Lightning Seeds: Journey Through the Rainbow

By Marie J. Foster

Lightning Seeds is about formally acknowledging awareness within each and every one of us as we live our lives. It is about change and renewal. It is about intricately weaving feelings into your life. Helping to integrate, assimilate, and formalize feelings as the mainstream, where awareness is the norm, where spirituality is in the physical, not as something to be obtained through a misty veil at the end of a tunnel. It is a blueprint for change, a map, but not the territory. It is the nature of true reality, asking you what is your place therein. It is not about diluting the situations we may find ourselves in. The words are abstractions, a guide. As you open to any page, it is important to bear in mind what that page is making you aware of: a memory, a feeling, an experience, and emotions and attitudes that come with it. Do they still serve? See possibilities that change can bring, and with the purest intentions for your highest good, make a choice.

It challenges the view of seeing your life as being linear. It unfolds different lines. As you read, you choose your own ebbs and flows to follow your own spiritual path. The resonant and common thread is that we all contain light and love and experience change.

We simply cannot hope anymore that something will just happen; we have to be aware in our lives. We must all help ourselves. Sustain life from the inside out. We all have the knowledge, the means to ensure our survival by tapping into our soul, light, our lightning seeds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jun 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452563398

Marie J. Foster

Marie Foster, who was born on August 8, 1961, has trained and worked as a naturopath, homoeopath, graphic designer, and registered nurse. Through her lifetime love of crystals, she has found light within them and then within herself. Marie lives with her partner, Roz Blacklock, and dog, Shilo, in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Heaven’s Mirror

Miracle of Love

Essence of Love

Eternal Love

Wisdom

Discernment

Knowing

Being

Sea of Silver and Gold

Creation

Blessing

Passion

Tranquility

Necessity

Nurturing

Forgiveness

Tenderness

Reconciliation

Faith

Trust

Freedom

Harmony

Serenity

Peace

I Live in the Earth House

Beauty

Acceptance

Clarity

Intuition

Balance

Joy

Vulnerability

Connection

Understanding

Innocence

Individuation

Sanctuary

Expansion

Possibilities

Replenish

Grounding

Focus

Beginnings

Power With

Surrender

Courage

Inspiration

Reverence

Gratitude

Vitality

Self-Discipline

Compassion

Radiance

Patterns

Healing

Opportunity

Perfection

Home

Afterword

About the Author

For Roz, my twin flame.

" And first the Heaven, Earth, and liquid plain,

The Moon’s bright globe and stars Titanium

A spirit fed within, spread through the whole

And with the huge heap mix’d infused a soul:

Hence man and beasts, and birds derive their strain

And monsters floating in the marbled main;

These seeds have fiery vigor, and a birth

of Heavenly race, but clog’d with heavy earth."

Virgil (70 – 19BC)

Preface

Preface

My mother taught me to always do as much as I could do for myself, exhaust all my avenues, and then ask for help if needed. She was not a conventional woman. She had a great mind yet was so childlike in her way. She was full of fun. Her name was Betty-Ann; she was my mother and everybody’s Aunty Betty. She was the most selfless woman I have ever known. Betty-Ann died at the age of sixty-six in October 2003. When she died, I could hear her talking to me, I could hear her voice. Three days after her death, while writing her eulogy, her voice disappeared from my mind, but I could still feel her, and her voice became my own.

Everyone has experience with change. That’s all grief is—change at a certain level. I have had a lot of experience with death, dying, and grief at work as a nurse, but most importantly in my own life, which has brought me to this very moment: the writing of Lightning Seeds: Journey through the Rainbow.

Everyone has his or her story to tell. Everyone is different, but I believe telling your story is important. Sometimes when I read about others’ lives, it is inspirational. I think if someone else can do that, so can I. It helps you to know you are not alone in this world. To read people’s stories is like a catalyst to move you forward, but sometimes you just don’t know how to move forward. I found myself in this situation, as you will see. No book and no person could help me, because I wasn’t open to receiving. It was so hard just to open my eyes every morning and realize this was my life and not a bad dream. It wasn’t pride that separated me from the world; it was believing I had to do as much as I could for myself. Every time I strayed from this path, emotional pain would appear. Sometimes I just wanted my friends to see me as I was: upset. I didn’t want their pity or solutions, because there was none. A friend told me, We can’t fix this. This was the moment I knew that I had to do all that I could do for myself; I would find a way. This book is a culmination of what brought me to this point, the point of light from my experiences.

On December 2, 1999, I was in the Glenbrook train disaster. I was in the first carriage. The train ran into the back of another train, the Indian Pacific, due to a signal failure.