Fields of Plenty

By LD Thompson

Fields of Plenty is a guide to becoming conscious of what you are manifesting in your life - coming to know deeply your Soul's design and experiencing the plenty that results from this knowledge. Filled with practical direction on how to graduate from limited mind consciousness to a more expansive perspective of Soul identification, Fields of Pl

• Language: English
• Publisher: Credo Publications, LLC
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985899115

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INTRODUCTION

Loss on any scale is a time to re-evaluate priorities. I have been working as a teacher and counselor for more than thirty years. I often help others deal with just such crises — the loss of a loved one, the loss of financial security, or simply the loss of a perceived self-identity.

But helping others does not inoculate me from the pain of my own experiences of loss.

I once had a most enchanting client. Her devotion to truth and spiritual development powered her desire for more interaction with me. As she navigated the troubling waters of career success and personal ambition, she came to rely on Solano’s wisdom and the comfort of my counsel.

Our relationship grew past that of counselor and client. I was invited into her circle of friends and family. We had many moments of joy and celebration as her career blossomed. It affected my life both emotionally and financially. It was a heady time, but one that was also fraught with some attending drama, as her emotions were often fragile.

I felt honored to be included in her family, until long-suppressed family dynamics surfaced, bringing relationships into question. Suspicion and doubt soon colored her treatment of everyone in her support system, including me.

A new business manager suggested she reorder her team of advisors. And though I knew of her intentions and agreed with the need for change, I was ill-prepared when I received a letter of severance from any further business dealings.

We had just spoken the night before, and I offered what solace I could to help her through the harder parts of the changes. Her family members, once on the payroll, were all being cut off. She was tired and depressed, so she understandably cancelled our dinner plans.

The following day I called to discuss the letter and her phone number had been disconnected. And her email address had changed. I received no other communication from her and had no way to reach her. Many years have now passed.

Naturally, at the time, my experience of loss was profound. Yet, I needed to understand what there was for me to learn from it… lessons in letting go of identity and attachment, learning humility, and one of the tougher ones — overcoming the feeling of betrayal. But after I had gone through those exercises I knew there was more that I wasn’t getting to, because I still felt deeply unsettled.

Shortly after this happened, I returned to the quiet and beauty of the Northwest. Needing a personal retreat,

I went to the San Juan Islands to collect myself and to better hear the answers to the questions I knew needed to be asked. My finances were now in jeopardy, as I had come to rely on work no longer offered.

The first morning sitting on the deck of Otter Cottage I watched as the sun rose over Pea Vine Pass. I dropped into a quiet meditation and asked for guidance.

Clearly, I heard Solano’s voice, "My friend, dwelling in plenty is not about manifesting what you think you want. It’s about understanding what you are manifesting because that is most truly what you are asking for, either consciously or unconsciously."

You are saying I asked for this, I said, not without a little bitterness.

"Everything that manifests does so in accordance with your walking prayer — the consciousness that you inhabit. Your consciousness is the sum of several elements — your thoughts, your beliefs, your genetic blueprint (which is designed by your Soul) and your Soul’s curriculum — what it aims to learn in any given lifetime."

There’s a lot of room in there for things that feel entirely out of my control, I replied.

"You could look at it that way, especially if you look at it through the eyes of the limited and acculturated mind. But if you identify with your Soul — who you are in your truest nature — you will see that the themes that you’ve been working with all of your life are all presented in this challenge. You felt you had arrived, in a manner of speaking. You lived far beyond the level of the accomplishments of your forebears. You began to feel powerful in an earthly sense. You allowed friendships and long-term alliances to fall away. You went into a kind of trance where the altered ego’s fear of loneliness and isolation were far from your thoughts. Betrayal, being abandoned, being humiliated, being seen in a way that did not match your perception of yourself — all of these themes are in this challenge and they are all ones that you have been working with which are part of your curriculum in this lifetime."

In other words, I said, I’ve got my nose to the grindstone and I’m back in school again. The whole thing, though, makes me feel like I’m stuck in old patterns and doomed to repeat them over and over again.

His words were concise: "You are consciously back in your Soul’s curriculum. You never really veered from it. You simply took a path that let you drop into a trance for a while. Most everyone does at some point. For example, when people fall in love and believe that they are no longer alone, only to find out that the object of their love is really just a mirror to show them where their own lack of self-love is, and where they lack understanding of their Oneness with the Divine. You are not hopelessly stuck. You are presented yet again with the opportunity to shift your consciousness."

I sat up a little taller, All right, then, I’m in school. This has my full attention. What I‘d like out of this is the means to close all of the gaps that caused me to find myself in this situation.

Solano’s words have always provided me with comfort and, often, with enthusiasm for what lies ahead. This time was no different. "That is appropriate. We will begin with the gap in the understanding of abundance. We will also explore emotions and love, genetics, the ‘altered ego’ and the way it is created, the way to identify, once again, with your Soul and how, ultimately, to integrate the altered ego and the Soul. Let us begin with the fundamental understanding of how your experience of reality comes into being…."

Becoming Soul-Identified

This moment, identify with your Soul.

View all things in your life from the Soul’s perspective.

This moment, proclaim that your radiant Infinite

Intelligence, your Soul, is in command of your life.

— Solano

ALTERED EGO

The key to dwelling in plenty is to become Soul-identified. The way to achieve this is to accept that what you are experiencing is precisely what you want, to embrace what is. The Soul, because it knows it is forever and cannot be harmed, sees value in every experience. The altered ego is the part of you that judges some things as being less than desirable. Sometimes it cannot accept that what you are experiencing, you have created.

The altered ego is the aspect of your being that is built on fear. It activates your emotional body when you find yourself concerned about your mortality, concerned for your safety, concerned about getting your needs met in the form of comfort, food, safety, or companionship. When you find yourself in fear, in that moment you are identified with the body and therefore identified with the altered ego.

When you challenge a habit, or a fear that consistently causes you to stumble, or when you strive to move beyond a particular limitation, you begin the journey to becoming consciously Soul-identified.

When you become Soul-identified you understand that everything that you experience occurs right within you. Within, you are already fully and completely one with God, the Source. The extraordinary gift of incarnation as human allows you to explore the identity that comes from experiencing singularity here on Earth.

The Soul ordains everything that you experience.

— Solano

Every fear, limitation, struggle, addiction, every lack, every habit that you confront, is there because your Soul ordains it as part of the path to the wisdom it desires. Such altered ego inspired emotions result in the strain that marks most people’s lives. Yet that strain is the very thing that leads you to freedom, because it instigates the search for understanding. If you consistently fear for your body’s well being, if you fear death, when you face that fear and walk through it, what is on the other side? Always it is the exquisite freedom of discovering that you are immortal, invulnerable to any sort of pain or suffering and incapable of being destroyed.

You may know what it is like to be on the brink of an emotional reaction and to step back from it and the suffering that you know it will bring. Perhaps you have already experienced turning your attention to your Soul and discovering there a greater peace, grace, and creativity. That process is part of the arc of a mortal life.

As you follow this arc, recognize that the moments when you are called out by your Soul — when you experience fear or lack or disappointment in a relationship or dissatisfaction with your career — these are all instances in which the Soul is calling you out of your identification with the altered ego and is beckoning you to release that identity. As you are called to your greatest challenges, rather than trying to control them with the intellect, look at them with the eyes of the Soul and see the circumstance as something the Soul uses for your growth.

Fear is the grist by which wisdom is gathered.

— Solano

EMBRACING FEAR

Fear is your teacher and greatest means for gathering wisdom. When you experience fear, you have not stumbled, nor are you inept, or a coward. It signifies no lack of enlightenment. It is a tool for self-knowledge.

If you embrace your fears