Worldstory 2013

By Starfield Press

IN A WORLD WHERE TRUE SEPARATION IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND, everything that happens affects absolutely everything else, in every way.
When one opens and allows a vulnerability and a healing to occur, the way is opened for others to open and heal as well. When one shatters their way through an emotional, mental, or spiritual wall, the interconnected wall is that much weaker for the next being to smash through and find the next step in their own enlightenment.
The WORLDSTORY project is a various author effort designed to relate to each other in unity; to encourage and inspire through the sharing of personal stories, trials, lessons, blessings, and growth; and to offer a space of healing for those doing the writing, and for those reading.
The right people will read the right words at exactly the right time they need it.
That’s how this world works.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Starfield Press
• Release date: Feb 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311265821

Starfield Press

Intuitive publishing focused on spiritual, metaphysical, and evolutionary material.Starfield Press was conceived in summer of 2012 by author and healer Lloyd Matthew Thompson as a place to promote and publish his own written works, as well as a place that may assist others in launching their work and messages into the world.Though not rigidly so, the main focus of Starfield Press shines on thought-provoking material that promotes growth, expansion, and healing.Metaphysical, holistic, and “psychic” topics will often be found from Starfield Press, through fiction, non-fiction and poetry alike.A major goal of Starfield Press is to burst the stagnant and outdated boxes and mindsets wide open, clearing the space for true healing and personal growth.

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WORLDSTORY 2013

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Each story contained within these pages remains the copyright of the participant who submitted it for this project. They may still use their work however and whenever they wish.

Cover design by Lloyd Matthew Thompson

WORLDSTORY 2013

• CONTENTS •

INTRODUCTION

THE BIRTHING

— ELENA FLORES

CHALLENGE

— CHALLENGED

THE BALANCE

— MELISSA RAE THOMPSON

THE YEAR I LOST MYSELF

— AGATHE BJØRNSDATTER MOLVIK

THE MESSAGE

— SARAH KRAJEWSKI WEBB

A LEAP OF FAITH

— SHANNON LAACKMANN

EXPECTATIONS AND FEARS

— NIKKI BEARD

SPREADING CALM

— GARY MOLLOY

PERCEPTIONS

— SHELLY WILSON

DECISIONS

— NATALIE WHEELER

REACHING FARTHER

— LISA BACHRACH-ZEANKOWSKI

FIRSTHAND DARKNESS

— LLOYD MATTHEW THOMPSON

THE VENUS-PLUTO CYCLE

— BRIG

THE WEEK

— MONICA ROLLER

BENEVOLENT MESSAGE

— EDWARD FELICIANO

THE PRESENCE OF SPIRIT

— LORI HOMSTAD

• INTRODUCTION •

YOU ARE NOW HOLDING in your hands the first in a long line of treasuries from Starfield Press (I have seen the future!) that will each play a role in the transformation of this world.

The biggest key to this claim?

Each one will be written by you: the regular person, the brother, the sister, the mirrored reflection of all around you.

You see, in a world where true separation is impossible to find, everything that happens, everything that is decided, and everything that one does affects another person, place, or thing—or all of the above.

Yet this does not apply only to the so-called negative aspects; the just-as-equal positive actions yank on the web of life, and affect all else in existence just as much. When one opens and allows a vulnerability and a healing to occur, the way is opened for others to open and heal as well. When one shatters their way through an emotional, mental, or spiritual wall, the interconnected wall is that much weaker for the next being to smash through and find the next step in their own enlightenment.

And so the concept of WORLDSTORY was born.

A major goal of Starfield Press is to inspire growth and expansion via stories, whether the story is a non-fiction, a fiction, or a creative river of words flowing from the depths of one’s soul, as poetry is. Its tagline, Everyone’s World Has a Story to Tell, captures these intentions beautifully, for a thousand people could witness the exact same event, and each one’s story recounting that event would be absolutely different, colored and flavored by their own experiences and energies—and it takes all facets of a diamond to make the diamond, no?

The goal of the WORLDSTORY project is to relate to each other in unity; to encourage and inspire through the sharing of personal stories, trials, lessons, blessings, and growth; and to offer a space of healing for both those doing the writing (and therefore processing and purging), and for those reading.

And the right people will read the right words at exactly the right time they need it. That’s how this world works.

Capturing our experiences in writing also serves as excellent documentation of our progress and process—who knows where we will be even next year, much less in ten years? When we are able to go back and read where we were at this time, what an experience of clarity we will have; we will be able to see more exactly how we got there!

In this way it is not a history or a herstory, but a worldstory.

Another excellent reason to convert our reflections into writing is the value of translating it itself. Just as our eyes send inherently empty and meaningless visual impulses to our brain, and then it is our brain that inspects and assigns a label or meaning to the image and translates it into something we can understand, the same goes for the reverse. What is held inside us is composed of layers and layers of everything from thought forms to emotional and felt forms. How can that be communicated to others? All those layers cannot easily be embedded on the paper so others feel it for themselves—it must be translated into symbols that can be understood by others: words! The very act of analyzing and breaking down what is inside us in order to convert it into something others can understand makes us look at it from even more angles that we may not have before.

2013 was the first full year after the much-anticipated 2012 Shift—what better time to begin a project such as WORLDSTORY?

There is no denying that things have changed in this world, and shifted on every level. Whether the 2012 Shift was an actual event, or if it was merely the intentions and expectations wrapped around it by millions of beings that manifested the shift, there was a shift.

Accountability and responsibility seem to be the major theme everyone is dealing with at this time. What was hidden is now being exposed, what is done is now being called to be owned, and what is desired is now being manifested at blurring speeds—which many are quickly learning to make sure they specify exact details of what it is they want.

Many, many people are having an extremely difficult time with these new energies. All over this world, people are experiencing heightened emotions, mental and physical breakdowns, and what feels like crisis after crisis. Some are even giving up altogether, choosing to leave the planet at this time!

I’ve seen people who have been steady-tempered for years and years suddenly flip and lose their minds, going crazy and becoming absolutely unpredictable.

I’ve seen others meet this wall (this tsunami?) with determination and resolve, and manage to pierce through its challenges, emerging on the other side shining and purified.

And I’ve seen others still simply sail through the turning tides without a scratch or problem whatsoever!

Everyone’s experience is relative to and depends on the rest of their factors, choices, and previous experiences—their programming, if you will.

So what did your 2013 hold for you?

It’s never too late to meditate upon, and record your own experiences, whether it is done as a part of this project or not—and we highly encourage you to do so!

Perhaps some or all of the stories in this edition will speak to you, show you that you are not the only one in a certain situation, or uplift you to the heights that you need to reach your next level.

The arrangement of these stories has been chosen at random by my three year old daughter, allowing the Universe to select the order in which they should appear from the mouth of a babe—or from the drawing of paper slips in her Daddy’s hat.

I encourage you to absorb these stories with an open Heart, open Eyes, and an open Mind.

Many blessings!

Lloyd Matthew Thompson

Editor, Starfield Press

January 2014

• THE BIRTHING •

WE ALL EXPECTED SOMETHING dramatic to happen on December 21, 2012… some of us were disappointed, some of us were relieved the world didn’t end, and for others—like me—the shift started occurring gently, painfully slow, and inevitably.

Looking to the year behind, and even further back into my life, I find myself asking the question, "Who was that person in my head who had a hold of me for nearly three decades?"

December 21, 2012, was the moment of conception, the moment I conceived the understanding that there is a seed of something deeper, clearer, and enormous in me. A dear friend and loving guide called this feeling being pregnant with myself.

In the First trimester, from Winter Solstice 2012 until the Spring Equinox, there was little change, just a budding feeling that something was different, and a silent acknowledgment that my life would never be the same. New explorations and deeper practices opened my eyes to the extraordinarily tight grip my mind had on my