Cosmic Connection

  Praise for Cosmic Connection

  “Whether you believe in spirit communication or not, this book offers powerful universal wisdom that can change the way you think about your world.”

  —Stephanie Marisca Straight, program director of

  All That Matters, a yoga and holistic education center

  “Carole Lynne makes me feel that all of us have the possibility of experiencing greater depth of spirituality. Reading Cosmic Connection helps me understand that all of us can connect with Divine Consciousness.”

  —Marysia Gensler, Iyengar Yoga instructor

  “How to Get a Good Reading from a Psychic Medium is an indispensible part of my ongoing research into gifted individuals who are able to connect with those who have crossed over, and Cosmic Connection is Carole Lynne's story of her guided journey to accept her gift. It has expanded my understanding and appreciation of what it takes to accept the flow of cosmic energy.”

  —Ray Anthony Shepard, author of Conjure Tales

  “Cosmic Connection has come at a monumental time in the evolution of humankind. The Energy will guide each one of us to our own unique creative place on Earth and in the cosmos, both fulfilling our lives and aiding the course of humanity to the realization that we are one. Thank you, Carole Lynne, for reminding us of this basic truth through your work as a psychic medium, minister, and spiritual counselor.”

  —Mario A. Aranda, spiritual musician

  “Carole Lynne has stepped out of the spiritual closet to bring forward her very personal experiences as a trance channel. Her connection with her Guidance is a much-needed door opener to a deeper understanding of our own experiences. Her story leads you onward, anxious to find out what will happen next. At times, I felt like I was reading a mystery. This book will become a classic within the field of metaphysics.”

  —Barbara Szafranski, owner of Angelica of the Angels and

  Angels Landing of Salem, MA

  “Carole Lynne in this book has given us a gift—a gift of knowing that we can become a part of the solution and not a part of the problems that our universe is experiencing. That it is up to us to create and maintain our own happiness and that of this great universe. No one has all the answers as to what is beyond, but we understand that the more importance we place on the idea of Oneness, the clearer it becomes that we are all spirit and that the cosmic energy that makes up our being resonates with all others. I could not put this book down; it was absolutely filled with Carole Lynne's beautiful energy and love. Thank you for sharing your spiritual journey with us. I anxiously await the continuation of this wondrous path that we are traveling.”

  —Rev. Mary Kingslien, pastor at the Church of Spiritual

  Awakening, Kissimmee, Florida

  “As a medical scientist who always questioned how I knew what I knew, information that I had received not from a book, I was reminded by Carole Lynne's Cosmic Connection that I was, and am, tuned in to my higher self and divine wisdom. Her book supports trusting this blessing from the universe.”

  —Sondra Barrett, Ph.D., author of The Soul of Wine and

  co-author of Radiant Minds: 35 Scientists Explore the Nature

  of Consciousnes

  First published in 2009 by

  Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

  With offices at:

  500 Third Street, Suite 230

  San Francisco, CA 94107

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  Copyright © 2009 by Carole Lynne.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Lynne, Carole.

  Cosmic connection : messages for a better world / Carole Lynne.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-1-57863-440-8 (alk. paper)

  1. Lynne, Carole. 2. Women mediums--Biography. 3. Spiritualism. I.

  Title.

  BF1283.L96A3 2009

  133.9’1--dc22

  2008046663

  Cover and text design by Donna Linden

  Typeset in Perpetua and Requiem

  Cover photograph © narvikk/iStockphoto.com

  Printed in the United States of America

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  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992 (R1997).

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  I dedicate this book to three health practitioners in Newton,

  Massachusetts, who have, for over twenty-five years,

  taught me to pay attention and be disciplined:

  Jeanne Hubbuch, M.D.

  Robert Gensler, D.C.

  Paul Duffell, D.D.S.

  Contents

  A Warning

  Introduction: Message from Carole Lynne

  Part One:

  The Early Years of Awakening

  1 Opening the Channel

  2 Dreams Reveal in Frankfurt and Paris

  3 Kalpulpulpik and the Essence of Essence

  4 A Past-Life Agnostic

  5 Why Riddles and Rhymes?

  6 Many Births and Deaths within One Lifetime

  Part Two:

  The Higher Cosmic Realms

  7 A Little Girl Makes a Deal with God

  8 The Sitting Project

  December 15, 2005: A Universal Realm

  January 8, 2006: Do Not Carry Extra Baggage

  January 9, 2006: Time to Grow Up

  March 9, 2006: Steady Yourself

  April 3, 2006: A Symbol Becomes a Sound

  May 4, 2006: We Are All One and Yet We Are Many

  July 31, 2006: We Are Connections

  October 10, 2006: What Is I Amongst All of That?

  August 13, 2007: Spirit Wraps Us in a Cocoon

  November 12, 2007: This Energy Is Moving

  9 Reflections on the Sitting Project

  Part Three:

  The Path Widens

  10 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

  11 The Path of Direct Initiation

  12 I Found the Ankh, the Ankh Found Me

  13 Voices Echoing Voices Echoing Voices

  14 All Is Healing

  15 Love Is the Answer to the Question Living Brings

  16 Love in Action for a Better World

  Resources

  Acknowledgments

  A Warning

  THIS BOOK IS NOT INTENDED to take the place of the advice from spiritual directors, doctors, psychologists, or counselors. This is one woman's story of her personal spiritual experience.

  Carole Lynne reminds her students and all who read this book that spiritual experiences do not take the place of medical help. If you have physical, emotional, or mental problems that require the help of medical professionals, get the assitance you need. Carole Lynne says: “If you are subject to hallucinations that frighten you because of the negative feelings associated with these experiences, consider your experiences as emotional or mental problems. In my experience, communication with those in spirit and within the higher realms, are positive experiences and do not cause emotional distress.”

  Introduction: Message from Carole Lynne

  HELLO AND WELCOME INTO MY THOUGHTS, my heart, and my soul. This book is about spiritual experience. As a woman in her sixties who is a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, Spiritualist minister, psychic medium, writer, musician, and friend to many, I have a story to share with you. A
s you read it, you will see that Spirit has spoken to me in many ways: through lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, waking visions, revelations, precognitions, and many inspirational experiences while I was in a light trance state. I have learned a great deal as I have communicated with realms I never imagined existed.

  The spiritual experiences I write about in this book are personal, and there is no way to verify them. I am allowing myself to share these unverifiable experiences solely because I have brought much evidence that is verifiable by the people I have done readings for. When working as a psychic medium and communicating with a loved one in spirit, most of the evidence is about what the person was like when he or she was alive. Because much of the evidence has been verified, I cannot dismiss all the nonverifiable experiences I have had. The verifiable evidence has proved to me that there is a world of the spirit that we can communicate with.

  As you read my story, know that it is an ongoing experience. As a teacher of spirituality and spirit communication, I make it very clear to my students that no matter what I say at any given moment, I may change my mind in the future. I often look at my watch before making a statement and say, “This evening at 8:43 I have a belief that I am about to share with you. However, if I should learn something new that changes my thinking, my belief will change, perhaps by next year or perhaps by tomorrow evening.”

  I do not want to sound like an authority figure in my classes or in this book just for the sake of being authoritative. The doubts and questions that I have about my spiritual experiences are the same feelings that my students and many readers may have. My conflicts are real and shared by many people. So I am not interested in hiding my vulnerability just to appear like I know what I am doing. My vulnerability is my story.

  While I am vulnerable as I interact with the world of spirit, I am by no means a pushover. Just because the world of spirit imparts something to me, I do not fall to the ground and shout “halleluiah.” Carole Lynne, on the personality level, sometimes questions and disagrees with the teachings that come through during spiritual experience. The part of my consciousness that I name my Greater Self is able to access teachings that my everyday conscious mind either disagrees with or is not ready for. Part of my story is the three-way interaction between my everyday conscious mind, which I call my go-to-the-grocery-store state of consciousness, my Greater Self, and the world of spirit.

  I am finally speaking out because all of us need honest dialogue. Because I have been brought up in a culture where “visions of spirit” are usually dismissed as hallucinations, I kept my story to myself for years, as have many of you. We have been brainwashed to disbelieve our spiritual experiences. We have been taught that the only way to have spiritual experiences is through the guidance of a religious authority figure, such as a minister, priest, or guru. This does not mean that we cannot get a great deal out of being part of an organized religion. I am part of the religion of Spiritualism, and I receive a great deal from this religion. However, my story is about my direct communication with Spirit.

  Do you use the word Spirit? If not, you may prefer a term such as God, the Divine, Great Spirit, Infinite Spirit, the Creator, Divine Consciousness, or no name whatsoever. My story is not about naming and labeling. It is a story of spiritual discovery and speaks to anyone from any religious affiliation and to those with no formal affiliation. I am speaking to that part within each one of us that is connected to the One from which we came and to which we shall return.

  My story is about direct communication with the cosmic spiritual realms—about being part of spiritual spheres that cannot be seen with the naked eye or measured by any current scientific instruments. My experience embraces the one-on-one, direct, mystical, and incredibly transforming relationship that any one of us can have with the Divine. You may see yourself echoed in the stories of my dreams, visions, and messages from other realms of consciousness. Or, if you do not relate to my story, you may be encouraged to speak with the Divine in your own way.

  I perceive the spiritual energy that I communicate with as nothing like a spirit guide or angel. I understand that I am merging with an energy that is intelligent, evolving, and cannot be personified. While there are ultimately no words to describe this energy, the best words that I can find to describe it are connection, impulse, and creative force.

  While I am a psychic medium, this story is not about communications with my loved ones or yours. With all due respect to your loved ones and mine, and with a firm commitment to continue to communicate with their spirits, I also have a passion for communicating with intelligences and energies that have evolved far beyond our human experience.

  I have come to believe that you and I communicate on many levels of consciousness. Right now, your mind is focused on the words I have written. But there is another dimension of consciousness that our everyday, logically oriented state of mind is not aware of. I speak of a deeper, broader consciousness, a realm where part of you, part of me, and part of every human being exists. We communicate all the time in this other dimension, perhaps when we are sleeping or in a deep state of meditation. Our spiritual selves are not limited to our physical bodies and can travel into spiritual realms, where we can communicate. As you read this book, allow yourself to go into a deeper state, and I will meet you there. As you read, allow yourself to become the stories you are reading, and perhaps you will find answers; perhaps you will be inspired.

  If my story can assist you on your spiritual path, then I will have done what I am here to do in this lifetime. The mysterious energy of the world of spirit will help me give my story to you and then help you use whatever you receive for your highest good and for the good of others. When I first began to walk the spiritual path, all I wanted was to receive guidance from the world of spirit about how I could be more successful, more beautiful, make more money, and be happier. I spoke like I thought a spiritual person should speak, and portrayed the image of what I thought a spiritual person should be. But as the vibrations of the spiritual messages and visions I received began to permeate my consciousness, I started to change. I became more in touch with my Greater Self and felt the love of the Divine.

  These days, without trying, I am becoming more accepting of myself. It is ironic. The more I accept myself, the less I need to focus on personal issues. While I used to ask, “What can I do to have more of what I need?” these days I often ask, “What more can I do for those in need? What more can I do for our troubled world?” Like most of us, on some days I am more self-centered than on others. With the problems our world faces today, none of us can afford to be as self-centered as we have been.

  Evolution is not over! The future of our world depends on our abilities to evolve in a positive way: to let go of our egos, to realize that we are not separate beings, and to evolve to a consciousness that finds poverty, pollution, and war unthinkable. We are responsible for the future. But how can we change in order to have better personal lives and to make better choices for our world?

  Each one of us needs to change and to focus less on “me” and more on “we.” In my opinion, we can't create a better world unless we evolve spiritually. The cosmic connection is the connection to spiritual realms and it belongs to everyone. As we discover the cosmic connection, we receive and we evolve. Our lives improve. The world is changed.

  The spiritual journey I have been on has brought me incredible insights and knowledge. I have opened the channel, and the wisdom is flowing through. My communications with the world of spirit have changed the way that I look at reality. I have come to conclusions about the way the universe was formed and continues to exist. I have thoughts about the ways that you and I are all connected by an incredible spiritual energy: the force of all creation. I have connected with cosmic energies and beings that have changed my way of thinking about us. I have received teachings that are changing the ways I want to live. I offer my story in the hopes that you are inspired to pursue your own spiritual path in order to live a better life and in order to bring
greater wisdom to our magnificent but troubled world.

  In my book Consult Your Inner Psychic, I offered you a process for deepening your own intuitive gifts. In my book How to Get a Good Reading from a Psychic Medium, I offered advice on deciding what kind of reading you want and how to find a good reader. In Heart and Sound, I offered you affirmations, prayers, and chants to use as part of your spiritual practice. In Cosmic Connection, I offer you the opportunity to look at the teachings I have received as I have opened the channel and connected with a universal cosmic force. It will help you translate the language of the world of spirit so that you can understand the many ways that it is speaking to you. I have no monopoly on this channel. It is there for everyone. It is there for you.

  At the end of our physical lives, we are all on the way home to the eternal world, and we may take different paths to get there. Ride along with me on my path, and then take whatever is useful to you as you make your own choices and find your own path home.

  I appreciate your showing up to receive this story.

  Carole Lynne

  PART ONE

  The Early Years of Awakening

  Chapter 1

  Opening the Channel

  ON A NICE DAY IN 1987 I was looking around a bookstore when a book called Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer seemed to jump into my arms. Intrigued, I bought it, took it home, and sat down to read. That book would change my life forever.

  Even though I had never heard the word channel as I grew up in the forties and fifties, I had many telepathic communications. But these experiences were all about ESP (extrasensory perception). It never entered my mind that they might have some connection to spiritual life. I just found that knowing things about other people was fun. As a teenager at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, I discovered that I could actually hear my friend Peter's thoughts. I found this a little hard to believe, but after it went on for a few weeks, I finally said, “Peter, I know this is a strange thing to tell you, but I think I am hearing your thoughts. Were you just thinking about . . . ?” Peter not only verified that what I heard in my mind was what he had been thinking, but also told me that he had been hearing my thoughts. We were fascinated with our new mind-to-mind communication and constantly tested our ability. I would sit in one part of the camp and send images to Peter, and he would write down what he saw. Then he would send me images.