The Beginning of Greatness! by Jeremy McDonald

           

            On January 9, 2012 My mother Laurie Jean McDonald, also known as Shaman Laurie, freed from this world, was able to ascend back into spirit returning home into consciousness. Should I be sad you may ask. I am not going to tell you that I have not had my moments of grief, and I am not going to say that I have not missed her in the past few weeks since her transition. What I can tell you is that, this is all part of the process. I knew this because she was a hospice nurse, because of our beliefs, and because she had almost 10 years of service witnessing people transitioning many times. Knowing I have been talking to Spirit for a great many years, she was already talking to me and encouraging me from the Spirit World only moments after she transitioned. My purpose of telling you about this story is because of the miracles that have happened leading her transition. All I know, not justly “Believe” I know, validates enough for me about the afterlife to know what happens to us after we transition.

            This, to me, is one of the most beautiful stories. I have known many people that have had near death experiences and have come back acquiring profound wisdom, but described where they went to as, “the most loving and beautiful place that they had ever gone too.” For a short amount of time in 2009, my own Mother had a near death experience and then came back to us. Her realization when she came back was that this physical manifestation was very short and that we needed to make the most of this experience. She spent those two years letting go of all her anger, regrets, guilt, and fear. Also, she spent that time forgiving herself, and others, making sure she told them that she loved them. She spent time clearing herself so that her Soul could move freely from this world into the spirit realm.         

            I was almost overwhelmed realizing the amount of love my mother had emanated onto this world. I have heard people, friends, colleagues, and students, many more than once, come express how my mother touched and changed their lives, and come express their love to her and me. I have watched many come see, hold, and love her. This was infinitely amazing to me and warmed my heart. Through this transition while in her hospice room she told me that she was leaving this world with no regrets and that that she knew --without a shadow of a doubt-- she is loved, that she was proud of her life of service, and that she was proud of me too.

            The morning of her transition, I had spent the night holding her hand while sleeping in the chair next to her. Around five o’clock AM, I had gotten up to move to the couch in her room. Then about seven o’clock AM, the streamers in her room started slapping the walls so loudly that it woke me up. When I woke, I felt an intense love filling throughout my body while I heard her spirit say, “Honey, if you want to say good bye, you better do it now.” I lay still for a few minutes and a knock came at the door from her friend Georgia, who came to say good bye. Afterwards, I then kissed my mother on her cheek, and said, “Good bye Mom, I love you.” Upon returning to sleep for twenty minutes, the nurses woke me up to tell me that she had passed on.

            You can ask yourself what the spiritual lesson in this or why is he talking about such a touchy subject such as death. I am here to tell you, that we, DO NOT DIE! Our Soul lives on! I know this without any doubt. The moment she had passed, she was already speaking to me. I became depressed thinking to myself, “Mom, you’re not going to get to read my book, and I’m just getting done with it.” I heard her very lovingly say to me, “Honey, I already know what you wrote. I taught you a lot of the things, you wrote in that book.” So, I smiled, and continued with my day.

            Throughout the week, I had many people call me, some that do not even believe the same way as I do, and say that they have felt my mother as if she had almost never left us. Setting the arrangements for the memorial service went so smoothly and effortlessly. People simply stepped up to the plate and asked me what they could do to help. I was going to rent chairs, but throughout the week had forgotten to do so, and when I called my friend Elena Jones, a medium, whom said to me, “Your mother is saying to be wise with your money and do not rent chairs; they can stand and it will be fine.” After hanging up my phone, a friend offered to let us borrow forty chairs; the exact amount I had wanted to have for my mother’s memorial service. To add onto this point, not only did we get the chairs, but also; coffee, tea, the location, live music, the sound system for our live music, including the people to man the sound system, enough food, along with many people to come honor her in her memorial service. I had prompt comments given to me revealing that it did not even seem like had she died but that this was the most spiritual experience they had ever had. They felt uplifted! To add onto this even more so, what really made me smile is that the MetLife blimp flew over to hover over her picture! Perhaps it may not seem like a big deal, but I work for MetLife for my day time job! As this is happening, my friend Mary looks at me and says, “That is your mother!”

            Now wait stop and take a deep breath because in the past few years I have started to see the beauty in things. However, what this experience has brought me is that there is so much beyond this earthly plane. Things beyond your imagination and your human mind could never comprehend. I never realized how beautiful they were until all of this happened. The morning after the memorial service, I was taking a shower, getting ready for the day, and while I am in the shower the spirit of my mother stepped into my body. I stood there for a moment and realized how fluid spirit is and how fluid the cosmos was. I started asking her to help me with people and send healing energy to them, but then she stopped me and said, “Sweet heart, feel this! And send it to them only if it is in their divine plan!” So, I stopped, held out my hands, and felt each person and saw them feeling the love that I was feeling inside of them and how fluid the Universe of God was! I said in my mind as I saw each of them, “If it is in their divine plan bring them this feeling in divine timing and divine order.” I eventually felt my words literally vibrate out of my body into the cosmos and could see, with my mind’s eye, the ripple of the vibration. I ended with, “It is done.” And that energy almost made me double over with the MIGHT of how powerful it truly was.

            The miracles and validation just kept on happening throughout the past few weeks. Too many moments to mention in this article, but one of my favorites is from my friend Leah Clark, who had my mother come to her during surgery to sing to her and hold her hand while giving her spiritual energy to help her through the surgery and with her recovery. All of this is completed simply in order to just get our attention, to let us know that she is still there, and that death is not the end; it is actually the beginning! The last thing I will tell you before we move on is that, as I was shopping for a new car, I had set the intention to let spirit guide me to buy the right and perfect car. As I started to test drive the car that possessed everything I wanted, a street name on the navigation system popped up and it read “Laurie Lane” with the same spelling as my mother. With gratitude, I simply said thank you for being here.

            Now, as I talk to her spirit and my human mind identifies with her as my mother, I want to share with you the message she has given me. As she appears in my thoughts, she is now not only the personality of Laurie McDonald, my mother, but also as being submerged back into the wholeness of Oneness and spirit! Just as we are as humans are a part of the whole, but in her case she no longer feels the sense of separation that we do with our human mind. This is why I feel the intense love from her, because she has the whole of consciousness working through her as we all do. The difference between us is that we do not feel it because of the fragments or belief systems that we hold makes us separate from the whole. Because of this, we are not able to see how truly great we are. We get glimpses, but then fall into our human side. In reality, it is not wrong for us to do so because we are here experiencing so that we can bring those experiences back to consciousness.

            The real lesson here is this, LOVE is so powerful, but the simple word is not strong enough to describe how amazing this feeling is, being a feeling of pure oneness she showed me that morning. She continued to tell me that, for a while, she would be the feminine voice inside of me to help me soften on the inside. Also, that I have learned so much and gained much wisdom, but that she is here to help me come into greater balance with myself and help me move deeper into oneness with my SOURCE. The lesson I want to give all of you, that she is teaching me on an even deeper level, is that WE DO NOT DIE! Our SOUL LIVES ON! We can end ALL karma if we just let go of our judgments, fears, and we embrace forgiveness as we let go of regret, anger, or anything that is holding us back from experiencing LOVE to its fullest. Because of the experience that she has shown us, many friends have come back together that were estranged for so very long, and tons of healing has happened with a great many people. Several people keep calling me to tell me that Mom is out there making things happen and that their lives are changing, as they know she is working! This is because her going back to the spirit world is exactly where she needed to be to help all of us!

            She knew it was her time to leave and help us on the other side and knew it for awhile. In June, she said to me, as she moved into her apartment, that she would only be living in that apartment until January of 2012, and she did so leaving her body on January 9, 2012. I express to all of you, embrace your spirit and let go too let your Soul guide you in life. Let go so that you can experience joy more then you can have ever imagine. This unlimited joy can be accessed when you can let go of all control and just let things be as they are in divine timing and divine order. When you do this, you will be beginning your rebirth and start your beginning of greatness! When we stand in our greatness the world becomes streamlined for us! We no longer have to play it small and no longer have to take the hard road! Make life easy and let GO! 

(Special thank you to Justin Daniel Duncan for assistance in editing)

Jeremy McDonald

Accomplished spiritual healer and teacher Jeremy McDonald has been a

public speaker for over 14 years has designed and delivered many

workshops to assist individuals helping them find peace and joy in

their lives. Looking from an inside soul perspective, they are able to

overcome fears, alchemizing them into love. His clients find balance,

peace, joy and true sublime self love . For accolades of the world

Jeremy is a Reiki Master, EFT Practitioner, Theta healing practitioner

and Life coach. He has served as a Key Note Speaker for Expos,

Colleges, Professional Conferences and just the small Workshop in a living room. Jeremy is the show host of the online radio show, Soul Talk, on v109fm.com, which discusses the transitory experience of knowing ones soul from an inner perspective. Guests range from Spiritual Practitioners, Scientists, Medical Doctors, Musicians and Artists having conversations of the Soul coming together to enjoy the rewards of a soul driven by spirit, and guided by awareness of the self.

In addition, he is the author of the book titled: Peace Be Still due to release in March of 2012. An autographed copy can be reserved now at: www.millionhugs.com/peacebestill.html