Animals Archives - Signs, Synchronicity, and Waking Dreams

“HU Brings Us Home”

On November 8, 2024

In Animals, Divine Love, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Michael Avery (featuring Sharon Sheppard, an animal communicator)

Shadow’s Gift

I sometimes sing HU to the feral cat at the river where we feed jays and squirrels. Shadow, featured in the image above, loves attention as much as she loves the food people bring for her. I befriended Shadow more than ten years ago, when she was first abandoned, and fed her each morning while working at the water treatment plant adjacent to the park. Winters are especially difficult for Shadow. I grew to admire her survival skills and strength of will. She has been an inspirational teacher.

Every Day Miracles at Walmart

By Michael Avery

On September 3, 2024

In Animals, Conscious Living, Divine Love, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Nettie Clarke

As I was waking up the other day, the word “Walmart,” came to me. OK, I thought. I have nothing to lose. I will go to Walmart. Another word that had come to me the previous morning was, “Volunteer.”

I got in the car and headed over to Walmart. Timing is everything when I am on a mission, and I can’t mentally figure that out, so I just go about my day with Divine expectation.

Back to Horse Heaven: A Message from a Memory

By Michael Avery

On July 2, 2024

In Animals, Love & Relationships, Messages from Memories, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery

I was hiking along Horseheaven Creek just north of Steamboat on the North Umpqua River many years ago when I had a vision. In my mind’s eye, I saw a sacred valley called Horse Heaven, where wild horses still run free. Perhaps there exists such a valley in the area, but I didn’t pursue that reality since my vision was so clear and real to me. I memorialized that vision with a poem.

When the memory of that day kept returning, I realized that I’d missed a lesson or an insight back then. Horse Heaven, and especially one pony, was a metaphor. So, I got out the verse I’d written many years ago…

Blue Himalayan

By Michael Avery

On June 21, 2024

In Animals, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by Janice George

When I asked to learn more about unconditional love, my Spiritual Teacher sent a special messenger. As it turned out, he also taught me about communication and much, much more.

When Totems Become Waking Dreams

By Michael Avery

On June 17, 2024

In Animals, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Michael Avery

Foxes (featured above) are known for their cleverness, ability to outsmart predators, and resourcefulness. The fox totem thus symbolizes mental prowess, quick-thinking, and the ability to find creative solutions to problems.

Totems serve as spiritual emblems with symbolic meanings and significance for individuals, families, and clans. Depending on the source, several meanings can be attributed to each totem. They are also part of the “waking dream family” for those who recognize that a connection exists between outer events and our inner states of consciousness.

A Gift of Love from Bella the Cat

By Michael Avery

On April 2, 2024

In Animals, Divine Love, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Anna Finch

Recently, I was grieving the loss of my beloved friend, Jen, and asked God if I could see her again in my dreams. Could I get a hug from her there? Jen gave the best hugs. She was a kind friend who helped me in a very difficult time of my life. Her passing came unexpectedly, and it was a shock for me and so many others who loved her big and loving heart.

Expanding Our Capacity to Love

By Michael Avery

On March 29, 2024

In Animals, Conscious Living, Divine Love, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Pichaya Avery

“Soul exists because God loves it.”
The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book 1, p. 120

Every day, my husband, Mike, and I open a book at random during our morning contemplation. We usually alternate between Spiritual Exercises for the Shariyat book One and book Two. One of the exercises suggested focusing on Divine Love, and we asked our Inner Teacher, “How can we love you more?”

Later that cold and rainy morning, Divine Spirit sent us some unexpected visitors to show us how to expand our capacity to love.

An Act of Kindness and the Love of HU

By Michael Avery

On March 19, 2024

In Animals, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Michael Avery, as told by Sharon Sheppard

Sharon Sheppard’s husband, Pat, takes their Siberian Husky for walks every morning and late afternoon either to a wooded area or along the rolling sand dunes and sparsely populated beaches near their home on the Oregon coast. Pat enjoys contemplating and singing HU, an ancient love song to God, as Sitka runs through the woods or along the beach. One day, their normal routine was interrupted when Pat spied a murre bird lying motionless at the tideline.

God’s Gifts Come Through All of Life

By Michael Avery

On March 15, 2024

In Animals, Guest Posts, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Bill Higgins

The life force from God is all around us. It surrounds us in every moment and every place. We miss some of them. But from some of these gifts we gain small nudges to go left or right or do this or that. Others will be full of wonder, a treasure trove of consciousness expansion.

The following two stories highlight a few gifts I have received. Their central lesson for me is that God’s love comes from all of life, that we are connected, Soul to Soul, and that we share a relationship with Divine Spirit in many ways.

God’s Love Comes in Small Packages

By Michael Avery

On March 12, 2024

In Animals, Conscious Living, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Guest Post by Linda Higgins

“No matter what you do in life, if you can just love what you’re doing
and see the gift of God in little things, you’ll be happy.”
—Harold Klemp, What is Spiritual Freedom?

I am learning in this precious lifetime that every little mundane experience we have is really a profound moment in eternity that lights up with God’s Love for us when we allow ourselves to see with the eyes of Soul. We need to have a childlike curiosity and pay attention to all the little details in each moment, because things are not always as they appear to be when we first notice them.

I will share with you a few moments in my life when God’s love came to me in the form of small, golden, heart shaped “packages” to discover and unwrap so that the Light and Sound could fill my world at a greater level. Sometimes my Inner Teacher had to give me a strong nudge to be alert.

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