AVATAR and a New Year

I just saw the film "Avatar" today....and....LOVED it.  I loved it not only because it's visually stunning, but also because James Cameron made the film so metaphysically spiritual.  Thank you James!  You have a new fan in me.  There were spiritual aspects throughout the film, and TRUTHS.  I'm starting to get that bug again about creating metaphysical and spiritually uplifting films.  After all, that is what "On Angels' Wings Productions" was supposed to be in the first place.


On another note, I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful new year so that we can all forget about 2009. :-) I am optimistic that 2010 will indeed be a better year for all....though i also feel that life as we know it here in the USA has permanently changed.  But, perhaps Americans' obsession with lots of THINGS and bigger, more, bigger, more was wrong in the first place.  No one needs a McMansion or Hummer.


Best wishes to all for a healthy, happy, joyful, and loving 2010!


In light,
Atheria

Snow in ABQ Dec. 23, 2009

Here is a little movie of my apartment building courtyard in Albuquerque this a.m. during a little pretty snow fall. :-)

Channeled Session Tonight

You have come to a time in your history whereby all men and women must attune themselves to the All that Is if they are to survive the cataclysmic changes to the Earth’s surface during the next few years. It is time to listen to the soul within instead of the media without. We are here for you as your brethren, but there is only so much we can do to instill in you a sense of grace…a sense of love beyond the scope of love that your minds can handle. For it is not love in the clingy sense of the word that all too many have come to believe is the only way to love. There truly is no word to use in your language for the bliss we are talking about. But you shall indeed know it one day.


The future can be bright if you wish it so. Although great changes are afoot, and to some may seem completely void of anything having to do with love…we are here to tell you that should you choose to lift yourself into the light, the light that has been within you for all eternity, you will pass through this veil known as the 3-D world and into another dimension that will make your wildest, most vivid, most fabulous dreams seem like dredge. You have the power within yourselves to raise your consciousness to a state much closer to the divine. The divinity resides within, do not forget that. For you are not only a part of All that Is but ARE All that Is. An external force is a concept mistakenly thrust upon you by those who did not know how to take responsibility and wanted to thrust it onto another. We have now gone off on a tangent, a course, if you will, that we did not mean to do…but it is the truth and even in our state, get worked up at times. With this we must go, and bid you adieu.

Kitten Rescue -- (forwarding an email I received)

(I got this email from Laird Stuart and wanted to pass the information along.) -- Atheria


FRIDAY IS NATIONAL FERAL CAT DAY. AND KITTEN RESCUE IS STARTING A FERAL CAT FOOD DRIVE.

KITTEN RESCUE DOESN'T JUST RESCUE AND ADOPT OUT CATS, KITTENS AND DOGS. THEY ALSO DO TNR (TRAP AND RETURN) OF FERAL CATS. THEY TRAP FERAL CATS (ANY TAME CATS AND KITTENS TRAPPED ARE FOSTERED BY KR VOLUNTEERS AND ADOPTED OUT.)---GET THEM SPAYED OR NEUTERED, GIVE THEM SHOTS---AND THEN RETURN THEM TO FERAL COLONIES. 

THE VOLUNTEERS WHO DO THIS CONTINUE TO FEED AND WATER THE CATS OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS. WHEN YOU ARE FEEDING MORE THAN 20 COLONIES OF CATS (WITH AN AVERAGE OF 30 CATS PER COLONY) IT CAN BE REALLY EXPENSIVE. SO PLEASE HELP THESE FERAL FEEDERS BY COMING BY A KITTEN RESCUE ADOPTION EVENT ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF OCTOBER AND DONATE CAT FOOD, PETSMART GIFT CARDS, CASH OR CHEQUES.

IF YOU CAN'T COME BY, PLEASE MAIL A PETSMART GIFT CARD OR A CHEQUE TO: FERAL FOOD DRIVE, KITTEN RESCUE, 23705 VANOWEN #132, WEST HILLS, CA 91307

KITTEN RESCUE ADOPTION VENUES

PETSMART, CORNER OF VICTORY BLVD. AND CANOGA AVE., CANOGA PARK
SATURDAYS FROM NOON UNTIL 7PM.  SUNDAYS FROM NOON UNTIL 4 PM

CENTINELA FEED, 11O55 PICO BLVD. (1 BLOCK EAST OF SEPULVEDA), WEST L.A.
SATURDAYS FROM NOON UNTIL 3:30PM

PETCO, 845 SOUTH ARROYO PARKWAY, PASADENA
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS FROM NOON UNTIL 3:30PM

PETSMART, CORNER OF THE OLD ROAD AND PICO CANYON, STEVENSON RANCH
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS FROM 11AM UNTIL 3PM

WOULD YOU PLEASE SEND THIS OUT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.

THANK YOU.

LAIRD

Being Used By God(dess) As An Angel

I have been going through a hard time lately, finding out I'm being laid off, feeling stuck, etc.  Thursday was a crappy day.  When I got home and checked my email, I had a note from a stranger named Heidi.  Her email to me proceeded to tell me that she was relatively new to Portland and had been missing a spiritual connection....so she surfed around and found the Alice Street Spiritualist Church's site.  While scrolling down the page of "guest mediums" she came upon my photo and said her ears started buzzing.  When she came back to my photo later on, the same thing happened, so she went to my www.spiritbridge.net website and looked around.  She then proceeded to tell me that she didn't want anything from me.  She simply told me that my work is incredible and that I need to do more of it....that I am blessed.  She made me cry.  She made me realize that perhaps my life is worthwhile.  I told her that she was an angel that day.  She was used by God to touch me.


The following night, I was not feeling well (all day Friday I was coming down with something) and just wanted to go home during the long bus ride from downtown Portland to West Linn, but something kept urging me to stop in for a drink at Centanni.  I gave in and did.  I sat at the bar and started chatting with a lady to my left.  We talked awhile about Oregon (she hated it here) and eventually I mentioned my name to her and her younger female friend.  Well, Atheria is often a conversation starter.  I said that I was a psychic medium and the younger woman jumped up and came and sat next to me and eagerly said she was a firm believer in what I do.  Well, seems that neither of these women planned on stopping in for a drink at Centanni either....but got this weird urge to do so.  The younger gal and I ended up getting into a magical conversation where I was used by God to confirm some heart's desires in her.  Spirit was heavily involved in the conversation and I would tingle when I spoke a truth to her about her life.  We each shared an eating disorder history, and in her case, other addictions....and she wanted to become a CNA so she could work at eating disorder recovery places because she had been helped by CNA's who cared.  She wanted to use her experiences to help others, and there was NO question God wanted her to do that and I told her to not doubt her intuition that THAT is her real work.  Immediately after the 2 women left, I looked up at the TV which had a baseball game on it.  The very first word my eyes landed on was (in bright red) ANGELS.  I just smirked a knowing smirk and said, "Good job, and thank you."


As someone had touched my life the night before, I touched someone else's the following day.  This experience was a wonderful example of how we are all interconnected.  There are no accidents.  Every chance encounter is planned.  Thank you oh Great Spirit.


In Light,
Atheria

Animal Abusers and Haters

This is just a quick blog as I'm too fed up to type much.  I am just putting it on record that I have ZERO tolerance for people who abuse or hate animals.  I do not care to know anyone who doesn't love animals.


And in that line, if you do love animals (and in this case, dogs) please send a note of thanks to Dick's Sporting Goods for refusing to sell Michael Vick jerseys.  He has gone on TV and said he's sorry to everyone EXCEPT the dogs he harmed.  He still does not "get it" and just wants his high paycheck back.  The email address is:  customer.service@dcsg.com


Thank you,
Atheria

A Rose By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose

Okay, so I lied.  I really tried to be Carrie Jane Ryan, but she just isn't me anymore.  I'm Atheria.  But, I've made a compromise.  I'm using both names now since I am still trying to mesh the old me with the new me to find balance.  When I meet people, I introduce myself as Atheria...unless it's a very conservative situation. ;-) I am tempted to break into song...I've gotta be meeeeeeee.  I've gotta be meeeee!


:-)
Atheria
www.spiritbridge.net

Name Change & IKEA!

I am changing my name...AGAIN. I mean, I'm not changing it to something drastically different, like I did in 1999, but the friends I've made the past 10 years are going to be confused. While meditating in the summer of 1998 a voice clearly said to me, "You are not Carrie Ryan, you are Atheria." I looked up and said, "WHAT?!" It repeated, "You are not really Carrie Ryan, you are Atheria." Then I said, "What?! (I can be a bit slow at times.) Spell it." Then the voice spelled, "A-T-H-E-R-I-A". Now me, being the stubborn person I am, promptly blew this experience off and forgot about it. Fast forward to March of 1999.

While minding my own business living my life, I suddenly got this OBSESSIVE feeling I needed to change my name. I kept poo-pooing it and argued with spirit that the name was too weird and exotic for me. I basically said, "Forget it. I'm not changing my name." Well, when I don't listen to spirits' nudging, they can get aggressive. They found it quite funny to see to it that over the span of a week everywhere I went, people would come up to me and say (out-of-the-blue) that they had changed their name and it was the best thing they'd ever done. Seriously, this kept happening. Finally, I got fed up and said, "Fine! I don't understand what this is about, but I'll change my damn name to this exotic sounding name no one is going to understand!"

I legally became just ATHERIA in May of 1999 and stayed that way until June of 2007 when I felt it was best to go back to my birth name, Carrie Jane Ryan, for all legal/official things while still going by Atheria in terms of day to day use. Trust me when I say that having just one name causes a lot of computer problems and other problems. I almost wasn't allowed into Costa Rica in 2005 because they thought my passport was fake. Besides the technical issues, I wanted a more conservative name "just in case" I ever needed to hide metaphysical me.

By the way, everyone's soul has a name...and I am 100% convinced Atheria is my soul's name. It'll remain that way forever...no matter what body/name I'm incarnating into next (Though I am having a hissy fit currently and flat out refuse to incarnate ever again. I'm done. I'm tired. My friends laugh and say, "You'll change your mind when it's time again." Bah!)

Anyway, a couple of things are going on right now that have made me rethink being Atheria. I'm getting confused about how to introduce myself because at work I go by CJR and when I go to the doctor, etc., I have to use CJR...but everywhere else I introduce myself as Atheria. I've slipped up and accidentally called myself Carrie when I shouldn't and vice versa. The other issue is that I want to be taken seriously as a psychic, and I'm starting to wonder if having such an airy-fairy name makes people a little less sure about my (1) sanity and (2) professionalism. As a side note, I'm also getting tired of having to repeat my name numerous times and spell it when I meet someone because they don't get it.

The corker was when I was talking to my VERY gifted British medium friend today and she told me that when spirit gives her a message for me, and it's a serious message, they call me "Carrie"....but when it's some kind of lighthearted message, they call me "Atheria". She completely felt that if I want to be taken more seriously as psychic, I should use Carrie Ryan....and just be Atheria in my heart.

To anyone who hasn't changed their name before, you might not get how important a name is. A name has a vibration associated with it. When I became Atheria, I changed....literally...doors opened to me the day I finally accepted the name. I feel like Atheria. I don't feel like Carrie....but....with time I'm sure I'll adjust. I'm also a little haunted by the first thing a very good medium said to me many years ago (long before Atheria showed up) when he shook my hand in greeting, "Your name is bad for you. You need to change it. It's so wrong for you it's causing you harm." ACK! I pray he was/is wrong about that one.

I will try to mesh Atheria with Carrie Ryan and end up with a balanced person. :-) Oh, that reminds me of what another medium said to me in 2005 when she read me. She picked up on the name change years prior and said that my deceased relatives weren't thrilled with the new name (hahaha) but that their main concern was that I left too much of myself go when I became Atheria and that I needed to bring back some of the old Carrie....I had dropped too much of me.

I'm rambling on too long. The point is, although my soul is Atheria....from now on I'm Carrie Jane Ryan. Now I can make jokes about the movie "CARRIE". ;-)

On a completely different topic, I went to wonderful IKEA today!! WHOOP! Goddess, I love that store. I took a bunch of pictures. I want everything!

http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s18/Atheria444/IKEA08082009/

Blessed be,

Carrie / Atheria / Whoever

Pirate ship...but where is Johnny Depp?!

I took Edward and his dog, Lucky, to George Rogers Park today and we lucked out because there was a cool mini pirate ship! My only question is, "Where is my Johnny Depp!?" LOL

I will be getting back to blogging soon. I've just had too much to deal with lately.

Blessed be,

Atheria

Not very Buddhist of me...obsession with THINGS

Ever since I gave back the $299.99 Nokia E71x smartphone on the 18th that I'd had since the 14th because my old laptop suddenly died and I felt buying TWO expensive things in one week was too much...I've been obsessed. (Insert inhale here after a long frantic sentence.) I put data/web back on my non-smartphone, but it's just not the same and I don't like paying for web on a cell when I already pay for it at home. I'm cheap. I don't like double paying. I've already taken the data plan back off my Samsung Propel and now feel stranded...disconnected...left out. You see, the company I work for blocks the majority of websites out there in Internet world...especially social networking sites and personal email sites. That is the root of my problem. I feel cut off from what has become my world...the world of web interaction.

So, I called the AT&T store I returned Nigel (yes, I named my phone...and my car is Bob) to last night to see if by any chance they still had the phone. They had refunded $279.99 of my purchase price because of a $20 restocking fee. I was hoping to get back my actual phone so I could recoup the $20. And, if truth be told, I had a bond with the phone. I do feel...actually, KNOW, that everything is energy. Everything has an essence, including a phone. I wanted my actual Nigel back, not another E71x if possible. But, as fate would have it, the store had already shipped Nigel and other returned mobile phones back to AT&T for refurbishing. Now, initially I took that as a sign that I was supposed to save my money and not buy "stuff". But, then I started obsessing more. I went on eBay and got into a bidding war for another Nokia E71x, but some twerp outbid me by $2.50 in the last seconds of the auction. GRRRRRRR.

Now, I should mention that the main reason (though there were plenty of reasons to love my first ever smartphone) I loved the phone I had for less than a week was that it had WiFi and without having to pay $30/month for a data plan, I could surf the web in WiFi hotspots for FREE. I like FREE.

I brought my new great Acer Aspire One 10.1 inch netbook to work today to use, but even though it's cute and small compared to regular laptops, it still weighs enough that when you've got it in a bag with other womanly stuff like a purse and make-up, it gets heavy. If I didn't have to run blocks (uphill on the way home) to catch a bus to/from work it wouldn't be as big of a deal, but I do...and any weight slows me down. I have 4-5 minutes to get from the 12th floor of a building down to the ground level where I then have to run another 3+ blocks if I don't want to get stuck in downtown Portland for another 15+ minutes. GRRRRRRR again. God I wish my job paid for parking in downtown at $200/month.

I could already tell after today, that I am just not going to want to lug around a computer. So then I set my sights on getting an iTouch. People are selling brand new iTouch's on CraigsList.org like crazy because there is a special at Apple right now where if you are a student and buy a computer, you get a free 8 GB iTouch. I've contacted numerous people and no one has responded. I literally started to panic. I also contacted a guy who was selling his week old Nokia like the one I had for $200, but he had just sold it (though his friend has one too and may want to sell it). It was like every avenue I tried today to spend money and get something small with WiFi just didn't work out. I finally started to realize (I am a bit slow) that perhaps God really WAS trying to block my expenditures for things I don't reeeeaaaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyyyy need. My Samsung Propel is fine. Technically, the sky will not fall if I don't have nonstop web access. Plus, the kicker is that I am due for a phone upgrade on October 9th, and if I could wait a few months, could get something nice at a savings.

After the thought that I really "shouldn't" spend more money at this time, and that I could carry my netbook around for a few months if need be (if I really was going to die without Facebook all day)...there was another thought...one of THOSE thoughts. You know, those thoughts that actually have a deeper meaning? One of those thoughts that make you question, "What the hell am I doing? Why am I frantically running around in circles like a crazy woman over not having a techie toy? Why am I clinging so much and panicking at the thought of not having 24/7 web access?" Something is wrong, so I decided to put that something to good use and write about it. I'm avoiding something. And I think that is a very common situation. I see BlackBerrys and iPhones as miracle things at times, but at other times I wonder if all these things are just our babysitters and a way for us to not feel so alone. Our mobile phones have become our baby blankets.

Now I need to stop writing and just be (as my friend tells me I need to do more often)...and also realize that material things are temporary, and getting attached to them is not healthy. You can't take it with you as they say.

Om mane padme hum,

Atheria

Mirror Lake movie from today...

Here is a movie I took today while hiking up to Mirror Lake in the gorgeous Mount Hood area of Oregon.

Peace,

Atheria

Today's crossings...Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson

As if today didn't start off sad enough with the passing of Farrah Fawcett...while waiting for a bus and on my way to the hospital for a medical test, I got a call from my sister saying that Michael Jackson had shockingly died of a massive heart attack. Even as a psychic medium who knows we are eternal souls, and that our bodies are just clothing (I noted how the reporters on Fox 11 in L.A. while watching Michael being flown via helicopter to where the autopsy will take place kept referring to him simply as "the body"), it is still hard to accept when someone you expect to be around for a long time is suddenly gone from this plane of existence.

In Farrah's case, there was a sad sense of relief as she had suffered for so long. No one should have to go through the type of cancer battle she had to go through. With Michael, there is just this sense of disbelief...and a very real reminder to all of us that we are never assured of a tomorrow. When someone unexpectedly crosses over, it reminds me to appreciate each and every day. It makes me want to quit my job and be free and do the things I want to do but never have time to do or THINK I have the money to do. What if today really was your last day? Would you find yourself on the Other Side feeling okay about it, or regretful?

Of course, there are the practical concerns of "Well, what if I really DO live to be 100 and am penniless because I "lived in the now" too much?" This is the push-pull I go through a lot...and I doubt I'm alone. But something that is free and doesn't jeopardize your financial security is to tell those whom you love that you love them...to hug and kiss your family, friends, and pets. You'll never regret that you loved a bit too much.

Farrah, you really are an angel now...hopefully dancing to Michael's music in heaven.

In light,

Atheria

Farrah Fawcett

I heard 3 hours after the fact that at approximately 3:25 p.m. today, Farrah Fawcett was given last rites (in CA). Just after hearing this, I was hit with subtle tingling...felt that she was half in and half out of this world. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her loved ones. I pray she has a smooth transition to the Other Side and that she knows how much she is loved. She has been a brave fighter and an inspiration to many people. I ask that you all send your prayers her way...

In light,

Atheria

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The still small voice within...and without...

Okay, I know I'm psychic. I mean, I communicate with "dead" people for crying out loud. Yet, sometimes I ignore my unseen friends when one of them is TRYING to help me from the Other Side. They are just so calm and quiet when they talk, it's too easy to not pay attention and brush it off. WRONG! I need to be hit over the head with a spiritual 2x4 and I hope they are reading this blog.

I swore the last time I heard a subtle voice, brushed it off, and got into trouble for doing so, that I'd never do that again. But, I can be dense. On Wednesday night while trying to fall asleep, I heard a calm, subtle voice say, "Back up your computer." I promptly rolled over and went to sleep...ignoring the warning.

Thursday morning my old laptop was fine and I checked email quickly and streamed a Los Angeles based radio station. When I got home from work and tried to turn the laptop back on, it was dead...no signs of life except for the incessantly loud fan it always had. ARGH!! So, I am once again saying that the next time there is a quiet voice whispering in my ear, I'm listening! And I suggest you do the same. :-)

In light,

Atheria with a new (and very adorable) PC (Acer 10" netbook)