June 26, 2025

Article highlights: 

• What IS telepathy?
• Immediacy of Self 
• There is a Gap

Last week while reflecting with you on our first spiritual teachers, I shared a little about my first teacher, a Channel called Zarathushtra.   During the week since, I thought of another teaching from that time that has remained with me since then.  It seems a good share for today.

One day in 1990, Jacque, the Channel, was offering a small event in San Diego where I lived.  An audience member asked Zarathushtra, “How can I become more telepathic?”  As answer to this question about telepathy, Zarathushtra asked the small group, “By a show of hands, how many of you feel ready for your every thought to be known by others?”

Naturally that question sent ripples of aha through the group as we tumbled into the realization of what telepathy was.  This was reinforced when Zarathushtra added,  “Telepathy includes the ability to live in the truth of who you are at any given moment.  Being telepathic means living in that transparency.”

He explained that telepathy begins to develop naturally after one chooses to embrace the path of Truth as a spiritual traveler.  That is why, he said, it is often called the Transparent Path of Truth.  Transparency, he said, gives one an immediacy of Self and added that having such immediacy of Self was the real key to manifestation in the physical world.  Immediacy of Self equates to a powerful sense of Presence and that presence is key to manifesting.

These few thoughts seemed to me an amazing teaching about telepathy, transparency, truth, presence and manifesting.  I raised my hand to reflect that it seemed that choosing to strive toward a more telepathic interface would certainly help us build greater accountability into our words, thots and actions.  

I asked, “If one were to commit to a more telepathic or transparent life, would there be a grace period… a corrective pause… between what one thinks and what one manifests?”  

My thinking was that if the manifestation came immediately after a thought, I’d too often be in trouble.  BUT if there was time to notice a thought and choose better, then it might be doable.

“In other words,” I expressed, “if one mis-thought or mis-spoke would there be a moment of grace to catch oneself in the thought and correct it?”  I said if that was the case, I felt I could make such a decision.  By this I didn’t mean committing to live perfectly transparently — that was clearly beyond me — but committing to the path of transparency seemed doable.  In fact, it seemed something very worth moving toward for my personal growth.

He allowed that, in fact, that is how things are.  “There is a Grace period, indeed.  On this planet,” he pointed out, “there is already what could be called the Gap.  It is the period of time that elapses between experiencing your thoughts and emotions, and the manifestation of them physically.  This is already built in on earth to prevent you each from being constantly overcome by the unfortunate consequences of how you have been taught to think and feel and act.”

“So, yes,” he affirmed, “there is the pause and yes, it would indeed be a beneficial choice to commit to the transparent path of truth as one’s life training, with telepathy as one of the rewards along the way.  But, he added, it would also require one to commit to kindness and compassion and patience toward oneself.  Commitment to lovingly accepting who you are requires the equal willingness to be self-compassionate.

I made that commitment and have been learning profound lessons about the power of my thoughts and words since then.  It’s still a meaningful path for me and even though I often fall short along the way, I love being on it.  

The Path of Transparency and Truth is a stellar teacher.  And of note is the fact that it took me a while to realize that transparency didn’t mean divulging things about myself or others, it meant knowing myself.  

Becoming increasingly honest with myself and comfortable with who I am and what I’m up to — understanding what I’m thinking and wanting, what my fears and underlying agendas are, moving away from self-judgment…   These are the priceless treasures I’ve found along the way.  And incidentally, learning more about what telepathy really is has been part of that too.

What a beautiful, full-circle teaching Zarathushtra gave on that day!  Telepathy = transparency, and transparency + patient self-compassion = Self-knowledge, and realization which = Truth = Presence and Manifestation!  

It has been something wonderful to muse on all these years, including with you today.  😊 💜 

Love, as usual,
Mayet

June 19, 2025

Article highlights: 

• My first spiritual teacher
• What longing in me attracted me to his teachings?
• Hu’Mata, Hu’Ukta, Hu’Varshta 

Initially, as I began to embark on a more “alternative” spiritual path, it was inner guidance, books and friends and associates that provided encouragement.  It was a while before I came across someone that was offering alternative spiritual teachings and oddly, it hadn’t occurred to me to seek that previously.

I think I’ve mentioned to you here that when I did finally meet a spiritual teacher, it was — surprisingly to me — a channel called Zarathustra.  Channeling was out of my comfort zone then, but it came about in a way that allowed me to observe over time.  What I saw moved me beyond my old religious programming about it.  And as time went along I’d say that this was the most impeccable spiritual teacher I’ve ever encountered.  

This channel didn’t want to amass a large following, groups were kept small.  He quietly offered simple but extraordinary training for how to comport oneself on a spiritual path and how to navigate the pitfalls.  The teachings primarily included basic tenets about the truth of our being and the necessity of having one’s own relationship with the One Life that flows through all life.  

Discussion often centered around the problems and opportunities of being human.  They included instruction about the truth of who we are, the magnificence of our spiritual heritage.  We learned of the nature of the in-dwelling Light and how to brighten and maintain it — and other things such as these. 

Zarathustra was, apparently, an Iranian prophet or mystic who was very long-lived, probably in the period of 600 years leading up to Jesus’ coming.  He is referenced in many ancient scriptures and writings of that area and time.  He is said to have been one of the so-called 3 wise men who attended the birth of Jesus. 

He is mentioned and documented by many historians and spiritual leaders of the time and poets such as Hafiz, and is said to have lived in that area as a prophet and sage.  However, very few of the details of his birth, life and teachings are known today.

Zarathustra, as a modern day channel, said he had lived and taught then in such a way as to prevent a cult or religion from rising up around him and he didn’t encourage us to research the happenings and beliefs from that previous lifetime, but to focus on our paths in this life.  He said his focus now was on teachings that awaken the teachers of these times, to remind them of who they are. 

There was one teaching he returned to often — it was the idea of one’s thoughts, words and deeds being unified and aligned with good.  One of his oft-repeated phrases was,  “Let your every thought, word and action carry your most aligned intentions into your world in every moment you possibly can.”  

He was realistic about that being an ideal, and said it was not something to harangue one’s self about.  But at the same time he was also beautifully encouraging that we each were capable of living that to a greater and greater degree in our lives as we progress spiritually.  He said in times of old this was called ‘The Pathway of Truth’.

During the period I was in my storage shed last week, I was in the process of writing this, thinking about my first teacher and wondering who your first teachers were when a serendipitous moment occurred.  Going through a box of books I came upon a tiny booklet, about 2.5×3 inches, called Thus Spake Zarathushtra.

I was delighted to see that this teensie book explains the two main teachings of Zarathushtra of old and gives as the main focus the belief in Ahura Mazda, the Source of all life.  It cites as the secondary tenet of his teachings a principle Zarathushtra apparently referred to as the Holy Triad.  The Holy Triad is not the so- called trinity of modern Christendom.  It is:

Hu’Mata — Righteous Thoughts
Hu’Ukta — Righteous Words
Hu’Varshta — Righteous Deeds

So there in the storage shed, I came across this affirmation of what Zarathushtra had in fact returned us to time and again — The Path of Truth, marked by our willingness to become aware of the importance and power of our every word, thought and action. 

The two simple tenets of Zarathustra seem to have been important to me since I was very young: my relationship with the Source of Life and the importance of my thoughts and words.  No wonder they were part of the teachings of my first spiritual teacher this time around.  They were key longings that led me to those teachings.

As you reflect upon your own spiritual path — when, how and with whom it began — what were the teachings that answered your own longings for spiritual satisfaction?  

Which teachings would you say were most core to you — perhaps already embedded in your being in such a way as to cause you to search for and recognize them in your teachers as you entered upon your own pilgrim’s progress? 

Something interesting to muse on today 😊 

With much love, 
💗 Mayet

June 12, 2025

Article highlights: 

• An unexpected road trip!
• Olga Island

A road trip happened suddenly and I find myself in the San Juan Islands between Seattle, WA and Vancouver, Canada.  I’d had the invite for some months, which included spending a week with a grandson and my oldest son before they left to drive the Alaska-Canadian Highway and I left to spend time with friends on Orcas Island.  It then included seeing my younger son and other family at the graduation of his step daughter from college in Washington State several weeks later.

What fun!  But I didn’t have funds for the trip and since I have a hard and fast rule about not putting things on my credit card that I can’t pay off right away, I waited to see what developed. 

I kept getting a clear nudge to go, so I felt hopeful and expectant that things might change.  At the very last minute they did!  You’ll remember my friend Kahuna Kalei who died in 2020?  Many of you knew her, too.  She made this trip possible all these years later, and so unexpectedly.  

Ten days ago I received an email from an airline I haven’t heard from in years — maybe their emails have been going to my spam folder?  This one was in my inbox and its subject seemed to indicate I had a LOT of air miles, which I didn’t, as far as I knew.

I called the airline and learned those miles had been transferred to me from Kalei in early 2020 sometime before she died and after I left her and Hawaii.  I have no memory of this transfer nor any conversation with her about it.

It was enough miles for this trip.  So I packed up and arranged for a month or two away and was quickly off, just in time to rendezvous with my son in the Seattle area.  After a week with family that included me going through an old storage and donating most of it, I now feel nourished in the way only family can offer and I feel so much lighter in the way that only divesting stuff can bring.  It was a terrific week.

Now, I’m writing to you in the beauty of a cool, misty island morning, listening to birdsong and the ferry’s horn sounding in the fog across the bay.  Shortly I’ll be picked up by one of you, dear readers.  Mary has been reading my weekly for some years now and we’ve become frequent pen pals.  She’s a delightful thinker and correspondent.  We’ll get to meet in person, have a cup of tea, get some groceries for me and maybe explore the island a little if the weather holds.  What a fun afternoon, right?

The photo today is from the ferry ride to the island. The quality of air, water and nature is so high in these islands; it’s a very special area.   I lived for 15 years on a neighboring island near here, many years ago now.  It’s one of the islands you see across the way, in the photo.  

It feels great to be back.  This part of the world is exceptionally beautiful, nurturing and healing.  I’m looking forward to a wonderful stay. 

More soon about this road trip, I’m sure, and much love until then,
X 💜 Mayet