1 - Marshal aesthetics.

2 - Step up a gear.

3 - Moving mole hills.

4 - Wryness in the details.

5 - Community cooperative.

6 - Is Corporal punishment rampant?

7 - Material gain.

8 - Histrionics, a poor connection.

9 - Peddling backwards.

10 -Gazing into your reflection.

11 -Understanding parables.

12 -Amen.

Indigo Progression 2 - explanations and truth.

We are now moving into a new area where beauty and love are extensions of ourselves. We need to behold a wonderful planet that contains much mystery. We are enriched with the wisdom of sight to appreciate it and yet at times we act as though we are blindfolded. Take this to heart, that we reflect what we see. If we don’t value the beauty that surrounds us, how do we expect to radiate love from ourselves? We are each entitled to our own perspective of what constitutes beauty of course, but with love and continual effort, we can understand and then extol all these images and feel honoured to do so.

This is the time to take notice of what is around us. Look further than your immediate vicinity and notice how others balance their ethos. Are they mimicking an ancestor’s behaviour or constantly living in the past and hence unable to move forward? Or indeed, are they tilted and need some help to gain balance? Do they hound others in the hope that it will gain them a benefit or are they wholesome? Your chance has come to help them by using your skills as a way to short cut their learning. Rebuild a safe environment and teach them well. Be responsible for all the guidance you offer those who step onto your pathway, it was not a mere coincidence that they did so, but part of the bigger plan.

You will by now feel the benefit of the distance you have travelled and the time has come for you to take the next step forward. Containing your development of truths and representation of your understanding of love, you are a wholesome individual. Now we want you to expand your work into the environment, where others can get to grips with the phenomenal concepts you have been working with.

It will be hard, for up until now this has been a personal progression, but now I ask that you take this out and start to experiment with it. I don’t want you to test the hearts of vulnerable subjects, that would be cruel and not representative of spiritual alignment. This is the time to question your worth through others opinions. This will be hard as none of us likes to hear badly of ourselves. In order to tweak the points and ensure you have balanced completely we need to imagine another tool. Visualise now a rocking horse, swinging backwards and forwards gaining movement but unable to go anywhere. This, in effect, is what we have been doing, enjoying the ride but not actually achieving the point of the benefit. We now want to take away the restraints and gain freedom.

Imagine the wind blowing through your hair as you explore. Experience what it means to be totally at peace, at oneness. It is an amazing sensation created by spiritual growth and it is now part of you, it’s in your makeup.

Now take the chance to allow others to assist you, encourage their development by helping yours. Explain how you attain balance and ask for their opinion. Make sure you have expressed that they should not be too over enthusiastic or cruel with their observations! Trust in your judgement of who you have chosen for this stage in your development. Now ask that they list some traits they consider relevant to you. These may be on any topic or level of influence that they consider they manifest in you. Usually, most people go straight to the ones that cause the most upset, but try and steer the occasional one to something less obvious. Encourage positive as well as less endearing traits if you find they are being a little weighted. Be prepared for the unexpected! We are not always aware of what others see in us.

Don’t take these to heart; they are a method of self analysis and improvement. This is not a way of damaging yourself or causing upset but an honest appraisal. Work these through in your own time to a point of comfort. You must be honest and keep pride and ego away from you. This will cause hurt if you allow it to be personal, so ensure you are respective but distanced when working on the traits. Allow your natural self will to guide you through as the benefits will be considerable.

We now have to assimilate all the information. It may be quite difficult for you be certain whether others took advantage of the position you gave them on the previous point, or whether they have been considered and careful. No matter what perspective you view this from, it will make a difference to you. The long and the short of it is that you have involved others in your learning and that takes a great deal of courage.

What happens in response is that you may feel more vulnerable, less confident, unsure of your direction, or maybe even humbled. That is all as it should be, for anyone who denies such an effect is not being truthful or hasn’t been listening. In order for you to progress you need to lessen the effects of your traits, as they work out you will create an emotional reaction. This is a good way of gauging your progress, there can be no change without this. Often we feel embarrassed, ashamed or even angry about our behaviour once it has been highlighted to us, or at least very uncomfortable for a short while until we adjust our outlook.

What is important though, is that to gain the benefit we have to keep it in perspective. We have often heard the expression ‘don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill’ and this is very pertinent with our learning here. No matter how enormous the trait appears or how steep it is to scale, it is in reality a soft and malleable mole hill. Don’t give it anymore credence than that, it has a minuscule effect on your overall being, it may seem painful and predominant at this moment, but that is a temporary effect.

The analogy of making a mountain out of a mole hill is very relevant to much of spiritual development. All too often we can over inflate our own importance, make a drama out of an incident, or portray our worries or problems out of proportion. Make an effort to reduce the perceived effect the mountain has over you, step out from its shadows and glisten in the glory on top of the mole hill. Plant your feet in the soil and allow yourself to gain balance.

To lighten this a little let us look at faith. We have talked of faith in previous progressions, but here, let us be more general. You may say that faith is not an easily digestible subject but I hasten to disagree. Faith is a belief in something or someone without necessarily having the proof. It has an uncanny knack of coming back to you when you least expect it, confirming a deep down knowledge that it is an intuitive truth in you.

Humour is often discarded as ridicule when associated with religion, but the more I have been working on my self development, the more I am amused. I am not laughing out loud at jokes, although that has happened, but the cleverness of the signals and synchronicity, the play on words, has led to a wryly context. It has aided my confidence and faith in what I am doing and assures me that God, however we wish to view him, enjoys humour. The longer we are working on our personal development the more we will notice this, and it is a wonderful confirmation of our progress.

At this point I wish to highlight the importance of community spirit. Up until now, although we have been very sensitive to others around us, we have been focused on ourselves - how we think, how we can improve, whilst all the time offering kindness, compassion and love to those in our lives. Now we need to look at the possibility of advancing through mixing with our friends, neighbours and relatives. It is, after all, a nationwide progress that we are ultimately hoping for, and without working together we will not gain the benefits for the country as fast as we would like. This may seem a touch idealistic, and in many ways I guess it is, but by hoping and helping those around us, the knock on effect can be substantial.

So let us get started with the belief that others see our development as a noticeable improvement from the people we were before. By simply restoring our true values we will have impressed on them the benefit of self improvement. There will be the sceptics and the micky takers amongst them, but don’t let them draw you into their game. They are, after all, our yardsticks for our new position, thank them for their effort in considering us worthy of such acclaim.

We do not have to go out of our way to demonstrate our new way of being, we can teach by example. As we gain courage and confidence then we can let others question our position, helping them to understand what we have achieved so that they can have the knowledge to progress themselves at their own speed. We have a moral duty, once on our journey, to help others. See this as a welcome promotion and enjoy the results.

This is an eye-catching question, but sadly could be true as physical crimes in Britain are on the increase. The world on the whole is spiralling out of control and many of us feel there is little that we can do about it. But this is where we are wrong, as by instilling values when children are young, it will create a massive far reaching effect. In our schools, not only are our children suffering at the hands of bullies, but teachers are being abused, having little or no powers to reprimand the pupils. The police have lost our youngsters respect, and yet are expected to support them at times when they need help. Parents struggle to maintain discipline and provide a morally stable upbringing with our now verbally abusive offspring. I grant you that this is not true of every household or school or community, but it gives a fair flavour nationally.

If we were to develop ourselves, and then allow our children to be taught by whatever method seems fit, I believe we would have a chance of instilling some faith and kindness back into our communities.

Karma becomes apparent at times like these where, should we be brave enough, it would punish and teach on a personal level. Putting many criminals in jail is a soft option and far from making them learn a lesson, more often than not, they return to the streets having gained further knowledge on how to commit crimes. Karma would be an instant procedure that would highlight to others the price of being a criminal whilst teaching the perpetrator a true lesson. It would recompense the debt to the victim and hopefully be a more permanent reminder of wrong doing. We already have karma; many will notice its appearance, particularly as you spiritually develop. The higher you vibrate the quicker your debt will be repaid, leaving you clearer for the future. This will result in you learning to operate within the laws of karma in everything that you do. Start to imagine on a day to day basis, any misdeed or unkindness is instantly recompensed to the recipient, whilst you learn the hard way! Gladly welcome your debt and let it teach you the importance of compassion and living with wholesomeness. The simple act of pretending that this is the case is often enough to ensure it will happen.

Materially gaining a benefit is all well and good if you deserve it. We all work to pay bills, it is global method, but how do we go so wrong? I would like to discuss the aspect of being materially expectant in all that we do. Supply and demand has a part to play here, but what about compassion, a kindly gesture, help for those in need. This is what I refer to, where material or monetary recompense for every little gesture or support, starts to feel quite vulgar.

Please don’t get me wrong, there are countless thousands of volunteers and helpers that give readily or their time and experience, this is not aimed at anyone in particular, but a more general observation.

More and more often, when people offer assistance, the recipient feels they have to pay in some way, worried that not to do so, will result in them be obligated to that person. Or worse still, they fear the bragging by the helper to others, exposing their need for support or comfort, making them less able to accept help. This is where the notion of what goes around comes around is so perfect, as whatever you give out to the universe will come back to you in abundance. Try to be more gracious when you are next offered assistance. If you can’t do something for that person in return, the next time someone is in trouble or lacking companionship, be there for them and consider that you are repaying your debt on a karmic level to the person who helped you, without clouding it with money or verbally needing to mention it.

If we all do this on the small scale it will amplify so that before we know it, it is having a global effect.

I have heard many an argument or display of attention seeking behaviour that has, quite honestly, left me reeling from its heartlessness. I am not prone to regular attacks of it myself, but its damaging effects have been known to me in the past, leaving me feeling battered and completely out of sorts.

I have learnt from my own personal experience that to display an attack on another in this manner is tantamount to trying to inflict control over them. How ever you look at it, to force your opinion onto another is bullying behaviour.

This is where I would like to take one particular aspect of modern behaviour and expand it a little. I don’t doubt that in the past, people had just the same form of lack of self control as we witness now, but it is in its new state that I wish to work from. Histrionics may seem a slightly outdated word for what I refer to, but for me, many of the words lost in our everyday language makes me sad, as modern interpretation or spin on things, loses much in the translation.

Take you own perception of histrionics and lay it open for discussion. It will be easier and far more effective if you start to now express your own understanding on each part of your development. I will add my ‘spin’ on things, but only take it as one opinion. Trust your intuitive thoughts to expand on this subject, then write them down before going on to read my perspective. It may add more colour to yours by doing it this way. Use this method in all sorts of learning so that you gain confidence and respect for your own development, using others words and experiences to bolster your perspective, not change it.

Histrionics is a well thought out procedure that gets you what you want. It disregards human kindness and thoughtfulness, for the shallow result of losing control and being unbalanced. In many incidents it appears as if the bullying tactic is purely a method of ensuring the recipient gives up and leaves, so as to give the appearance of losing the battle. More often, though, the person who responds by leaving the firing line is purely more refined and self disciplined.

I have seen children resort to this kind of tactic, where their hope of winning simply with a stream of verbal garbage, and hence being out of control, has gained them some benefit. Time and again parents struggle with teenagers when they are confronted with this kind of outburst. How easy it would be to let the youth continue in their misinterpretation of life than to calm them down and help them to see the truth. We all, no doubt have been at the end of someone’s display of histrionic behaviour, where our own self comfort is compromised, leaving us feeling unheard and unconsidered. It is, simply put, a sign of a person far out on the seesaw, lacking direction or connection with the universe, desperate for some level of balance but confused as how to achieve it. So the next time you are presented with a tirade of histrionics, consider the deeper aspect of their lack of confidence and self knowledge, and try to ease their discomfort.

This point may take you back to when you were a child or early adulthood. We have a range of experiences and incidents that come back to us at opportune moments through our life, and you may be curious as to the reason why they are re-surfacing. How often do you consider that the purpose of that thought, that slightly awkward memory or less pleasant retort actually has a greater meaning?

I have noticed time and again that a seemingly innocent reminder of something from the past has actually been a far more rewarding gesture. By gesture, I refer to the guiding assistance to any aspect for which I need to take learning. It may be that you have lost your way slightly and in order to re-adjust, you need to look at behaviours and events from the past to reconnect with your direction. It may be unresolved issues that hamper your progress. It may simply be a need to alter your perspective, now you are evolving, or ask for forgiveness. Change is the greatest component of self developing. Odd habits from the past that we still use to deal with certain matters now, may not seem so appropriate. Well worn out phrases may need re-phrasing. Methods used as coping strategies may now not be relevant. Take each thought that comes to you as a messenger, don’t dismiss it as drivel or ‘what our brains do’, this is advance developing that will really gear you up to greater levels of learning.

In times to come, we will all, I am sure, delve into our archives of knowledge for some direction. We may even, with just a tweak here or there, make a massive difference

to our outlook. But how about change from the positive view of self development? How can we access our deepest wish to be different? More often or not we assume that the character we have now is what we were born with, believing we are unable to change.

So take a bold stance now, and dare to be different. Stand up and walk over to a mirror. Stare into it and see your reflection staring back at you. Work hard to see all the characteristics of the person looking back at you. Don’t bog yourself down with your physical attributes, they are not important. Make a list in your head of all the qualities you would wish to aspire to and then let the words float over to your reflection. You may find it more powerful to speak the words out loud if you are comfortable to do so. Now see that he or she in the mirror is the person you would want to be, the face looking back at you has absorbed all your chosen characteristics and is now reflecting your new qualities. Enjoy how it feels as you conjoin, melding together. It is simply a matter of self belief. You have the power to begin this new level of advancement with trust in yourself, continue with daily confirmation of your new personality and if you wish, place a list of the characteristics you have chosen on the back of the mirror to aid your growth.

This next progression is going to touch on some well respected parables. We have all experienced their wisdom at some time or other and they will, no doubt, go on to serve many future generations.

Parables are songs in the heart of many, they lift you up and hold you aloft, begging you to be observant. Should we notice their wisdom, they can do no harm but steer us diligently towards self development.

Schools of thought have often perceived parables as fables, as not necessarily everyone will believe the religious perspective of them. However, the moral lessons they uphold can not be sneered at.

I am a believer in faith and spiritual nourishment. I am so convinced of these values that I have written this website. To me, all values and faith weave a complicated network through humanity. If a parable or fable or story or legend can make the slightest bit of difference, I support it. Not many fictional stories have much actual truth, but beneath each of its cleverly worded phrases or paragraphs we can gain knowledge. So open your heart to another way that knowledge can come through to you. Don’t be disdainful to writers trying hard to express their truths or observations to you. Be tolerant of those less sophisticated and less schooled than you, and take the true meaning in the context that is was offered. Words of wisdom, parables, humour, they are all just methods of getting your attention. Be open and positive to allow all forms of knowledge being made available to you, and your world will brighten.

This is the last in this set of progressions so I thought it appropriate to end with a well rehearsed and widely accepted conclusion. Amen is commonly added to signify the end of a prayer or blessing or to confirm the end of a sentence and yet I wonder how many of us understand its true meaning.

It comes from the Hebrew word ‘aman’ which means to be faithful, support or confirm. It actually means ‘so be it’. So by implication it means to be true, sure or faithful.

I am sure there will be many variations on this, but for now I am happy with this simplified definition.

If we confirm to ourselves the importance of being faithful, we will gain a better understanding of human nature. Faithfulness, in the bible, was put to the test and I adhere to my own understanding of it.

Modern life stretches the limits on relationships as more and more suffer the loss to promiscuity. Consistent loyalty to a promise, duty or friend is a sign of a strong moral backbone and something which at times gets dismissed. Let’s bring back this element of being spiritual into our everyday lives and start to live by this higher vibration by being dutiful and honest, careful and loyal. This does not mean that you have no choice, on the contrary it offers freedom, it adheres to morality and gains a higher understanding of trust. Amen!