A Fistful of Fiery Stardust

A Fistful of Fiery Stardust

by Catherine Viel

Posted on May 31, 2025

May 30, 2025

Many are exhausted, short-fused, and sitting in a kind of pressure cooker that often makes no rational sense. There’s grief, irritation, and even a deep burning rage…the energy to me feels like a dragon’s fire. It is erupting through me…It’s amazing, exhausting, and sometimes scary…The challenge now is to feel it all, even the rage, and set ourselves free without burning down what we need and want to remain. ~ Jenny Schiltz

I’ve noticed how some of us pay cursory attention to nature, while others experience a deep awareness of and connection with the natural world. I gravitate toward the latter more and more as time goes by.

When I entered Stow Grove Park the other day, a squirrel was chattering madly high up in one of the redwoods. It ceased while I walked the path through the peaceful redwood grove, and when I left the park, I heard the chorus of squirrel barks recommence. 

Being attuned to signs of Spirit delivered through everyday nature encounters, I wondered if that scolding squirrel was a message for me. 

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Since there are anger-management courses aplenty, frequently mandated for certain offenders post-trial, it seems obvious that anger is an issue for many humans. 

We have limited choices when dealing with emotions we perceive as negative (or in spiritual correct-speak, “not preferred”). If something causes our temper to flare, we might tell ourselves to hold steady: wait until we can assess, and respond rather than react. After all, reacting is probably how people end up in those anger-management courses. 

For many people, a few deep breaths and reasoned self-talk probably work well. For others, the reaction is like a force of nature erupting from our body-mind-emotion amalgam. Trying to put the brakes on the response is no more use than reeling in a comet by its tail. The comet hurtles onward and we’re left holding a handful of fiery stardust. 

It’s no wonder the comet escapes my grasp. If Ayurvedic and homeopathic type assessments are valid, I’m apparently programmed to be the human version of that angry squirrel: defending my territory, scolding trespassers, and erecting barriers against invasion. 

Those aren’t behaviors I embrace or consciously choose. Perhaps if I’m noticing and feeling this so intensely right now, it’s not just me, but a collective experience as Jenny Schiltz describes in a recent newsletter.

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I do think there’s validity in holistic assessment tools as well as mainstream personality type assessments. I took the Myers-Briggs test decades ago, and it landed so accurately it was uncanny, bordering on witchcraft.

If I’m prone to prickliness, defending my territory, or other bad-tempered reactions, does it follow that I “chose” this body and mental-emotional construct? Were they essential ingredients in the recipe that created me?

Hmmm… what if I’m done with having those experiences, but am trapped in a lifelong homeopathic constitution and Ayurvedic type that continue promulgating a fiery, easily triggered temper?

What is the recourse for breaking free from this personal-matrix nightmare?

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I’m not sure that animals really get “angry.” I have a feeling that what we perceive as anger in animals is the behavior they manifest when they are threatened. When they are fearful. When their lives, or the lives of their young, or their territory, are under perceived attack.

Are we really that different? Is human anger an elevated response, lifted up above such base concerns as territorialism and self-protection?

I suspect not. No matter how we might justify our negative emotions and the “bad” behavior stemming from them, I think it’s likely that we’re just prettying up an evolutionary and biological response to threat.

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Homeopathic constitutions can be modified, the troublesome aspects toned down via dietary adjustments, homeopathic remedies, and holistic therapies. But the undesirable aspects of a homeopathic type won’t simply go away, especially if they are a lifelong imprint.

I ponder the seemingly carefree life of that chattering squirrel in the park. Do the other animals say, “Tone it down, will ya? Nobody’s threatening you.” There are no anger management courses in nature. 

One of Dr. Peebles’s suggestions is to ask ourselves: “I wonder what my soul is mastering?” A slightly more loosey-goosey approach than the dreary “What lesson am I supposed to be learning?” 

Who doesn’t want to be a master at something? It strikes me as peculiar that an immortal and limitless soul would need to master anything, but what do I know? I’m just the vehicle toting this particular God-fragment around on Planet Earth.

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The next time I go to the park and hear a squirrel chattering, I will slow down and really listen. I will spot it running across a branch high up in a magnificent redwood, hopping fearlessly from branch to branch and tree to tree. I will ask my soul: do you really want to keep emulating that perpetually antagonized squirrel? How about if we move on from this part of the program?

It’s not a solemn ritual or a fancy, multistep spiritual plan. Just a couple of questions, self to soul. God willing, the dialogue will go both ways, and the human me will be able to hear what the soul is speaking. 

Catherine Viel

• https://goldenageofgaia.com/author/catherine/

Insights into Our Human Potential

Insights into Our Human Potential

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on December 29, 2024 

credits: frasesdelavida.com

Because of our sense impressions, we assume that there are many inanimate objects in our reality. This is only due to our insensitivity and lack of deep awareness. Quantum physicists have designed technology that can look deeply into the molecular and atomic structure of things. What they have found is that everything is made of swirling patterns of light configured in various densities, some of which appear solid to our senses. On a subatomic level, every wave/particle exhibits conscious awareness. When photons are directed toward a goal, they find every possible pathway to it. They are aware of other photons everywhere and act perfectly according to their nature. All subatomic entities exhibit conscious awareness beyond the capabilities of our human minds. Our entire bodies are comprised of conscious entities. There is no part of us that is inanimate.

Even rocks, crystals, rain drops, wind and every strand of our hair is a conscious being, comprised of conscious entities. Because of the limitations of our human awareness, we have been tricked into believing that our world is full of inanimate things, and that we live in a solid, empirical world. In reality, everything is a mystery to our ego-consciousness. The reality that we share consists of illusions that we make real by our interactions and recognition of the energy patterns that we perceive.

We have been interacting with everyone and everything as if we are separate beings in ourselves, unaware that every atom in our bodies is part of the consciousness that contains everything. Not every conscious entity has free will in the expression of its essence. Most entities act in accordance with their predetermined nature. Humans, however, freely direct our attention and emotions as we choose, but we also have an innate knowing, just like the photons and protons, and it goes far beyond what we have been aware of. It is part of the consciousness that envelops and creates all conscious beings, and we can have access to all of it, because we are fractals of the Creator’s infinite consciousness, and we inherently have Self-Realization beyond spacetime.

The only reason that we do not know who we are is because we agreed to expand universal consciousness by experiencing what it would be like to feel that we are separate beings within a limited consciousness, apart from our true essence. We imposed limiting beliefs upon ourselves and have lived with them for eons, but our inherent capabilities are far beyond any technology. The requirement for us to realize our essence is for us to align our awareness with our inner knowing in the creation and enhancement of all life in unconditional acceptance and love. This is the vibratory energetic expression that opens us to the limitless possibilities of our divine essence. This is the energy of our heart-consciousness, which lives to invigorate and enhance our lives, regardless of what we do to it. It is absolutely accepting of everything and just continues to keep us alive as much as it can.

We impose our own limitations upon our heart-consciousness, and we can dissolve these in the focus upon infinite love and joy. Fear becomes unreal in the presence of life-enhancement. When we actually believe that everything is alive and conscious, we see the light in everything and everyone. When we practice believing that we are telepathic, for instance, and we actualize our belief, we become telepathic. We already are these things, but we haven’t believed it, and so we have prohibited our awareness of them. Once we are aware that we voluntarily abide by these limitations, we can resolve them and unlimit ourselves.

Kenneth Schmitt

• consciousexpansion.org/

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