The Pulse of Spirit - "Knowing Through the Heart"

I recently was working on an article about values in politics. At one point I mention how important I feel it is for there to be a balance between head and heart in political discourse and policy making. David Karchere makes the point quite clearly during this message delivered in May, 2014. - jh

 

 

THE PULSE OF SPIRIT

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Knowing Through the Heart
May 12, 2014

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From a transcription of David Karchere’s words on an international video conference on May 4, 2014

Greetings, everyone. David Karchere here, from North Reddish, England. Here at St. Agnes Church we’ve had a wonderful day with Clive Larsen and friends. And I can tell you, if you haven’t been hugged by the good people of St. Agnes Church, you haven’t been hugged. There’s such a spirit of love in this community! And I’ve been away from home, traveling, long enough that I miss my home. I miss Sunrise Ranch and my family and friends. And at the same time, as I walked into the church this morning, I felt I was coming home.

It’s said that home is where the heart is. Home is where the spirit of love lives. And wherever there are people who embody the spirit of universal love and let it flow freely, there is a true home. So I’m so grateful for what is here and what’s among people, wherever they are, all over the world, where the true home is present and known. And from that true home there is altitude and there is a transmission. There is a tower of faith, a tower of reality, and therefore a transmission from that tower.

For that transmission to come from us, it takes courage. It takes something deliberate. And we might take the attitude about people in our life, “Well, they know I love them.” Do they? It’s so obvious that love is something that is of the heart. It is something that’s transmitted through the heart. And while there’s a vital part that our conscious mind has to play in our spirituality, ultimately, without a heart that’s open and is transmitting the frequency of love, how do we truly connect? How do we connect upward to the larger reality of Being that we are a part of? And how do we connect to other people and to the world?

I’ve been thinking about the role that our human mind plays in our life. And there’s a reason to have a human intellect. It’s vital in all kinds of ways, including the practicality of living life on Planet Earth and in the world in which we live. So the human intellect is vital, but it is no substitute for an open heart. The human intellect can be all about the questions of “what” and “how”: What should happen here? What do I want to happen? What’s going on? And how? How do I make happen what I want to happen? How do I make things work out? What’s the technology, what’s the method? The human mind is good for those kinds of questions.

But the human mind alone is very bad for an even more essential question. And until that more essential question is answered, all the discussion and all the thought about how we do things only lead down a path of destruction. It leads to things like atom bombs and global warming, and wars in Iraq and many other places around the globe. It leads to man’s inhumanity to man. It leads to the rape and destruction of the planet, because only when a person has not answered the “who” of life could they be so seemingly wise as to invent all this technology that we have in our world but at the same time so incredibly ignorant that they don’t know what technology is for. They don’t know the basics for creating a true technology, a technology that would truly serve humanity, that would truly serve this planet and not destroy it.

That most essential question is a question of “who.” The human intellect looks at the question of who: “Who am I?” and in a very intellectual way reflects on the human experience, a human life. Philosophers reflect on human life and ask, “Who am I? Who are we?” and pose that as the great existential question.

There’s a story familiar to many of us. It’s a Bible story. In this story there’s a depiction of the human intellect, the human mind in all its glory, keeping humanity enslaved. And then there’s also a picture of the knowing of Being, the knowing of the reality of God, the knowing of who one is. That story is the story of Pharaoh and Moses, and Moses setting the people free. When faced with Moses’ demand to let his people go, Pharaoh’s answer is: “I know not your God, and I will not let your people go.” The human intellect all by itself, with all its vaunted wisdom, doesn’t know and will never know of itself the answer to the most important question in life—“Who is present?” The answer to this question brings all wisdom and all truth available to the human experience.

The answer to the question can only be known through the heart. It astounds and stupefies the human mind that it can’t know who it is, and it can’t know God. It can’t experience oneness with other people and connect with other people. And the human intellect can’t really connect with this planet, because that knowing and that connection happens only through the open heart. The connection to one another is through the heart, and therefore the knowing of one another is through the heart. The connection with this planet and with all of nature, and therefore the knowing of this planet and the understanding of this planet, is through the heart. And yes, there are things to understand intellectually, but true understanding of the mind only comes when there is connection through the heart.

People make all kinds of attempts to connect with God. Intellectually, we may think that if we meditated long enough, if we prayed long enough, maybe if we practiced yoga long enough, we would connect. Maybe if we confessed enough, said enough repentance, maybe if we studied long enough, maybe if we read long enough, maybe if we went to enough workshops, we would know God. I say no, not ever that way. Not ever.

Through our recent tour in Europe, we have talked about various kinds of courage. There is the courage of performing brave acts, which is the courage of action. That is what we usually think of when we think of courage, and truly that can be courage. And then there is the courage to truly think for yourself, and that is a rare kind of courage. The courage I am addressing now is the courage to open your heart and connect and allow what would come to you in that connection to come to you, to be known by you—to allow what’s available to you from the universe, from other people, from the planet and from God, to come. In that connection we find there is not only something coming to us but there is also something coming from us. There is a knowing and a being known.

So here we are, separated by oceans and miles. You might say we’re always separated by some kind of space; it just depends on how much—seemingly separated by space and many other things, by culture, by personality, by race and gender. I’m asking in this moment whether all of us, connected seemingly by telephone, by Internet and streaming video, can make a different kind of connection right now and perceive through the instrument of the heart the presence of Being, the presence of Being in all people and therefore in each other; the presence of Being in all things, in all human relations.

There are things to know and there are understandings to have about other people and about relationships with them. But all of that understanding springs out of a knowing and a connection to who they are and who we are. It is a question, first of all, of who is present. And in knowing who is present and connecting with who is present, and coming into that deeply—in ourselves, first of all, coming into the presence of Being—we can feel that same presence in one another and know that we’re ultimately not only connected but there is one presence in us all and in all creation. When we know that, that is the beginning of all wisdom. And the lack of that knowing is the beginning of all ignorance.

At Sunrise Ranch we have recently published a document which I’ve shared on this trip with people that we’ve met with, and it speaks of the philosophy of Sunrise Ranch and speaks of that philosophy as honoring Universal Being, honoring the Being in all things and all people, and ultimately in ourselves. In St. Agnes, in the service this morning, I reveled in the practice of a true Christian faith—that faith as it was originally taught by Jesus, as it was originally known by him and practiced by him. It was a faith based in a knowing of Universal Being. And I felt, in St. Agnes this morning, that we redeemed that word God that has been so misused, that has been used to refer to a reality far distant from who we are, far distant from this planet, up in the sky someplace, unattainable in experience and by connection for us as human beings.

People think and speak of using the name of the Lord in vain. Using the word God in this way as something separate and disconnected surely is in vain, for it leads noplace. Jesus taught I and my Father are one. And for that word God to have meaning, that surely must be the experience. That experience is only known through an open heart. And where there is an open heart, it cannot help but be known. If you try to think yourself into it, you’ll be thinking a long time, and you won’t be knowing. It’s only as the human mind admits defeat in this regard, admits its total futility, that a person can give up on that attempt and open their heart. The human mind, of itself, doesn’t know God and wasn’t built to. It was made to be an instrument of awareness brought to it by the open heart. And then the mind can be a servant to that knowing—a servant. I do believe we have to admit, perhaps on behalf of all Western civilization, perhaps on behalf of all the so-called developed cultures of the world, that our mind, of itself, is futile and helpless when it comes to the most important things in life; and that its true role is one of accepting the humility of being a servant to a large knowing that only comes to the mind through its friend and partner, which is the open heart.

I want to recall a very ancient teaching that was even before Jesus’ time on earth, Jesus’ life. It is that ancient psalm, attributed to King David but likely from a far earlier time—he may have been the publisher, maybe even the editor, but very likely not the author. I’m speaking of the Twenty-fourth Psalm, in which this knowing of Universal Being was brought so profoundly. And in the minds of most people around the world, the deeper truth of that psalm is hidden in plain sight, shrouded in religious concept and religious idea that fills the human mind, but without the heart connection to the deeper reality being pointed to so clearly.

“The earth is the Lord’s.” The earth is an embodiment of Universal Being. “…the world, and they that dwell therein.” All people, everywhere, no matter how unknowing, no matter how ignorant, no matter how they’re behaving, no matter what has happened in their life, belong to Universal Being. Within all people is Universal Being, the reality that is rightly named as God, as much as that word has been misunderstood. And in fact, all of us together, all of humanity, all of the world, was meant to be the way by which Universal Being could be present in this world. This world does not belong to the human intellect, which is thinking about how it can bend that world to its own will, bend other people to its own will, bend nature to its own will. This world belongs to Universal Being. And the reality of Being is meant to be embodied and manifested in this world.

I think of that prayer of Jesus where he so clearly spoke to this: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Here is the exact same message as the Twenty-fourth Psalm: that in this world, on earth, the reality of Universal Being is meant to be present, the will of Universal Being is meant to be done, and the home of Universal Being, referred to as heaven, the kingdom, is meant to be present right here on earth. Oneness is the truth. But there can be no oneness, there cannot be connection leading to oneness, without the courage of an open heart.

This, I know, is what our world needs now from us—not us as smart human beings, even spiritual human beings, who are going to figure this all out. The world needs us as Universal Being incarnate and in expression through our glorious humanity. And our humanity does become glorious when the Being of who we are is in full and free expression through it. But how does that ever happen without an open heart? When that does happen, we put ourselves in touch with the wisdom of Universal Being, which is our wisdom. And our mind can function intelligently and brilliantly and creatively in that context.

So I appreciate the opportunity to share this around the world. Love to all my friends and family at Sunrise Ranch. I miss you deeply. Love to my friends around the world, many of whom I have met and know person-to-person, and many whom I haven’t met, but I believe we know each other through an open heart regardless—being-to-being, love-to-love, having the courage to extend that love which knows no boundaries, no distance, no space that could separate. And as we are connected and one throughout the world, we can feel and know the reality of heaven, the kingdom, coming into our own experience and coming into the world.

David Karchere
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"Your Personal Energy Field" - David Karchere

THE PULSE OF SPIRIT

 

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Your Personal Energy Field

July 15, 2013

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All of us spent a period of about nine months in our mother’s womb before entering this world. For that time, it was through the medium of the womb that we related to our world. The fetus in utero can hear voices, music and other sounds that reach them through the watery surround of the womb. But it’s not only the outside world that is connected to the fetus. The placenta in the womb is the connecting medium for the nourishment that comes to the fetus from the mother.

We are born out of the surround of the womb into the world. For the rest of our life, there is a different kind of surround through which we will interact with the world and through which we will connect with what nourishes us. It is an energetic surround—not a physical, mostly liquid surround any longer. It is an energy field that we are creating all through our life, and we are creating it through everything that we do.

Just as we experience life through the medium of our mother’s womb as a fetus in utero, we experience life through the medium of the energetic field surrounding us after being born. Exactly the same principle is at work. Parents—and later teachers, mentors and counselors—assist in building that energetic surround. Ultimately, it is you, the being at the center of the energetic field, whose experience is being determined by the nature of that field; and therefore it is you who must take responsibility for its creation, and, if necessary, its regeneration.

According to the nature of that energy field, so will the experience of life be. The world, and all the people in it, looks as it does because you are looking through that energy field.

Our energy field is subject to fluctuation. It is a field that is created over time, but it is also subject to changes day-to-day and moment-to-moment, based on the cycles of our life, the attitudes that we’re carrying, the people and events with whom we are interacting and, most importantly, the nature of what is expressing through us—so that we know that one day the world looks one way and the next day we wake up and somehow it looks different, based on what is happening in our energy field. But it is not only our connection to the world that is different, depending on the nature of this field of energy. Our connection to what is nourishing us from within—what is energizing us and is seeking to come through us—is established by that same field of energy. That connection for us, as an adult, provides a function that parallels the function of the placenta for the fetus.

For a fetus, if the function of the womb and the placenta is not optimal, the health of the fetus suffers. The fetus relies on the womb and the placenta for life. The same principle is at work for you and for me. The degree to which we experience life more abundantly, the degree to which we have energy to move and to create, to be a blessing in our world, and to be of service, is dependent on the nature of the energetic womb that surrounds us and which is our connection to the source of our own nourishment.

Sometimes people find themselves running on empty in one way or another, running out of fuel, running out of inspiration, out of energy, enthusiasm and creative ideas. They run out of options and life becomes a grind. That can simply be part of a cycle in the rhythm of life, but it may be that it’s time for the person to get very intentional, very deliberate about generating the substance that connects them to the source of nourishment within that powers their life. 

In utero, that nourishment is coming through the mother. But for us as mature human beings, we must seek another source of nutrition, inspiration and energy. As human beings we have the opportunity to be inspired and moved by the same power that moves all of the cosmos and the same intelligence that moves in all of the cosmos. It moves as it does through the galaxies and through atoms, and through all of nature, but for us as a human organism it is designed to move through consciousness—through thinking and feeling. Then what is happening in our thinking and feeling influences our physical body. It is radiating to our world so that we can be of service at many levels. We can be of service to other people practically. We can also be of service energetically. Our very presence can be upliftment and inspiration to another person.

For many people on a spiritual path, life is about doing all the right things, all the good things. “Oh, we will be good; we will do all the things we’re supposed to do. We’ll be dead inside, and stiff, but we’re doing the right things.” Real spirituality includes doing the juicy things, the things that create juice, the things that open us up and bring life to us and through us.

Personally, I enjoy hiking in the mountains. For me, there is something that happens when I hike that does not happen any other way. There is communion with the sky and with the rocks and the trees and the rivers and streams. It is life-giving.

Hiking is not for everyone. So for you, the activities that generate your personal energetic field may be listening to music, meditation or painting watercolors. For some people, it is an activity as seemingly mundane as dusting. Do you think dusting could open you up to cosmic love and cosmic wisdom? For some people it does.

However you do it, it is your personal responsibility to care for the energetic womb that surrounds you. And if you don’t, no one else can do it for you. It is your responsibility to let it be as full and rich as it can be. There are so many people who are busy doing this and trying that, and some things are working and they get excited, and other things are not working so well. And in it all, they may not pay attention to what is happening in their personal energetic field. They don’t notice that it is running down. Perhaps there is an endless loop of downward-spiraling thinking that is causing anxiety. Or perhaps their emotions are so fixated on the external circumstances that they never have a chance to feel uplifted. They don’t notice that the things that bring them true joy are not happening in their life—they’re not finding those things that bring regeneration.

Whether you are a man or a woman, this is about the feminine principle at work in your life. For you to be whole, happy and fulfilled, there has to be an alive body of energy surrounding you—an energetic womb. That body of energy has to be rich and full, and capable of resonating at the highest frequency possible. This is the body of energy through which you experience all of life. Your connection with the source of life depends on this energetic body. What are your next steps to let it generate to its fullest?

David Karchere
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Unconditional Love - David Karchere

THE PULSE OF SPIRIT

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Unconditional Love

Christmas 2012

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In this Christmas Season, I celebrate with you the teaching of unconditional love brought by one of the greatest spiritual teachers to walk the earth. With all the attention that Christianity has given to Jesus’ birth and his crucifixion, and with all the meaning that has been attributed to Jesus by others, his own message has yet to fully penetrate the heart of humanity. This Christmas, let us give and receive unconditional love as we never have before.

Here, in these few words, is Jesus’ invitation as it has come down to us through the ages. It is, as much as possible, in his own words, understanding all the issues of translation. Despite those issues, this profound message is still hidden in plain sight in the best-selling book of all time, the Bible.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all.

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

Love, in its pure form, is universal. It is the ultimate power of the cosmos. That power cannot be undone and it never stops. When a person opens themselves to that power and lets it move through them, refusing to stop doing so for any reason, they have embraced that ultimate power as their own reality. They have taken the same stance as a human being that universal love takes all the time—“I never stop radiating myself.”

When you and I love unconditionally, we are embracing what is most true of who we are. We are love. To love unconditionally, we have to face the greatest lie that has ever been foisted on a human being—that we are weak when we express love and we are strong when we act from fear and hate. Exactly the opposite is true. We are powerful when we love unconditionally.

Unconditional love is the beginning of the spiritual journey. The spiritual journey is all about what happens when a person chooses a life of unconditional love. It is about how that person is transformed and transmuted by their choice, which one day ceases to be a choice and becomes who they are, known through and through.

I have many heroes in my life; people who have inspired me, people I have admired and aspired to be like in some way. Above them all is the life and teaching of this courageous, passionate, loving man who showed us what universal love looks like in human form. May we receive his message in this day and let it be our own.

David Karchere
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David Karchere: "Remember Love, Forget Drama"

"Remember Love, Forget Drama"

12 November 2012

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From Pulse of Spirit; by David Karchere, Spiritual Director, Emissaries of Divine Light


I would like to tell a story. It is a human story, as all stories we tell ultimately are, put in terms that are familiar to us but nonetheless conveying a reality that transcends the story. I invite you to have a powerful, felt experience of that reality as you read.

In the deep of the unseen, in a world that is not yet manifest in form, there is a King and there is a Queen. They are the King and Queen of this creative field in which we live—this world, this planet, this little portion of the universe. They are a King and Queen of Love who are in perfect love, one with another. This King of Love is in ultimate service to his Queen, bringing all of his being in service to her; and she, likewise, is in total love and service to him. And in their union there is joy and there is creation, and the magnification of love. Through their union, a world is created.

All of the angels of this magical world are in perfect harmony with the King and Queen of the deep. All of the masculine angels are totally with their King, sharing with him his love and his service to the Queen. And all of the feminine angels are in total harmony with the Queen. You might say they are one with her and her love for the King of Love. Born from this pattern of harmony, there is a perfect, yet ever-changing constellation of relationships. Wherever a male angel touches a female angel in whatever way, they are touching the love between their King and their Queen, and therefore their love between each other.

 You might say that this is a kind of fairy tale. Yet it is a story that portrays a reality that is not just a story. For us as men on earth, we have the opportunity to feel our resonance, not just with the story, but our resonance with an already existing pattern of love between masculine and feminine, and to know that whenever we touch a woman, whether we’re touching her physically or through a connection at any other level of being, we are not only touching her, we are touching the whole body of womanhood, and we are also potentially touching into the already-existing pattern of love between all women and all men. You might touch another in this way by sharing a thought by e-mail, or by sharing in a passionate conversation. However men and women connect, there is the opportunity to be part of an already-existing love between masculine and feminine, brought to focus by what’s represented in the story by the King and the Queen.

A man has the opportunity to know the privilege and the joy of sharing whatever it is that he has to share with a woman, in whatever circumstance, at whatever level. That opportunity is spoiled every time a man tries to own a woman for himself as a human being. She belongs to her Queen, and she belongs to her King. As a man acknowledges and honors that, he has the opportunity of an exquisite communion, and in that communion, oneness. Through that experience, both man and woman find they belong to a greater reality and they do belong to one another in that context—not because anyone staked out a claim, but because they have honored what already is and they are participating in what already is.

The same is true for a woman. She cannot claim a man as her own, because the truth of every man serves his King, and in serving his King he is serving his Queen. For a woman who knows her oneness and love for the Queen and for the King, she knows she is already being loved by a man who serves this reality. And thus, the two can find whatever the right pattern of relationship and communion is, at whatever level, in whatever constellation as men and women. It may be a passing meeting, a once-in-a-lifetime interchange, or a family relationship. For me, I still remember the sweetest of interchanges I had ordering a cup of coffee and a donut. It could be something that passing. It could be a sharing of ideas. It could be a business meeting. And it could be the kind of depth that comes from a lifelong relationship.

All of that is easy to navigate when a person lives in what already is, when a person isn’t trying to make something happen for themselves, trying to possess another person on some kind of solely human basis, without the acknowledgment that while, yes, we are human beings, there is a part of us that is still in the deep, that has never left the deep, and we already have a relationship in the deep of being. We already know each other before we meet on earth. And in meeting, we can recall that already existing relationship—and not just our relationship with that person, but we can recall and touch that whole pattern that’s present in the deep already.

What I am speaking of here is the reality of love, and then the pattern that allows love to be known creatively wherever it is known, but most particularly in our experience. Where there is communion, where there is a coming together of being, there is creation. Every morning when we arise, when we connect with another person, there is the opportunity to create that day anew. At a physical level, when there is communion between a man and a woman, there can be babies. Something is born at that level—new life. Life is conceived and the cycle of gestation comes to birth. But that is not the only level where there can be communion and the conception of new life and a new world.

Wherever human beings truly commune at whatever level, there is something conceived and, in the passage of time, new life is born. This is how the world is created, and in fact, it’s the only way the human world is created. Two people may come together and share a vision for a business. They may come together and, through the joining of their minds and hearts, share a vision of what could be achieved through that business, of what could be brought into the world. Through their coming together, a new world is born, a world that involves people and things and money and resources, and then families and all manner of things. People can come together in so many ways. According to the quality of how they are coming together, and the reason why they’re coming together, so will be the world that is created.

We have an opportunity to participate in creation by love. We have the opportunity to participate in the dance of love in our life. In fact, we are doing that right now: together around the world, people who are sharing this meditation are coming together in consciousness. We are conceiving something. And in the collective womb of consciousness that we hold together, what we conceive will grow. It will be born in the days to come, I can promise you, because I know there will be at least some of us that hold the womb space of consciousness in which living things gestate and come to full term and birth. We have that commitment to each other and that commitment to the process, knowing that there are things that take time to work out.

So this communion in which we share is a now thing, and a present thing. But we have to stay in the now, and we have to stay present to hold the space in which the things that are conceived may gestate and continue to grow over time. We are participating in creation by love in doing this.

In order to participate in that creation, we have to turn our response and energy away from the endless sad drama of the world in which we live. That drama includes the friction and polarity between men and women. It is a struggle that comes when a person falls out of the awareness of the already-existing pattern of love and harmony. It seems easy to do and there are all kinds of justification for doing it. The world around most people is very generous in its offer of justifications for falling out of love. It has all kinds of ways of telling us that we deserve to feel hurt and angry. So if you are looking for justification for drama, it is readily available.

This is the karma of the world in which we live. It is the karma of fragmentation. And there’s a drama to fragmentation. There is a drama to people coming apart. If you live out of that karma, it is guiding and controlling your life. The karma of fragmentation is telling you how you have been victimized and how you deserve revenge or sympathy. If you live out of that karma, you are also living into it—you are giving your life force to it and perpetuating it. If you do so, it is your choice.

In this drama, there is a victim, there is a perpetrator, and there is a rescuer. No matter which of these roles a person plays it is all part of the drama. A person can think that because they are playing a different role in the drama, that they’ve left it, but actually the sad fact is that all these roles are part of the drama.

Most people are sucked into the drama as a victim of it. Someone hurts them, often someone older, or someone who is more powerful in some way. Or perhaps a member of the opposite sex. In that sense, they are bitten. What a person is often unconscious of is that once they have been bitten, there is a tremendous tendency to bite. They become infected with that karma, so there is a tremendous tendency to pass it on.

There is really only one way to let go of the drama of fragmentation, and it is to become aware that there is an already-existing dance of love that’s going on all around us and within us. Surrendering to that dance of love, choosing to live into it, we can let go of the drama of fragmentation and find that we can come together with others who likewise are awakening, and find that the story of love isn’t just left to some other place. We, here on earth, can do the human work of remembering and letting there be a core of love in our life. We can live out of that reality. And even when the people around us are living the drama of their karma, we can bring the dance of love to that person. We could bring our remembering of the already-existing reality, and our remembering could be a wake-up call for them.

If we remember, we have the privilege of seeing others who are ready to bring love into the world on a selfless basis. We discover others who are having a powerful felt experience of what already is, and we find our right relationship with them. We create a new world together through our communion in whatever way is right for us to commune. Some of us are communing from halfway across the world, but we are communing and we are creating a new world. There are all kinds of creative ways we can come together in love with other people. We become aware of those opportunities when we remember, and when we are ready to forget the drama of fragmentation that is present in the karma of humanity.

So I hope you say with me this day, “I remember.” This memory is a felt experience of the communion of love. I remember.

This Golden, Shining Moment

THE PULSE OF SPIRIT - This Golden, Shining Moment



To you who read these words, wherever you may be around the world: You may have just subscribed to this electronic mailing list, or you may have been receiving the regular pulse of spirit we have been offering for decades. You may have been deeply committed to Emissaries of Divine Light or you may have felt distant from us and our work. Whatever the past has been, I offer these words to you, and pray that you hear and understand the spirit of them.



Together, we have this golden, shining moment in time to bring a shift in the outworking human destiny. Despite whatever sense of disillusionment may have been present for you, despite whatever failures you may believe to have been present in your own life or in our collective endeavors, this opportunity is present with us now. Knowing that consciousness is the pivotal factor for humanity and for our beloved Planet Earth, we may bring the highest reality of which we are aware to our world.


What must we do to let this happen? Most essentially, we must simply say that it shall be so. Let the highest reality come through my consciousness and yours, and let it be extended to the world. Let that reality come through our collective consciousness. With that willingness and commitment in the living of our lives, IT SHALL BE SO.


Having made this declaration, these steps are open to us:

• A full opening of heart and mind to the One Spirit
• A joining together in passion for our destiny to bring the transforming power of the One Spirit to the world
• Initiation of others into a knowing of the highest reality available to them

How do I know that what I speak is true? I speak from the great legacy of all the men and women who have walked this planet, bringing the spiritual victory which has brought us to this opportunity. They have done their work so that we may do ours. I speak for many around the world who hold a creative field of consciousness through which the One Spirit has a gateway into this world. I speak from the highest reality I know and serve. Now is a critical time for Planet Earth. I do not know how long this moment will last. Let us rise to answer the opportunity before us.


I would love to hear from you. Share, if you will, how you receive these words, and what action you might like to take, in thought and feeling and in the world, having heard them. The question in my heart is this: “What can we do to answer the call of this day?” And what will we do? The easiest way to be in touch is by e-mail. You may contact me at dkarchere@emnet.org. I would also welcome hearing from you by phone at 970.480.7792 (a United States phone number). I encourage you to share these words with any who you believe may be open to them.
May we know and share the blessing of the Most High.


David Karchere, Spiritual Director
Smissaries of Divine Light

Spiritual Wisdom, Blessing, Power

David Karchere asks, "So if you are going to reject the priesthoods of the world, how are you going to have that intensified experience of worship? What will you do? If you don’t want to buy what the religions of the world are selling, if you don’t want to use the word G-o-d, if you don’t want to kneel in front of an altar, you don’t want to read the Bible, or whatever it is, what do you want to do? How will you allow yourself to have an intensified experience of communion with the unseen reality of being?"  (Jan. 4, 2010; )

Where does personal spirituality, worship, and community come together? 
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Note: On a recent visit to Colorado, I had the opportunity to meet many of those who serve in the EDL community at Sunrise Ranch, including David Karchere. I encourage you to plan a visit to Sunrise Ranch for a retreat or workshop experience... Visit Sunrise Ranch website...