saw a tiny green frog in my raised bed. He was so tiny and I love them so much, always put out water for the critters. I talked to him a bit, offered him a little cap of rainwater. He just sat looking at me as I was only about a hand length from him. I dripped a couple of water drops on him since I used to spray a fine mist on them in my other garden and they'd sing and sit in the mist. So he wiped across his eye with his cute little hand. I reached out and very gently touched him with my index finger. He never moved, just watched me. Dragonflies will also light on me many times. But I was enchanted by this adorable little frog. :)

I will let you know once I get my Divinicus book and see what happens. I hope to join one of your groups in the U.S. at some point. I heard they locked down the UK today. I'd need someone to bring me to WA. state for a retreat there, but it would have an easy flow if it was supposed to be. That much I know. I really want to attend one of your retreats and make sure I know how to get free of the blocks.

Much Love to you,

Sherri

An alchemical journey

Open Wed, 03/25/2020 - 09:05

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Sounds like you're having a lovely alchemical journey Sherri.

I'm sure you'll make it along to one of the retreats. Dear old Donald seemed very keen on shortening the lock down in the USA - the UK often follows suit!

I get a feeling all will be well.

Open

Re: An alchemical journey

Sherri Sunnygirl Wed, 03/25/2020 - 20:32

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Hi Open,

I'm so excited to say my Divinicus book shipped today so should arrive in about a week or so.

Dear old Donald is not very popular in the states. You'd think the people would be thrilled to have something positive to look forward to even if that changes when the time comes...but they are griping about it. I've developed so much immunity from being sick all the time as a child that I don't even think a thing about going out. I've been well for over 25 years once I got through the early years.

All will definitely be well, even if it's not. lol Now hoping Divinicus will awaken my memory.

Sherri

Mar. 28th Live feed and my reaction to it...

Sherri Sunnygirl Thu, 03/26/2020 - 01:43

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Hi Open,

I slept before the 2 a.m. LIve feed last night and was able to make it there live where we all did the meditation. Before that meditation I had been very short of breath for the last year or more even though doctor visits showed my lungs to sound clear. I've always had lung issues in early half of my life that caused shortness of breath.

So when we did the meditation I realized I could breathe in much more deeply! And much of the pain in that area was gone or greatly diminished. Did I receive a healing? There was discussion in the comments about Sirian karma. I wonder if that's where I came from. I remember you said a planet had collapsed, causing people to have shortness of breath? Almost all my childhood illnesses caused shortness of breath, lung problems. I've also had dreams throughout life at times, of being suffocated or not being able to breathe.

If I processed out karma, is more going to come up in that area? I've been so used to taking very shallow breaths, that last night and all day today, I've been consciously taking in deeper breaths to keep everything open. I was even able to walk through rough woods at my friends to look at some trees he'll give me for my yard and I wasn't gasping for air. It was amazing!

I'm certainly glad I set my alarm and woke up for the 2 a.m. Live feed. Well worth it! Today 2 different people seemed really drawn to me for a change, probably the energy opening up more. Thank you so much for the meditation. Now I'm still waiting on my Divinicus book to arrive so I can read it.

Much love,

Sherri

How to continue for the next steps?

rpestana — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:32:55 +0000

How to continue for the next steps?

Hello.

It is the first time that I write here. I was reading all messages and all questions about the five gateways to understand how I can continue. I always looking for the truth. What truth? Well, the truth that can answer my all questions about life, god, why I'm here and why I can feel many things.
The five gateways could answer it for me. I really understand now the universe and why I'm here. I'm now at the ascension. I like to say that I'm at the stage of compreension and change. It's really magic. I can see and I can understand all of it. I can feel this energy call me back as never before showing me all about the real truth. I always was linked with the spiritual world, but now I have the real compreension.
But I'm habing some problems to continue. The "ilusion" of this planet is strong and I have some dificulty to continue for the next steps. My job, my family, my friends sometimes make me forget all about it. The five gateways says that I need to change my old and bad behaviors. I had already started it before to know all about it.
For example: I am vegetarian more than one year. I felt that I needed to change it in my life, but I didn't have support of my family, my wife or my friends.
It's so hard that sometimes I forget the ascension and go back to the "ilusion".

What can I do about it? How can I continue for the next steps with no support of people around me?

Better energies for all

Rodrigo Pestana

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Hi Rodrigo

Vimal Mon, 04/17/2017 - 06:34

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Hi Rodrigo

I really feel what you are saying. Yes living consciously amongst family who don't have the slightest idea about it can be challenging. Im doing the same and i'm with you. Challenging as it is i also think it can be a good thing. Because it's exactly these challenges that causes us to confront our inner demons and ascend. It would have been a whole lot easier to meditate in the top of a mountain and ascend. But now you wouldn't see yourself in others. The people close to us whether family or friends can show us where we get tight and in need of an outcome. They are showing 'us' the conditioned programming that has been built in 'us' from childhood and its exactly these which limits us. When you start to question these programming and make conscious choices with acceptance and without needing an outcome from any situation then you find that things get easier and you will be much more at ease with them. I used to give spiritual lectures to my mother but it was all an attempt to change her but when i accept myself as im i can accept them as exactly as they are. And i think this is the greatest gift we can give to them. To give you another example i have always considered my mother as the special one amongst others. This is a distortion as it brought forward a lot of conditioned programming that happens between a mother and child like need for attention , validation etc. But if I can sit in my own space without any need for external validation I find that this distortion can change without any effort from me. And it's likely the other peson changes too. I think it's ok to be in the illusion if you can watch yourself in it as often as you can. Then you will see you didn't have to change it at all. I say this because when I see myself in a drama there is a tendency to change it according to what's spiritually correct - to be all peaceful for instance . This is self defeating because it's not so much how the illusion changes but the way i see it. So if i summon the will to observe myself in the drama no matter how distorted it is with persistence then finally I start to make aligned choices.

Best wishes for your unfolding :)

Vimal

It's good to know I'm not alone

rpestana Mon, 04/17/2017 - 12:25

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Vimal,
I'm happy to know people as me around the world. Your experiencie shows me ways to live with people "inside of the matrix".

It's so hard to live outside of the "matrix" inside of the "matrix". The challenge to live at the matrix with the real Knowledge about the universe is a daily task. I always liked to write and today I write about it. It makes me more strong because it makes me remember all the time the reality of the ascension.
I understand it. It is as the Open said, this is the path and, as you said, this is the challenge. I agree with you.

What conforts me is to know there are people that see what I see and understand it :-)

Best energies.

Rodrigo Pestana

Following the ways you can feel in your heart

Open Mon, 04/17/2017 - 03:43

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Hi Rodrigo,

Greetings and welcome to Openhand - you are welcome here :-)

What you describe in being with a family who don't support you is very common for people in this community. Many people who truly step onto the spiritual path find themselves in environments that don't support their feelings and actions. It's a challenge indeed - but at the end of the day, it's about YOUR spiritual mastery. No one can walk the path for you. No one can do it for you. If your beliefs, feelings and truth are tested by those around you, then I see it as a good thing - because it causes you to question what's really real for you and to work into that.

There has to come a natural commitment to the path, that wells up from inside of you, so that it doesn't matter what others think. The only way to get to this point, is to keep exploring within, keep inquiring. If you slip from the ways that you know best serve you, if you close down and 'go to sleep again', then at the point you catch yourself, ask, "does this kind of living really serve me?". Inquire into that. Keep looking at the situation and asking yourself what really serves.

There will come a point where you realise that living in the illusion serves no one - not you, nor those around you. At this point there comes a commitment to following the ways that you can feel in your heart, no matter what others around you may say.

Wishing you well

Open *OK*

Thank you for the answer, Open! :-)

rpestana Mon, 04/17/2017 - 12:16

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I agree with it. It's a challange and I feel it every day. Sometimes I miss someone who understands me. Here, in Brazil, the people are very spiritualist, but their feith make them not accept another ideias. Sometimes I look like a crazy to them. I understand it but, sometimes I need to talk about it and to do something about it. Are rare the moments that I can reserve for myself and, because of that, I'm afraid to go back to the "matrix". Today, I don't believe this is possible. I don't believe that can be possible to forget or ignore the "ascension", but I'm afraid of don't have ways to continue.

Too much Kundalini?

Gary Bares — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:17:17 +0000

Too much Kundalini?

How do I know if I am activating too much Kundalini through meditative, pranayam and Bhakti practices for where I am at on my journey. I was just going back through the 5Gateways book and saw the line about “premature kundalini activations by forced meditation practices - these can be very destabilizing and counterproductive without first having cleansed the density within….”. I have been doing the same meditative practices for almost 18 months and my Bhakti and Pranayam exercises for 9 months or so but it seems like the energy has really exploded in last few months. At first, I believe I was trying to push away the world with these practices but thought this had balanced out for the most part. However, I feel kind of space lately and not sure if this is a result of natural processes and unfolding or a sign of going too fast. “Grounding” has been brought up a couple times out of the blue by people in last week, without much context, as well.. Also, I had a dream last week where a tender older female placed her arms around my chest, where I saw an emerald color, and she said “you are so sensitive to energies”.. and something about “we will teach you” or “time to find a teacher now” (also seemed like heart chakra had closed up again lately.) Came out of dream feeling like maybe I was going too fast? Saw the line in the 5Gateways book today and thought I would throw this out there. I thought i had been following a natural unfolding process after spontaneous awakening but sometimes not so sure.. Curious what signs are relating to activating too much kundalini for current state of chakras etc. Thanks.

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Integrating kundalini through day-to-day life

Open Wed, 03/15/2017 - 19:12

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Hi Gary - great to hear from you on such an important subject.

It's essential to realise that when do do strong meditative practices as the ones you describe, to make sure that the energy is being channeled into day-to-day life and ones behaviourisms in the physical, emotional and mental levels are being worked with. Otherwise what happens is that you activate energy/consciousness in the 4th Density field (and also above) but without full integration in the lower vehicles. This can lead to ungorundedness, disconnection from life, ineffectiveness in life, lack of physical manifestation, distancing in relationships. It can lead to an aloofness from life.

That's why the 5GATEWAYS work focuses on how we apply the activation of energy in day-to-day life. True enlightenment is to be enlightened THROUGH life, not distanced from it. Or else the practice becomes self-defeating.

My sense is to suggest you work into the emotional, physical and mental planes in day-to-day behaviours to allow soul to fully come through.

Wishing you well

Open :)

5GATEWAYS remastered movie release

Open — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:36:43 +0000

5GATEWAYS remastered movie release

We've released the remastered 5GATEWAYS movie today! We made the film with YOU in mind. We've always known just how helpful the 5GATEWAYS routemap could be on the path. So it's always been our hearts' yearning to share it with humanity. It came with no small expense - of time, of commitment, of passion, including resources and money. We have no 'great' marketing budget. We simply trust that it will find its way to those who can benefit from it. Do help support the project by offering a positive comment below and sharing widely with your friends. Thankyou! If you haven't seen the movie yet... PLAY HERE

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5 Gateways Movie

Trish Tue, 08/02/2016 - 11:45

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Greetings all! I had the wonderful opportunity to view the full-length movie and found it very informational and moving. The myriad of emotions felt throughout was quite remarkable.
I believe I've been in the second gateway for some time now- fully knowing the the choices I'm faced with, resisting what I know the answers to be, attempting to balance between two worlds, causing much dissatisfaction. While I at first became frustrated with myself at viewing this gateway- ego says "how disappointing you haven't made your move yet!!!"- I decided to be kind to myself and accept this as part of the process.
I really, really thank you for helping to put things into perspective and I can't help but think of different ways to share this documentary with others (individual sharing, public screenings, etc). I feel my discovery of this website, it's contents and supports will help me a great deal along the journey.
With much gratitude,
Trish

forgot to mention...

Trish Tue, 08/02/2016 - 13:04

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I forgot to mention the dream, or part thereof, I had last night after viewing the movie. The part that I remember was that I was part of a group that arrived at a very large swimming pool. And I was unprepared, wishing I had a swimsuit, as I wanted to go into the water. Then I was on a very small, narrow boat, with a woman showing me how to ride the waves (the pool turned into an fairly choppy ocean or lake)- bracing and leaning so as not to capsize but also go with the flow.
Thank you again. Have blessed day

Trish

Awesome job sharing 5GATEWAYS philosophy

Open Wed, 02/03/2016 - 06:33

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That's wonderful - she's doing an awesome job sharing the philosophy.

Open *OK*

Second Screening of 5 Gateways in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Charlie Tue, 02/02/2016 - 23:03

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I had the opportunity in be at the second screening in Halifax this weekend past.This screening was held at The Center [http://www.thecenterhalifax.com/]. The energy there was just like the last showing,amazing, along with a great turn out of 15 very excited viewers. Joann was remarkable from start to finish. Great discussion at the end and some great treats. Looking forward to another showing of 5 Gateways,in March. Joann you are a warrior.

Much Love
Horse

Green Warrior :)

Fiona Reilly Sat, 01/23/2016 - 12:35

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Hi Green Warrior,

Thanks for your sharing! Fantastic that you found and resonate with the Openhand community in your search for liberation!

Maybe see you in Glastonbury later in the year :)

Namaste, Fiona

Thank you so much Fiona. I

Green Warrior Sun, 01/24/2016 - 01:02

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Thank you so much Fiona. I have been experiencing my journey alone for many years, in my connecting with Open & watching the movie I feel a joining to your community which has (for the first time this life) shown me the oneness we are. No words only a divine sense of gratitude and grief. My soul is calling me to my ancient home to meet you all.

Cassian...

The 5 Gateways...

Green Warrior Sat, 01/23/2016 - 08:14

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Having been exploring the path for some time I was drawn to Openhand via this link - http://www.psychedelicadventure.net/2015/05/how-deal-psychic-attacks-en… I was seeking for understanding around dealing with these kinds of experiences from a loved one that I am separated from.
I since connected with Open via your Facebook Page and gained the kind of recognition that has had me decide I want to be a part of a community committed to the way. I have never been touched by a collective group before.

The interesting things I got from the 5 Gateways movie is that I am more grown than I had given myself credit for, and am celebrating the connective-ness I feel with all those that featured in the movie and those everywhere that are evolving (feeling this is a breakthrough for me).
I also realise that my energetic attachment to my lost partner is fuelling her darkness, in learning this I feel that I can now free her (and myself) to source and the love/light.
This search for liberation is what bought me to you.

I am planning to come to Glastonbury later this year and will be checking out your calendar of events.
As a Conservation Arboriculturist I loved the interplay between British and Australian vegetation (I know both well) in your movie...

Love and Light to us all.
Cassian...

Further to finding Openhand...

Green Warrior Sun, 01/24/2016 - 01:17

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As acknowledged I found Openhand in my search to deal with a life challenge that was hurting me. On the flipside of finding you, watching the video and experiencing a very deep healing (I actually experienced a re-wiring of my brain in light) I feel a oneness to her (my primary choice soul-mate) and a love that has liberated me from my attachment to her. In this I have found a sacred space where our bond is alive (I feel the presence of her higher-self in my aura in gratitude as I type). I share this in support of my first post as I wish to reach out to others who may be experiencing separation from a soul mate. We can find not only peace in such loss but also the love...

Sounds very special

Open Sun, 11/15/2015 - 20:39

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That's wonderful Horse - sounds very special - so glad you enjoyed it.

Open *OK*

Remarkable night in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Charlie Sun, 11/15/2015 - 20:24

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I was moved beyond words, at friday night's showing of the 5 Gateways' movie, here in my home, Nova Scotia, Canada, with my friend Joann. From start to finish this evening was full of amazing energy. Housed by two awesome people, Michelle And John at their Fall River Yoga Studio.

My Love and Gratitude to Joann, Michelle and John for making this viewing possible
and to Openhand for the making of this amazing 5 Gateways Documentary

Fantastic, Joann!

soulseer Sun, 11/15/2015 - 18:55

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North, south, east, west! Fantastic, Joann!

x Catherine

From the bottom of my heart - thankyou!

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That's absolutely wonderful Joann - it sounds like a truly fantastic evening. It's so heart-warming the enthusiasm I can feel in what you're sharing - it's a great booster for Openhand and the work. From the bottom of my heart - thankyou!

And yes of course, it will be wonderful to be coming out there next year.

Profound thanks

Open *give_rose*

Screening in Halifax, Canada

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Last night around 20 people attended a screening of the 5 Gateways movie. The evening was hosted by John and Michelle at Fall River Yoga Centre. In large part because of their commitment to creating loving, awakened community the evening was a smashing success. They certainly set the vibe with their loving presence, beautiful centre, treats and drinks. Of course, the movie speaks for itself!! The audience were captivated as evidenced by silence and the nodding of heads at parts that clearly resonated. Afterwards we broke out into three groups and discussed a couple of questions given by Michelle...what resonated and how is that related to your present journey? Rich conversation and agreement on the profundity yet simplicity of the beautifully-made movie.

I sat at the back and the whole time I felt presence moving through me...I was energised beyond words. I felt so close to all of you and so happy that this message is getting out there. One of my happiest moments was to hear the question: Can we bring them here? You now have a building community awaiting your trip to the east coast of Canada. I'm also screening it again in the new year at a centre in the down-town core of Halifax.

Thank you Trinity for all your help with posters etc. and special thanks to my friend Charlie who made your chocolate cake for me which we ceremoniously ate before the screening. He also took the pics I'll try to embed here.

Profound love and gratitude for your ongoing dedication and devotion to awakening humanity.
Sending pics in e-mail
Much love, Joann xo

Creating with the Divine Flow...

Michelle Boyle Fri, 09/04/2015 - 12:01

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Really feeling the creation within the Divine flow running in and through the film... deeply resonant, tear and soul stirring, beautiful truth.
I was contemplating whether it is the energy of the film which is carrying a greater depth or a change in my energy connecting a greater depth, then realised that they are entirely connected, one in the same...

Feeling Bundles of Gratitude and Big Love to you guys x x x

Inspired ... Inspiring.

Rich Wed, 09/02/2015 - 21:15

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Open, Trinity, Lesley, all involved,

Clarity, energy, consistency, honesty, love, and above all, Soul, throughout.

Such a wonderful, generous, inspiring, invaluable work you have offered us.
I am extremely glad and happy to avail myself of that offering.

Maximum gratitude, y'all.
Thank you.

The one thing that inspires me above all the many inspirations in this, is that Freedom is there for us all, not just, as Lesley says, for the occasional spiritual master.
It is our birthright, our natural state of being.
All of us.

On and up.
Oh yes indeed.

Love always brothers sisters sisters brother always Love.

Remastered masterpiece

kim Wed, 09/02/2015 - 15:38

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I watched the 5 Gateways again last night. It was great to see all the added footage and you can tell so much went into making it. No matter how many times I see this documentary it always brings up something new for me to hear. I can feel a change in consciousness from taking it all in. Thank you to all involved in making this and offering it out to the world.

There Is Just Flow

soulseer Wed, 09/02/2015 - 13:56

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What a joy to watch the 5 Gateways Movie Remastered. Richer tones. Waters gleaming even more brightly. Deeper chords. Colours more radiant. Ah, my soul remastered.

Open and Trinity's splendid pas de deux at the end is pure magic and my favourite moment. The dancer becoming the dance. And Trinity's final words say it all, "There is just flow."

x Catherine

Thank you again - That clip

Heather M Tue, 09/01/2015 - 23:31

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Thank you again - That clip of the kestrel appearing over the clifftop is so, so profound! I have watched 5 Gateways several times now, each time gaining a little more understanding and knowing, but this time was different. From the moment I hit 'play'I could actually 'feel' the energy changing dramatically in my solar plexus and radiating outwards and upwards. That sense of not understanding everything, not knowing where I am (on my journey)
or where I am from, has just suddenly became ok. Love and blessings - Heather <3 <3 <3

Joy

Dale Tue, 09/01/2015 - 15:32

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Every time I watch 5 gateways, it comes with another realisation, another glimpse and a mirroring of an experience I'm going through.

I also feel so much joy at seeing it.

Thank you

Timing was just right...

Js Tue, 09/01/2015 - 03:30

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Wonderful film and it was good to watch again remastered, This time it had a different taste and meaning for me, the timing was just right for me.

Thank-you Trinity and Open for being you, much gratefulness and appreciation <3

Wonderfully kind and moving words

Open Mon, 08/31/2015 - 17:28

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Thanks for the lovely support guys.

Jen, your sharing was amazing. Sounds like you were creating your own Noah's Ark!

Wonderfully kind and moving words.

Thankyou

Open *give_rose*

Amazing!

.Wren Mon, 08/31/2015 - 16:30

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Just finished watching the remastered film! Breathtaking and beautiful... Brought me to tears of joy. Just feeling inside as you all speak of your experiences touched me deeply. There was a moment when Lesley said "this is it, I am going to know who I am" and the tears just came flooding. Thank you all for this incredible production. So many animals joined me as I viewed the movie from my window seat that faces the back yard. First it was all yellow butterflies... And then a surprise visit during the 4th gateway of my black garden snake, whose head popped up into view and stayed motionless for the entire 4th gateway, as if he was listening and how did that make me feel? Slightly tight right in my solar plexus... Facing the darkness. Finally at the end as you spoke of ascension and the two worlds, oodles of birds landed in the yard... First a family of four red cardinals and then a pair of morning doves. For a long while the male bright red cardinal and one of the doves just sat together in the grass in front of me... For me it was a reminder of being grounded and flying free, of being focused/ direct and gentle. Just so amazing. Thank you all for everything you shared so openly. So much love to you, Jen

Sorry for the title

Jean Bluehopi Mon, 08/31/2015 - 13:05

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The title ( without my full attention ) got to a previous post prior to the july Belgium workshop and wrote itself back again . Oupsss . In the same time , it shows how much i enjoyed your full presence in July and still enjoy the depth of the wave effects ... that will surely bring u back to Belgium next year .
J-M

Owesome , Openhand comes to Belgium

Jean Bluehopi Mon, 08/31/2015 - 12:56

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Thank you Open & Trinity for this new release . It's actually thanks to the movie i stumbled upon one night in February 2012 that i connected to the amazing Openhand energy & inspiration . It's such a great gift for all of Us evolving Souls . Sending loads of Love and best wishes for the launch .
It is a delight to watch the new version tonight , at home , with openness and joy .
Jean-Michel

Thanks for all the 5GATEWAYS love & support!

Open Mon, 08/31/2015 - 08:40

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Both Trinity and myself would just like to say a huge "Thank YOU!" for all the love and support we've received about the 5GATEWAYS movie. You've touched our hearts.

Open & Trinity *give_rose*

Thank you it is great

birkbeck Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:21

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Thank you it has much greater meaning thus
greater understand

The evolution of reality through the 5 gateways - what's next?

someone — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:33:35 +0000

The evolution of reality through the 5 gateways - what's next?

I had something landing on me and would like to summarize/reiterate a couple of things and ask about this additional landing piece of info I got.

What's the difference between the states after realignment, after, then after transfiguration, and enlightment and on and on?

What I sense is that in the first case it is me, who is experiencing, there is "I", and the soul is in the background, mainly suppressed.
The reality is first percieved limited by the ego, i.e. looking at the universe from the box and focusing mainly on the 5 senses and the mind, and also intuition, to the certain extent.

After the realignment - I am still hanged between the "I" (false self, or ego), and the soul, but there is a commitment to follow the soul,
while seeing myself fluctuating between the two. I'm still in the box, but get glimpses of how it is to drop out of that box and taste some repulsion from this emptiness outside it.

Then after the transfiguration I do follow the soul, now the ego is in the background, but it ia highjacking on the authenticity. And here, it feels to me that the box is now bigger, wider, with more degrees of freedom.

After enlightenment (still blurred vision of that one) - coming from a soul, and looking at everything from there, including the ego, which doesn't disapear, it seems, but it functions in a different way, it's more of stairs, rather than obstacles now. (is that right?) And I might think that there are no boxes here, because it feels as if it's not me experiencing anymore, but the universe is experiencing itself through me, BUT, it feels like there is still a box!

And then begins a spiritual university (smth like that ;) )

So, it seems, that as long as I have any form whatsoever, be it physical or energetic, even if I don't identify with it, I am still in the box. The way become out of the box is to dissolve into the Source or "disappear".

What landed today is:

My contemplation went like this: I felt there's some dynamics: individual and collective, and we are now evolving in both of these aspects. After everybody is enlightened and ascended, there will be the next stage of collective evolution, etc etc etc.... and then we all dissolve into the Source...ok.

And then I got that even the Absolut is not the the real thing, it is temporary and illiusionary just as a separated world is! (it landed like realisation, not a thought).
And there is something more "real" than the Absolut.

But... I wasn't shown what that is. Maybe this realisation is more about my perception and experience of the Absolut at the moment, that it is still not "real", but I anyway decided to raise this statement-question, just in case :)

The universe is going to evolve after recollection and integration of all the fragments, in this I have no doubt, even though I don't know where, but after that... what's more than the Absolut?

...

P.S.:Coming not so from the mind, I share it as a contemplation, which made me feel really uplifted, curious and open :D

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someone Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:40

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I am not so great in articulation nowadays, still :D

What I mean by the Absolut is the universe, the pure presence, like this clear space, where everything is one and also there is nothing. This is what I meant :) Not the "absolut" perception (feeling like everything is inside me, part of me).

Which Ascension Gateway are you in?

TeamOpenhand — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:37:45 +0000

Which Ascension Gateway are you in?

People often get lost and wonder where they are on the Spiritual Path? The 5GATEWAYS can provide an invaluable pointer, removing unnecessary pain and suffering. Exchange with us here in forum your feelings and experiences. We'll gladly provide some reflections and pointers.

To begin with, here's an overview of the 5GATEWAYS...

Gateway 1:"Awakening": you directly sense the interconnectedness of all life and know that what effects one effects all. The intensity of experience through the five senses will have made a dramatic leap, as though the 'volume' was suddenly increased. You're connecting with the magic of the soul and beginning to experience life through it. You start to feel an at-one-ment with all life - a compassion and love for other sentient beings.

Gateway 2:"Realignment": as you increasingly tune into the interconnectedness and joy of life, your soul begins to infuse within you, until a profound change happens: the soul takes over from the ego and assumes supreme leadership in your life. There's a sense of always yearning to come from the higher choices, the higher truth, in every moment, in every thing that you do.

Gateway 3:"Transfiguration": the path of the soul leads you on a journey of inner purification, which can last many years. Progressively it takes you to a dramatic shift in perception from identification with the personality to being the Seer expressed as the soul. This is preceded by a full kundalini activation, where lower and higher self are united as one - it's experienced as a powerful and liberational energy rising up the spine into the pineal gland (the Third Eye). You now live life as 'the One', the Seer of all things.

Gateway 4:"Enlightenment": this is the passage through your past life karma, where aspects of the soul have identified with traumatic circumstances in previous incarnations - how you passed on for example. As your soul unfolds into the causal body, you activate your karma in waves. It impacts your daily life and relationships - you live elements of your past lives through the current moment. You're being invited to reintegrate those lost fragments of soul, bathe in your karma and release it. It ultimately leads to your Enlightenment: being the Seer, expressing freely as the soul through life without attachment.

Gateway 5:"Resurrection" - we don't just have one bodily vehicle of expression, but seven, each of which is connected through a main chakra. As the full energy of the soul is unleashed and flowing freely through you, your seven bodily vehicles of expression are finally cleansed, reactivated and re-energised. You unfold into multi-dimensional living. You are now 'ascended', living in the Higher Paradigm, here and now.

What is your experience? Do share below...

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Multiple Dimensions/Multiple Gateways

Infinity_Kyle Sat, 02/26/2022 - 18:17

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To be honest, I feel like I passed Gateway 3 four years ago when I had some powerful energetic experiences and openings while still in the military. The experiences turned to terror shortly thereafter and have plunged me through so many layers of past life memories that I still can not distinguish what is real anymore. Some days I feel like I am at Gateway 4 and some days I feel like I am back at Gateway 1. As you say, it is not linear, and it is not circular, in my experience. It just is and my unique experience has been guided by a handful of beings that are telling me that they are even helping me write this because my understanding of the multiverse is still too timid to allow me to flow with my original feelings of greed and conquest that perpetuated the early part of my life. Now that I have settled down a bit, I feel like a daily practice is needed, but my inner desires still trump my spiritual path and lead me down pathways of guilt and depression (gateway 3) only to spit me out on the other side, with the help of benevolence, at Gateway 3/4. In the end, I am up and down, filled with terror still, and on the brink of collapse most days from wasting so much energy trying to keep my ego desires alive. I hope the journey will last a little longer because most days I just want death so as to emerge out of this body and be my true self. Being able to charge a glass of water with energy, and light up a whole room, seems so trivial now, and having already defeated hordes of reptilian energies and technologies has already left me bored and without purpose. While the gateways framework was necessary for me at an early stage of my development, I yearn for more to help me understand what really is going on in the meta/multiverse.

With Love and Gratitude,

Kyle

Which Gateway of Spiritual Awakening are You?

Open Thu, 11/19/2020 - 05:25

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Considering I'm calling An Awakening of the Rainbow Tribe happening out there in the world right now, I felt it useful to explore the various levels of awakening as expressed in the 5GATEWAYS spiritual/philosophical approach. Essentially they are different levels of awakening to the soul that then inform your life in particular ways. Take a look at the forum intro at the top to get an overview of them. I hasten to add, it's NOT meant to be dogmatic gospel! It's meant more as a framework of inquiry to point to experiences you might be having and then providing methods and approaches that support soul integration.

Which Gateway do you think you might be in?
Do share below and I'll happily offer a reflection,
which could be utterly priceless for your next step.

Exploring the 5GATEWAYS book...

Open Sat, 02/19/2022 - 05:22

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Full descriptions with tools tips and advice are contained in the Openhand 5GATEWAYS book...

5GATEWAYS (the spiritual routemap)

Where are you on your Spiritual Journey right now? How might you be affected by inner child conditioning? What might you do to activate Kundalini and process your Karma? Are you approaching Enlightenment? Are you Ascending into 5D? Understanding how these all interrelate and affect your life, can greatly influence your destiny. There are many ways up the ‘spiritual mountain’, for each of us there is a unique path. Yet those who have ascended before, often speak of five key expansions, five key 'altitudes' through which all tend to pass. It is a common journey of Ascension that has been followed by spiritual masters through the ages.

READ MORE...about the 5GATEWAYS Book
BUY A COPY...Paperback from £12:00, Digital ebook £5.50

A good question :-)

BeNicoMa Fri, 11/06/2020 - 12:14

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I feel I made the Gateway 3 recently, although I had the full Kundalini Awakening already shortly after my Awakening. But the complete deattachment of Need, Lust, Must-Have, Want etc. just happened recently and I feel the Universal Consciousness now and am in Love with everything around me, when I remain in my strength. The Awakening happened in 8/2019, and here I am now, building a Network of Likeminded, who are willing to meet one day. We gather and exchange knowledge and I follow my current side-mission to help Ascension and teach those, who come to me by the law of attraction. It's a beautiful task that relieves me of lots of karma and lets me go deep inside myself. Love & Light to ya'll, Ben

Spread all over

someone Tue, 03/10/2020 - 18:44

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I sincerely don't know. It somehow always everything together, in circles. The only difference that I notice over the years is a greater level of embodiment, the 'quality', 'volume' and intensity of the experience, the gradual shift of a general state of being, the speed in which all the 'previous' states are moved through and manner of moving through all these gateways, the way of connection to 'God', the ways in which inner work is happening (it changes) and the way of living.

It is like, before a new step begins, I fall all the way down and start from the beginning, but it just goes faster and then at some point I hit something new.

Resurrection and Embodiment

Open Wed, 03/11/2020 - 03:53

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As I've tuned into your journey over the years Yulia, I would say you've been through many of the stages of awakening. And my sense is that you're currently resurrecting the various layers as free flowing soul infuses them. Hence it might feel you're in all the layers.

That's the curious thing with the path. The first general phase is relinquishing attachment as we journey into the source. There's a letting go of identification with the layers which feels like retraction. But then once you hit the deep state of beingness, the soul starts to emerge through you more strongly and you begin the state of embodiment in a more complete way - with the soul infusing all the layers.

Namaste

Open

Yey!

someone Wed, 03/11/2020 - 22:57

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It is not easy still and it feels like I have a lot to learn and work through, but this time I am totally happy and grateful to experience anything and work on anything. All this is amazing and exciting.

The toughest one is the 4D. Very powerful disruptions there...

Thank you so much, Open

5GATEWAYS to be more considered as a framework for inquiry

Open Tue, 03/10/2020 - 07:14

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This has been a popular forum thread on Openhandweb since we released the 5GATEWAYS work. We've had thousands of comments from people around the world expressing how the routemap has helped them make sense of where they are on the path. It's eased a lot of the challenge, haziness and misconceptions.

What I always say as well though is, that 5GATEWAYS should not be considered as some fixed, linear and dogmatic gospel! Especially because each person's journey is unique. It is most beneficial and supportive when you consider it more as a framework for inquiry. Meaning it explains the generalities of what people experience as they transition through particular gateways. And then to use those reflections to help clarify what's going on for you - activating kundalini, dissolving inner child identites or processing karma for example.

And neither are the Gateways linear. They are passages through particular inner density layers - the emotional plane for example in Gateway 2. And since we are multidimensional beings and the densities interrelate, it's highly possible that you'll be processing two or more at the same time. So for example activating kundalini as you approach Gateway 3 but also processing karma, which might be considered as Gateway 4. However completion of each Gateway is linear. You cannot process all your karma until Kundalini has been fully avtivated for example.

So what's been your experience of the inner Gateways? Do share, and I'll happily offer a reflection.

Open

Like a freight train

nialet Thu, 03/09/2017 - 16:13

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Thought and felt i would share some of my journey. I have been interested in the spiritual development for quite some time and longing for shifts. But when it came, it hit me like a freight train and challenged me to the core. Imagine leaving a "normal" life with family, kids and other attributes (what they call an American dream), and then it happened. Metaphorically speaking, it was like driving a nice car in the countryside all happy and then all of a sudden i hit the invisible wall and all my shit started flying that wasn't holding well and what remains is the core of me. It was like being in the shit storm.

This is difficult to write about ... but will keep going. There was some denial that it was happening and attempts to run away from it. But I knew i had to face it and work through it as it was my stuff. For some reason, i wanted to know all the details even though it really hurt. It looked like i was being sadistic to myself but now i know i was using the situation to go to all the places where i felt resistances and denial. Yes, it got really hot. I felt like i wanted to hold on to "hot coals" until they cool down at the point where i didn't need the situation to go away. And it did cool down and transformed me and our relationship. I am now more authentic and our relationship/partnership is more authentic. I know there will be challenges ahead but i am ready to deal with them when they come.

The whole experience was a breakthrough and i felt some shifts in consciousness in the process. I know i had to work through some attachments in physical and emotional planes. I am not where i am on the journey but i am excited about the coming transfiguration course in Bruges.

With Love,
Anatoly

Comparison

Fiona Reilly Tue, 03/07/2017 - 15:19

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Hi Eddie and all,

I can see the value in sharing experiences and hearing of experiences that you resonate with (and those you don't resonate with sometimes can be gems too). They can point us in particular directions or assist us in understanding our own truth. Yet I also recognise the value in letting go of comparison, something I continue to work on... Comparison implies that one is better or less than the other. Theodore Rossevelt once said that "Comparison is the thief of joy", seems about right to me!

We are all equal, just different, wherever we are on the path :)

Trin - love that quote (f)

With love, Fiona

It has become abundantly

treebrother Tue, 03/07/2017 - 14:17

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It has become abundantly clear to me that I have only had a small pre awakening. So I here I am at the beginning again or maybe for the first time for real. Spiritual Experiences themselves are only Transient. The shift of consciousness is irrevocable? Is this how it is? How we are Being is what determines how we Create? Then by looking at what we are creating we can see a reflection of our current true nature? So far I have learned best by watching others and comparing to my own experiences. This serves me less now than it has. Here i am getting a little more Naked. Strangely enough it feels ok in this group. You are all beautiful Namaste Eddie

Gateway 4 maybe

RebeccaTone Thu, 03/02/2017 - 22:07

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Ever since I took 10 days silent retreat Vipassana in India I have felt the shift.
"Everybody" told me that I HAD to go to India. After Vippassana I thought that was the reason.
I had allready dicovered Cabo Verde before I went to India and felt a triangel in me, Norway, India Cabo Verde. Lately, living in Cabo Verde I have discovered that the Indian hippie woman I have "seen" and felt, is actually me living before in Cabo Verde. I feel I am supposed to fullfill what she started.
After my sense of oneness, I have become much more sensitive in general and to vibration. All my life I have been singing and making music so I understand frequences. I feel what my body want, and I workout and eat with that purpose, not to "feel something" like the previus me. I observe my thoughts. I've startet feeling Bluetooth, emotions/feelings like breezes of wind and people''s vibe. I have just good interactions with everybody I meet, but I need my solitude where I can write and be creative, in nature.

An Aha moment

Heather M Thu, 03/02/2017 - 05:43

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Treebrother, Wynde, Open - thank you so, so much. So this is the interconnectedness of all things?

So when I literally feel and see anothers soul (which I can do very easily)I am also looking at my soul? When I see anothers soul expand, grow and shine its beautiful light, I am watching my soul shine its beautiful light? And all this time I doubted that I had a soul. I rubbed my hands together Wynde and could really feel the energy tingling. So the trace I leave - when my words of compassion and encouragement bring tears of joy and I feel my heart sing, yes, it is like sinking into a deep aromatic bath - that's my soul.

So stop trying to look and search and just be it, because its all there. The interconnectedness, the raised awareness, its all there. Thank you so, so much for seeing something in me that I couldn't see. Now I think I understand what you meant Open when you said don't open the door, just step through. Don't struggle, just be. Namaste - sending so much love and gratitude. xxx

A brilliant sharing and so open and honest

Open Wed, 03/01/2017 - 16:27

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Hi Cathy - a brilliant sharing and so open and honest. Honesty is always the leading step for strong evolutionary growth. Consequently I too have witnessed the massive changes in your process during the time I've known you - awesome *OK*

What you've described reveals so well why the Gateways model can be so powerful. We get to really see where we are in it. You know then what you've got to work with.

I commend how you're approaching it Cathy - it bodes well for the journey.

Much love

Open *give_rose*

Where I'm at in the Gateways

soulseer Wed, 03/01/2017 - 15:18

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Thanks y'all for the insightful and inspiring discussion! And thank you, Open, for raising the topic.

I've been feeling into where I'm at in the Gateways since I first read this post. I felt it as an invite to go deep into what conditioned patterns are holding me back (always a feast for the Grays). I looked back to when I first joined the Openhand community in 2013 and feel pretty darn good about how far I've come since then in expanding my consciousness. Back then, my soul longed to express and free itself. But I was too fearful to express my feelings honestly, in general. I would suppress, suppress, and suppress some more. Then the lid would blow off, and I would over-express, pissing myself and others off, blaming myself, feeling ashamed and guilty. I still have my moments, but I'm far better at expressing how I honesty feel now without dishing out the 'loaded' words. That's not to say I always get it right about how I dish it out. But better, yes, indeed.

Thanks to participating in Openhand workshops, I came to realize that I had denied the vulnerability of my soul and had attached to a false, love/light spiritual identity, and had sunk massively into an 'anything goes' mode, allowing others to trample over me with disrespect and a lack of kindness and compassion. I burst that love/light bubble a while back! Now I call it for the most part when whatever is happening feels deeply misaligned, disrespectful, and unacceptable to me. I am getting better at 'calling' it respectfully but firmly from a calm, centered space.

I have honoured my soul's longing at various points in my life to express aligned, right action due to the powerful uprising of warrior will I felt from deep within, but I didn't always do that with calm resolve. Sometimes I got the balance between Ray 1/will and Ray 2/Surrender just right. The Peaceful Warrior. Sometimes not. At times, I quelled the uprising of warrior will out of fear and did not act on what felt right and aligned in the deepest depths of my being. Now I act on those feelings much more often and then move into right, aligned action. What a sense of joy and fulfillment that brings! That's not to say it's always an easy path! That's an understatement! But I increasingly have experiences when I spontaneously go for it. Instead of getting stuck in a mind maze of intellectual over-analysis and dissection, dampening the embers of my soul in fearful 'what if's'. It's a powerful sense of fiery commitment, resolve, and rightness that proclaims ultimately, "I'd rather be dead than not act on what feels right. This is who I am. This is what feels right here and now. This is where I stand and hold."

So when all is said and done, I feel I'm in Gateway 2/Realignment, aligning most of the time with the fiery will of my soul, supported by synchronicity, flowing with the divine, taking that first step down a path of light that beckons, "Come hither! We are with you."

In feeling into the invite that Open put out there (Where are you in the Gateways?), I have been contemplating the conditioned habit patterns that hold me back at times from aligning with my soul's authentic pull. When I first got into the Openhand way, I tried to 'control' aligning with what I discerned as right, denying deep-set patterns of behaviour that I have been immersed in throughout my life. That kind of 'forced' alignment most certainly did not feel effortless and harmonious. It felt like torture, in fact. So I've learned to honour my conditioning (I am not to blame but I am responsible for letting it go), finding patience and acceptance while observing myself caught up in all those ruts, those neural pathways, aware of OC's tentacles in the background. Continually refining the balance between Ray 1 warrior will and Ray 2 surrender and acceptance.

All in all, I feel I'm getting close to letting go of what no longer serves my evolutionary journey and realigning most of the time with my soul's will and the flow of divine benevolence. And when I do, I'll be heading down the corridor to Gateway 3/Transfiguration. I have some fears around that as in, "Lord Shiva, please don't let my kundalini awakening be too disruptive!" :)

x Cathy

How do you best know your own soul?

Open Wed, 03/01/2017 - 08:19

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Hi Dear Heather - if you can see and inspire soul in another, then you are ALREADY inspiring soul in yourself! Perhaps we need to expand the understanding of what soul is and truly feels like. There are many qualities of the soul that animate your being. There are obvious ones like love, joy and compassion. And there's also experiences of deep inner peace, self acceptance, expansiveness; and also will, commitment, bravery and courage. There's also diplomacy, selfless service, and pure divine magic which just seems to happen around you without even doing anything.

The the soul is intangible, not physical, you can't see it or touch it. To me, it is best considered like the wind through the trees, it is known by the trace it leaves.

And so how do you best know your own soul? It's essentially a sense of rightness in the things that you do - like when you help others for example and derive joy from that - you're doing something selfless, beyond the small self "I". And that could be something as simple as putting up a kind, supportive comment on this thread. It's when you drop deep into yourself and you're right in the sense of aligned vibe - "aha, yes, this is me." Like coming home and sinking into a hot aromatic bath. The soul is simply a sense of rightness in how you're being. An ease with that. Blessings Open *OK*

Welcome

Wyndè Wed, 03/01/2017 - 06:17

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You Treebrother are always always welcome!!!

Heather, go to a mirror and look yourself in the eyes and just say Hello Beautiful. There you are. Clap your hands joyously, lift your arms above your head and dance around. Sing your song. There you are. You have been you all along. The body is just hmmmmm, the vessel to carry you forward. You want to feel you? Rub your hands together really really really fast then clap your hands once and just hold them inches apart. There you are. Does it make sense now? I pray that it does for you, because Sister.. YOU are a beautiful soul! My love and my heart goes out to you and your lovely journey in this life.

Open Thank you for the clarification, I get more things today that I did yesterday. I know what was screaming my name and a lot of things are making perfect sense to me now. The US and the world in its entirety is definitely on the brink of something good. Change isn't often easy, but it is what it is, its change and yup...It happens and humanity deserves the absolute best and its high time for that! This is our planet, we were born of this earth, this earth does not belong to an individual but to each and every soul born upon it. Without borders, without constraint. Regardless of opposition this is where it will go.

Much Love to you all
Wyndè

Thank you Wynde for the

treebrother Wed, 03/01/2017 - 04:53

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Thank you Wynde for the encouragement!
Open your words hold a deeper meaning than they appear to. NAMASTE AND THANK YOU!!
Heather, you can only see the light in others because it already shines in you. Its really that simple. So why worry about the details just be you whatever that is right now. Then keep refining and unfolding that as you go. When i stopped trying to see the magic in life, I began to BE IT!!! Namaste dear sister, Eddie

Moving forward

Heather M Tue, 02/28/2017 - 23:24

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Thank you Open, thank you so much. And just seeing those words from Js touched me. “Yes. I feel the same.”

One thing that struck me is how I think I have misinterpreted 5 Gateways – I didn’t realise one could be working through more than one Gateway at a time, so I have been trying I guess to ‘tick all the boxes’ that would indicate to me I have gone through Gateway 1. I am not connecting with the magic of the soul because I can’t feel it or see it, so can’t get through the Gateway. I asked once on a workshop in Glastonbury, because I couldn’t see or feel my soul, did it mean I didn’t have one and your words gave me hope. Of course I have a soul. But two years down the road and I am still stuck.

So although I feel stuck myself, why do I find it so delightfully easy to support others becoming ‘unstuck’ if you like? I facilitated some motivation type training with colleagues and felt the pull to cover ‘being the best version of you’. I may not be able to feel my soul or see where it is, but oh my goodness – I can feel it in others. Literally feeling their confidence grow, seeing the almost imperceptible straightening of shoulders, the chin going up, eyes once locked to the floor, surprising themselves with their sudden ability to look into another’s eyes, feeling the toes dip gingerly into the water as they take a sneaky peek at who they are, feeling their joy when they realise that what they see is pretty freakin awesome! Now I feel all that and feel the humble joy of being able to gently support that amazing transformation. It makes my heart sing. So why can I see and feel another’s soul and be able to watch them realise just how worthy they are, but not my own? It doesn’t make sense at all.
I’m diving in to that ‘not making sense’ and trying to become one with it. It’s good to know you are all ‘out there’. It really is. Thank you. xxx

The passage through different densities of Experience

Open Tue, 02/28/2017 - 07:03

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Thanks for the great responses everyone - thanks for tuning in *OK* Please allow me to share some deeper thoughts on relating to the 5GATEWAYS in this Great Shift, raised by your contemplations...

Vulnerability and being in Relationship

Eddie, I'm with you, I can feel your vulnerability in all of this, and it will carry you a long way. And with regards to "single people moving faster", well, remember the story of the rabbit and the tortoise? In the Journey of Ascension, for me, it's more about being sure to fully complete each stage. Being in relationship challenges in deeply profound ways - if you're being honest with yourself (as I know you are), then it brings up all the stuff we have to work with.

Finding the eye of the Storm

Can you feel the storm brewing out there everyone? Just look for example at the day-by-day craziness unfolding in the US. But as you point out Anatoly...

"Being in the middle of the storm i also felt more alive and connected to my soul as if i could feel the sweetness of it.

Exactly! When we don't resist the truth of what's coming up, then you don't distance yourself from it. This may sound like a contradiction - how does that help? When you intentionally distance yourself from something confronting you, then you create polarity - identity - in relation to it. It actually makes the circumstance even more real. However, if you go right into the heart of the situation, then you become as-One with it - The One in it. You find the eye of the storm and burst the myth of the illusion that the situation always was. Because how ever challenging, it's a choice as to whether you let circumstances define you.

An Ascending Family

Jen, your vision of an ascending family is incredibly powerful - thanks so much for sharing, it touches my heart. So often in this Great Shift, people on the path say they feel alone. It's not surprising - it would seem that because comparatively there's so few of us, we've chosen to incarnate spread all over the world. In a physical and intellectual sense, we can feel very separate. But through the ether we are not. And now is the time to focus on that connecting energy more and more. It's not something you have to follow though. It's our own soul that we must follow. But at the same time, consider there's this vast vortex of energy building, that you can tune into, that helps you feel the ascending direction of the shift - a bridge that helps you tune into your higher dimensional self; and also one that helps bring ascending people together toward this common destiny. It's simply breath-taking - awesome!

The Gateways are not Simply Linear - but interrelated

Hi Wyndè and Ann - thanks for sharing - somethings you both said caused me to feel to reiterate something very important about the Gateways that I talked about in the book - they are not simply linear. What is a Gateway? It is the transition through a particular density of being. For example, your soul may be causing you to challenge the sense of separation around the physical density. So you are engaged strongly in very physical things - challenging existential questions for example. Your soul might, for instance, manifest a purposeful lack of resources in your life so that you could constantly remind yourself you are not physical. You could be working on passing through Gateway 2 (the plane of the emotions): so you manifest the temptation of giving up your power in relationships, so as to work on regaining it. You might be working in Gateway 3 - on the plane of the intellect, where you might be challenging inner child conditioning. AND MOST LIKELY.... you will be working on several of the Gateways together. Because of course, you are a multidimensional being. So your soul interrelates through several of the Gateways and may well be working on them together. HOWEVER.... the likelihood is, that at any given time, one of the Gateways will stand out most strongly. That's because the particular pattern of experiences you're manifesting at the time, will have a particular density of vibration. And so your centre of consciousness is pulled more to that vibration. ADDITIONALLY... although you might be working on several Gateways together, the ceremonies themselves, which mark the completion of a Gateway, are linear. You can't, for example, completely pass through the plane of karma in Gateway 4, before you've become fully transfigured in Gateway 3. Likewise, you won't realign with your true soul's purpose in Gateway 2, until you've fully expanded out of the isolation and separation caused by identification with the physical plane in Gateway 1.

The incredible power of Gateway 2

I'd like to be really clear about Gateway 2 and what that's all about. Often people will get partial tasters of the higher Gateways and when presented with the routemap, may feel they're already through some of the higher ones. When Gateway 2 completes, it comes with the most powerful surrendering to the soul's path. It's like a breaking down, giving up trying to shape and control the physical life. It's like you could literally give everything up, so long as you're now coming from the soul. It's because you realise nothing is really in truth in your life, if you're not coming from that place. So the only place to really begin, is to locate and come from, the soul's impulse in every moment. Even if you're in density and can't fully feel it, even if you make 'mistakes', nevertheless there's that practically complete commitment to looking for the soul's impulse.

How to move forwards when you feel stuck?

Heather I feel you. How do you move forwards when you feel stuck? What do you actually look for? If you feel stuck in your current situation, then I would suggest just observing what's going on and your responses to it. What do you feel internally in relation to what's happening in your life? Work to be as much in the moment as possible - so you're witnessing yourself as stuff is happening. That way, you will start to disassociate from the experience itself. And by that, I don't mean distancing from the experience. I mean you start to realise you are not the experience itself; that there is something else within, that is not defined by the experience. This in itself begins to unleash soul. It leads to the awakening and arising of soul out of the separation. So keep working with exactly what is presenting in the moment and you'll come through just fine. No worries folks, I can feel you; you're doing just great! Keep observing, keep feeling, keep working with what shows up. Sending you all much love and support Open *give_rose*

intriguing

Wyndè Tue, 02/28/2017 - 05:57

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I want to change my above answer! To a complete affirmation of I have zero idea of which one I am at.

I walked away from my earlier answer and just threw my hands up in the air and thought well....who's to say and who's to know really. Then that internal dialogue happens and Ive felt all day going hmmmm!! Those moments in time in my life that used to be full of complete sorrow when looked at by me had dissipated, had been what I thought to be processed completely.. Then all of a sudden I'm looking at them again, picking them up inside me and seeing the story all over again. Like I'm telling myself my story all over again and a part of me is thinking, been there, done that do I really need to integrate into again?! I relived parts of my life in a few hour's time and just feel very very tired now.

So I have no idea, all I know for absolute certainty is that I did not have to come here, that I chose it. To help people. Yet somewhere in that I forgot to help myself too, which is what I'm working on.

Wyndè

Moving forward?

Heather M Mon, 02/27/2017 - 23:08

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I have not yet gone through the first gateway - I don't 'feel' it or see it but I know its there. I think you said once Open, dont open it, just step through, but I don't know where to step. I understand the words, they make complete sense, but the soul is stuck. <3 Namaste

Gateways

Ann B Mon, 02/27/2017 - 21:50

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I don't know if this makes sense but my experience through the gateways does not seem to be linear. I flowed in and out of Gateway 1 for many years. I now have an amplified sense of at oneness with all life and feel much sadness when I witness others having a complete disregard. Although at times my sense of oneness can get a little murky so I hesitate to claim that I am all the way through gateway 1.

Gateway 2 has been difficult for me probably because I spent so much of my life unconsciously out of alignment. To realign many things first have to unravel and that has been overwhelming. And as I go through the process I face challenges from family and friends who question what the heck is going on with me and I have no answer because they wouldn't even begin to understand. Old friends drift away so that kind of takes care of itself but family is more difficult. The unraveling also brings up fears because even though things were out of alignment they were comfortable and a roadmap of sorts. The more I unravel the more out of my comfort zone I go with only the longing of my soul to be in flow pushing me forward.

So I recognize I am still working with gateway 2 yet I have been going through physical, emotional and spiritual inner purification for years. It has been an unfolding and been progressing in a way that keeps drawing me in deeper. Also at times I have the sense I have activated and am working through some past life karma.

So without overthinking this, it feels like I am "multi-tasking" and working through multiple gateways at the same time not because I am trying to overachieve or rush the process but just because that's how things appear to be showing up for me.

Gateway

Wyndè Mon, 02/27/2017 - 19:02

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Heyas all!
Open, I'm pretty sure Ive been in, lived in, experienced all that which is written there in the 5 gateway's about a million times over the course of my life. Which is a bit odd, its like knowing/seeing it all unfold and then jumping back out of the in between per say and pointing a finger at it all whilst saying OH WTF is that. What is happening here. Thats pretty much the moment Ive jumped off the ledge and entered back into focus/processing/must understand completely the entirety of this that I have experienced.

Treebrother, I would like to comment a bit on your comment about the Don't USA and shadow side. It's been said a gazillion times before, spoken and thought all in same, yet different ways.. But without a don't, there is no do. Without a shadow, there is no light. Without shame, there is no acceptance and so on and so forth you know.

Could just be me. I kinda live/love/cannot be anything but it all you know. I am the shadow side and I am the light side. I am the in between more or less too. I keep trying to comprehend fully both and everything in between, but then I see a squirrel outside my window and go Squirrel!!!! I love squirrels :) Then I realize I've just freed myself from the intense contemplation of it all and just decided to let it all just be as it will be. 3d, 5d, 20d.. Some day's its just all the same to me. It's like running through a sprinkler as a child. Left, middle, right. In one side, Oh look its the middle - how precious! Ooh now I'm on the other side lol
Is that not the dance of life?! Are we not supposed to enjoy everything while being in this state called life, or should it be limited?!

Ive tried many many times before to talk to other people about these sorts of things and most just say Michelle, you just need to dumb it down a bit more because you just flew back up in the air and I'm trying to get you, but I just cant. Because most if not all, are to me, picking sides. I do not understand this, it is illogical for me pick a side. Because what one perceives as shadow is just another form of light in the spectroscope.

Oh anyways, I finally purchased all the books. I am muddling through Breakthrough. I say muddling because I keep stopping, inhaling sharply and thinking OMG! Maybe that is what was and is screaming my name out. But then I don't understand this screaming of my name, I mean I know I'm half deaf and all but I'm not that deaf!!! This makes no sense to me, back to the drawing board I guess :)

Want for others what they want for themselves, in all things and in all way's
Wyndè

Gateways and dreaming

.Wren Mon, 02/27/2017 - 18:18

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Hmmm..well this is interesting. Lately, I have been consciously connecting to the Openhand energy and energetically infusing the space before I go to bed. I had a powerful dream last night that I was at an Openhand gathering and sitting at the "top" of a spiral with you Open - you went down to the cirlce and I went down as well. When I arrived I felt this powerful wave of souls arriving into the circle. There was interference happening from just outside the circle. Open and anyone who could feel it were holding a vibration and it was removing the interference. At first I stayed outside the circle and then joined and held the vibration. The people inside the circle were crying and releasing all of this struggle. At one point there was an asian man in the center of the circle just looking at me with tears in his eyes. I woke up at that point and my body is still in the vibration that was there in the dream. I felt to share it because I can feel the sense of family gathering around me more now - and the Openhand energy right here.

As for gateways, I would say I have been sitting in the corridor to Gateway 2...I am aware of places that I am invited yet not yet felt able to proceed - maybe that's resistance, maybe it's right - maybe it's a little of both. I feel strongly to just keep being me - and I keep watching the outer circumstances shaping and reshaping...I can't see where it's all going, but it's clear it's evolving and that by staying in what feels real and true for me, unravelling is happening.

Challenges

nialet Mon, 02/27/2017 - 18:13

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Yeah, i can feel you Eddie. I am too feeling some apprehension and at the same time a lot of excitement as it gets closer to Bruges trip. Being the only financial supporter in the family adds some spice to it but i am learning to trust the universe will provide with necessary resources as my journey unfolds. My spiritual journey got a boost at the time of my personal relationship challenges which felt at times like going through burning gates. I am very grateful that at the same time i was reading Openhand books which helped me with the process confronting and dealing with the challenges. Strangely, but being in the middle of the storm i also felt more alive and connected to my soul as if i could feel the sweetness of it. Now, I am not looking for a storm but ready for it (or at least that's what i think and feel). With Love, Anatoly.

5 Gateways

treebrother Mon, 02/27/2017 - 13:59

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I remember being 16 years old and having the experience of Unconditional Love flowing through me like a waterfall. I have always felt the interconnectedness of all things, it just is. Realignment for me has been a struggle over the last 29 years of getting lost in the drama of the 3d and falling off the wagon and getting back on repeatedly. There is so much BS Dogma out there to fool you into thinking you are less than what you are and waste your time chasing rainbows. I am so happy that I found this group about a year ago. I have a large apprehension right now as the pieces click into place to go to Brussels this summer. Change is uncertain and a little scary. Sitting here typing this my mind is running a mile a minute thinking about the paths i have seen so many others take. Those further along than me are mostly single and i am so lucky to have finally found a partner that is so amazing i can't find the words to describe our relationship. Ultimately we are all alone always but it still scares me in a way. The unknown but it is also infinite possibility in the yet unlived moments so the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Part of me wants to run into the wilderness and dig myself a hobbit hole and shut out the rest of the world but i am too social for that. So here i am in the Don'T USA. I have seldom been more ashamed of being part of this country than now. WTF the shadow side is sure in the light and it gets crazier by the day!!! but i digress there you have it raw and uncut.....Please share your thoughts on my ramblings Namaste Brothers and Sisters Eddie

The 5Gateways Reviewed

Open Mon, 02/27/2017 - 07:01

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Gateway 1:"Awakening":

Gateway 2:"Realignment":

Gateway 3:"Transfiguration":

Gateway 4:"Enlightenment":

Gateway 5:"Resurrection"

What is your experience? Do share below...

Insight into Openhand's Upcoming Great 5D Shift Project

Open Mon, 02/27/2017 - 06:56

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Shortly, in the not too distant future, Openhand will be launching the "Great 5D Shift Project". It's a monumental task, with the majority of work going on behind the scenes, through the ether. In essence, it's about connecting together, through the different densities, a multidimensional bridge, that connects up the various benevolent groups working to support the Great Shift that is now gathering apace. The shift is not haphazard. Humanity is not alone in his endeavour. There is a vast array of support and guidance through the ether out there, in higher densities, many of whom are now coming together at this time in support.
In the 3D, there are countless practices and spiritual approaches out there that are already beginning to touch this bridge, whether intentionally or not. In other words, there are plenty of practices that have the capacity to bring you to it. The various forms of meditation for example, yoga, tai chi, various dance, movement and bodywork; sacred sexuality, and in fact a whole plethora of different consciousness expanding philosophies and practices that have sprung up through the years. This is what I find so exciting about the project: there's no one way to it, there's no one "right way" that everyone must and should follow. In fact for each soul there will be a unique way, YOUR WAY. A good facilitator or mirror may point you to the inner Gateways that you must pass through, but only YOU can pass through then, and only in YOUR way.
5GATEWAYS will be, and is, a fundamental part of this facilitation. Let's be clear - it is not a religion, it is not some kind of dogma set out that you "must follow". It is not some rigid belief system. It is a routemap, which points out milestones, at different "altitudes", that people tend to experience as they ascend the spiritual mountain.

You may well have your own treasured practice, your own way - brilliant, that's to be 100% encouraged. But let your practice be constantly evolving, constantly growing, where you're constantly inquiring and testing the approach - otherwise it may only take you to a plateau.
What shifts are you making? How is your consciousness expanding? What are you experiencing as a result? And then, how do you notice your journey is beginning to relate to the 5GATEWAYS routemap? Do you notice some of the shifts spoken of happening in your life? The idea of the routemap, is to cause people to truly question where they are at within their evolution and to spur people on. People from all around the planet, in all walks of life, say how accurately it reflects the kinds of experiences they're having.
So the 5GATEWAYS routemap will play a key role in this Great 5D Shift Project. Right now, great work is happening by spiritual people across the planet. But it is very dissipated with little cohesion bringing resources and groups of people together - connecting them with a common sense of purpose and destiny. It feels like a monumental task to work to try to make this happen. But it feels greatly worthwhile. I know it will mean many more people can make this Great 5D Shift unfolding all around us. So where are you in the Gateways do you feel? What kinds of experiences are you having? By sharing, maybe I can offer a few reflections on how you might move forwards. Open :-)

"Moved to the core"

Js Wed, 09/02/2015 - 20:18

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Finally read a few more of the earlier exchanges in this article and what a beautiful exchange a few years back you and Lesley had Open.

I read your "Moved to the core" post and you managed to find a way to express this whole Journey / Process with Graceful, Beautiful resonating words, I read pretty much all your articles and all are really good but this "Moved to the core" sharing is UNIQUE and SPECIAL.

May I recommend that at some point where you see fit you add the direct link to it in the 'Whats new' section, as u do with some of your posts. it is only a recommendation as I now know where to find it and have access to reading it now a few more times :)

Yes. I feel the same Js. I

Leela Mon, 02/27/2017 - 23:49

Wow

76 Mon, 06/01/2015 - 17:19

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Thank you for your insight. In the most recent scenario it was a young female deer that came extremely close and showed a lot of interest in me in the woods by my home, and I think I pushed her away with fear (although I also didn't want her to come too close to the road, where cars could hurt her). The previous day it was a really beautiful snake that came very close (crossing my path prior to starting my hike with a friend), although it certainly wasn't trying to bother me and showed minimal interest in me. Both frightened me immensely, as I thought they would harm me. I will try to take your kind suggestions to better understand this and work through it.

How does the fear make you feel?

Open Mon, 06/01/2015 - 16:10

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Certainly animals get ever closer, as your vibration harmonises and calms.

Why would you be afraid of that? How does the fear make you feel?
If you can't answer immediately, then try sitting in a quiet place and regress yourself into the experience: seeing the images and feeling into the feelings that come up. It's an important part of liberation from it.

Open

Thank you

76 Mon, 06/01/2015 - 15:54

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Excellent suggestions, thank you. I've started gardening recently which I really enjoy, and have been practicing breathing and meditation exercises. I often stop the latter after only brief periods because it gets a little intense for me and I get a little scared sometimes, but hopefully more practice will help. I've also noticed that when I hike or sit quietly in the woods/park, animals come much closer to me than I'm accustomed to. This occasionally frightens me too. Is this something anyone else has experienced?

Daily meditational practice

Open Mon, 06/01/2015 - 07:56

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Hi 76,

Do you have a daily meditational practice? My sense is that the best way to begin, is to find some solidity within your experience - that which is apart from the pain initially. Don't intentionally supress the pain, but find a centred sense of peace.

That could be a breathing meditation, deep consciousness bodywork like yoga for example, or spending plenty of time in nature. You could also try some of the guided meditations in our audio section....

http://www.openhandweb.org/audio_guided_meditations

Afterwards, you could then connect with one of our facilitators, who will gladly help you work forwards through any pain and density...

http://www.openhandweb.org/openhand_facilitators

With best wishes

Open

I think I'm still at Gateway

76 Sun, 05/31/2015 - 18:10

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I think I'm still at Gateway 1 (just got here) but I'm struggling with some of the new challenges, fear (sometimes overwhelming) and some physical symptoms that I don't know how to respond to (pain in the base of my skull, lower back, etc). Also having a hard time keeping things balanced. An help or suggestions are appreciated!

it did help.

little sage sarah Tue, 05/12/2015 - 19:30

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There was someone in my life who I was holding on to with tightness.... I was empathically connected to this person who I was romantically involved with, and although this person was a drain to me, I thought that I was meant to keep trying to make it a healthy friendship. I realize now, that even within our platonic friendship I was desperate for this person to validate and love me. The connection that remained between us also confused me and made me feel like I was supposed to keep giving to that relationship.
On the last full moon during a spiritual circle I attend people were talking about letting go, and that relationship came to mind, and in that instance I noticed my resistance and tightness was about letting go and stopping the giving. I was scared to let go of it. That night I walked alone staring at the full moon and committed to stop feeding the relationship. When I was home I deleted his phone number and cut our social media ties. The week that followed felt like a gradual decompression and yesterday I had a very spiritual experience when I was walking outside... I felt freer and lighter than ever before in my life. I was free of not just the weight of other peoples expectations of me, but also free of what I expected and thought of myself. I was filled with a warm sense of well being, ... that no matter what happens in my life, or the result of the endeavours I am currently engaged in, I will still be me and will be OK, simply by virtue of being me. Since I let go, I no longer am struggling to be authentic in my interactions with other people... the fear is gone - though I am not sure before I would have called it fear - it is effortless for me now.

Although I still have some mental patterning, for example before doing tasks or making calls etc that normally would have been met with a huge amount of anxiety and resistance I will still have a thought like ... "oh no this is going to suck" but rather than feel that or experience fear or feed the thought, I just do the task or make the call with ease.

Not sure if this would be considered a gateway shift, but I definitely FEEL that there has been a definite permanent shift in my energy. Like more of myself is available to me and within my interactions with others now. SO excited for life, and feeling so amazingly OK with whatever is awaiting me in my future.

Thank You! The teachings here definitely facilitated the thinking that led me to identify a huge source of tightness in my life for what it was. The relationship as I see it now, was a result of my old way of trying to connect with people- through codependency, control, and people pleasing behaviour -- and letting go of my desire for this person to give me love has opened up my heart to receiving love from the people in my life and those I encounter everyday.

Always take the opportunity to unravel through the conditioning

Open Wed, 04/15/2015 - 20:31

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How do we function in the 3D? I'd say always confront the tightness of difficult behaviours and choices. Always take the opportunity to unravel through the conditioning then let an emerging aspect of beingness guide the show.

Yes I've met many ascending. There's relatively few yet though through the higher gateways. And yes, all have karma who come here. That's the nature of the place. And there's different types of karma - different levels of it. Not just 4th dimensional. We kept it simple in the film - only so much you can convey. It's meant as a unifying starting point.

Keep well

Open

Thank You Jenny and Open for

little sage sarah Wed, 04/15/2015 - 19:32

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Thank You Jenny and Open for the warm welcome!

Open, thank you for the guidance. Confidence is an issue for me, 31 years spent trying to fit in never let much chance to explore my abilities. Although creativity is flowing easier and easier each day, the struggles to trust with others is still a big theme. Expressing myself to others does feel as if it is an important part of my path. I agree transfiguration isn't complete, - the subconscious wounded child fears still sometimes feel like mine and although I always feel strongly now what is not right, what IS right is more elusive. I haven't come to discover how to live in a way that is nurturing for me. Its too much trial and error, but never losing the commitment or falling asleep to the truth. its been ongoing for the past 2.5 years however a good deal of that time unravelling the big mistakes of career put in motion prior to committing to authentic self and learning (still) how to function in 3d in an authentic way and without the protection and care of my ex husband, with only the past 8 months spent focused more spiritually.
I read once about "wanderers" which I think is similar to what you called star souls. It resonated deeply, especially the part about always feeling there was a mission. When I made the decision when I was 19 to live logically focused I felt as if I was telling myself " I know you feel you are supposed to be a different way but I don't know how to do it".
Have you met others like this who have ascended through the higher gateways? Did they too have karma despite being from away?

Thank you

Sarah

Integrating higher and lower self

Open Wed, 04/15/2015 - 17:18

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Hi Little Sage,

Welcome to Openhand, it's wonderful that you feel to be so open. You are amongst friends, and it may surprise you, that in this family, you are definitely not at all unusual or strange. You have a classic star soul configuration and energy - a soul that has existed for a good deal of time in other constellations and vibrational paradigms. Such souls often struggle to fit in and be accepted here.

Blending is important, but only in order to be functional in a 3D sense. What's most important and most exciting, is when you can fully unleash your gifts into the world in a managed way. By that I mean learning how to contain the energy without suppressing it or denying it; finding ways to express confidently, as and when it feels given and right to do so. This is no small challenge, but one which you 'signed up for' (otherwise, you simply wouldn't be here).

I don't believe you're quite where you think you are though - not between Gateways 3 and 4. Much more likely is between Gateways 2 and 3. I sense that when you left your marriage, this marked the commitment to the soul - the realignment to walking the path of the soul and only that. It sounds strongly like Gateway 2.

But I don't feel lower and higher self are fully integrated yet. You said...

"Right now I often alternate between feeling joy and excitement, so happy to be alive in this time , to feeling crushed by the matrix, frustrated with my challenges with connecting from the heart with language, economically vulnerable, concerned about my ability to support my daughter and myself. I can't go back to the old -- but I'm not yet totally at ease with walking the path never knowing whats next."

This sounds much more like someone getting used to walking the path and confronting inner darkness leading to Transfiguration. In fact we describe this 'roller coaster of emotions' in a similar way in the film.

Perhaps the confusion is happening because of your star soul nature - the fact that you can more easily access higher dimensional experiences than human souls can, and from an early age. But that still doesn't mean you're transfigured - lower and higher self fully integrated.

The challenge now would be, to integrate this higher spiritual awareness into all aspects of your daily life in a grounded way; to work through the density and challenges, finding expressions that work. Over time, this will lead to integration (of lower and higher self) and then transfiguration.

I trust this helps

Open *give_rose*

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Hello Little Sage Sarah,

I feel so touched by your sharing. There is such a transparency and authenticity to the feeling of your words. I can relate with aspects of what you share with regard to communication as well as both the depth of and detachment from feeling. What an inspiring journey you have been on. I am sure you will find this community incredibly supportive on the path. Welcome! With love, Jen

Hi Everyone,

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Hi Everyone,

I had been reading Open's writing over at wake-upworld.com, that led me over here where I watched the 5 gateways film. It made me happy. The softening into tightness resonated and has opened up in my mind the truth and way through some of my current challenges. Many things shared in the film were relatable, I think my experience at this time seems similar to what was described as gateways 3 and 4. How I got here though seems different then the experiences shared in the film. I would be grateful for any comments or insight.
I've always felt very different, and I have been diagnosed with high functioning autism or what used to be called aspergers in my case. My earliest memories of cognition involved observing the way things were done in the world and being very shocked at how different it was from the truth I could see. I also did not feel speaking in language was ever an adequate way of communicating for me.... it couldn't grasp the fullness of my experience. It was very disappointing when I came to understand others were not experiencing the magnitude of the world in the way I was. My speech as a child alternated from bursts of inspired wisdom or humour, like a little philosopher, to a purely cognitive logical masculine way of communicating. As a result, it was easier for me to play with boys, . The only way I could form words was through a feeling of inspiration or an effortful process of logic. As I got older it seemed I became more detached and disassociated from emotional experience, I lived as the observer, never associated with my own position, not really ever feeling my own needs in a situation. I was always taken advantage of as I could always understand where others were coming from. My upbringing involved emotional abuse from my parents which required me to further disassociate from my feeling based experience.
The one joy that was reliable in my youth was music and was funnelled into music school where I did not experience joy when practicing the required materials, I would go to the practice room and all I wanted to do was play and create... eventually it became obvious I wouldn't make it through music school, .... I had to figure out something else to study. . This was a heartbreaking experience for me, I wanted to die at 19 -- it seemed there would be no way to be me and survive in this world, .... the logical, detached aspect of me told my soul that this world was not for it, that the part of me that could function, even if oddly, in the world had to take over. I became more like what would typically described of someone with aspergers.... filling my life with information, logic, and studying. I married a very quiet man, I couldn't connect to others through speaking and it was possible to live in a contained protected way with him. I could never fit in in the matrix, but with him as a mediator I could pretend well enough.
As a child I believe i lived in a state similar to that described by those in the film as the awakening. However because disassociating from feeling was necessary to survive my upbringing and later survive in the matrix, this state of awareness only became pronounce when I was in nature. But I knew it was always right there for me beneath my thoughts. I remember one experience as an adult watching the ocean where I felt myself dissolve, it was so beautiful all I could do was cry.... and later I cried having to go back into the matrix way of life. There was no way at this time that I could integrate this larger truth into my way of living as a human... I had a young child and was studying to be a lawyer.
I guess the other thing is I have always had claircognizance, - I always knew stuff I should have, could often predict where situations would lead and how they would unfold and was too aware of what people feel or want from me -- this was so overwhelming and I think also pushed me to dissociate further from my feeling experience.

Then in 2011, my soul said enough. I became strongly aware of my feelings in a way I never had before... I could not hide from them anymore. I realized I was not going to live the life I was meant to with my husband. I had a hard time making the decision despite feeling miserable for awhile, however I kept exploring, even making new friends.... I was shocked and happy that people were accepting me even when I let my inner freak show on the outside. then I had two profound experiences on the same day. I was in the ocean again and I felt a beam of light warming and entering the top of my head, I felt so happy, it was then that even though my thoughts were not reconciled I knew that I could never turn my back on this joy and go back to my old way of life. then an hour later in conversation with someone - an intellectual conversation about language philosophy the most profound truth came to me as I felt myself vibrating. I could see intellectually for the first time - the matrix. Its like my left brain finally was remembering the truth my right always always felt. One word came to me that encompassed the entire horrible truth of modern existence ... Matrix. After the vibrations subsided I looked around disorientated almost seasick. Its been validating watching the spiritual community's growing use of that word that came to me that day. After that I was committed to self, both my feelings and thoughts were in alignment with what I needed to do and I left my husband.

However it hasn't been smooth sailing at all... I have been plunged into the darkest parts of my self. Eventually I came to learn of a shaman healer who works with people to confront their inner wounded parts ... this has been enormously helpful -like peeling layers off an onion.... I will feel lighter then theres another layer of subconscious learning and insecurities to confront. My shaman is 70 years old and has helped many people, he says I am very unique to work with, that there is a part of me, which he calls my feminine energy that lives totally in the spirit world. In the past two years there have also been new painful experiences brought to me that seemed to catalyze me towards integration. I've ended up getting and leaving a very prestigious job as a lawyer doing work that my former "aspie" self was very adept at... intellectually challenging and which paid very well. My self demanded I leave even though I had no source of income - so I did. I have learned to live happily without very much money - however I can't fully let go of the fear that even basic economic survival itself will eventually become an issue . I have been for the past four years throwing myself into my creativity which has also been a profound teacher. When I TRY to make music its much "harder", softening myself - just playing like a child, allows it to flow out of me with great ease.
Right now I often alternate between feeling joy and excitement, so happy to be alive in this time , to feeling crushed by the matrix, frustrated with my challenges with connecting from the heart with language, economically vulnerable, concerned about my ability to support my daughter and myself. I can't go back to the old -- but I'm not yet totally at ease with walking the path never knowing whats next.
Thanks in part to the 5 gateways film, I now know a way forward through my challenges with verbal communication. I am going to soften into the truth that I really don't have much words to share with others in many interactions, and thats okay even though I feel that others are often uncomfortable with silence and that I myself want to be able to connect with others from the heart - but trying to find words to connect is wrong for me. Authenticity demands that I interact with others in a loving open silence unless inspiration prompts me to speak words, and that the way forward for me is to soften into the tightness I feel around that truth of myself. I also know that watching the film will help me in those moments of exhaustion frustration and utter aloneness to know that there is an experience of alignment with ones truth that lies beyond where I am now that doesn't involve being rubbed roughshod by the outer world.Thank You.

Harmony

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Harmony,

Such vivid descriptions of things that can be so hard to find words for. When I read what you wrote here:

"Anyone looking in at me would think I’ve gone insane, for the inner reaction I am having is completely out of proportion to what is going on externally."

It is so typically how karma takes effect.

Sending love and solidarity to you on your journey.
Lesley

Keep going

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Hi Kari,

You share your story so simply and honestly. It is truly profound work you are embarked on, keep going!

With love,
Lesley

Losing yourself to truly find yourself

Open Fri, 03/20/2015 - 09:28

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Hi Kari,

Thanks for sharing. Yes indeed, we do have to lose ourselves to truly find ourselves!

Keep letting go my friend; of everything that you think you are.

Open *OK*

Gateways

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Hello

I am not quite certain which gateway I am in, but would guess the pre-awakening or gateway 1. I do still catch myself striving and searching for spirituality instead of being. That is especially true when around many people or at work. It quickly brings me out of beingness and into my mind and racing thoughts. At times my racing thoughts feel so out of control I am on the verge of tears out of frustration. When alone I am better able to allow beingness to unfold and realize how everything is another distortion or attachment to soften into. I am very back and forth-between being and unraveling, and then going back into attachment and worry. I do love observing everything I'm attracting into my life and feeling where my distortions are that have attracted the experiences. When I began doing so, it literally felt like a layer had been peeled away. After which I lost many labels I had owned and identified myself with. It felt as though I had no idea who I was anymore. In some strange way I loved feeling that. :)

Working with traumatic events

Open Thu, 03/19/2015 - 19:11

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Wow, yes. Such an event is likely to activate karma. My heart is with you.

Just keep working with it. You'll get through it.

Wishing you well

Open

Deep processing of Karma

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Hi Harmony - I feel for you - yes these karmic experiences can be traumatic when we get into them. But you are supported and helped - work to realise that.

Is there an end to it? Most definitely YES!!!

All these experiences relativistic experiences. They are not who you are. They will ultimately process and integrate. It feels to me as for some reason, this karma activated a little soon in your process. A touch before you were ready, hence the intensity. Have you had some kind of traumatic experience to bring it on?

But no worries, yes there are things you can do besides just feeling into it...

1. Access the feeling, and feel into it (no problems there)
2. Work to become as-one with it, so that you don't need it to go away
3. At the height of the feeling, as you think you can't take anymore, work to become 'the One' in it. It feels like opening a doorway through the feeling into presence. Take a look at the end of the Gateway 4 film for this one... http://www.openhandweb.org/contents/five_gateways/5gateways_documentary…

there will be a word or some kind of tool that can take you into this state of presence. As I explained in the film, for me it was just a word - openness. Open!
4. Finally, you must do something to process out the dense energy. Your soul gave you a clue on this one (I do believe). Go out into the woods and howl like a coyote! It'll raise the ray 1 warrior. Let your strength of will come up and through you.

***Please Note*** as you've intuited, best not to share these kinds of experiences with the mainstream. They simply don't understand.

What you're experiencing is definitely karma, around the birthing process. And I'd say it relates to the distorted birthing of homo sapiens. have you read Divinicus? It would help understand things... Divinicus

And also, have you felt to come on the Openhand Courses? They would help enormously.

Anyway, see how you get on.

Open <3

Processing Karma

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Open, thank you so much. And yes, there has been a traumatic experience. I live in Newtown, Connecticut where on December 14, 2012 a gunman entered one of our elementary schools and killed 26 people...most of them first graders. On every level imaginable, this experience has not only effected me as a human and parent, but many people in the community. So, while my spiritual journey has been underway for quite some time, this experience accelerated every aspect...a shattering of the ego, an emergence of my voice, a need for protection from enormous amounts of negative energy and the beginning of this karmic relationship/clearing. I will say, that even as terrible as that event was, I have seen an equal and more brilliant light radiate from the ashes of that day. There is simply a great deal to process. I do know that I was put here in the place at this time for that very reason.

Your notes are more helpful than you could ever imagine. Thank you. And yes, I will read Divinicus and look into the courses. Wish I was in Florida for your latest!

Nimue

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Sounds like a beautiful process Nimue, thank-you for sharing and expressing it into words :)

5 Gateways Demo

Teresa — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:46:40 +0000

5 Gateways Demo

I was wondering if you might explain one more time that little demo which you did with Trinity during the workshop in January.

You were discussing aspects of energy in water and how the pull does not allow the other to get close, because of some energetic pull??
I ask this because as you both got up to do this demo, I had had a dream the night before seeing my very self do this EXACT thing with a friend in some water. The person in the dream had many arms like a hindu deity , as I myself did in the dream. There was some kind of energetic struggle, and I did not understand the nature of the struggle , so when you and Trinity got up and demonstrated, I was a bit blown back....with what I had seen in the dream!!!!

Many Thanks, Tess

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Hi Tess, I think rather than me explain what was really happening within that demo we did, it's important to realise you're making your own interpretation based on what your soul needs you to see. My intuition tells me that the deity in your dream is nothing other than your own higher self - you "God Head". It is drawing you to it through the waters of your emotions. In other words you have to process out your emotional resistances to life. Your higher self will draw you towards it. But you'll never be able to touch - because by the time that happens, the false self will dissolve and you will become your higher deity. Does that make sense? Much love

Five Gateways question

Fiona Reilly — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:15:43 +0000

Five Gateways question

I was wondering about our experiences between Gateways? For instance, what is the likely experience of someone who has recently transitioned Gateway 2. I would suspect that for a time there would be further integration and deeper exploration around aspects associated with the second Gateway, so for example, perhaps a continuing, deepening appreciation of following inner guidance and synchronicity and increasing sensitivity to life energy. Then gradually would aspects towards the third gateway begin to emerge and unfold? I realise that it's difficult to tease such aspects apart and that it will be unique for each individual following their own path, but wondered if you have any thoughts to share...

Thank you, love, Fiona

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The Gateways are passages through inner densities

Open Thu, 09/03/2015 - 06:43

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Hi Horse - welcome to Openhand :-)

The passage through an inner Gateways is the passage through a density of being - through a 'dimension'. But the dimensions exist here and now, in the same place, inside of us, just at different frequencies.

We are each multi-dimensional, meaning that to varying degrees, we are unfolded and unleashed into those various densities. So Yes! You are likely to begin to feel them all as you progress down the path - you will see reflections of them all.

However, passage through a density - the completion of one - is always marked by some external 'ceremony' to mark the completion of your movement through a density. And these happen sequentially, just as I've outlined in the 5GATEWAYS book.

If we're being profoundly honest with ourselves, we will know when we've completely processed attachment within a particular density - such as existential, physical issues in the first density for example.

Namaste

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New to all This

Charlie Thu, 09/03/2015 - 01:16

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As I watched 5 Gateways, I feel like a little of each gateway was already part of me. I have been on this path alone for about 6 mths and now have been get places in my thoughts that are being explained be you in 5 Gateways. Can this be, a little from each Gate. A friend told me I may like this and boy was she right. Thank you for your time

Gateway corridors

Fiona Reilly Tue, 01/18/2011 - 19:46

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Thanks for that, yes it was helpful! And I guess it's the same or similar for the other gateway transitions.

When you speak about the Gateways being like a corridor, I sense that even though we walk through a doorway (gateway in this instance :) ) and are moving onwards down the next corridor there is still an awareness and working with the door/gateway that we've just come through. For a while, along our metaphorical corridor, we are actually much closer to the door/gateway behind us rather than the one in front. We may continue to move forwards at whatever pace, until we gradually approach the next gateway on our journey and feel more of it's influence. I guess the "tasters" you describe could be compared to glimpses down the corridor of the distant approaching Gateway, until we get closer and closer and then it is right in front of us and the roller coaster begins!!!!

Thanks, Love, Fiona

Walking the path of the Gateways

Open Tue, 01/18/2011 - 18:46

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Thanks for the question Fiona - you raise a very interesting point - I'd say you've hit an important nail on the head.

Gateway 2 is all about the landing of that inner realisation that nothing is really going to serve us in life but walking the path of the constant conscious choice. This is what's been previously called "The Baptism" and I've termed "The Realignment" in my book. It's that deep "aha" upwelling from within that can leave one moved to tears for days (weeks even). It feels like coming home.

So now we're committed to walking the path in every moment, but that doesn't necessarily mean we know how to! So yes, there can be an integration period that goes on where we start to figure out how to make the highest choice and where the moment really leads us - to the confrontation of our distortions and the revelation of our gifts of beingness.

It's after we've been consciously walking the path for sometime that the pull towards Transfiguration may then kick in. It's normally tipified by the resolve to purify mind body and spirit in quite a powerful way. We'll be drawn into circumstances that bring out the inner child and teenager conditioning for example. But the full processing of this energy is only really going to begin in earnest once we've truly started walking the path. We may get tasters beforehand, but ultimately we'll know when it begins because it feels a bit like riding a rollercoaster!

I trust this helps

"Gateways of Light": mini movie - your feedback

Open — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:28:37 +0000

"Gateways of Light": mini movie - your feedback

Our new web-based mini movie "Gateways of Light" draws attention to our journey of Ascension. It addresses many of the key problems we're currently facing such as global warming, peak oil, over population, poverty, financial melt down etc. etc. and helps us to find the light at the end of the tunnel. If you've not yet seen the film, you can play it below. Afterwards, we would love to hear your thoughts, feedback and feelings...

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Lets not be too hard on mankind!

Open Fri, 12/21/2007 - 09:32

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Hi George,

Many thanks for your support for the film - it helps us greatly when people give energy to it - hopefully then our message will reach more and more people.

In many ways I share your sentiment. It pains me aswell to see what Mankind is doing to the planet and one could be forgiven for thinking whether we are simply good enough to ascend to the higher vibrational reality of the 5th Dimension in which Gaia currently resides.

But lets not be too hard on ourselves. Those of us who are really tuned into the various dimensional realms and in particular the 4th, will know that an "Opposing Consciousness" resides there and has been negatively influencing us for many thousands of years. Its purpose has been to addict us to the external drama so that we release energy when we get emotionally attached - in this way we are being 'farmed' by them.

To many, I know this will sound quite 'far-fetched', a little like science fiction fantasy, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Opposing Consciousness cannot be seen by most and can only be felt by a few; nevertheless its effects are powerful.

It works through the Solar Plexus Chakra through subliminal mental programing. Basically it pushes our inner buttons and continually activates loops of closed behaviour patterns - its just like the techniques marketeers use through their advertising to get us to buy and consume the things we don't really need.

It could be for example that you're enjoying a walk in the countryside opening up to divine unity consciousness when all of a sudden a spurious thought pops in about work, or bills or other 'problems' that we may have in our lives. All of a sudden what began as a peaceful opening up to mother nature gets shunted into a less than peaceful programmed loop of behavioural activity.

To me, this is why our world is the way it is. But there is a way out of this. It is to become the Observer of ourselves and to watch our motivations for doing things. In this way, we begin to disassociate from the external "drama". Then we get more into our feelings and the Heart begins to open. We literally begin to feel more of the surrounding energy field.

When this happens, we start to interpret divine guidance of Higher Benevolent Consciousness leading us on a pathway as directed by an inner pull through the heart or simply as higher knowing "this is the way to go now".

If we follow that pathway, it takes through the five internal Gateways of Light that we speak of which is the path to the higher paradigm - the "New World" - perhaps more appropriately "Renewed World". This is mankind's immediate destiny - or at least for those of us who choose it.

Although at times it may seem quite bleak and dark at the moment, have no fear. As we continue to attune to the love and lightness within, a growing polarity arises between the lighter and darker vibrations - they are separating out. So we will see increasing darkness in this plane.

Have no doubt though, those people that do go inwards and attune to the light, will walk the path to the higer vibrational realm - we will ascend!

:smile:

Thank you Lesley

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Thank you Lesley!!!

Your kind words mean so much.

:smile:

Attuning to the light

Open Wed, 12/12/2007 - 21:10

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Thanks for the question Turtle - yes its an important one.

In the video we say...

"In every moment we have a choice; either we can attune to the darkness, the density, the difficulties we are witnessing right now or we can attune to the lightness, the joy, the love, the at-one-ment with all things"

What's not meant is to avoid everything that we perceive as dark, difficult and dense. It means to follow the soul into whatever experiences we are guided to but then to realise that we are likely to face two contrasting energies; that leading to greater density, and that leading to greater sense of lightness experienced within ourselves.

We then have a choice; either to get lost in the darkness or to accept the perfection of all circumstances, to transcend the darkness and find the experience of lightness within it - these experiences will be gifts of beingness; in other words, expressions of the soul.

Its a bit like climbing a mountain. The higher we go the more we may feel the muscles aching, the heart pounding and the lungs burning. We can allow ourselves to identify with and dwell in those feelings. Alternatively, we can look through those feelings and find other experiences expressing the completeness and joy of the soul - in my experience, both things exist in all situations.

But as we're climbing the mountain, neither would it help us to completely ignore the pain or else we might overstep the mark and damage the body rendering us unable to proceed (you might say we've disconnected from reality).

So the key is to witness and experience the density and darkness but then to transcend it by attuning to the lightness.

This is what we meant in the film. :smile:

"Gateways of Light" - the making of the movie

Open Tue, 12/11/2007 - 07:00

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We're absolutely thrilled to release our new 10 minute movie "Gateways of Light" today.

The film happened as all the best things do - without real intention! I was approached a few months back by a small film production team called "The Smiling Dragonfly" (definitely heaven sent!) who were seeking to make a film about Enlightenment and the current expansion of consciousness that is taking place across our planet.

It seemed like a great idea at the time so I offered to give energy to it. From the moment we began, everything just seemed to flow - it was abundantly clear higher consciousness was steering the show.

The wonderful Magdalen Chapel in Glastonbury was made synchronistically available to us to shoot the main interview and then we were taken on a magical journey around Glastonbury for some of the other scenes.

However we weren't at all sure what the end product was meant to be until one of the film crew asked me a question right at the end of the two days filming..."What did I think of the current situation mankind finds itself in?"

I distinctly remember feeling a wave of energy flow up and through me; it seemed to come from Mary Magdalen herself! Fortunately the guys had left the cameras rolling and instantly we all knew this was what the film was meant to be about.

When we came to the first edit, the film just seemed to want to make itself! Without too much effort the film unfolded together with some final "tweaking" to make sure we'd got the message absolutely right.

For five years since my initial awakening in a life threatening car crash, I have felt the infusion of energy compelling me to deliver a message to those who might listen; the movie quite accurately captures the essence of that message so I am thrilled to see its release today.

Why do we feel the movie is important?

There are many films around at the moment talking about the issues we're facing - "An Inconvenient Truth", "The Eleventh Hour", "The Shift" to name but a few and thankfully they are all fueling the debate. In contrast, we felt it important to take the "top-down" spiritual perspective; that all of the events we see around us are interrelated and happening for a purpose - we are being guided to go inwards and reconnect with our divinity. For too long we have been engaged in the external drama of effects rather than the internal world of causality.

Well it seems we can no longer ignore the effects...we simply have to address the cause. It is time to find wholeness within; to discover that we cannot buy happiness; that love is not given by someone else but found within ourselves; that the next chapter of human evolution is not technical but spiritual.

Will people listen? We believe those who are meant to will.

With love and blessings to all :smile:

What is Ascension?

Open — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:57:37 +0000

What is Ascension?

There is much discussion "out there" at the moment about "Ascension". What exactly is it? Are we ascending? What is the process we follow? These questions and more are addressed here...

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Open Wed, 10/13/2010 - 04:17

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Hi Elf, I do indeed think it would be worth reading the book because it goes into quite some detail about it all. In brief, the point is that Gaia is multi-dimensional and we are being invited to become that too. Although her CENTRE OF CONSCIOUSNESS is moving, that doesn't mean everything will come to an end in the Third Dimension when she does. We may experience degrees of disruption on the surface, but the change will be fairly mild as a result of Gaia's shift of consciousness. I should add... that's not to say there won't be a good degree of turmoil in the years ahead, but other reasons will cause that. For example Climate Change which will likely speed up and then the human response to that. It could likely cause the fragmentation of the global financial system. Dwindling energy reserves like oil, and the fact that China is trying to snap up oil reserves and other energy will also likely cause great disruption. At the same time as all this is going on (and I can use the present tense because it's already happening), the in flows of consciousness will strengthen as more and more people wake up. What I see is a 'parting of the waves'. Many will likely buy into the collapsing fear based reality and not be able to open enough to experience the internal shifts. Others will be inspired to go inwards and the crumbling old reality may in fact catalyse that for them. But there is no fixed time as to when we can ascend. Neither is there a fixed 'cut-off' point so to speak. I have read much dis-information and in my perspective delusion about this. We're not all going to ascend together in some magical wave at a fixed day and time. Yes at the consciousness level we are working together, but for each person, the journey is an individual one and can take many years of consistent and committed action. Nothing can really short cut the process - we can catalyse it, but we still have to complete the entire process (as I've explained in my book). So as long as human life in this Third Dimension is possible, then there is the possibility to complete the Ascension process here. I trust this sheds a little more light. Best wishes

Ascending internally

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Hi Elf, Thanks for connecting with Openhand. You are welcome here :smile: The question of timing is an interesting one. I can see my original wording on the Ascension of Gaia may have been a little misleading - so thanks for drawing my attention to it. I have now rephrased the comment you refer to as follows...

"Our Planetary System is ascending to the higher realm, the Soul of the Earth is already centering her consciousness in the 5th Dimension and extends energies - a bridge - into this 3rd Dimension. She is inviting us to relinquish attachment to the old plane and join her in the higher one. It is a process due to complete around 2012."

So this may align with what you've been reading elsewhere. You also ask...

"Upon our own ascension, will our physical bodies also remain functioning in the 3rd dimension? If so, How?"

In my direct experience, Ascension is an internal process through internal layers of consciousness. We become fully fifth dimensional here and now in the physical body. We activate higher bodily vehicles of expression and experience the higher realms here and now. Gaia is doing exactly the same. So when she completes her Ascension process, she will also 'retain a physical body' (namely the Earth) and could do so for many thousands of years to come. When we leave our physical bodies though, if we have already ascended internally, there is simply no need to reincarnate into the physical realm (although some may still do this for a particular purpose). Our journey then continues in the higher realms. I've talked about the process in a good deal of detail in my book "Five Gateways: Our Journey of Ascension" in case you'd like to explore deeper. You can find out more about the book and get a copy if you wish here... Five Gateways Thanks for your interest

Journey of unfolding

Open Tue, 04/01/2008 - 10:20

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Hi Caitriona,

Thanks for your post and sharing. You're most welcome here.
Its wonderful that you feel so filled with love. Its a fantastic feeling isn't it? A sure sign that you've been through the initial awakening.

I can completely understand it if you feel at odds with your friends, family and those around you. Its difficult to understand the Awakening unless you've first been through it yourself. Society generally does not recognise spiritual awakening and we can encounter judgment and negativity as a result.

So what to do next?

My advice would be to always ask your soul and let it begin to guide you through life rather than using mind led intention to do things. I would watch for the opportunity to meet new people more in line with your new consciousness. Perhaps seek out organisations that can assist - maybe a meditation of yoga group for example.

The next stage is to learn how to really listen to the soul. How it guides us through life and how we create our reality according to the level of consciousness we hold within. Our course "Way of the Heart" helps people really tune into higher guidance and unfold the way of being that best serves us.

To me, this is what the next stage is really all about. To transition from trying to change, create or manifest our outer world according to our limited wants or desires, and instead focus on how we are being; finding and expressing in every moment our highest truth and allowing our beingness to shape events accordingly. This is the Gateway 2 transition called "Realignment".

If we do that, we will be guided on a magical pathway - the destined pathway of the soul.

Best wishes on your journey of unfolding!

Get above the senses

Open Tue, 06/26/2007 - 07:02

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Hi Aline - its really great to have you back on the forum - glad all is well with you :smile: To me a good "higher self" meditation begins by 'getting above the senses'. What do I mean by this? Well, it begins by bringing attention up to the fontanel - the crown chakra - because that changes our centre of perception from being (usually) just behind the centre of the forehead to being above the 5 senses. In which case we are moving the centre of our perception beyond the usual physical - and therefore lower self - dimensions. Before I go further I feel I should add that of course space and time are illusions - there is no 'higher' or 'lower', there is no 'up there' just as there is no 'in here' or 'out there'. There is only the perception of these things. What we're really doing then is exploring what you might call different layers of consciousness and in order to explore new layers, it helps to change our perception from what we usually experience. So back to the meditation... Mine is heavily influenced by the ancient Kriya meditations brought to the west by Paramahansa Yogananda in the 1930's. Kriya is many hundred (if not thousands) of years old and has helped bring many people to enlightenment. In the meditation we breathe with attention in the crown chakra and this begins to move perception into new layers. I use the model that my higher self is above me and begin by focussing consciousness in the higher self. So as you inhale, feel the higher self - as light - being drawn downwards to the crown. Then when fully inhaled, hold the breath and feel the higher self focussing in this place - feel yourself harnessing that higher vibration. Then as you exhale, breathe the light downwards through the fontanel and into the body - but always keeping your attention in the crown. Do this for some minutes. Now that we've focussed in the higher self, the key is to bring the experience of that into the body. So after this first stage, we then bring attention down into the 'dan ten' - the pelvic region. Now as you inhale, draw the light down into the pelvis and as you've filled, then immediately begin to exhale the energy (light) out through the body in waves and then out into your surrounding field and then back into the universe - this we call "whale breathing". When you're truly skilled at it, you can feel your whole body filling with light and it can bring on an intensely blissful feeling. Finally, after some minutes of this type of breathing, switch now to "butterfly breathing". This is a light inhale followed immediately by a light exhale and then hold the breath just until you feel the natural impulse to inhale again. Let the breathing settle right down until it is practically unnoticeable in the background of your experience. Then when fully settled, move your consciousness around your body releasing and easing any tension. Know that as you release the tightness, that area of the body (a blockage) is being transmuted and filled with light. After some minutes of this, simply allow your attention to drift off where it will. This part can be deeply transcendent. It is at this point people frequently touch the "seer" - the absolute non identified awareness through all things. It is a taste of enlightenment. I feel I should also express that people get vastly different experiences from this meditation depending on where they are at on their journey. So it only really works by perseverance and surrender - any practice is only ever as good as our ability to let go and truly explore ourselves beyond mind and body. Hope this helps! Best wishes

Thank you!

aline01 (not verified) Tue, 06/26/2007 - 10:42

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Thank you very much!

As always, your infos are so helpful !!!

I will start today with this meditation; I will let you know about my progress !

By the way, when I and my husband look up to the sky, it does not matter if day or night, it seems that the sky, the stars, and so on are now much closer to us, they don't look so far away anymore...I wonder if you have the same sensation.

Best wishes and have a nice day,
Aline.

The transition to a higher plane of existence

Open Tue, 06/19/2007 - 17:58

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The transition to a higher vibrationary realm Ascension is an entirely natural evolutionary process at work in the Universe. It is where a particular life system raises its vibrationary state from one energetic Realm of Existence to another higher one. Put simply, it is rather like tuning into another station on the radio... The Universe is not as traditional science would have us believe and not what we have been conditioned to think by society. It exists as a vast ocean of consciousness where every single "part" is interconnected and manifested in layers known as "Dimensional Realms". So for example our Physical Realm, where the centre of consciousness of most people dwells is the 3rd Dimensional Realm - that of space - with the 4th dimension surrounding it. The next higher realm is the 5th with the 4th dimension acting as a 'bridge' between the two. Why is it that this model of reality is not generally accepted within society? The reality we each experience is born from our beliefs about that reality. We are each exposed to billions of bits of incoming information every second but the physical brain can only process a very small fraction of these. To cope with the overload, it superimposes a map of the reality we expect upon the incoming information and filters out the rest. Since we manifest the experience we bring our consciousness to, most of us therefore only experience a wafer thin slice of what is available to us. However, if we are able to release ourselves from attachment to the external drama of life in this Realm, then we begin to still the internal noise of thought and emotion. Our internal metabolism quietens, tension and efforting is eased and our vibration rises. In turn our consciousness begins to expand into new layers of our being and in particular into our "light body". When this starts to take place, we are beginning to unfold into the new paradigm and taste the interconnectivity of all life. Our intuitive and psychic capabilities are initiated and we begin to notice more the synchronisitic co-creativity of life. At some point on this miraculous inner journey, we become acquatinted with the next higher vibrational realm experienced through the patterning of all events in this lower plane of existence. We realise that all along we have been living not in one world but two where one overlaps the other. Our Planetary System is ascending to the higher realm, the Soul of the Earth is already centering her consciousness in the 5th Dimension and extends energies - a bridge - into this 3rd Dimension. She is inviting us to relinquish attachment to the old plane and join her in the higher one. It is a process due to complete around 2012. Currently on earth there is a 'quickening' where more and more people are realising there is much more to reality than meets the eye and are beginning to explore their consciousness. As we open up to the higher consciousness, we allow in a powerful energetic force which guides our individual evolutionary journey if we allow it to. In short it takes us out of the mind and into the heart to explore our genuine inner longing expressed as authentic characteristics of our soul. It helps us strip away the conditioned desires and illusionary needs instilled by society. The Soul is our pathway and is completely aligned with the evolutionary journey many are now embarking on. Our immediate destiny is ascension into the next higher realm.