The Golden Link to Oneness

By L.M. Blanchard

Spiritual awakening need not come from calamity; it can come from your own awareness and of your own volition.

In The Golden Link to Oneness, L.M. Blanchard makes accessible teachings that have resonated with sages and mystics from cultures and traditions that seem far removed from our present time. Through sharing personal and mystical experience

• Language: English
• Publisher: Burnstown Publishing House
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781772570175

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Introduction

You’ve tried many ways to bring about positive and profound changes in your life. Your only desire is to find yourself, to have a sense of fulfillment, to have a purposeful life, and to live in a state of harmony, contentment, and joy. You’ve read the self-help books, you’ve attended the workshops, and you’ve bought the healing crystals. You’ve signed up for the yoga classes, tried meditation, and written down your affirmations till you ran out of ink.

You’ve taken some steps on a spiritual path, but the fog is so thick you can’t see if your next step will be on solid ground or in a puddle of mud. Maybe at one point you thought you’d finally found a guide to help you navigate through the depth of the spiritual oceans, only to realize that your guide had sailed away to distant shores without you. You’ve seen glimpses of that special spark in others that you seek for yourself, yet it remains as elusive for you as ever, still in sight — yet out of reach. After many years of questioning and searching, and after all your attempts and good intentions, you ask yourself, Why am I not any closer to finding what it is that I desire in my life?

Could it be that the strategy you’ve been using so far hasn’t been working as well as you wanted? Have you thought that perhaps it’s time to change your approach and find a new vessel to help you sail forward in your spiritual quest? Are you dreaming of going back to a time when mystical experiences were commonplace; when miracles were a daily occurrence; when people were moved by Divine Grace and lived in harmony with their environment, their families, and, more important, with themselves? Does such a place still exist in our current times?

I would not have experienced the blessings that manifested in my life were it not for the life-changing events that caused me such tremendous disruption and pain. Through those experiences, I was able to shift gears to open up to a different understanding, one that showed me that how I lived my daily life was only a weak reflection on the surface of an unfathomable ocean of experiences that reaches beyond time and space and merges with everything into nothingness. I’ve also come to understand that I am not who I thought I was in the outward expression of my life, in the person I identified as being, and the person I wanted others to think I was in both a conscious and unconscious way.

So much is misunderstood of what it is to be human and the conditions of the human experience at large, that we lose touch with living and experiencing our lives. In this misunderstanding, we remove ourselves from the important part we play in the lives of our families, friends, and loved ones. Even more significant, we remove ourselves from the bigger part we play in the relationship with our true self and in our relationship with the Divine.

In the convictions we hold onto deep within ourselves and about the nature of our individuality, we believe that we know who we are and remain resolute with the thought that no one knows us better than ourselves. We think and believe that what we feel and how we feel is the defining factor that dictates who we are and what we’ve become. This is a concept that limits and prevents us from growth in every aspect possible: spiritual, emotional, and intellectual. We stunt our growth and sabotage our own evolution by limiting thoughts and narrow vision. In this limited state of awareness, we prevent our perspectives from changing and we impede our ability to see past and above the programs of our ego-created personality.

The subject matter of this book came to light through spiritual and mystical events that I experienced over the course of a decade or so, with each experience contributing more understanding toward the next experience and realization. These experiences awakened something within, allowing me to gradually shift my perspective and permitting me to see things with a different set of lenses. Like the specialized lenses of night-vision goggles that make it easier to see in the dark, my experiences made it easier for me to understand certain esoteric realities that were too obscure to comprehend in a limited state of awareness.

Spiritual awakenings will allow you to see better in the darkness of the mysteries of the spirit and consciousness. Better than night vision, awakened vision greatly opens up your ability to see the vivid colours of your oneness with everything and everyone in the seen and unseen worlds.

In Oneness, we are moved and motivated by that part of ourselves that reaches out past concepts and illusions created in and bound by the current physical world that we live in. In Oneness, we transcend and rise to the apex of existence that is in divine harmony with the universe. It places us on an equal footing with the gurus, sages, and saints of days gone by. These special people who were aware of the grace of Divine presence in their lives and were touched by the perfection of Oneness all understood the inherent grace afforded to them, not by virtue of who they were, but rather by who they were