The Secret of Inner Presence begins with author Lin Lipetz's story of her spontaneous spiritual awakening in 1986. This amazing and unexpected event created an immediate awareness of a loving Inner Presence within her heart and a connection to another higher level of peace, contentment, and greater knowledge. She now knows that Inner Presence waits patiently to manifest within each person, and much of The Secret of Inner Presence is about providing the keys to bring about that shift in consciousness. As each of the eleven keys is practiced and experienced, the transformation toward a more complete understanding of the core-self will gradually evolve through the loving guidance of the conscious Universe. One of the eleven keys opens the way to intuitively listen to the many voices that will assist in this transformation - through healing, new insights, dreams, problem solving, and caring advice. Another key opens the way to deepen intuitively to the level of receiving messages from the Universe and possibly finding the guides that have been available since birth. This process is called Stream of Consciousness writing, and the powerful dialogues and inspirational poems the author has received in this way for many years are found in each chapter. Chapter by chapter, each of the eleven keys is presented, by both the spiritual Universe and the author, to help guide the reader to a higher dimension of the self.
The Secret of Inner Presence
Keys to Awaken Inner Presence, to Transform Your Life and the Global CommunityBy Lin LipetziUniverse, Inc.
Copyright © 2012 Lin Lipetz
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4759-0172-6 Contents
Foreword..........................................................................ixIntroduction......................................................................xvCHAPTER ONE: My Spiritual Awakening...............................................1CHAPTER TWO: Document Your experiences............................................11CHAPTER THREE: Awaken Inner Presence..............................................16CHAPTER FOUR: Intuitive Listening Within..........................................41CHAPTER FIVE: Stream of consciousness Writing.....................................48CHAPTER SIX: The eight Golden Principles..........................................56CHAPTER SEVEN: God Speaks with Love...............................................70CHAPTER EIGHT: Spiritual Guides Speak with Messages and Poems.....................77CHAPTER NINE: The Universe Speaks with Guidance...................................89CHAPTER TEN: Transform Your Life experience.......................................110CHAPTER ELEVEN: release Your Inner creativity.....................................128EPILOGUE..........................................................................141APPENDIX..........................................................................145GLOSSARY..........................................................................159BIBLIOGRAPHY......................................................................163ABOUT THE AUTHOR..................................................................167
Chapter One
MY SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
The Discovery of Inner Presence
The first key to the Secret of Inner Presence is the discovery that this divine center lives within each and every human being just waiting to be discovered, either gradually over perhaps a period of years through spiritual desire, through the emotion of peaceful love, or spontaneously, as with my story below.
My Spiritual History
Before relating the story of my spiritual awakening it may be helpful to know something of my on-again, off-again spiritual life. When I was a child my mother took me to the Presbyterian Sunday school in Bozeman, Montana and as I grew older we regularly attended church there. All through those growing up years I daily prayed to God as my very special friend and decided early on that the Bible stories of being born in sin were totally false. I earnestly believed in a beneficent and loving God. Later, mother began to attend the Christian Science Church and after retiring from her administrative job she daily retreated for a while to her bedroom to read Unity magazine. Often I would read those daily lessons myself and they gradually opened my mind to explore new ways of thinking about faith, religion and spirituality.
As a young mother I took my children to a Presbyterian Sunday school in Seattle, Washington and actively participated in the church until the minister literally removed the life size nativity scene I had created for a live evening Christmas pageant. The next day, without explanation, the wooden structure, the crib and the straw had all disappeared because it hid the pulpit. The minister came to our home to empathize with my concerns, but did not apologize, so I rarely went back—having lost all belief in ministers being more elevated spiritually than the rest of us. I decided to find my own way and began attending the Unitarian Church in Seattle, and later the Christian Science Church in Sonoma and the Napa Valley Center for Living based on the Science of Mind book and teachings of Ernest Holmes. There were also occasional visits to Zen Centers for meditation. I now realize that this rather haphazard but very real desire for spiritual growth finally led to my spiritual awakening.
The Awakening that Transformed my Life
In the winter of 1986 I was happy and content with no intention of beginning to live more spiritually, until I was suddenly awakened to the awareness of an inner shimmering Presence that began to live in my heart in the twinkling of an eye when I least expected it. I just knew that receiving it was the most magical event of my life and I have cherished it like a precious jewel in my heart ever since. It is my nurturing secret place to intuitively open for love, peace, creativity and spiritual guidance whenever I am in harmony with its vibrations. I tell my story here at the beginning of the book as an introduction to the amazing inner joy and love you will receive as you work with each chapter of this book.
On a rainy day I drove up to Sonoma from San Jose, California for an exhibition of my paintings. That night, after the opening, I stayed alone in my friend's historic stone studio just off the Plaza. She is both an aesthetician and astrologer, so it was a most interesting place to stay, with her art, astrology charts and spiritual posters everywhere displayed on the walls and ceiling. Thinking back to that night, it seems to me now that I must have been feeling a bit strange, and maybe a little lonely. The lampshade glowed a soft pink comforting light as I sat there looking languidly around at all the images and textiles she had so carefully collected. Then gradually I began thinking about love and what it is—why I am not sure. I had always thought of love as involving another person, someone to love or to be loved by. So, thinking this way I began to wonder lazily if love could be experienced without the involvement of someone else? Could one generate the emotion of being in love within oneself? How would I do that?
Deciding to experiment with this idea I simply looked up at a ceiling poster of Swami Muktananda whispering inwardly, "I Love You God" and projected that feeling of being totally in love with another person upward from my heart. Almost instantly warm vibrant currents of love's energy flowed up into the image directly from my heart. Amazingly, the feeling I felt was absolutely identical with actually being in love! Then, still looking up I said, "I Love Myself". Immediately those same rays of love rushed right back to me, joyously plunging deeply into my heart pinning me to the chair with their intensity! My body felt illuminated, the room seemed to pulse with light and I sat there totally embraced in a sea of love. It felt as if a miracle had just happened!! There is no other way to describe this experience except to say that afterwards for a long time it seemed as if I was floating within invisible arms of total loving bliss. Gradually, much later, in a quiet happy kind of daze I thanked God for what had been given to me, and crawled into bed, immediately drifting peacefully off to sleep.
The next day, awakening into the bright, clear sunlit morning with birds singing outside the windows, I felt a stirring of exquisite secret happiness breaking softly into my awareness. Had something truly magical happened last night or was it simply a beautiful dream? Why had I decided to experiment with love anyway? Afraid, and not afraid to test for answers before getting up I closed my eyes, tentatively saying again inwardly "I Love You God" and immediately the same waves of warmth that I had felt the night before radiated within my heart. I then inwardly said, "I Love Myself." And those waves of invisible energy grew even stronger; filling my entire body with pure loving beauty that was both exciting and somehow very,...
