A.R.E.'s Thought for the Day and my experience of Thought

Greetings!

One night in 2011, I went to a forum.  Before the gathering was over, there was a drawing for prizes.  There were about 12 prizes.  Seeing the filled auditorium, I thought, "Those who win a prize deserve the prize, and I am happy for them."  So names were called, and people went up the stage to receive the gift.  I said in my heart to every person that won a prize, "I am happy for you."  Near the end, a thought came, and I ended up getting a prize!  (Re My thought and the outcome )

In that post, I wrote it was interesting how my thought correlated with the outcome.

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As an A.R.E. member, I receive Thought for the Day *  on my phone (through my email acct.) every morning around 6 a.m.  ( * excepts / words of wisdom from Edgar Cayce channeled readings)  Some mornings I wake up and grab the phone to read the Thought for the Day .  If not, I  read it while I am on the computer later in the day.  I may have many unread emails, but Thought for the Day is not one of them.

Over the years, I found the excerpts uplifting and helpful in my spiritual journey.  Occasionally, Thought for the Day  turned out to be the answers to the questions that I held before I went to sleep.  When this happened, I logged in to read the whole reading.

On May 28, 2025, I received the following Thought for the Day -

"The mind governs the body more or less; consequently, the mind should dwell on beautiful things if we would have a healthy body."

I recalled my reaction was 'Ah, our mind governs the body."  It was somewhat interesting, but I did not search for the reading.

In the afternoon, I thought of what to eat for lunch.  (I ate when I felt hungry.  I did not have a fixed time for meals.)  Before cooking, I tried to open a glass jar of seasoning.  After a few tries, I just could not move the lid a bit.    

I had difficulty opening jars from time to time.  Sometimes I used the techniques ** I knew, and still could not open a jar / bottle.  (** e.g. put the jar under hot tap water for a while, turn the jar upside down and tap at the bottom a few times, or use paper / towel so as to have a better grip of the lid / jar)  I normally tried and tried to do it by myself before I asked for help.  My son often opened it with ease.  Seeing how easily he did it, sometimes I wondered if I had not applied the strength in my hands correctly while I tried to move the lid.  But then, I had to admit he was stronger than I was.  He was a bodybuilder, and I was not into exercise.  I saw other women lifted up a 24-pack of bottled water with ease.  It was not my case.

My son was at work that day.  When my son was not home, there had been times I asked my guides and angels to help me.  Amazingly, sometimes I got an idea as what to do, and was able to open a jar.  That afternoon I did not pray for help.

Holding the jar in my hand, I decided to give it one last try.  It did not work.  Disappointed, I thought "Oh, my hands are so "  Right then I paused (my thought).  I recalled the words in the Thought for the Day, and realized it was a negative adjective/label for my hands .  With a smile on my face, I said in my mind, "I am going to open the jar with ease."  I put my hand on the lid of the jar.  Incredibly, I did not need to apply any force!  I simply lifted up the lid.  It was as if the jar had already been opened.  To be honest, when I replaced the previous thought with a new positive thought, I was like a little girl who was trying to have some fun; I held no expectations.  I am a senior now.  It was (is) this little girl within that helped me see the fun, joy, magic and beauty of life.  

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While I was writing this post, I noticed A.R.E. had sent out a circulating file on The Nature of Mind on May 12.  I had not read the file.  It had 69 pages which included everything that Edgar Cayce said about the mind during his channeled readings.  In the same email was a short video on Thoughts Are Things.  In the video, John Van Auken shared his own experience in focusing on positive thoughts, and the importance of getting into a pattern of pausing before thought / capturing a thought before you let it become too powerful.  He said Edgar Cayce had said during one of his channeling sessions that new thoughts overshadowed old thoughts; therefore, it was important to focus on positive thoughts.

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The two experiences I shared were almost 14 years apart.  In other words, I had not paid enough attention to my thoughts in between those years.  The experience on May 28, 2025 certainly reminded me of the importance of my thoughts.

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It is never too late to begin focusing on positive thoughts and getting into a pattern of pausing before thought / before reacting to life situations.

Thank you, Loving Divine, Edgar Cayce, and all the wonderful teachers / friends at A.R.E.

Love and Blessings,

Q of D

  

I got a name in a dream, and police cars in the parking lot

Greetings!

One morning, I woke up from a dream.  

Here was the dream -

Two sisters were talking to a male friend.  I seemed to be the younger sister.  The older sister in the dream was not my sister in life.  We seemed to be in our late teens to early 20 s.  The male friend was tall with above average built.  Suddenly, we heard men chatting and footsteps.  We were on the top floor of a 3 or 4 story house.  The older sister said, "Oh, No!  Father and his friends are coming up the stairs!  Father does not like XXXXXXX (the male friend)!  What are we going to do?"  The me in the dream thought for a brief while.  I walked to the top of the stairs, and said loudly, "Father, you are home!  XXXXXXX is here.  He comes to visit us.  He is about to leave."  Then I walked back to where they stood.  I said, "Don't worry!  Father will not get mad in front of his friends.  And, XXXXXXX should leave right away after greeting our father."  (The characters in the dream were Europeans.)

I woke up from the dream.  Later, I wrote it down in my journal.  At the end, I wrote "Who is XXXXXXX?"

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A few days later I went to a lecture on mantras.  

I had gone to this place before.  The founder (deceased) dedicated his life for service to humanity and peace of the world.  His students in U.K. and different places in U.S.A. continued with the mission.  This place had good energy.  It showed the devotion of the students to the founder as well as their dedication for service.

Later I learned those of us who had learned the mantras were welcomed to participate in the prayer service for world peace which was held once a week at night.  I raised my hand to tell the lecturer that I did not drive much at night in recent years, and would join them in spirit from home.  The teacher / lecturer was kind and accepting.  She said she had friends that did not like driving at night too.

While I was about to leave, a man volunteered to pick me up for the service at night.  (He was one of the ministers.)  I thanked him, but declined to accept his offer.  I told him it was too much trouble for him to pick me up and drive me home.  He asked where I lived, and said it was no trouble at all for him to do that.  Then he said his name.  He was tall with above average built.  I smiled and accepted his kind offer.  After all, peace for the world had always been important to me.

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On the night he was supposed to pick me up, I waited outside of the apartment.  Later, I got a call that he had been driving around and could not find the building that I lived.  I learned he drove a truck.  While we were on the phone, I spotted his truck in a distance in another parking lot.  I told him to stay where he was while I walked over there.  

There was a traffic jam on the way to the place.  We were half an hour late for the service.  I got to participate in 3/4 of the service.  It was a new experience for me.  I was grateful to take part in the service for peace.

The drive home was smooth.  However, the second this brother drove his truck into the parking lot, I could sense we were being watched!  The parking lot was usually not full at all at night, but it was different this night.  I saw a few unmarked police patrol vehicles!  (I saw these vehicles in the school parking lots from time to time.)  One of the vehicles immediately drove right in front of the truck and kind of blocking the truck.  The policeman looked directly and intensely at me.  I realized what might have happened.  I smiled at the policeman to let him know I was fine.  He moved his vehicle to the side and drove away.  

The brother had a big truck.  I did not know much about cars.  His truck was much bigger than the regular trucks.  Somebody in the neighborhood might have seen this unfamiliar big truck driving around, and thought of the news about crimes such as kidnapping.  He or she might have called the police after seeing me getting into the truck.  

The brother might not have noticed anything unusual that night.  I had not talked about it.  After some thought, I decided not to participate in the service at night anymore.  It was too much trouble / time consuming for the brother to come to my place and drive me home afterward.

I attended their Sunday service once in a while.  Last month I went to join their service for peace when it took place during daytime on a Saturday.  They had always treated all that came with kindness and respect.  I felt at ease sitting among them.  

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In zoom meetings, sometimes channels and readers gave short readings for those that attended.  Most people did not know much about me because I rarely spoke up.  One day, a channel said, "You are pretty established in your dream world."  Some people went to sleep with an intent of what to dream or explore.  I did not.  It was interesting to find how closely my dreams and the reality were interconnected.

Good Night!  Have Fun Dreaming!

Love and Blessings,

Q of D

   

A Woman's Words of Wisdom

Greetings!

I went to a store.  Later, I lined up at a checkout lane behind a woman who was probably in her 30 s.  

The woman looked back at me, a senior woman who was carrying a shopping basket.  Immediately, she moved all her items close to the register.  She signaled for me to put the shopping basket on the conveyor belt.  With a kind smile, she said, "Sometimes it gets heavy carrying a shopping basket."  I smiled, and put the basket on the conveyor belt.  The woman's kindness touched my heart.  I thanked her, and said, "I can see kindness all over your face."  She let out a beautiful smile, and said, "Kindness has no price.  It does not cost us anything.  We should be kind to one another."

Many people wanted to know what was their life purpose.  Some set out to do great deeds.  The small deeds we did day in and day out were not any less than what the society deemed as great deeds.  In Who are we and the meaning of life, the Being of Light stood by and kindly told Dannion the meaning of life.  

"Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on the earth," he said.  "This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people."   The little things count because they show who you truly are.  You do it spontaneously.

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As we go about our daily life, let us remember the woman's words of wisdom -

Kindness has no price.

It does not cost us anything.

We should be kind to one another.

Love and Blessings,

Q of D

Master Kuthumi's Timely Message

Greetings!

Due to Covid-19, I began to join spiritual groups online.  Since then, I joined meetings on zoom regularly.  Locally, the group that I sometimes joined no longer held in-person meetings since 2023; instead, they held podcast for a while.  I had not gone to any in-person event for months.  I believed the last time I went to one was in Nov. 2024.  (Re  When one is healed, all are uplifted )

I felt more comfortable driving during daytime than nighttime.  However, most of the events that I was interested in were held at night.  For instance, there was a center that held meetings every Friday night.  Like the small church in the other state, this center invited spiritual speakers / teachers from different places to come and give talks.  My older son drove me there for the first time several years ago.  Later, I had driven there by myself a few times when they happened to have events on Saturday mornings.  I received their emails regularly.  Their meetings were mainly on Friday nights now.

One night last year, I took a step outside of my comfort zone to drive there for an event.  There was a lot of traffic because it was a Friday night.  When I arrived at that place, I was over half an hour late.  The small parking lot was full, and there was no parking space nearby.

I recalled the time my son drove me there.  It took him quite some time to park in the residential area.  It was a long walk in the dimly lighted streets to his car when the gathering was over. 

After some thought, I decided to go home.  I was at peace with my decision because I had tried.  I was grateful that the drive home was smooth.  My older son had always told me that he would drive me anywhere if I let him know ahead of time.  I did not talk to him about going to the event because he always had plans for Friday nights.  In fact, he was busy during the weekdays too.  Sometimes he went to see his girlfriend or hang out with other friends right after work.  Therefore, I seldom asked him to drive me anywhere especially I knew he was not interested in spiritual stuff.

In March (2025), I received an email from that center with the schedule for Friday nights.  I looked through it.  I thought "interesting speakers, but I will not be there".

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A couple of days into the second week of March, an incident that happened when I was with the Thursday Circle (May 2005 to August 2007) came to my mind.  That day we had a small circle.  The few that were present were professional psychics and healers except me.  The teacher decided to guide us into past life regression.  (As with guided meditation, I could not get into that deep state as my friends did.  Therefore, I often got nothing to share afterward.)   Two of my friends came out of their deep state exclaiming the same words, "Oh, Q of D, you were the XXXXXX XXXXX!"  Amazingly, one saw me in my early years as a young child while the other saw the adult me.  Both saw vivid images of that place and the people there.  The one that saw the child me said my younger son of the present lifetime was there too, and he was my brother in that lifetime; he seemed to be more adept in learning / knowledge than me.  The friend was one of the children there, and we studied / learned together.  I smiled.  I told my friends that I always felt my younger son was wiser and more intelligent than me.  The one that saw me as an adult told me what she saw.  She saw many of them, including the friend and herself, stood together to form a big circle to protect me.  I did not ask.  I assumed that meant the me in her regression was under attack.  She said the scenery was vivid and lively.  She could feel the wind blowing and flags flying in the air.

I did not get anything during the regression.  However, years earlier, I had one dream about that place.  I did not see how I looked like.  (Sometimes I was in a dream as well as an observer of the dream.  Therefore I saw how I looked like.)  Lots of people had gathered to watch those from the monastery performed.  One of them performed levitation.  Quietly, he acknowledged me with a nod.  It seemed I knew how to levitate too.  The me in there was like the me now that did not like attention.  I had not told anybody about that dream.  My dream did not seem to correlate with my friends' version of me in the past life regression.

I did not ask questions.  I assumed I was a female / a girl in their regression.  I had never heard of any female story of that place.  But then, I knew very little about the history of that place.  To me, it was incredible that one friend saw the young me while the other saw the adult me in their regression. 

Then another friend told us what she saw in her past life regression.  (This friend was a Reiki master and was very intuitive.)  In that lifetime, she was a captain (male) of a ship.  In her regression, the captain was visiting a friend ** who was a psychic medium.  (**The friend who saw me as a child in the above.  In the current lifetime she was a psychic medium.)  The medium's place was built on a ground slightly higher than the street.  Through the window, they saw a procession of people wearing habits.  When they came close, the leader of the procession slightly levitated to the level that they stood, and greeted them with a smile.  She said that both of them (the captain and medium) recognized that it was me.  The setting of her dream was in the old time in England / Europe.

Her regression of me was interesting because I had quite a few dreams in that setting,  i.e. not in modern time setting.  I visited children in the hospital.  The strange part was I did not seem to go through doors.  I flew in from the window.  I was there to heal children that were sick.  Since I did not see any nurse or doctor in the room, I must have visited the child when he / she was alone.  In some dreams, I was a guest of prestigious families.  I was there to give counsel.  The dreams were beyond me or my imagination.  I had not talked about these dreams to my family or my friends.  

I loved stories.  True of not, we all heard some interesting stories that day.  The teacher of the circle saw us and many others on a mountain going through an ancient ritual / ceremony; we wore dresses and had flowers on our heads.  I could not recall other details that she said.

I was neutral to what was said of me.  

In a zoom meeting hosted by two very experienced hypnotherapists, one person asked if they had come across someone who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus.  Both of them immediately said 'yes'.  There had been over ten clients who came to them thinking that they were Jesus.  The hypnotherapists assured that Jesus had not been reincarnated.  Some people totally believed that what came through regressions must be true.  It was not necessary so.  In another zoom meeting, a woman said she had learned she lived in Jesus' time.  Now she felt differently about herself.  She saw those she knew were not living the Christ way.  She wanted to know what her life purpose was.  She was surprised to receive similar advice from different psychics / channels that hosted the meeting - Jesus asked her not to judge others or think that her friends were not living the Christ way. (I forgot the exact words. The Christ way are my words. 😊) 

With our ego, sometimes we got an elevated sense of self when we heard this or that about ourselves.  For examples, one had been a king, an emperor, a queen, a prince/princess, a known historical figure, an advanced being, a starseed / a being from another planet, or had an archangel / a known ascended master / a legendary mythical figure as a spirit guide.  It served to remind ourselves that we were (are) equal by nature.  We were all students and teachers unto one another.  Without students, there would be no teacher.  A performer needed the audience.  A beautiful flower stood out because of the complementing leaves.

Anyway, with the past life regression incident surfacing in my mind, I re-read the email from that center.  I realized the speaker that Friday might be able to give me some answers.  Before I slept, I talked to my guides.  I had not gone out at night alone for months.  Though I knew my son had plan for Friday, I decided to ask him if he could drive me there.  When he came home on Wednesday night, I talked to him about it.  He immediately said he would change his plan and take me to the center.

It was a good gathering.  The small center was filled with people.  They had to keep adding chairs.  Some people had to stand through the talk.  It felt good sitting among people again.  I could feel energy all around me.  

Did I get any answer that Friday night?  No.  When the gathering was over, I waited until some people left.  I talked to the speaker quietly.  He said he did not know much about lineages and there were many lineages in that place.  He was patient and honest.  I thanked him and left.  I was glad that I attended the gathering, and was not anxious when I talked to the speaker. 

The heart warming or awakening moment happened hours earlier.

My son came home from work around 5 p.m.  (Most days he came home around 4 p.m.)  He normally did not eat much at work, and I had some food ready when he was home.  We planned to leave for the center around 6 p.m.  While he was eating, I decided to turn on the computer.  I did not read all the emails I received everyday.  Therefore I had a number of emails left unread.  That afternoon I happened to read an email that I had received on Feb. 27, 2025.  It was a message from Master Kuthumi channeled through Natalie Glasson of the OmNa School.  The title of the message was Tips for Manifestation by Master Kuthumi.  When I read to certain part of the message, I could not help but smiled sheepishly.  How timely the message was!  I did not read it on the day I received it.  I had not gone to any gathering for months.  And, I happened to read the following in the afternoon that I asked my son to drive me to a spiritual center.

If you're trying to manifest new friends or a loved one, and yet you are choosing to stay in your home or only going to places that you always go to, then you are blocking and hindering the manifestation, whereas, if you choose to go out and meet new people and go to new places, you are creating pathways for the manifestation to enter into your reality.  You are becoming a power force for the manifestation.

It is often that there is a need to step outside your comfort zone, and in doing so, you create liberation for yourself but also energy and a boost for the manifestation.

I asked my son to listen as I read this part of the message aloud.  He laughed hearing the words.  

He knew I wanted to go places and join gatherings, yet I often said this / that place was too far away.  I felt anxious going to new places.  When he offered to drive me, I declined because I knew he was not interested in those meetings.  I told him I wanted to have a few like-minded friends so that we could go places together.  I prayed to find my tribe or meet new truthful friends.  Yet, I stayed home and waited as what Master Kuthumi said.  Meanwhile, I wondered why the divine did not answer my prayer.  Are my friends going to drop from the sky?  How laughable! (Well, to be able to laugh at myself is a good quality.  My son who did not laugh much had always wondered why I felt joy in many situations.)

Since that night, I had gone to other places / gatherings.  Thank you, Master Kuthumi, my guides, angels, and Natalie Glasson.

With love, I share my experience 'as is'.  I hope the message from Master Kuthumi will help some people like me.

Many blessings,

Q of D