When the lion roars

From Frank:

A friend saw the following quote online and asked what the Communion of Light would say about it. And they had quite a bit to say. And, in the writing, a completely new way of transcribing was born. It was all very delicious!

Most people limit their lives by censoring their desires. Don’t censor them: allow yourself to own what it is you really want. The desire is telling you something. If the desire is appropriate, your owning it paves a path for its manifestation. If not, owning it is also necessary so you can surrender it for transformation. Live in the excitement of being pregnant with the life you truly want.

–Marianne Williamson

From The Communion of Light:

We would completely agree.

We don’t think that anyone’s desires can ever do the harm
that the person having the desire often thinks it can.

In other words,
you are often afraid
that if you just run free with your desires
then you will cause
havoc,
ruin,
and destruction.

We know that most people would think
that perspective is a bit extreme,
and it is,
but it is as if you are all thinking that way,
hesitating,
afraid to rock the boat
or upset your own or another’s apple cart.

And we say,
feel free to upset as many carts as you want because,
you see,
it’s not quite what you think it is.

You begin like a mouse who is
timid and afraid to speak
or make the slightest little peep.

Then you find Your Self,
often because you are boxed in and simply can’t stand it anymore.

Then, as you find Your Self,
and you find that inner truth that simply yearns to be expressed,
not for others necessarily,
but for you and you alone,
then you become like the lion that roars.

And when you roar,
it does not cause the whole world to go upside-down.

But it is more like a call that you send forth.

And those who find comfort,
relief,
inspiration,
freedom,
joy,
love,
or whatever it may be
within it,
will flock to you
and want more of it
because they find your roar to be one
that is just right for them in that moment.

And,
of course,
the moment you begin to worry
if your roar is the correct roar
or if it is the one that everyone wants
or the one that will sell books
or the one that will make Oprah call you,
then you will begin to notice
that it doesn’t have quite the oomph
that it had before.

And that’s perfectly fine.

If you just pay attention to how much
liberation
and love
and joy
you can have within yourself
by letting yourself roar
when you want
and sit in the shade
when you want,
you will discover
how this is very much
a self-correcting system indeed.

Now, what about the one who roars and no one attends to it?

No one comes forth?

Is that a problem?

Does this one need a better roar?

A kinder roar?

A more persuasive roar?

We would say that this might be the case,
but the call here is to find out –
what is the roar for?

Is it to fix something (inside or out)?

Is it to make money and banish poverty?

Is it to make things right because things are wrong?

If it is any of these things,
or similar,
then it’s not going to work that well.

Again, this is a self-correcting system.

And, so, the roar that comes from the heart,
the roar that feels good in the roaring of it all,
the roar that makes the lion’s hair stand on end…
this is the roar that is being called forth.

Now, who is doing the calling?

First and foremost the lion is doing the calling.

The lion has in his mind what he is wanting.

He may be wanting more connection,
more creativity,
more joy,
more freedom,
more and better improved conditions of whatever nature.

It doesn’t matter.

The point is that the lion has been
dreaming
and fantasizing
and informing the Universe how to organize his experience.

And because he pays attention to
when roaring feels good
and when sitting in the noontime shade feels good,
he doesn’t worry about how it will be
that what he is wanting will arrive.

He simply feels better when he roars
or when he sits
and they both feel equally delightful in turn.

But there is also a larger calling as well.

And that is the call that the others,
who would find the lion’s domain to be an attractive
and desirable place to spend some time,
are sending forth.

But it is not the lion’s task to know
where
or how
to organize such a thing.

To get into that organizing means
that the lion is deciding
how it will come about.

Now, he can certainly do this
but it will probably not work out very well.

And that, too, is fine.

Because,
once again,
this is a self-correcting system,
or we might say that the lion’s kingdom is always evolving.

The amount of time
that it takes to go from here to there
just depends upon how well
the lion allows
this natural evolution to occur
and how willing he is to go with the flow
that he himself started long ago
and that is just wanting to take him to all the places
he already wants to go.

So, the larger calling is never really the point.

How it feels in the moment to the lion:
to roar,
to feast,
to sit and bask…

Just deciding which of these,
among the many choices the lion has in front of him,
is the one that feels better from where he is in the moment.

Now, we say his kingdom is naturally evolving
and that he lives in a self-correcting system.

What do we mean by this?

Well, it is just this:
This is a friendly Universe.

All who are within it
(and none are not within it)
do what they do
because of what they believe the doing will bring them.

Most people do what they do
because of what they think their doing will bring them later.

So,
for instance,
the young lion is taught to eat his peas
before he can have his ice cream.

And this teaching is reinforced again and again
throughout the pride.

“Nothing good comes easily,” he is told.

“All things take time and you must wait for them,” he is cautioned.

And we do not necessarily disagree with this on the surface,
but we do take exception to the deeper meaning:
sacrifice is required before satisfaction can be acquired.

And we say that since satisfaction is a feeling,
you can have it now.

There is no need to wait,
unless you believe it is necessary.

But that is the lion’s belief, not the dictate of the Universe.

So,
in this self-correcting system,
you can draw out the amount of time it takes
to go from here to there
or you can shorten it.

All distances require some time,
even if it is only a second,
because time is a factor in your system
(present but not forever).

When you realize
that time is your friend.

That,
in fact,
everything everywhere only wants what you really want,
more and more of Source Energy in expression,

Then the time factor becomes a matter of minutes and seconds
instead of years and months.

And no matter how resistant you are to this flow,
that you yourself created,
you can not be eternally resistant to it
because you will eventually leave this system
and move on to something else.

And when you leave,
you will drop all the resistance
you ever had
to your many creations.

It will become moot.

So, we say that this system is self-correcting.

No matter how off-track you believe yourself to be,
you can’t stay that way forever.

You can’t continue to resist what is
(which is what being off-track really is)
any longer than you will be alive.

So nothing that feels bad,
feels tight,
feels overwhelming
can last forever.

And it can be a whole lot less than you believe it to be
once you realize this is a self-correcting system
all organized by a central principle of expansion and evolution
that says that what is focused upon becomes more of itself.

In other words,
dear lion,
what roar is coming forth from you?

What road will you travel?

The choice is up to you.

Our only suggestion is that you decide
to feel connected to your Source now,
rather than later,
and the fastest way to do so is to find
the thought in its thinking that feels better,
the word in its speaking that feels better,
or the action in its doing that feels better.

Your connection to your source

When we speak of your connection to your source, we mean that thing that can’t really be called a connection because that would imply something that could be broken, which this connection really cannot be.

You can pretend, as much as you want and for as long as you want, that you are not connected to your source. The main way most of you do this is to insist on paddling upstream and doing all the organizing of your life and its events and connections on your own. You also, for reasons that we very much understand, want to be seen as standing on your own and not really needing help, physical or non-physical.

The thing is, however, that you are surrounded by reminders of your ever-constant connection to your source. You are reminded of this every time you hear a bird singing its simple song of desire. A bird calls out to another bird or simply wants to hear the sound of its song. Why the bird does what it does is not really that important. But that you have drawn to you something so beautiful and amazing and so very, very connected to the flow of all things is a powerful reminder of your own connection, if you will allow it.

Anything that you can observe that is beautiful to you or that moves you or that brings you relief or that just simply feels good to you is a reminder of your connection to your source. That basic better feeling is your source calling to you. Never impatient, never once believing the disconnection that you believe, and certainly never anything other than unconditionally in love with you, your source calls and calls and calls endlessly. When you hear its song, you feel better, your world improves almost immediately, your heart lifts, and everything around you moves more into a state of alignment as you begin to drop resistance to what you are observing.

It just takes a breath and a desire to remember who you are for that reminder to come to you. It is always, always, always there and has never, ever been lost to you.

Hope is at the edge of your Vortex

When you are on the edge of your Vortex, it feels like hope. If you can find your way to hope, the organizing principle of the Universe will take care of the rest. Hope on any topic means that you’ve dropped your resistance enough to let the Universe in and do the work you’ve been wanting it to. And that feels really, really good!

Now, when you are wanting more than what you are having, that can feel like hope. In other words, you are thinking about what there is so delicious about what you can have and yet you still know it’s not quite there yet but it can be and it likely will be. Well, you get the point. This is hope.

Hope is like standing on the fence and realizing that yes, the grass is greener over there and since it’s really all you, you might as well go ahead and go over and enjoy it. For, wasn’t the old story about the grass being greener all about the fact that you should just take what you were given because it’s not going to get much better?

Well, hope doesn’t pay much attention to this. Hope is like a very attractive friend who is looking at you and saying, “It’s all good over here. Why don’t you come over and enjoy it?” When you relax a little bit, you realize that you don’t have to guard your small, meager bit but that the whole universe is yours to explore and so that greener grass might just be the answer to your wanting.

We’re not talking, necessarily, about journeys of distance or time. When we say that the grass is greener, we don’t mean, get up out of your chair and go sit in your neighbor’s yard, although you might want to do that if it feels good to you and is in alignment with the totality of your desires.

What we mean is that you tend to parse the world into segments and say, “This bit is mine. And that larger bit isn’t. I can have this contentment and this managed pessimism, but hope is too far a land to ever reach.”

When you touch on hope, you’ll feel its pull. Hope is the opening that you have been asking for. It is here at your request. And, so, you can relax into the awareness that where you are going is exactly where you want to go. Hope is always leading you downstream and it always feels better.

Hope is at the edge of your Vortex. None of this is going to mean much if you are in your Vortex as you read our words.

But, if you are feeling adrift, in the land of the lost, wondering when your ship is going to finally reach its port, and confused about who you and what this is all about, then these words are for you.

Hope is here. Hope is beckoning. Hope is coming in response to your call for improved conditions, more money, ever-increasing wellbeing, deeper connections in your relationships, and more.

Hope is a response to your desire for things to get better. They are getting better and hope is pointing out the way to you.

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Doing and thoughts

From Frank: This was originally posted as a Facebook note on May 12, 2009

You are that which you are. You have created this magnificent being in this magnificent moment. And you are not liking what you have created. That is all.

You want to go free. You want to bask in joy. Yet you do not allow it. You focus on what you do not want by looking at what is and deciding it does not pass muster and that it is not up to snuff.

When you do this, you progressively feel worse and worse. You head into an ever-contracting spiral and you separate yourself from your Higher Self. For, in that moment, you cannot see what your Higher Self sees. Your Higher Self, being that part of you that is Source, sees you with deep appreciation. Your Higher Self looks around your field of energy and your field of perception and says, “Yes, it is all good. Yes, it is all perfect. And what else do you want to create from where you are right now? Do you want more joy? Do you want more freedom? Do you want to be in alignment with where you are? Then choose what you have. Free yourself from the bondage you have set up for yourself.”

To you, our most beloved friend, we say: what you DO matters not. What you THINK is everything. And we are mildly amused to watch you as you examine your DOING and find fault with it.

We know that you think you will be tested again and again about your DOING, about all of your OUTPUT. You have been sold a bill of goods. No one is testing you. No one is measuring your output. No one is doing this unless you beckon them forth and say, “Please. Please look at my things that I have created. Please look at these things and judge me worthy.” And yet you are quite terrified that you will be found unworthy of your OUTPUT. Again, nothing could be further from the truth except in the twisted fantasies of your own mind.

What you THINK trumps everything! If you THINK you will be judged, you will be. If you THINK you will be in alignment with all that you have created, you will be. Your thoughts create your reality. Your doing is always, always a result of your thoughts. But, again, your doing is the least productive aspect of your creation.

Now, if you yourself judge yourself by your DOING and your OUTPUT, then you will find yourself trapped again and again by these things. If you beckon forth approval and acknowledgment from others based on your DOING, you will live or die by this sword. You seek approval from others through your DOING when in fact your THOUGHTS change your reality more quickly and more precisely and more beautifully than all of your DOING could ever hope to do.

It is quite simple. You think a THOUGHT. Your Higher Self replies and tells you if you are on track. Now, you may ask us – why does this happen? It is simple. You entered into this three-dimensional reality and put yourself into the stream of time. And, knowing that you would want guidance, you agreed beforehand to have this aspect of self, a Higher Self, that you would leave outside of the physical. This Higher Self knows who you are. This Higher Self is one with that which you call Source. This Higher Self sees the totality of your experience, both physical and non-physical. This Higher Self looks upon your life and sees only perfection. This Higher Self never leaves you, although you may forget about it for a while.

So, you have thunk your THOUGHT. And, if your thought is in alignment with who you are… If this thought is in alignment with who you are becoming… Then this THOUGHT will feel GOOD to you. How that happens is different in every situation. But, know this, you are always moving and expanding and creating. You cannot stop this. Ever. So, when you are moving and expanding as a result of the THOUGHTS that you are thinking, you are either moving in the direction of what you want and your Higher Self tells you, unambiguously, “This is good. This thought feels good.” If you are moving in another direction, you begin to contract yourself away from your Higher Self. And your Higher Self tells you, consistently and unambiguously, “This is not so good. This thought does not feel good.”

Let us discuss this from a slight different viewpoint.

You are never depressed. You are never angry. That is a language construct that makes no sense to us, from our broader non-physical perspective.

You have depression feelings. You have anger feelings. Just like you have a car or a house or a friend or any other thing that you have. Saying that you are depressed or that you are angry is like saying, “I am my car. I am my friend. I am my things.” You have all of these things. But you are none of them. Who you are cannot be quantified or limited in any way, although you can pretend as if you are limited, for you are that powerful.

When you have these depression feelings, they are a steady signal from your Higher Self: “You are going in a direction that is not actually pleasing to you. Turn around, let go, reach for a better feeling thought.” From depression, that better-feeling thought might be anger. Who knows? It might be one of many things. But you are never depressed. You cannot BE depression. Ever. What you can do is to convince yourself that you are what you have, which is a depression feeling.

And, as you well know, when you are in that place, it is as if you are in a trance. So, that is why we say to you, consistently and unambiguously, “Find a way to feel better from where you are.”

And when you do this, slowly and with a bit of persistence, you will find relief in short order. While it will take some time, it will not take nearly as long as you think it might.

And when you do this, when you find this relief. Well, then. You are on your way to where you want to be. You are one step closer to having the direct experience of the freedom and the joy and the love that have been the objects of your desire for so very long.

Getting into Your Vortex

Perhaps you have heard us speak about Your Vortex.

Perhaps you have heard our friends Abraham talk about the importance of getting into the vortex.

We do recommend it. We do recommend that you find a way to directly connect with Source Energy through what we like to call your Higher Self.

When you are in Your Vortex, you will find everything you have been waiting for. It is all there and in a perfectly ordered way. In Your Vortex, the Universe, the Law of Attraction, this mechanical process, is ordering and arranging everything you are wanting.

When you are in Your Vortex it feels very good because you can feel your connection. Your connection to Source is always a tremendous experience.

And so, we know that many of you are wondering how, exactly, to get into Your Vortex.

There are countless ways and each of you has a way that is easier for you than it might be for another.

For some, you might enjoy listening to music that stirs you.

You might enjoy remembering a particularly delightful experience, all the while savoring and amplifying the moments that you loved and allowing the feeling of them to enter fully into your awareness.

You might enjoy spending time with a loved one, with a beast such as a cat or a dog or a bird, with a small child whose laughter and delight feels contagious to you. All the while you are doing this, again, savoring and basking in the moments that feels so good to you and deciding to amplify them through your attention.

You might enjoy reading, hearing, or watching inspiring material that reminds you of the truth of who you are.

All of these things may very well help you get into Your Vortex. As you are there, you will feel the wonder of it all. Everything that you look upon will delight you and you will find it easy to ignore what you are not wanting.

And… you may get kicked out from time to time. You may find some topics to be nettlesome and so you find yourself outside Your Vortex. But, as you will know when you are in Your Vortex, you will want to expend that little effort and desire that will move you back into Your Vortex where you can hand over the nettlesome topic to the Universe to arrange for you.


We do want to share with you a process that you might find helpful in addition to what we have listed and all those ways that our friends Abraham have discussed.

This is, quite plainly, how Frank gets into His Vortex. It’s simple in execution but may take a little bit of practice. In fact, it is so simple, that you may not believe, at first, that it is possible.

Simply put: take a moment and find a comfortable place where you are seated or standing. Once you understand how to do this, you can then try it while prone but it’s simpler if you begin while seated.

Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Allow yourself to relax a bit. As you do, imagine that there is a swirl of energy that surrounds your body. You can imagine it to be whatever color is pleasing to you, but you might find it simplest to imagine that this energy is just a clear white light.

As you imagine this swirling light circling your body, decide that you want to be in Your Vortex. You can do this by speaking that decision out loud or just by making a mental decision that you want to be in Your Vortex.

The first time you do this, it might feel a bit quiet or even strange. If you feel as though you can’t quite get to where you want to be, don’t worry about it too much. Just move on to something else and then come back when you are ready.

But, if you begin to feel a pleasant sensation in your body or any feeling of a deeper relaxation than where you began, then you can know that you are indeed connecting with Your Vortex. There is, most definitely, a physical effect to entering Your Vortex. Your body will feel better.

As you begin to notice these subtle physical changes, begin to notice your thoughts and your feelings. See how much easier it is to reach for a better feeling thought. Once you are in Your Vortex, you will be able to reach for better feeling thoughts quite easily and you will notice that their impact is more pronounced than when you are outside of Your Vortex.

Time will seem to be less of a foe and more of an ally. Thoughts will begin to naturally bend in the direction of well-being and positive intention. The motives of others will appear less devious and more open and positive, if only misguided. You will find it easier and easier to feel better about yourself and you will find it easier and easier to feel better about others around you.

As you practice this process, you will have opportunities to refine it and enhance it and make it completely your own. We do suggest that you practice it several times a day until you notice that you can quickly enter Your Vortex just by thinking about it. This will happen, even if you think such a possibility is a bit off from where you are.

We do want to be clear about one thing that we think is very important. Being in Your Vortex is not about solving problems, although problems can be solved in Your Vortex. It is not about healing hurts and pain, although great healing can happen in Your Vortex. Being in Your Vortex is about how it feels to you and the increasingly more profound and powerful alignment that you find there. Getting into Your Vortex because it feels good to you is the single most important rationale we could ever offer you for doing so.


From Frank: Please leave comments about your experience in using this process. I am very interested to discover how well it works for other folks. Many thanks!


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