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Posts Tagged ‘England’
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
I can see that I will have to write several blogs about my travels. There is neither enough space nor time to comment on all of the trips I have made. As well as the countries I have visited; there are also the states in the USA, New York being the most memorable as we were there high up in the World Trade Center 5 days before 9/11. In one blog I will write about that and the feelings I had that day.
I honestly cannot believe I have traveled as much as I have. I know there is more to come also; I am not finished yet. During my travels I have met some very beautiful people – deeply spiritual people – a yoga teacher in Singapore who was so spiritual that her energy was wonderful to be in. I cannot recall her name now and I am sorry about that. I do not have a good memory for recalling faces or names, but I do recall people’s actions and their love for Maitreya and his teachings. It is such a shame that we have borders and rules and regulations, that we cannot just wander the world and move from country to country without having to stand in a queue and have a stamp put into our passports. It is a shame, too, that some people cannot visit certain countries. I was reading the other day of someone famous in England who was denied access to come to the USA because of some criminal convictions that happened many years ago and who, since that time, has changed and become a different person. My journey to get my US citizenship was not a short journey either. I had to show so much information to the authorities to get a green card – and then citizenship – but it is the way unfortunately the way the world has become. I will keep you posted on my further travels. I am so looking forward to going to Curacao in October.
Tags: 9/11, Alan McElroy, Curacao, England, Maitreya, Margaret McElroy, New York, Singapore, USA, World Trade Center
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Although I spent the first 28 years of my life in England, when I went back it was like returning to an alien country! Not only had everything changed, but there was so much graffiti everywhere, and the energy was of sadness and despair. To be honest, I could not wait to leave! It was supposed to be a good place for me to be astrologically, but I could not wait to get away as soon as I could. We did end up leaving earlier than planned, but it was due to my health which took a turn for the worse while I was there.
Canada astonished me. The beauty of the countryside close to the US border in Washington State and the friendliness of the people made me wish I lived there and had gone there instead of to Australia when I migrated. It was winter when we visited there. This was very early in my relationship with Alan, long before I thought of becoming a US citizen or even a permanent resident of the USA.
I found the whole of Europe to be very depressing. My life is not easy in that I am very empathic. Just standing in a person’s energy, I immediately know all about them. It is the same when I visit a place or a country. Everywhere I went in Europe I felt despair! The people themselves may not have felt it, but for me it was a collective energy and one I found hard to deal with. I must say that I loved Zagreb in Croatia and also Slovenia. Alan and I thought we had lived there before and, in meditation, we found we had done so. Away from the cities the energy was a lot better, but years of war, anger, and dissident thinking had left its mark on everything – buildings, people, etc.,
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Tags: Alan McElroy, anger, Canada, Croatia, depressing, despair, dissident thinking, empathic Zagreb, energy, England, Europe, graffiti, Maitreya, Margaret McElroy, sadness, Slovenia. war, USA, Washington State
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
This month of June, I became an American citizen, no longer a permanent resident of the USA. It was a moving ceremony, very well organized and very special. As I sat there listening to the speech from the people officiating at the ceremony and listening to all the countries these people came from, I was also thinking about my own travels with Maitreya, my teacher. One of the most well-known facts about him is that he is known as the World Teacher. I thought about my own travels with this wonderful energy. So far I have been to England, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Canada, India, Germany, France, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and The Netherlands. In October we travel again, this time to Curacao. I have also traveled all through the United States from the East Coast to West Coast. The beautiful thing for me is that I did not have to give up my British citizenship, my Australian citizenship, or my New Zealand citizenship. As I said to a friend, I have just added another notch to my belt! LOL.
I had traveled to New Zealand in 1992 when I first connected with Maitreya, but when I began my travels in 1995, it was different. Now I would be doing teaching and helping people around the world who viewed our website (www.maitreya-edu.org). I never thought when we created that website in 1997 that so many people would view it and find answers to their problems and fears. As one viewer wrote this week, “I found your Maitreya website and I am glued to it.” I also did not realize that I would learn so much from all of the travel I have taken. I remember going to India to visit Adyar in Mumbai (what was once Madras) and seeing the most terrible living conditions I have ever seen.
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Tags: Adyar, Alan McElroy, American, Australia, Australian, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British, Canada, citizen, Croatia, Curacao United States, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Madras, Maitreya, Malaysia, Margaret McElroy, Montenegro, Mumbai, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, The Netherlands, World Teacher
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
One of my graduate students wrote to me recently and asked if it was necessary to suffer so much. She finished her study with me in 2008 (I believe it was) and since then she has been working at raising her vibration. She mentioned that since doing so she has been depressed, tired, and lethargic at times, has highs and lows in energy, and has done a great deal of crying. I remembered back to my early days of opening to Spirit and what I went through then. I honestly thought that, once I had done some training, I would then be so high in vibration that I would be able to do anything. How wrong I was. From day one of beginning the path of metaphysics, it was hard going all the way. I learned about suffering very much because there are many ways to suffer when one opens the door metaphysically.
When I began my path, I really had nobody to communicate with after my teachers went back to England from Australia. It took some time before new teachers came in and, during that time, it was quite scary because I had no reference point, nobody to talk to regarding what I was experiencing at the time. What I was experiencing were panic attacks so severe that I am surprised I got to work every day. As my chakras opened up it affected my whole glandular system which, in effect, unbalanced my whole hormone system. Each of the seven major chakras connects to a gland in the physical body which, in turn, produces the hormones in the body. As the high spiritual energy came in, it worked at releasing past-life energy which had been trapped for many lifetimes in the etheric body in the chakras. This, in turn, really upset the hormones in the physical gland system, making them very unbalanced.
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Tags: Alan McElroy, Australia, chakra, depressed, energy, England, gland, hormone, lethargic, Maitreya, Margaret McElroy, metaphysics, Spirit, tired, vibration
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
We did not have a huge audience on the community station, but it was enough to bring in mail and have people be in awe of you if you had a show. I just loved doing it and, when special days came up like Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day in Engand, Australia and New Zealand), I would take the show to a local shopping center and have pancake races where people raced with a frying pan with a pancake inside of it and they had to toss it twice before reaching the finish line. At Christmas we had Santa competitions, etc. The only person who did not enjoy my doing the show was my then, first husband. He was used to my being at home when he came home from work, serving him tea and cake instead of being at the radio station preparing for my weekly show.
Six months into doing the show the insults started. He said I had a huge ego. I did not feel that I did. I was not full of myself, I did not say I was anyone special, but it was enough to bring back the insecurity I had as a child. The more he said it – and he said it a lot – the more insecure and upset I became. Looking back I do not think I could have changed it because the programming on a daily basis from my father was already deeply ingrained. I did not give in and, for a few more years, continued doing the show, but my husband’s taunts about my ego was wearing me down. In 1980 after a political move within the station which upset me very much, I gave up the show and moved far away. It was the only thing I could do to keep me from going back.
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Tags: Alan McElroy, audience, Australia, community station, ego, England, insecure, Maitreya, Margaret McElroy, New Zealand, Pancake Day, programming, radio show, Santa, upset
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Even when I lived in Australia – with its often record-breaking hot temperatures at Christmas – I always made Christmas cakes. We still celebrated the season and, each year I said “Never again” because of the heat. But each year we did it without fail. One year I decided (in 100+ degree F. heat) to cook a leg of pork. I managed to cook it and then passed out from the heat before dinner. Such was the desire to stay in the past with the traditions, for that was what it was – and still is. When people say to me, “Have you let go of the past?” I say “Yes, except for Christmas.” LOL!
In the USA one cannot help but be moved by the Christmas spirit as every shop is decorated for the festive season. Unlike the southern hemisphere and in England where the day after Christmas is celebrated as a holiday called “Boxing Day,” Americans do not celebrate Boxing Day. However, Christmas day is usually a very festive time and family and friends may visit and a wonderful Christmas dinner is enjoyed by all.
This year Alan and I decided to ask those around us not to buy us presents, but to make a donation to St. Jude’s hospital which is a huge children’s hospital famous for never turning anyone away with illness. Although many of the children have cancer, there are also other diseases treated there. Alan and I have got to the age where we really do not need anything. We have all we need, so we cannot think of a better present than to help a child who is ill. I was very fortunate in that I never had to go through the agony of long-term illness with my own children. My grandchildren are not so lucky. Two of them were born with health problems, but it is not as serious as cancer.
As this Christmas comes upon us once again, Alan and I would like to wish all of you a wonderful, festive season, no matter where in the world you are.
Tags: Alan McElroy, Australia, Boxing Day, cakes, child, children, Christmas, England, festive, heat, ill, Maitrey, Margaret McElroy, need, past, pork, season, Spirit, St. Jude's Hospital, tradition, USA
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Each year in July I make my Christmas cards. I make them by hand, and everything on the cards is carefully selected to make it a very beautiful creation. Although I do not celebrate the season as a Christian, I do celebrate the season as a holiday and it also brings back memories of my childhood spent in England. Just as in Washington, USA, my Christmas season and New Year was always cold. It was not until I went to Australia at age 27, that I experienced a warm Christmas, and what a shock that was. It took me years before I adjusted to it. My children do not remember anything else, but when I came to Washington I felt as if I had come home.
As I write this blog there is thick snow outside. I am not at home either, but visiting a city 5 hours from my home. It really is beautiful to see, and it always reminds me of childhood. I never realized that my parents did not have an easy time as I was growing up. However, I do know I sometimes had to go to school with cardboard covering the holes in my shoes, and every winter our gloves were old worn socks of which we wore two or three pairs. We had a sled, and in the local park there was a huge hill. We would drag the sled up the hill and then sled all the way to the bottom. It was a wonderful time and for me the snow here in Washington always reminds me of those happy days.
Someone asked me once why we do not remember the happy times. I think it is because we have so much fun, whereas with the sad times it is as if something is missing from our lives which we can never replace. Happiness is infectious whereas unhappiness is devoid of joy.
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Tags: Alan McElroy, Australia, Christian, Christmas, Christmas cards, England, happy times, Maitreya, Margaret McElroy, new year, sled, snow, washington
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