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Beloved Friends.
Here is my tree of love where each leave is a little heart...after seven hours I feel that even though it is far from finished I wont paint any further...enjoy and remember for a quick response if you need me sms me on 0827329009....
love to you all.... Lou
Beloved Friends.
Summer has been hot here in our southern part of Africa and I already long for fresher days...give me cool weather anytime over these hot temperatures....my body much like an heater seems to generate heat continually... and I already miss my scarves and wrapping blankets...
Have been really busy with healing over the past four months and one particular cancer patient Cornelia, came all the way from Switzerland for an eighteen day intensive healing period with me...We had five sessions together and her husband Michael filmed a lot over this period, so I will soon try to post a little video of us both, gently travelling in another dimension...She left yesterday and I miss her already but as I am invited to visit her in Europe, I also know it is only a matter of time till we meet again...
Otherwise it seems I may be back to doing more radio work again this year as I have received an invitation from one of South Africa's most inspiring young heroes to do something together...so we shall see if Channel Africa or any other station will give us a platform...all in divine time as per the divine plan and I know, for having taught him French and interviewed him a few times before, that we would work exceptionally well together. After a ten month pause from radio I feel strong again to tackle another mission, so we shall see how it all unfolds.
Below I share the last meditation focus I shared with my group here in Johannesburg ....enjoy with all my love as always
Beloved friends,
For this month I was guided to share and encouraged to re-type for you these basic daily meditations, prayers and mantras, associated with the seven major cosmic rays, upon which the brotherhood of Ascended Beings and Masters focus their love and adoration of God in all Life as well as towards this, our sphere of existence.
Those Great Cosmic Souls, who dedicate themselves in service to us, brothers and sisters in Light, encourage us to dedicate a few minutes a day to a particular colour, which can be worn, or carried, in any form that best suits us (cloth, paper, crystal) as a tangible reminder throughout the day of each ray and of our union with the Divine in us and in all Life everywhere.
Each day is thus associated with a particular ray and its specific colour and vibration as well as its unique gifts, attributes, qualities and inherent powers.
The Great Cosmic Beings and Great Ascended Master Souls know how hard it often is in our dimension - to keep our attention focused on anything other than material needs, problems and distractions - and so they teach us this simple and easy way to keep us connected to them as well as to the DIVINE PRESENCE (the I AM) in ourselves and in all others.
I personally find this practice very comforting and easy to keep up with, at least as I change my crystals or pendants daily to reflect this connection to the higher spiritual realms and spheres of existence.
I trust that you too will enjoy practicing this, in the knowledge that we should continuously keep up our inner work in order to improve ourselves and all life everywhere and thus spread the Love-Light of God wherever we go… such is indeed the reason why we volunteered to come to this dimension as potential Light Workers.
Please keep cut paste and and enjoy …
Beloved Presence of God "I AM" within my heart, I love and adore you!
I summon you forth to blaze the Crystal and Blue Flames through me and see that God's Will is made manifest in all I do this day. I now realise that within my own heart is God's Divine Plan for me and also the way and means of bringing it into outer manifestation.
I now enter SILENCE and listen and I know the perfect thing to do. As I hold my attention upon the divine plan, I bring it into form.
I AM the faith in the ALL POWER of God to direct me, protect me, illumine me, heal me, supply me, sustain me and do whatever I require to have done.
My Beloved I AM Presence, I love and I adore you!
I summon forth the Golden Flame of Wisdom, Perception, Illumination and Discrimination to enfold me this day.
I AM GOD'S WISDOM, PERCEPTION, ILLUMINATION and DISCRIMINATION, directing me in all I do.
I now realise that alive within my physical body is the Illumination and Intelligence of my outer consciousness. I now realise that there is only ONE POWER, GOD WITHIN MY OWN HEART, and that POWER ACTS for me according to my DAILY APPLICATION and FAITH in it.
BELOVED MIGHTY VICTORIOUS I AM PRESENCE, I love and I adore you!
Oh great and mighty flame within my own heart, I send forth my continuous love and adoration to you and the great God of the Universe and His messengers.
I send my love to all Life everywhere. I bless all Life I contact this day in thought, feeling, word or act. I do not criticize, condemn, nor judge this day!
Dearly beloved Presence of God I AM, I love and I adore you!
You know the reason for my being. Through the energies of my world this day, LET ME FULFIL IT! See that I do not miss one opportunity. Help me not to make mistakes and let me avoid, above all things, the sins of omission!
BELOVED MIGHTY VICTORIOUS I AM PRESENCE, I consecrate my life this day to the service of God-Good – to let only perfection dwell in my mental body; that my feelings will remain calm and loving, kindly, helpful and happy; my eyes to see only perfection; my ears to hear only perfection; my lips to speak only perfection; my hands to bless and heal; my feet to be messengers of good; my body strong and willing to be a helpful instrument to carry God's perfection everywhere.
BELOVED MIGHTY VICTORIOUS I AM PRESENCE, I love and I adore you. Pour forth, through me this day, your Peace, Ministration and Grace to bless every cell of my physical body and all the powers of nature that serve me so well.
May all who touch the "hem of my garment" feel your love, your peace and your perfection, for "I AM "THE PRESENCE OF BLESSING, AND I BLESS EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING I CONTACT THIS DAY.
BELOVED VICTORIOUS I AM PRESENCE, today I AM RENEWED! TODAY I AM ALIVE with that pure majestic life given to me of the Father.
For yesterdays' life misused I CALL ON THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS and ask for and accept the most powerful activity of the Transmuting Violet Fire.
Today I MAY BECOME; today I SHALL become that which God intends – my HOLY CHRIST SELF in action, for I AM THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS now made manifest and eternally sustained.
Keep me sealed in a Pillar of Violet Fire, until I am wholly ascended and free!!
And now let us be in silent meditation.
With Love,
NAMASTE Beloved Friends!
It has been a while since I last made time to connect here even though I remain instantly connectable on my cell phone, via SMS, e-mail …and more recently, also via Twitter which is just short and to the point.
The reason for my silence is simply and always the same: Lots and lots of Healing.
The last weeks of a year and the first few of another is always a period when many patients are sent to me not just locally but also from all over the world, so I have truly been busy doing what I am here to do – giving healing to those who seek and need it. And like them – often moved to years of gratitude witnessing the miracles of God's Love weaving Grace through my little hands and smaller being…such is my blessed and very blissed life…
It is always exciting to start a new calendar year even though I personally do not give too much relevance to the linear passing of time, seasonal wishes and the lot that goes with it…
Christmas for example, and what it stands for, for me is an every day of every year way of Life, and when we try to live consciously in the present moment, every instant of every new day is a new beginning anyway….
Here is my best wish for this New Year of 2013: may it be filled with Love for God – the only true place from where all other Blessings flow.
What follows is my first meditation focus shared with my group here in Johannesburg for 2013, where I finally transcribed the best I took (in my personal understanding) from the teachings of Ramakrishna.
Do bear in mind that the words and quotes which I have selected, were often taught in some sort of context and therefore may not have the same impact for you as they did for me. While I was immersed in reading the extraordinary experiences of Ramakrishna's daily life of devotion and his almost permanent ecstatic state of God Realization (and God intoxication as He himself often described His Love for God), I am sure I missed a lot… but here is the essence that touched my soul to its sacred core.
For a more complete and personal understanding I recommend you read "The Gospel of Ramakrishna" a one thousand plus page registry of his life and teachings over the last four years of his life on Earth.
And so it is that with much love as always I set out to type and share his words below and hope that they help you to set the tone for this time when we need to learn what truly counts in our spiritual journey …just enjoy and share if you so feel inspired. The violet parts I highlighted as a way of stressing what I found most touching …
* Never think that you alone have true understanding and that others are fools. One must love all – no one is a stranger. It is Hari (God) alone who dwells in all beings, nothing exists without Him.
* He on whom faith descends is very fortunate. He needs nothing else.
Faith in God is a Precious Treasure.
* The six passions are: lust, anger, avarice, delusion, pride and envy
(as in: what must be conquered as they impede spiritual development)
* God alone is real, and all else is unreal. God alone is substance, all else is nonentity. That is discrimination.
* The devotee, once immersed in God's Bliss does not care anymore about the outer things…Once a man asked Hanuman which day of the fortnight it was – Brother said Hanuman - I do not know anything of the day of the week or the fortnight or the position of the stars. I think of Rama (God) alone
* Only if a man gets a command from God after realizing Him he is entitled to teach.
* One does not succeed so long as one has these three: shame, hatred and fear.
* In the Vedas, creation is likened to the spider and its web. The spider brings the web out of itself and then remains in it. God is the container of the universe and also what is contained in it.
* Sense pleasures appear more and more tasteless as love for God grows.
* Worldly people are like silk worms – the worms can cut through their cocoons if they want, but having woven the cocoons themselves, they are too much attached to them to leave them and so they die…
* Kabir used to say: God with form is my Mother and the formless God is my Father. (Kabir was one of India's greatest and holy poets)
* Through Faith alone, one attains everything. Bony people, the hollow eyed, the cross eyed, people with physical traits like this cannot easily acquire faith.
* God alone is the Doer – everything happens by His will.
* Worthless people don't have any faith. They always doubt…but doubts do not disappear completely till one realizes the Self.
* Some people are like gourds and pumpkins - they first give the fruit and then they flower. When the fruit appears, the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, rituals are the blossom…
* There is only One. The Vedas speak of It as: Om Satchidananda Brahma; The Puranas speak of It as : Om Satchidananda Krishna; and the Tantra speak of It as: Om Satchidananda Shiva
* Discrimination is the reasoning by which one knows that God alone is real and all else is unreal. Real means eternal and unreal means impermanent. With the awakening of this spirit of discrimination a man wants to know God.
* A man sees a thing in one way through reasoning and in an altogether different way when God Himself shows it to him.
* When a man merges his Buddhi-Intelligence in Bohda-Consciousness, then he attains the knowledge of Brahman, he becomes Buddha-Enlightened.
* One should keep pictures of holy men in one's room that constantly bring divine ideas.
* This world is the "lila" (play) of God. It is like a game. In this game there are joy and sorrow, virtue and vice, knowledge and ignorance, good and evil. The game cannot continue if sin and suffering are altogether eliminated from the creation.
* Don't find fault with anyone, not even with an insect; as you pray to God for devotion also pray that you may not find fault with anyone.
* A true lover does not seek anything from God - he prays only for pure love- he does not want any powers or miracles.
* One cannot realize God without sincerity and simplicity. God is far, far away from a crooked heart.
* One cannot realize God without the faith that knows no guile, the simple faith of a child.
* A man is ignorant so long as he feels that God is far away. He has knowledge when he knows that God is here and everywhere.
* When a man has true knowledge he feels that everything is filled with consciousness.
* It is enough to know that everything depends on the Grace of God. But one must pray to God; it will not do to remain inactive. The lawyer gives all the arguments and finishes his pleading by saying to the Judge: "I have said all I have to say, now the decision rests with your Honour…
* Do you know the significance of the Siva emblem? (referring to the Shiva Lingham) It is the worship of the symbols of fatherhood and motherhood. The devotee worshipping the image prays: "Oh Lord, please grant that I may not be born into this world again, that I may not have to pass again through a mother's womb…"
* In the Kaliyuga one does not hear the voice of God it is said, except through the mouth of a child, or a madman, or some such person.
* All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.
* Unless man is simple he cannot recognise God, the Simple One.
* You cannot have real love of God unless you know that God alone is real and all else is illusory, You cannot have real love of God unless you know that the world Is impermanent, only of two days existence, while its Creator alone is real and eternal.
Tears of repentance or sorrow flow from the corners of the eyes nearest the nose, and those of joy from the outer corners of the eyes.
To see God everywhere is the highest form of worship, second best is meditation, third is prayer and japam (bead counting) and last is external worship.
Ramakrishna – like a child - often prayed and sang to God in the form of the Divine Mother aspect and recited mantras of which the most sacred were:
Hari Om Tat Sat – meaning: Verily the Lord is the only Reality
Brahma-Sakti Sakti-Brahma
Veda Purana Tantra Gita Gayatri
I have taken refuge at Thy feet, O Divine Mother
Beloved Friends,
Here we are again a few days away from the celebrations of Diwali – the Hindu Festival of Light! And what better way to remind us all: Christians, Muslims, Sufis, Jews or Buddhists and Hindus, that we are indeed LIGHT. Yes under all the dense darkness of our ignorance and the many heavy layers of our disconnection all there is - is THE LIGHT!!! That God essence and substance that creates everything!!!!!
So let us remind our little selves today of the truths known to our Self since the beginning of time:
We are Light, we are One with our beloved Creator and with all Life,
we live in a dimension where Maya – the great illusion - keeps ensnaring us in a multitude of distractions leading us to ever increasing levels of fear and forgetfulness and so many of us end up having great difficulty in even accepting that we are indeed all and each, children of the same God, loved and cherished unconditionally, divinely.
In this spirit we shall – before going into silence together, say these few prayers slowly to remind us of the higher truths taught by the sages of all cultures, traditions, ages and times starting with the Gayatri Mantra one of the most sacred Hindu prayers hereafter written first in Sanskrit sound only:
Gayatri Mantra
Oh Creator of the Universe
We meditate upon Thy Supreme Splendour
May Thy Radiant Power Illuminate
Our intellects destroy our illusions and guide us towards You!.
Sufi Prayer:
Most Gracious Lord, Master, Messiah and Saviour of Humanity.
We greet Thee with all humility
Thou art the First Cause and the Last Effect, the Divine Light and the Spirit of Guidance, Alpha and Omega. Thy Light is in all forms, Thy Love in all beings; in a loving mother, in a kind father, in an innocent child, in a helpful friend, in an inspiring teacher. Allow us to recognize Thee in all Thy Holy Names and Forms; as Rama, as Krishna, as Shiva, as Buddha. Let us know Thee as Abraham, as Moses, as Jesus, as Solomon, as Zarathustra, as Mohammad and in many other names and forms, known and unknown to the world. We adore Thy Past, Thy Presence deeply enlightens our being, and we look for Thy blessing in the future. Oh Messenger, Christ, Nabi, the Rasoul of God, Thou whose heart constantly reaches upward, Thou comest on earth with a message as a dove from above when Dharma decayeth and speakest the word that is put into Thy mouth, as the Light filleth the crescent moon. Let the star of the Divine Light shining in Thy Heart, be reflected in the heart of Thy devotees. May the Message of God reach far and wide, illuminating and making the whole humanity as one single Brotherhood in the Fatherhood of God. Amen
Archangel Michael's Prayer for Light Workers:
I am a divine instrument through which the higher dimensional frequencies of Creation flow.
From this moment forward, I will fully and completely live my perfected vision of Heaven on Earth.
Each day I am becoming a master of Divine manifestation in the world of form, and I move beyond the restrictions and limitations of the third and fourth dimensional reality.
I carry the torch of God Light. I radiate the Love of Angels
Henceforth, each and everyday, I draw to, through and around me, more and more of my Perfect I Am Presence of God.
Archangel Michael's Daily Mantra for Light Workers
I have all the resources I need and desire, to be comfortable and to assist me in fulfilling my Divine Mission.
I live in the perfect place to nourish my spirit and my physical, mental and emotional bodies.
Abundance flows to me and through me, as I hold it lightly in my hands and allow it to flow out into the world, to constantly be replenished.
All my desires, needs and wishes are fulfilled, even before I am ware of them. My timing is perfect in making decisions and taking action.
I always listen to, and follow my spirit, in every endeavour;
Therefore my decisions and actions are for the Highest Good of All.
I cherish and nurture our Mother Earth and she cherishes and supports me.
I radiate love and blessings to all and they are returned ten fold.
My world is filled with Love, Joy, Beauty, Peace and Comfort always.
Ascended Masters Prayers for every instant
I am a child of The Light
I love the Light
I serve the Light
I am protected, illuminated, provided for and sustained by the Light
I bless the Light.
I am the governing Love, Wisdom and Power,
With its intending, intelligent activity,
Which is acting today, in every single thing that I say or do.
I command this infinite activity, to take place every instant of the day
And be, the sustaining guard about me,
That I move, speak or act,
Only, in divine order
And so it is.
Beloved friends,
It has been a while since I have sat here to type an update...
So here it goes:
Having taken a break from my radio work, I surely quickly filled my available time doing the healing groups and ending up seeing more patients as well...
recently I travelled to Germany and Portugal for healing and family visits and had a most wonderful time, as short and as busy it all was.
I finally got to meet my lovely little Lio
and gave healing to his mummy who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer just after his birth but she is doing wonderfully and we look forward to meeting here again and go on safari, cook a few braais, see cape Town again and do all the things wonderful that South Africa is famous for.
In Portugal I saw my family and the little forest with five thousand eucalyptus or more, my mother planted for me...how sweet is that? We surely have come a long way and in my heart there is only place for love and forgiveness...parents really do the best they can with what they have and sometimes it surely does feel they have done their worst...wonderful time heals as it passes and I surely consider my whole family as a healing opportunity and I feel only love and gratitude for each one of its members, be them biological or soul family...the latter being really truly huge as far as I am concerned...
Here is September's Focus of Meditation, again it has been a while since I last posted one, and our group now meets at the end of each month...but remember to ask for them by sms if you wish for more... this is a year I had promised my Self to be more often in silence and I surely have done so which is wonderful.
Enjoy with all my love – Lou
FOCUS: Giving Back
Beloved friends,
This month we shall meditate on how we can all give back something to Life Itself in all its many forms, so as to create greater balance around us and in our realities.
Most humans live in a state of "permanent scheming" on what they can get from others, from situations, events, from nature, from catastrophes, from good and bad times…you name it – it becomes a self consuming obsession and for most it is just "the way life is"…no wonder we got to where we are…
But if we are to really progress along the spiritual path and become the awakened beings we set out to be long before we even came to this dimension, we need to realise it is time for us to give back at every opportunity and stop acting as unconscious takers of whatever it is we think or feel we want, need or must have!
Obviously most people can only think in terms of giving back materially but that kind of giving is not only what this meditation is about.
In this spirit therefore, I encourage you all to ponder during today's meditation how best to create greater balance in relation to how much we take from, and how much we give back to, Life Itself and see how we can correct the imbalances in our personal way of living, in our relationships, as this balance is lacking everywhere.
If no-thing else, I come to encourage you to become aware each time you eat, (take from nature) that you get into the habit of constantly giving something in return, i.e.: your gratitude and reverence for the gifts mother nature gives you, a smile, an acknowledgement, a word, a feeling, even just a minute of silence before you gulp it all up without a thought…
Of course my encouragement will also remind you today that wherever you go you can give back to God-ess by simply offering your Self so as to be used to channel more divine love to bless a place, river, mountain, village, tree, garden, person, or animal you may be in or with at any particular moment.
This giving back I wish us to meditate about today is also about learning to consciously thread gently everywhere and anywhere we go, with the increasing awareness that we are simply visitors here allowed to take only photos (memories) and leave only foot prints (consequences of our actions) but nothing else. After all we can not exactly take back anything else with us to our eternal home.
This also means that we should all fight our tendency to hoard far more than we need when in fact so many go without anything at all…and of course in this spirit I ask you to share and pass on to others, all that is duplicate or triplicate in your life.
Remember my favourite Hindu proverb by which I try to live: what is not given is lost
And in this spirit of giving back let us all pray together – VERY slowly and VERY consciously before we revert to our silent meditation:
We invoke our Father Mother God, the Great Cosmic Beings, the Beloved Archangels, Angels, Avatars, Ascended and incarnated Masters, our personal and collective Guides, Protectors and Friends in all dimensions……………………………………………………..
Close your eyes
Remain silent after the above invocation for a few minutes then continue:
We gather today, in silent devotion and gratitude, for the healing love and spirit guidance we receive individually and as a collective of souls in this group.
Today we pray that our intentions of giving back our love and gratitude to the rest of creation, may be amplified by all of you who lovingly join us through the dimensional space-time lines, and we pray that greater light and greater love may touch the hearts of all persons, things, situations, conditions or events, in need of our prayers, healing intentions and heart felt love.
We express today our love for our Creator in the heart of everyone present.
We also express our gratitude for our Creator in the heart of everyone present and for their uniqueness as an expression of the Divine.
Today we consciously give back our love and gratitude to all that holds the divine consciousness of our Beloved Creator: the water, the wind, the earth and the fire elements, the elementals, the nature spirits and the devas of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms.
May all of Life everywhere receive our love as brothers and sisters of the great Family of Light, each one, a living atom of the Awakening Consciousness which IS and permeates ALL as ONE. We offer ourselves as instruments of this Awakening Consciousness so as to bring its Healing Love wherever we go and wherever we are: in this home, street, suburb, city, province, country, continent and planet.
We pray to remind ourselves daily that as One with God we can all choose to be healers for all those we encounter as well as for our temporary hosting planetary home, this beloved Earth, so in need of our love, our care and attention.
May we always remember to bless her oceans, her forests, her rivers and waterways, to acknowledge each tree and animal as sacred, to honour and protect her radiant beauty in its infinity of form.
We pray to always remain consciously awakened so that our example as awakening ones, may assist ever more of our brothers and sisters to wake up also to the recognition of our common divinity and the sacredness of all life without exception, separation, or classification, for these are the illusions which have kept us separate from the ALL, which never was, never is nor ever will be separate.
Thank You Beloved Father Mother God, for giving us this sacred heart and sacred mind understanding about ourselves as a part of You and All You have created.
Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You! We love You! We love You! We love You!
Beloved Friends,
This silence is due to a few travels, especially to the Cape to help my daughter with her first book and of course to increased healing time – must be the winter and the changing energy that is keeping up the pressure for us to wake up to our divinity...well whatever it is it has been keeping me in great demand...and I am very happy about it as nothing makes me happier than to be able to help and serve (hands on!!!) the Divine in another.
These past few weeks I have also often felt like going into silence and so the universe sent me a mirror the other day...and this beloved person talked so much I felt dizzy...Thank God in my typically funny way to get out of it, I kept saying telepathically "mirror mirror on the wall who is the most talkative of them all?" ...after a few of those silent mantras he too finally stopped talking and as he lay for healing he also fell in a very deep sleep.
This need to go into silence is making itself greater in my life everyday and I really do not even feel like opening my email, so there you have it - if you really need me in a rush use my cell phone as this is a trend that I will be nurturing....the trend of less words, spoken, written and especially thought...
In accordance with this trend I have decided already that next year I shall stop my French radio work even though I may still accept to do it in English again if I am asked, or do a Television version of my work also if that is part of the Divine Plan.
On the other hand I do feel that my life is taking me in an entirely new direction and with that in mind I was guided to register the domain of:
www.sacredsouthafrica. (website is just parked and not yet in construction)
Even though my vision is still evolving as per guidance, for this new and post-radio facet of my work, it is already clear that I will be asked to, more than ever before, gather all my skills, acquired experience and talents in travel and international tourism to create something worthy of its name. After all how amazing is it that this domain name was not yet taken?
This is a project that will involve all the sacred places of all the various peoples composing this southern tip of our beloved continent and I am hoping to involve millions of brothers and sisters in this work. Feel free to send me your ideas and feedback and even your special pictures as this will involve a detailed and coordinated register of all sacred sites known by the ancients as well as the ancestral knowledge of this continent. In this spirit this work can only evolve and eventually translate into a reality if I succeed in getting all the help that I can from every single person who, like me feels that we are all here to awaken each other and thus play our rightful roles in the planetary awakening in the years beyond 2012.
One of my closest friends is creating an apple application for I-phones which will also be closely associated with this site in the future I am sure, but all this is not yet a reality for this year and we need to be many gathering together our efforts of bringing awareness of the sacredness of all life. If this awareness can start with sacred sites it will be a fair start to this labour of love. I stress this as being a labour of love as I have no intention of making this project a business, thus hopefully attracting only true servers to this work. As you know money has never been the motivating force of any aspect of my spiritual work and even though I am far from being financially rich I always trust that whatever I need is always available to me at any given moment and so it is indeed for all I have so far co-created with God's Angels.
And finally – here is my last meditation focus which everyone in my group felt was timely and somehow written for them personally. Enjoy
Beloved Friends,
Today's focus of meditation is our individual and collective power to really make a difference.
With this in mind, and knowing that every action has a ripple effect, I come to encourage us to remind each other today of what is truly important here and now:
It is time we all stop saying, thinking or feeling that we are too small to make any difference… if all the drops of rain were to ever think this way there would only ever be deadly draught all over. Every drop counts and nowhere more so than there, where is no water.
It is time to stop talking about and really starting to make a difference: in our own lives first then in the lives of those closest to us: family, friends, neighbours'… Like dew drops, every effort can be collected, harvested and shared to alleviate the thirst or need of someone.
It is time to stop believing that we have no time for this, that or the other. Time is an illusion and yet a very real and precious one at that, so we all have to play along within its defined atoms. Every instant lost is like trying to watch a movie on TV and then go to the kitchen repeatedly for a snack before the commercials. After a few such snack-breaks we all loose the plot.
This can be said for our relationships with self, with others, with our health, our dreams etc…in short: it is Time to be Present.
It is time to stop the litany of "excuses" – frankly nobody really ever wants to hear or even believe any excuse – what we do not do, do not say or do not give is always lost whether we ourselves believe it or not. So, let us write that book, start that project, form that group, help that neighbour, read that article, acknowledge that person, be the Peace and Love we wish to see.
It is time for us to continually express gratitude for all people and things in our awareness. Ours is the reality we have called forth, whether we like, know, and recognise it – or not.
It is time to finally apply the "law of fingers': each time we point our finger at someone or something, there remains three other fingers pointing back at us. They remind us to ask ourselves some of these questions:
What about me? Am I that perfect or can I still learn and improve?
How responsible am I for this?
Why do I refuse to see myself as the Creator of this unpleasant reality?
And finally let us never forget that the entire universe only uses two letters of all the infinitude of existing alphabets, namely: O and K.
Whatever we are saying, feeling, thinking, the universe is permanently re-arranging its atoms to agree with us and it goes like this:
We think: I can't do this….and the universe goes: OK
We say: I Am too small… and the universe says: OK
We say I can do this and the universe says OK
And so it is with every breathe we take!
Let us pray together beloved friends slowly and in full presence so as to integrate the value of these sacred prayers' words:
I am a child of The Light
I love the Light
I serve the Light
I am protected, illuminated, provided for and sustained by the Light
I bless the Light.
I am the governing Love, Wisdom and Power,
With its intending, intelligent activity,
Which is acting today, in every single thing that I say or do.
I command this infinite activity, to take place every instant of the day
And be, the sustaining guard about me,
That I move, speak or act,
Only, in divine order
And so it is.
Archangel Michael's Prayer for Light Workers:
I am a divine instrument through which the higher dimensional frequencies of Creation flow.
From this moment forward, I will fully and completely live my perfected vision of Heaven on Earth.
Each day I am becoming a master of Divine manifestation in the world of form, and I move beyond the restrictions and limitations of the third and fourth dimensional reality.
I carry the torch of God Light. I radiate the Love of Angels
Henceforth, each and everyday I draw to, through and around me, more and more of my Perfect I Am Presence of God.
Archangel Michael's Daily Mantra for Light Workers
I have all the resources I need and desire to be comfortable and to assist me in fulfilling my Divine Mission.
I live in the perfect place to nourish my spirit and my physical, mental and emotional bodies.
Abundance flows to me and through me as I hold it lightly in my hands and allow it to flow out into the world to constantly be replenished.
All my desires, needs and wishes are fulfilled, even before I am ware of them. My timing is perfect in making decisions and taking action.
I always listen to, and follow my spirit in every endeavour;
therefore my decisions and actions are for the Highest Good of All.
I cherish and nurture our Mother Earth and she cherishes and supports me.
I radiate love and blessings to all and they are returned ten fold.
My world is filled with Love, Joy, Beauty, Peace and Comfort always.
Enjoy with all my love as always.
FOCUS OF MEDITATION MAY 2012 : Let us long for God together
Beloved Friends, inspired from my many recent and on-going dives with heart-mind and soul into the timeless teachings of Ramakrishna, I wish to encourage us to focus today more than ever, whole heartedly, on God-the Great Love, with longing in our hearts.
Mostly out of habit and tradition, we generally think of God when we need something or when we want something, or when some major disaster hits…which means that we often revert to our separation roles of beggars, always hoping or begging for something, as if we were apart, and not - a part - of It All.
Very rarely do we think of God with longing in our hearts as a true lover feels for a beloved; and even more rarely do we attempt to express our love just for the sake of Love and the Joy that this in itself can bring to our hearts. Such is Samadhi - the state of blissful grace where we feel and know ourselves to be One with God, burning with fervour and intensity in his blinding divine light...
Generating this feeling of longing together therefore is what we shall focus upon during our meditation today.
The entire Universe and its many angelic and devic expressions of Light rejoice each time a human being awakens to this degree of loving devotion - wanting to just sit a while and contemplate with awe and self sustained awareness how truly blissful the Great Love is in its many expressions of Divine Abundance, Beauty, Joy, Light, Warmth, Colour, Playfulness…
Let us sit here in silence together today and let us together long for Love just for the sake of Love, let us long just for the sake of longing, as if we were His-Her small and innocent children awaiting for our Father-Mother-God to hold us in an embrace, or if you prefer, as a lover longs for the beloved.
May we commune as One in the knowledge that our elder brothers and sisters throughout the dimensions of Light who always join us, will do so today with an even greater joy and let us bask together in this energy of Grace and Devotion… knowing like children or true lovers, that we are loved, guided, provided for and sustained in ways we can not ever fully describe nor understand, much less fully grasp with our human senses of perception.
And beyond today I wish to encourage you also to just beam your love and long for closeness to the Divine in your very heart and in the hearts of all those you know, thus loving them more and more often.
In a twenty four hour cycle there are many such moments for longing for the Great Love and all it takes is for the longing to be activated by your divine will!
No excuses anymore…time stretches when we prioritize God in our lives…so let us wake up and remain awakened.
May the longing expand in your heart your love for God. Thank you for joining me in my own longing… I love each one of you infinitely.
SPIRITUAL HEALING SHARING SESSIONS with Lou Bognon
I am honoured to share all I have so far learnt on spiritual healing with those who like me are ready - and I am grateful for your willingness to walk this journey with me.
Healing being just a fancy word for love, every act of healing is an act of love and in this spirit; our day together (preferably in groups of six) will be an exercise in being love in action.
Our sharing sessions will be held on Saturdays and will last from ten in the morning, to about four in the afternoon and as Spirit guides us, we may be a little shorter or longer, so try to ensure that your day is fully freed up, so that we can truly go as deep as possible with the guidance we will all be receiving during the day.
Here is a brief outlook of what we will be sharing together:
10H00 Welcoming, Setting the intentions, Prayers and Invocations.
1. What is spiritual healing – redefining our understanding of the bridge we create in between dimensions
2. Directives on what a spiritual healer does and does not do:
a. Healing environment
b. Preparation
c. Welcoming the patient
d. Establishing trust
e. Listening versus talking (i.e. never diagnosing, prescribing, etc.)
f. Reassuring and helping the patient remember his/her own divinity
3. Little gods in disguise and the "science" of miracle making.
4. The sacred gifts of imagination and visualization
5. Interaction time for questions and answers on all the above
Will be provided by myself: mineral water, coffee, herbal tea, fruit and nuts;
Please do feel free to bring an extra snack if this feels inadequate even though I would not recommend anything such as cake or heavy food of any kind. Remember this is a totally spiritual experience and not an ordinary workshop where you will remain fully in your mental or physical body chewing away and taking notes, so a state of lightness is not only encouraged but required to avoid a lack of focus and un-necessary fatigue.
In this part of the session we shall be practicing hands on healing and the main aspects shared here will be the following:
1. laying of patient and relaxation techniques
2. our hands as extensions of the heart
3. calling upon and engaging with the Divine Presence
4. preparing to receive and channel the healing energy
5. playing with light: spiralling, rooting, "lasering", projecting, etc.
6. merging with patient's energy to develop clairsentience
7. telepathic conversations/dialogues with patient soul to soul
8. keeping the focus on love and the hands in the heart
9. main healing chakras and how to best "touch" them
10. letting go and letting God
11. following the guidance
12. healing all the energy bodies and dis-eases.
Discovering the uniqueness of each one and letting go all that is not heart resonant
Techniques for self healing and on-going work necessary to remain a good instrument and continue to evolve as intended by our healing soul's blueprint.
Conclusion and Gratitude prayer as we all ground and end the day
Session should be terminated by 15h30 to 16h00
As you all know all work has to be ascribed a value and be honoured and respected.
To quote Archangel Michael: "if you do not value what you give, why should anyone else?"
Therefore an accessible fee of:
R600 p/p
will be ascribed to my time and work when sharing session is held in a group.
One on one sessions will be charged according to the amount of hours required.
Look forward to being in a unique space with each one of you and together as One.
These Healing sharing sessions for groups will be held at:
No. 1 HARCUS RD – BEDFORDVIEW – Johannesburg South Africa (opposite St Benedict's Rugby fields)
and in my own healing sanctuary for one on one sessions.
Thank you for your on-going love and support.
With, for and as Love,
Beloved Friends,
With the first quarter of the year already gone, here are my news:
Have finally decided to take a break from my radio work after nine years of working almost non stop for seven days a week: healing patients and writing or recording my programs, self-publishing my five books and hosting my meditation focus for my inner circle....amongst many other things...
And so it is that I have decided to finally make more time for my Self in this 55th year of my life – time to do more of what I have been asked to do for years – namely to share and teach more about healing...so I have started to do this in small groups of six at a time where it really becomes possible to feel as a patient and as a healer...and if you are one of those asking me for ever also when do I start my workshops - pse do sms me so that I can best suit you to an existing group...
I am fully enjoying sharing all that I have learnt from the Spirit realms on miracle making, and God alone knows how many he showed me this year alone!!!!!
which just goes to show that the Divine Timing is Now!!!!
I have also become a step grand-mother to baby Lionel in Stuttgart – where I shall visit later this year!!!!
And I have finally after three years of preparation, received knowledge from Prem Rawat and have been practicing and feeling the Peace in more tangible ways than ever before......check words of peace global org on Google and join in the movement...
And because I have not even had time to post any of my meditation focuses this year - here are the two most recent ones which I trust you will enjoy.
And do remember I am healing-love and only a telephone call away or even an sms – at: 0827329009
With Infinite Love
Lou Bognon
Beloved Friends,
This month our focus is yet again on healing and most particularly on self healing…
So here is a simple way I felt guided to share with you in order to acknowledge and heal all aspects of Self we have created and projected throughout (our conception and perception of) time and space, aspects who, just like us, live in the continuum, or the eternal now if it makes better sense.
Time and Space being the building blocks (so to speak) of our 3rd-4th dimensional reality, we need to accept that our Self (or Luminous Body or Divine Presence or whatever other name we use to describe the omnipresent, omnipotent, divine All that Is As Us having experience here and now), through its own creations is having experience here and now in what we call past lives, future selves, different time lines and various dimensional or frequential zones…and that this is all happening simultaneously.
We are creators and All of Creation creates in turn: take the example of the wind; the wind creates sand storms, sand storms create desert roses and desert roses surely create some other reality not yet seen or understood by us as we can only see the very obvious and sometimes not even that, with our physical perception apparatus.
Let us use another metaphoric image: imagine yourself as a Sun emitting many rays – your creations – just as Creator or the Great Central Sun creates and emits all we perceive around, within and as us… (remember the four stages of evolution in our understanding our god connexion: first we see god as outside us, secondly as working through us thirdly as being within us, and finally we grasp god as us!!!!!)
In order to further understand the nature of creation let us remind ourselves of how, when we are able to look at clouds long enough with intention and attention, they start taking the shapes of things which are meaningful to us; thus some of us see angels, bears, hearts, wings whatever has meaning…in other words we do not see nor create "trigloids", "hamtrees"or "nanamucas" all of which are senseless unknown things to us and of which you never even heard the names before…Relax!!!! neither have I…just made them up for the occasion…
Therefore as you set out to imagine yourself as a spewing sun – giving birth to a "plenty-tude" of mini-me's all being created and projected simultaneously in the now – or (the continuum) or even in a screen just to make you feel better able to imagine – acknowledge them all iwith love and gratitude – for, from each one of your creations and projections of Self you have learnt something very sacred, despite the judgemental boxes of "good, bad, smart, stupid" etc.
To your Luminous Sun-Self all creations are loved as their experiences enrich Its light and like a queen bee It feeds in return all the mini-me's being created; the process being the same of Creator Who is imagining all the mini-He's and She's (us) permanently in the now or in the continuum are giving Him feed back on what it is like to experience whatever it is we are experiencing at any given time in any given form...for the Creator is Mind and therefore formless….
This means that we can in full consciousness and perfect awareness of our divine capacity as Creators in turn, communicate with all we create and our dialogue with our own creations could go this way: for self healing purposes:
I call the attention of all parts of my Self having experience everywhere and anywhere to this self here and now in need of help and healing. Please manifest in this self the best lungs ever created. Because this dimension is tougher than I had anticipated, I need to breathe through this dimensional fog more efficiently, I need to anchor more energy into the denser layers of this manifested form in biology and I thank you all for your loving cooperation and healing.
Of course the above is my own personal one but you can engage your own Self with your own multi-selves and ask for whatever it is you feel you need to heal in this dimensional self. For some it can be simply healing of a bad knee, sinus, fear, anxiety, a hard to release belief in poverty and lack, uncontrollable emotional outbursts, or anything else that may need healing.
When you truly learn to imagine – the limits and limitations of this dimension fade one after the other – so give it a try.
Self healing can not happen without imagination…Imagine yourself just as you want yourself to be and know that it is so.
And on that note let us each meditate on this and invoke the presence of all the dimensional friends who join us so lovingly each time we meet and allow us to BE with - and as us - ONE with the ALL.
And having invoked them all thus – let us not forget that all is heard, attended to and recorded for ever in the living book of LIFE! We are here to learn to perform what up to this point we have collectively called miracles.
And so it is Indeed
With Infinite Love
As we gather here today, I am reminded that at this time last year, I was in India where I celebrated Maha Shivaratri - Lord Shiva's birthday celebrations with my beloved spiritual son Pranay and a couple more million devotees…in the southern city of Puthaparthi, home to Sai Baba.
A week before, we had been up north in the land where Lord Shiva Himself gave me a vision of the time and royal court, when he walked among us. He had also heard my prayer to experience the cooling water of one of the sources of the Sacred Ganges, by making sure I fell immediately inside the bubbling water fall that was as pure and beautiful as the Himalayan mountains were it is born…oh how I miss India and how I long to visit there again…
With this in my heart I have asked Lord Shiva to inspire this focus of meditation and give me a message for our group, and this is what I got:
Namaste every One,
Many have tried – and tried honestly - to describe and teach what I stand for and often came very close to the divine essence of my Presence, without fully grasping what it is indeed that I Am.
Many have painted me in wild and wonderful ways, yet often failing to understand why I was thus portrayed; others insist in giving me the traits of a "muscled" man- woman with a wild hairstyle held by none other than the moon itself and still others have painted me as a dancer, entranced and entrancing all at once. In some other places I am described and portrayed in still many different ways, one of them as a ferocious black skinned death imposing deity.
Time has come to elaborate on some of these, let us say, remnants of Truth.
In ancient times the Great Mind immersed in Itself as Love and Nurturing Compassion decided to bring forth a Living Book in the vast expanse land where the Sacred Waterways border the ever raising Himalayas. In this Living Book the Great Mind first manifested as Creator, then as the One who nurtures Creation and then as The One who dissolves all creations, to again create anew. In short:
Om Namah Shivaya descended and manifested into the dimension of density and matter.
The pages of this Living Book were thus co-written with those who, over the ages shared their human lives in the time of the living Gods: as Brahma, as Vishnu, as Shiva.
Much is recorded (and mostly accurately so) in respect of these times and I shall not renounce nor correct here today any such records. What I wish to share is a deeper reading of the pages of the Living Book written by the Great Divine Mind and thus expound further on the Shiv role and its relevance for this time, for, the Living Book of the Living God-ess is un-ending and each one of you too are still co-writing it in each living-awakened instant.
What I came to incarnate then as the aspect of God that is so often associated with death and destruction is - the reality that indeed all is impermanent - Om Namah Shivaya….
Buddha Himself understood it best when he was illuminated by the very nature of reality – He taught detachment from impermanence all His life.
You could say that Gautama, the Prince was over-lighted by the Shiv-aspect that had lived thousands of years before (in your time keeping) and had chosen to renounce the comforts of the material life so as to live with the indigent and the, well let us call it, the wild, the unsophisticated, the poorest of the poor in the material sense. As Lord Shiva I looked at the royal courts, their pride and self centeredness and knew of the dissolution to come…
So Beloveds as you sit here today to "celebrate my birthday" remember these sacred truths about what I represent in essence:
All is impermanent and all shall come to pass – try not to forget this when you are going through a difficult experience.
But try to remember this even more when you are going through a joyful one for, neither will last – Om Namah Shivaya…
When you next see a picture of me with the moon remember that it is symbolic of the emotional-mental connection which as you know changes with each thought, never mind with each moon phase. Symbolic too that the moon in my head is growing, a reminder that after its apparent dissolution (new moon) it comes back slowly in a new cycle…a new creation. In fact more than anything the moon reminds us of the cycles of creation, of thought-emotion-feeling, of tides, of harvest, in short, of creation, nurturance and dissolution, of life itself:
all is born, lives and dies…
The formula for all of life: Om Namah Shivaya…
Enjoy life while you are aware of your dimension for it is a unique space of marvellous illusions - an ongoing show that you can go and indulge in as many times as you wish but which, like all shows, remember, it will eventually end.
I Am the living page of the Living Book that reminds you that you are trapped in your dimension by the illusion of separation…but you are not separate from anything at all. You are a living, feeling, loving, functioning, thinking part of Everything That Is.
You are an atom in the Body of God-ess, you are a thought of the Great Mind.
Learn to read the Living Book of Creation by living with Love, that is - out of fear and separation – you will feel closer to the truth of your Oneness with all Life.
I enfold you with my Love.
Thank You
Namaste Namaste. Namaste.
Let Us pray:
I am protected, illuminated, provided for and sustained by the Light
I bless the Light.
Archangel Michael's Prayer for Light Workers:
Henceforth, each and everyday, I draw to, through and around me, more and more of my Perfect I Am Presence of God.
Lou BOGNON
Cell: +27 827329009
SPIRITUAL HEALING SHARING SESSIONS with Lou Bognon
I am honoured to share all I have so far learnt on spiritual healing with those who like me areready - and I am grateful for your willingness to walk this journey with me.
Healing being just a fancy word for love, every act of healing is an act of love and in this spirit; our day together (preferably in groups of six) will be an exercise in being love in action.
Our sharing sessions will be held on Saturdays and will last from ten in the morning, to about four in the afternoon and as Spirit guides us, we may be a little shorter or longer, so try to ensure that your day is fully freed up, so that we can truly go as deep as possible with the guidance we will all be receiving during the day.
Here is a brief outlook of what we will be sharing together:
10H00 Welcoming, Setting the intentions, Prayers and Invocations.
1. What is spiritual healing – redefining our understanding of the bridge we create in between dimensions
2. Directives on what a spiritual healer does and does not do:
a. Healing environment
b. Preparation
c. Welcoming the patient
d. Establishing trust
e. Listening versus talking (i.e. never diagnosing, prescribing, etc.)
f. Reassuring and helping the patient remember his/her own divinity
3. Little gods in disguise and the "science" of miracle making.
4. The sacred gifts of imagination and visualization
5. Interaction time for questions and answers on all the above
Please do feel free to bring an extra snack if this feels inadequate even though I would not recommend anything such as cake or heavy food of any kind. Remember this is a totally spiritual experience and not an ordinary workshop where you will remain fully in your mental or physical body chewing away and taking notes, so a state of lightness is not only encouraged but required to avoid a lack of focus and un-necessary fatigue.
In this part of the session we shall be practicing hands on healing and the main aspects shared here will be the following:
1. laying of patient and relaxation techniques
2. our hands as extensions of the heart
3. calling upon and engaging with the Divine Presence
4. preparing to receive and channel the healing energy
5. playing with light: spiralling, rooting, "lasering", projecting, etc.
6. merging with patient's energy to develop clairsentience
7. telepathic conversations/dialogues with patient soul to soul
8. keeping the focus on love and the hands in the heart
9. main healing chakras and how to best "touch" them
10. letting go and letting God
11. following the guidance
12. healing all the energy bodies and dis-eases.
Discovering the uniqueness of each one and letting go all that is not heart resonant
Techniques for self healing and on-going work necessary to remain a good instrument and continue to evolve as intended by our healing soul's blueprint.
Conclusion and Gratitude prayer as we all ground and end the day
Session should be terminated by 15h30 to 16h00
To quote Archangel Michael: "if you do not value what you give, why should anyone else?"
Therefore an accessible fee of:
will be ascribed to my time and work when sharing session is held in a group.
One on one sessions will be charged according to the amount of hours required.
Look forward to being in a unique space with each one of you and together as One.
Thank you for your on-going love and support.
With, for and as Love,
and in my own healing sanctuary for one on one sessions
UPDATE for November –December 2011
It has been a while since I last had a chance to even think of my website….never mind writing something to actually post here…we are nearing the end of 2011 and I honestly did not see nor feel it coming, so busy have I been with so many patients, a witness to their ever learning souls and many miraculous and truly divine healings.
This has been a year where travel also took a fair slice of my time and as a result I have been in "catch up mode" each time I have returned from a trip so as to honour and complete my radio work and all the rest of my ever growing responsibilities.
My most memorable trips of course have been to India, hereafter I am with Lord Shiva behind me, and you can read more here ( I pasted a full report of this amazing trip upon my return back in March)
My trip to Madagascar too was a most amazing and blessed experience. Read all about it here
The most recent. trip was to Argentina where I experienced an "Angel moment" – check out the little white feather which hanged onto my ring stone for hours despite the outside wind…
What a beautiful country Argentina is and Buenos Aires a city of rare elegance on the southern hemisphere.
I especially loved the Japanese gardens which were at their spring best with a zillion azaleas in flower when I visited
Most important was the joy of seeing my friends who invited me there and the love we have for each other in our hearts, what a special treat they gave me at the right time indeed …am so grateful for the break and the opportunity to meet more members of my soul family.
Then just recently the core of our meditation group celebrated Diwali with our beloved Hindu friends and we dressed up for the occasion to look like gods and goddesses in the making…ha-ha we may have a long way to walk but hey – we all have to start somewhere…check out some of us here below: Nick, Carla, Kathy, Ingrid, Riana, Marisa, Hema, Judi and yours truly, as usual in the role of the clown in chief, reminding all that life is a joke and therefore, always happy and laughing…
Now I am off to the Golden Gate for a few days to commune with the beauty and love of Mother Earth, whose hair I caress in every blade of grass and whose body I adore in her majestic mountains, rivers and skies.
Then I will be off to Cape Town till the end of the month, where it seems I will again be busier than I had hoped…
The next meditation group will be held in my home on the 3rd of December and then by the 28th I celebrate my 55th birthday!!!!!! And I can't believe how long I have lived on this planet…!!!
More than ever I feel I am a child of the Universe and also now more than ever I know I am here-now but I do not belong here or anywhere which is so liberating for the true free formless spirit I Am.
So here is my latest two cents worth of wisdom:
Enjoy the ride; don't think too much in terms linear: November, December, 2011, 2012, 2017 or any such illusionary date
Take a deep breath;
Be present;
Observe how life takes care of It-Self in All – and
Remember to say often:
I Am Love
You Are Love
We Are Love
And Love is All That Is
all my love – lou
August 4 20111
Dear friends – here is my little speech in full at the TEDx event in Madagascar on women's cancers, should you want to listen to me for the next ten minutes.
You will note that the slides were being controlled by someone else, so I keep asking them for another slide...and with a thousand people watching live in the auditorium
it did feel a bit intimidating at times and did not flow as well as we all would have liked but hey what an opportunity!!!! So loved Madagascar that I am praying for the
next invite anytime now....
all my love
and hereafter is my last meditation group focus – enjoy with all my love.
FOCUS: The Shift: from Ego to Soul
Beloved friends, now more than ever, in the midst of ongoing and generalised turmoil, we need to realise that this major shift is about surrendering our love of power to the only true power of love.
The difference between these two states of being colours all life experience on Earth: social, political, economical, environmental and above all, spiritual.
Of course, we could go on for ever, waxing lyrical about what one does or where the other can take us...
But in the end though, this is about reminding ourselves - every single instant - about this simple divine truth:
There is absolute perfection in every instant of Creation. And - when we do, all the atoms in our awareness rearrange themselves to agree.
Having said the above let us be mind-full of some guiding signposts to assist us:
Ego sees only fear, pain, injustice and imperfection: in ourselves, others, society, environment, in the roles we play, how we play them, the ravages of time, war, destruction and all the rest…
Soul sees the perfection of the moment for it knows there is no-thing else.
Ego thinks and therefore believes it knows more and better with every new thought...(it is a mind state)
Soul observes and knows all thoughts and their ensuing creations or mis-creations come to pass like fallen leaves down a river current
Ego tries to have-do-be more!
Soul is All Knowing, Perfection and ever free Presence
Its state is beyond thought (or game, or judgement, or delusion of knowing better, or imaginings that some have the solutions, others hold the key, etc.).
This shift happens when we see and feel only the perfection of each moment. This means that most of us shift from one state to the other a zillion times a day, as we live mostly in zones of automatic unawareness alternated by spells of spiritual amnesia or worst, fear and disconnection.
Here is a reminder/command we can all practice, given to us by the Loving Masters who ascended before us:
Divine Presence, take command of my thoughts, words, feelings and actions, so that all I think, say, feel or do, is in Perfect Divine Order every instant of this day! Thank You!
And to conclude, a single lovely line from Yogananda's classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, which I read again after 15 years - only this time, in full awareness and in total Soul Presence:
"Love is simple, everything else is complex."
Let us pray together beloved friends slowly and in full presence so as to integrate the value of these sacred prayers' words:
I bless the Light.
Archangel Michael's Prayer for Light Workers:
Henceforth, each and everyday, I draw to, through and around me, more and more of my Perfect I Am Presence of God.
Archangel Michael's Daily Mantra for Light Workers
My world is filled with Love, Joy, Beauty, Peace and Comfort always.
Lou BOGNON
Cell: +27 827329009
Beloved Friends,
This silence is due to a few travels, especially to the Cape to help my daughter with her first book and of course to increased healing time – must be the winter and the changing energy that is keeping up the pressure for us to wake up to our divinity...well whatever it is it has been keeping me in great demand...and I am very happy about it as nothing makes me happier than to be able to help and serve (hands on!!!) the Divine in another.
These past few weeks I have also often felt like going into silence and so the universe sent me a mirror the other day...and this beloved person talked so much I felt dizzy...Thank God in my typically funny way to get out of it, I kept saying telepathically "mirror mirror on the wall who is the most talkative of them all?" ...after a few of those silent mantras he too finally stopped talking and as he lay for healing he also fell in a very deep sleep.
This need to go into silence is making itself greater in my life everyday and I really do not even feel like opening my email, so there you have it - if you really need me in a rush use my cell phone as this is a trend that I will be nurturing....the trend of less words, spoken, written and especially thought...
In accordance with this trend I have decided already that next year I shall stop my French radio work even though I may still accept to do it in English again if I am asked, or do a Television version of my work also if that is part of the Divine Plan.
On the other hand I do feel that my life is taking me in an entirely new direction and with that in mind I was guided to register the domain of:
www.sacredsouthafrica. (website is just parked and not yet in construction)
Even though my vision is still evolving as per guidance, for this new and post-radio facet of my work, it is already clear that I will be asked to, more than ever before, gather all my skills, acquired experience and talents in travel and international tourism to create something worthy of its name. After all how amazing is it that this domain name was not yet taken?
This is a project that will involve all the sacred places of all the various peoples composing this southern tip of our beloved continent and I am hoping to involve millions of brothers and sisters in this work. Feel free to send me your ideas and feedback and even your special pictures as this will involve a detailed and coordinated register of all sacred sites known by the ancients as well as the ancestral knowledge of this continent. In this spirit this work can only evolve and eventually translate into a reality if I succeed in getting all the help that I can from every single person who, like me feels that we are all here to awaken each other and thus play our rightful roles in the planetary awakening in the years beyond 2012.
One of my closest friends is creating an apple application for I-phones which will also be closely associated with this site in the future I am sure, but all this is not yet a reality for this year and we need to be many gathering together our efforts of bringing awareness of the sacredness of all life. If this awareness can start with sacred sites it will be a fair start to this labour of love. I stress this as being a labour of love as I have no intention of making this project a business, thus hopefully attracting only true servers to this work. As you know money has never been the motivating force of any aspect of my spiritual work and even though I am far from being financially rich I always trust that whatever I need is always available to me at any given moment and so it is indeed for all I have so far co-created with God's Angels.
And finally – here is my last meditation focus which everyone in my group felt was timely and somehow written for them personally. Enjoy
Today's focus of meditation is our individual and collective power to really make a difference.
With this in mind, and knowing that every action has a ripple effect, I come to encourage us to remind each other today of what is truly important here and now:
It is time we all stop saying, thinking or feeling that we are too small to make any difference… if all the drops of rain were to ever think this way there would only ever be deadly draught all over. Every drop counts and nowhere more so than there, where is no water.
It is time to stop talking about and really starting to make a difference: in our own lives first then in the lives of those closest to us: family, friends, neighbours'… Like dew drops, every effort can be collected, harvested and shared to alleviate the thirst or need of someone.
It is time to stop believing that we have no time for this, that or the other. Time is an illusion and yet a very real and precious one at that, so we all have to play along within its defined atoms. Every instant lost is like trying to watch a movie on TV and then go to the kitchen repeatedly for a snack before the commercials. After a few such snack-breaks we all loose the plot.
This can be said for our relationships with self, with others, with our health, our dreams etc…in short: it is Time to be Present.
It is time to stop the litany of "excuses" – frankly nobody really ever wants to hear or even believe any excuse – what we do not do, do not say or do not give is always lost whether we ourselves believe it or not. So, let us write that book, start that project, form that group, help that neighbour, read that article, acknowledge that person, be the Peace and Love we wish to see.
It is time for us to continually express gratitude for all people and things in our awareness. Ours is the reality we have called forth, whether we like, know, and recognise it – or not.
It is time to finally apply the "law of fingers': each time we point our finger at someone or something, there remains three other fingers pointing back at us. They remind us to ask ourselves some of these questions:
What about me? Am I that perfect or can I still learn and improve?
How responsible am I for this?
Why do I refuse to see myself as the Creator of this unpleasant reality?
And finally let us never forget that the entire universe only uses two letters of all the infinitude of existing alphabets, namely: O and K.
Whatever we are saying, feeling, thinking, the universe is permanently re-arranging its atoms to agree with us and it goes like this:
We think: I can't do this….and the universe goes: OK
We say: I Am too small… and the universe says: OK
We say I can do this and the universe says OK
And so it is with every breathe we take!
And so it is.
Archangel Michael's Prayer for Light Workers:
I am a divine instrument through which the higher dimensional frequencies of Creation flow.
Henceforth, each and everyday I draw to, through and around me, more and more of my Perfect I Am Presence of God.
I have all the resources I need and desire to be comfortable and to assist me in fulfilling my Divine Mission.
Abundance flows to me and through me as I hold it lightly in my hands and allow it to flow out into the world to constantly be replenished.
I always listen to, and follow my spirit in every endeavour;
therefore my decisions and actions are for the Highest Good of All.
Lou BOGNON
Cell: +27 827329009
TEDx Madagascar May 12-17-2011 Report back:
This was a trip I shall treasure always, much like a cosmic gift…
I was invited to make a presentation at Antananarivo's international conference, on Women's Cancers in Africa. This was an independently organised TED event, bringing together researchers, doctors and various approaches from fifteen countries, including the USA, China, India, Jordan, Russia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, amongst others.
For those who are not familiar with TED events, check out how diverse and really enriching in ideas such events can be at :www.ted.com
Our generous and gracious hosts were the Akbaraly Foundation presided by living angels on earth, namely the Akbaraly family and especially Cinzia Akbaraly, her loving husband Ylias and a host of eager and helpful youngsters, all trying to make a difference in their beloved country of Madagascar and bring treatment, awareness and prevention of these diseases to the poorest women. You can read more about the work of the Akbaraly Foundation here: http://fondationakbaraly.org/en/actions-foundation-akbaraly.html
It was precisely this powerful intention and the collective willingness of all participants, to make a difference in the lives of women suffering from cancer, that made this extraordinary gathering of souls so special, despite the outward differences, appearances, experiences and angles from which each one exposed and shared their respective ideas and experiences. TED is about sharing ideas and therefore no participant starts with the premise that any idea is greater (or smaller) than the next.
The fact that we were 45 speakers, each one of us allocated 9 minutes on average to make our presentation, and that we all sat in and listened to each other, side by side with an audience of about a thousand people, made it a long but very fruitful and rewarding day, not to mention an amazing opportunity to really get to know and form closer bonds with each other.
Being the only spiritual healer present, my presentation was spiritually inspired and I called it "connecting the dots and undoing the knots"; it focused on identifying the patterns of thought, feeling and emotion that create disease in the first place and on tools to assist in breaking these patterns.
To many fellow Ted speakers, with a scientific and medical background, listening to me was a bit like moving to a parallel universe but in the end
(I was speaker 34 out of 45) also a welcome shift from the more technical-medical information and thinking, according to their feedback.
Here I am captured in a rare serious moment delivering my message
All I had asked of my own Divine Presence as always, was that I may radiate and convey as much healing love as possible, by just being love in action… and as always it worked, for true, divine love never fails…
The long day was followed by a gala event at the Carlton Hotel where most of the speakers were staying, myself included.
This was the serene view of the city of Antananarivo from my 7th floor room:
As you can see, the city core is lovely, clean and well greened. In all directions there are hills and some of them hold very beautiful pieces of ancient architecture blending Europe-Africa and Asia inputs at different levels. The people are kind, humble and gentle and definitely most welcoming too.
The next big thing to report was our two days on the paradise island of Sainte Marie, a 40 minute flight away from the capital Antananarivo. This is an island so unspoilt and beautiful as to defy words of explanation or description…the scenes of whale births in the film Oceans were filmed here.
Check me out in the joy of arrival with my own coconut all of which reminded me about my own Paradise Islands of Mozambique where I was blessed and privileged to grow up as a child; I felt like a child again and at home.
Being a spiritual healer I was in great demand and was able to connect deeply with those who needed to open up and receive what I was more than willing to give them: healing love!
On my last day, two of my now new close friends, both Naturopaths and all round holistic practitioners, Narayan-Romy and his lovely wife Aurore, gave me the gift of a much needed full body massage with hot oils and we were able to exchange notes, prayers, crystals, methodologies of work and most importantly, our energy and experience in each other's respective fields.
Six days surrounded by so many wonderfully loving souls and in such beautiful surroundings, spoilt by five star treatment all along, cannot be fairly accounted for here but I have given you the basics knowing that this was my first, but will certainly not be my last visit to this most beautiful island country.
Let some more pictures speak for me – after all a picture speaks louder than words. Enjoy and consider Madagascar and the Island of Sainte Marie as a serious option for an idyllic restful holiday. I surely long to return and I know I shall someday, just for a rest, and alone.
This was the view from my truly beautiful and comfortable room
Along the beaches the local people sell fresh vanilla pods in bunches, of which I brought a stock, ask for clothing of which I gave them some, and sprinkle one with Ylang Ylang scent by which I was overwhelmed…
And below is a rare specimen of deep brilliant blue-violet berry I found walking about in another smaller island we travelled to by pirogue:
And this last one is a flower I found all over the place fallen from gigantic trees and which fascinated me and reminded me about a supernova exploding with love in its core.
Love for all people and for all of Life in my awareness is what I felt and this unique flower touched my heart…as it sort of encapsulated all I felt as I kept radiating love to all that is… this flower's shape and beauty and humility laying there on the ground, just about did it for me…
Enjoy – with all my love – Lou
Here we are again almost half way through the year and enjoying the most gorgeous of Johannesburg winters as far as I can remember in thirty five years…all of it due to gentle and life giving rain having continued to fall well past the summer months. It is an almost unbelievable wonder to my eyes to still see green grass in my garden…
Ours is a city with many challenges and yet also a blessed city like no other. Where else in a metropolis this big, do you find people greeting and smiling at each other as if they knew each other as family? Surely not in Paris where I have often been glanced at as if I was seriously mentally challenged…simply by doing what I do here all the time – that is- to smile and greet everyone.
Back from my Madagascar trip (will report back soon), so shortly after India, I must admit once again that even though I was in the most wonderful of worlds in Antananarivo and in the paradise island of Sainte Marie (where the famous whale births were filmed for the film Oceans), with five star hotels and treats all the way – not to mention the most extraordinary group of people, it is here in the big city, that I always feel the energy as being the most powerful…
Surely the electromagnetics of precious gold and platinum at such high altitude combine to attract the cauldron of colour, culture and everything else in between that this city has brought together from all over the planet…As much as our tourist slogan is "a world in one country" Johannesburg is truly and fairly representative of "the world in one city"…
We are infinitely blessed here to have some of the best of everything on Earth: be it art, food, culture, design, spirituality, nature, people…
It is nice to know that ours is a city filled with more bird life than entire countries anywhere in the world, that within a few kilometres from its heart, we can interact with and touch elephants, lions, cheetahs, you name it…we are uniquely blessed indeed!
And so it is that Johannesburg and all its people, animals, plant and mineral Life is our focus of meditation today. We shall be using the radiating letter of the cosmic alphabet to send our love and radiate our love and our gratitude to all the souls making it a uniquely interesting and stimulating city of our planet.
Let us pray and intend that crime and inequality will dissolve, that violence and poverty will transmute into a growing sense of sharing and healing and helping each other, one person at a time.
Let us commit to making a difference by continually infusing our love and our intentions to make this a special place in the body of our Earth and let us focus with all our might on all that is good, kind and beautiful: such as the peace and tolerance we experienced throughout this last election, the politeness and the generosity of most of its people, the beauty of our surroundings and the realisation that we are all in this boat together. Let us all navigate in the same direction of more abundance, fairness and more joy for all. And let us stay as real and as wise as we have always been…Thank You.
As you may have heard by now, my most Beloved of Holy men, Sai Baba of India, whom I visited – just in time last month, is preparing to leave his 85 year old costume behind.
And as much as this may and will, create pain amongst the many millions who so deeply love him all over the world, a part of me rejoices for Him and the liberation it is to be free from a physical-heavy and demanding body. I know he IS with us in spirit always and as he said Himself so often:
Many people go on pilgrimage in search of God. They foolishly think that they can find God at such places. God is not present somewhere else. In fact, you are yourself God. God is present in all. God is only one and He is present wherever you look for Him. He is in you, with you, above you, below you. God is beyond birth and death and dwells in every being in the form of the Divine Self. He is present in all human beings, be it a child or an old man. The same God is present in insects, birds and beasts. He is also present in whomsoever you meet. Remember that…
Today's focus of meditation is dedicated to this most beloved of all souls, whose life amongst us brought only joy and abundance in all its forms to all those who were blessed to be touched by his pure God-love and energy.
In this spirit therefore I have compiled here for us today just ten of his thoughts on meditation and related issues, which I hope you will enjoy as much as I do.
Again thank you for joining me yet again on this never ending journey of collective devotion.
Here is what Baba's eternal spirit whispered in my heart:
Rejoice beloved friends
For this is a voyage I have waited for
Rejoice in the memories we shared
Then you shall live them in your heart, again and again
Rejoice for my time has come to go home
My Atma sings in joyful anticipation
of the great celebration awaiting my return
Sing with me the eternal Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti.
Remember I will go nowhere too far or too distant
I Am ever present in your heart and in your mind
With each memory, thought and love feeling
I Am, You Are, We Are The Eternal One
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Shivaya
Ten Thoughts by BABA
1. You must control your mind. Proper enquiry of the mind and purity of the heart are very essential. Offer your mind to God. God will do everything for you. Discharge your duty earnestly with devotion to God. Cultivate the firm faith that God is everywhere. Do not doubt that God is here but not there. God is present wherever you search for Him. He permeates the entire universe. Most people are not able to recognize this truth. God is present in all beings, be it a small insect like an ant or a big animal like an elephant. He is present alike in a particle of sand and in a particle of sugar.
2. Dhyana (meditation) is the very basis of all Sadhana (spiritual practice). Meditation gives you the first inkling of the Divine Bliss. With this Bliss as the ideal, you must carry on meditation and mental repetition of the Divine Name from then on. The step immediately after meditation is Samadhi (total absorption in the Self). Meditation is the seventh of the eight-fold path of Yoga. Do not give up this royal road that leads you on to that sacred goal!
3. Every thought, word, deed has to proceed from the full consciousness of knowledge. Direct your intelligence not to wander about but to dwell constantly in the inner world. This is the inward quest, and meditation (Dhyana) is the most important instrument needed for this. The spiritual aspirant must enter the inner quest through the gate of introspection. That gate will accord welcome into the highest and holiest status possible in life to every aspirant who is endowed with humility and devotion.
4. There are three stages of Sadhana (spiritual practice). They are concentration, contemplation and meditation. When you fix your gaze on one form, it is concentration. When this form physically moves away after sometime, you still look at this form with your mental eye. That is contemplation. As a result of this exercise, this form gets imprinted in your heart permanently. That is meditation. If you go on meditating thus, the form remains in your heart permanently. You should not confine your spiritual practices to concentration and contemplation only. While it is true that these are the first steps in your spiritual practices, you must progress further. You must transform concentration to contemplation and later into meditation. When you transform thus, you will continue to visualize the form of God at all times. The ancient Rishis (seers) adopted this form of meditation. That is why God manifested before them whenever they wished, talked to them and fulfilled their desires.
5. Anyone who is intent on following the spiritual path or meditation must take every care that these ten enemies do not even approach them. (Tenfold sins: 3 physical, 4 verbal, and 3 mental. The physical sins are: injury to life, adulterous desire, and theft. The verbal sins are: false alarms, cruel speech, jealous talk, and lies. The mental sins are: greed, envy, and denial of God). These sins have to be eschewed completely. Instead, you need tendencies that will help you progress and not drag you back. You must speak and act only good (Shubha), for good alone is auspicious (Mangala) and the auspicious alone is Shiva. This is what the scriptures (Shastras) teach. The good is the auspicious. The auspicious is the spiritually helpful. Thus being good is the true instrument that aids in merging with Lord Shiva.
6. You must give up the craving for material comfort and the attachment to sense objects. You must discard the false fears, the absurd desires, the sorrow, the worries, and the artificial pleasures that now fill your mind. That is to say, you must discriminate and train yourself to realize that everything is illusory. Everyone needs this self-education. The pathetic condition today of many people is due to its absence. Meditation is the remedy for this state of mind. Meditation gives concentration and success in all tasks. Through meditation alone, great personages and sages (Rishis) have controlled their mental activities, directed them towards the pure (Sathwic) path, established themselves at all times in contemplation of the Lord, and finally succeeded in achieving union with God.
7. Control the senses, which run helter-skelter; then, the origins of the disease will be destroyed. Let the mind keep a watch over its gymnastics; dam up the mad flood of thoughts and plans and schemes; then there will be no room for worries and anxieties in the mind. To diminish the wanderings of your thoughts, repeat the name of the Lord; that will keep out your sorrows and troubles. Without the effacement of the mind, spiritual wisdom (Jnana) cannot dawn. A person attains fullness only when he or she succeeds in this.
8. When your mind matures and attains fruition, it easily becomes free of all qualities. It becomes placid, calm, and pure. It easily merges in the one and only Atma. Each person has the unique chance to taste the inner peace that such a mind can grant, but, unfortunately, most are strangers to the unshakable joy and equanimity that is their birthright. Meditation is the only island of refuge in the ocean of life for all beings tossed on the waves of desire, doubt, dread, and despair. This Vedantic truth must be present in the mind even while being engaged in the mundane material world!
9. It is important that you should not become a victim of the six inner enemies, which are Kama (desire), Krodha (anger), Lobha (greed), Moha (attachment), Mada (pride) and Matsarya (jealousy). Then, you can experience peace and love. Everyone should perform their duties meticulously and adhere to Dharma (code of conduct). Even an ant follows its Dharma. Wherever it finds food, it carries to its place and consumes it. It does not harm anybody, nor does it steal anything from anybody. All the birds and animals follow their natural Dharma and conduct themselves accordingly. The path of Dharma is fundamental for all, right from a Cheema (Ant) and Brahma (Creator). The same principle of Truth is present in both.
10. Good and bad co-exist. It is not possible for anyone to separate them. When you cultivate more of goodness, the bad in you will become absolutely insignificant. There is no need to use any force to drive all that is bad. When you forget bad, goodness will develop in you in full measure. Do not think that the New Year will give you some new results. Whatever good or bad you experience is the result of your thoughts, words, and actions. When any bad thought comes into your mind, give it up immediately. If you conduct yourself in this manner, you will become a true devotee of God and achieve liberation. This is the message I would like to give you on this sacred day.
PS – for those of you wishing to join my meditation group – this one will be held in my home at 12, Douglas Street – Homestead – 1401
Sat 9 April 2011 at 10H30
For seating and place availability
Please sms me at: 082 732 9009
Thank You.
Beloved friends,
I will be doing the first official book signing of my fifth book,
this weekend at Brooklyn Mall in Pretoria.
Come meet me at the African Gems and Minerals annual show stand
this coming Saturday from 11H00 to 14H00.
Will love to see you there.
MEDITATION GROUP – 12 March 2011
What to say when so many of our brothers and sisters are shell shocked as is the case of so many in Japan after the colossal earthquake and ensuing waves of tsunamis?
We pray for mercy and grace today and we send our love and prayers to that part of the world. The Pacific ring of fire is now expanding and the consequences are there for all to see. Less talked about, is the slow breaking apart of our own continent, with another "ring of fire" which will most likely split Africa in two sooner than we may ever get to hear about it.
Our Mother Earth is doing what she must to find balance and cleanse herself and we must pray continually for Her and for all Life she so kindly nurtures for aeons of time. More than ever we need to connect with our own Divine Presence and that of all humanity.
While in India, contemplating the beauty of the Sacred Ganges from a little boat, I had a clear vision of parallel dimensions co-existing simultaneously like two films being screened on parallel lines on the same screen…and we all witness pockets of Peace and Harmony like this one we have created together here and places that could best be described as potential hell, much like some of the awakening Arab cities at present.
Let us pray together with deepest devotion in our hearts and let us focus our energy on the new reality of peace and harmony coming to earth, while sending love and light to Japan, to our brothers and sisters in the Arab world and to wherever love, peace and harmony are most needed now.
And last but not least, let us bless my fifth book together with love and gratitude and pray that it may take us into a still deeper understanding of the Divine in us all and of the Sacredness of All Life.
Beloved Divine Presence in us all
Let us always know and feel that
You are the supplier of all our needs
Even before we are aware of them;
Let us always feel and receive
Your Love and Life giving Perfection
To dissolve all imperfections we create;
Let us never forget these divine truths
Not even for a single instant so that we integrate
Each one of them individually:
I Am Whole and Complete
I Am never alone, lonely or separated
I Am never in lack, fear or poverty
I AM One with You! Beloved Divine Presence
SOS Prayer
Beloved Angels, Archangels, Gods, Goddesses, Light Beings, Star Family Helpers of Humanity across dimensions,
We humbly ask for your protection, assistance and guidance
For our Brothers and sisters in all places of this beloved Planet
That are lost, disconnected or suffering much pain and loss.
May each and every one of them feel in the core of their being
That all is indeed unfolding as it should at this time.
May they know in their hearts and souls that a Divine Plan is
Unfolding with absolute perfection, despite all appearances to the contrary.
And may they feel the Peace that is descending
Upon each one of them this very instant
Through our collective Divine Heart as we pray together with deep love for each other and as One.
Thank You - And so it is.
Update – March 11th 2011
My two weeks in India, Beloved Friends,
filled me to the brim with its devotional spirit, so here are some experiences, insights and memories of my wonderful and unforgettable first trip to this sacred land.
I had set out to visit just two places: first, the northern parts, closer to the Himalayas' mountainous sources of the Ganges (where I had often travelled to in spirit) and then the southern village of Puttaparthi-Prasanthi Nilayam in the region of Andhra Pradesh - to be in the holy presence of Sathya Sai Baba and honour his "leela" (personal post card), after a perfect manifestation of his face appeared in a huge clay pot in my lounge, twelve years ago.
With Jet Airlines I flied direct from Johannesburg to Mumbai just over eight hours, then on to New Delhi where I joined Pranay, my spiritual son, who had travelled a week ahead to have special time with his friend Hema. It was lovely seeing his familiar smiling face at the airport on a dense foggy morning and then to go from the "organized chaos" that is Delhi to Hema's comfortable and welcoming home. After the overwhelming smell, dirt and dust of the city slums, the luxury of marble floors and private bathrooms felt like another planet, as Hema lives in a South African official home of our diplomatic service, and as an extra bonus it was lovely to see the loving and smiling face of Nelson Mandela in a poster, behind her own kind and welcoming smile, each time she opened the door for us.
In Delhi we rested, relaxed, slept late and stayed on for three days to see the city. We walked about, took the metro, the taxis and the rickshaws, and visited two of India's most beautiful temples: Aksherdham's Swami Narayan Temple, the biggest in the world, and the Lotus Temple of the Baai faith, both masterpieces of architecture displaying marble and gold as a perfectly divine combination. Hema also invited us to a famous restaurant where I had the best Hindu meal of my life so far; called a dossah, it is a sort of huge dry rolled pancake which we break into pieces and dip in four different divinely perfumed and spiced sauces. India is blessed among many other things, with spices and I tasted every one on offer at each opportunity. Being blessed with fearlessness all went well with me except for one evening of cramps towards the end of my journey, but the next morning I woke up perfect for the next round…
Amongst some twenty million other souls even though these numbers are not official, plus God alone knows how many sacred cows, monkeys, dogs, birds of prey, crows and an infinity of parrots, New Delhi makes one feel very fragile and humble, a bit like, surviving and living a day at a time. Yet the people are honest, very hard working, kind, friendly and welcoming and never did we feel the smallest hint of aggression, much less, violence. In such a huge sea of humanity it is amazing to actually feel a sort of paradoxical peace that is palpable everywhere: in the streets, the pavements, in the crowded metro, the loud and chaotic traffic...
Amazingly, amongst the chaotic, noisy and ever hooting traffic of the city, the cows walk serene and beautiful, at a slow and measured pace, in the knowledge that they are indeed sacred and that no one will hurt them. The first one I saw was on the first evening of my stay as we went to buy fruit and walked out of the gated community where we lived. There, close to a huge rubbish bin, was a Brahmin white cow with a very young baby. As I bowed ceremoniously to greet her with Namaste, she too bowed back to me ever so gently, as if she knew from birth that all of us are divine. Her baby in the meantime was busy stretching its tongue deeply into a small pot of yogurt by the floor, surely rejected by the cool, but even busier dog standing right inside the said bin.
Gentle harmlessness touched me everywhere I went in India, both in the people and in the animals. Then it hit me that being vegetarian surely has to have a lot to do with it. Close to a billion Hindus in India are vegetarian, so animals feel no fear and its sacred cows, unlike their sisters throughout the world, certainly never see themselves as mere "steaks"…
All is sacred in India: animals, plants, flowers, seeds. Of all the gifts India and Hinduism offer humanity the most precious is the teaching about the sacredness of all life, preserved in many ways through devotion rituals to many gods such as Lord Ganesh (the God-Elephant) and Lord Anuman (the God-Monkey) the sacred snakes, the sacred rudraksha seed necklaces associated with Lord Shiva, jasmine and marigold flowers, the leaves and branches of tulsi (basilicum sanctum) amongst an infinity of other things.
No wonder people come from all over the world as if attracted there by some divinely magnetic energy of devotion.
It is, in my humble opinion the very energy that is upholding the divine command since the beginning of time: love God in everyone and in everything for all of Life IS Sacred
Which is in fact another meaning for the word-greeting : Namaste.
How lovely to bow to another and be bowed to in return, with the exact same devotion, while holding one's hands to the heart while saying Namaste: "the divine in me greets the divine in you". I indulged all the time: Namaste Namaste, Namaste became my mantra to all people and all things Indian…but it is perhaps more than anything else, the beauty and the dignified demeanour of the sacred cows in urban and densely populated surroundings, without a single blade of grass in sight that will stay with me for ever…and oh! how they loved my gift of fruit peels…
Up north in Rishikesh and Laxman-Julla the area where we stayed the longest, I offered them curry and rice and they loved it just as much and followed me for a while to eat the paper serviettes in which I had kept my meal left over…
This northern India part of the trip was the most eventful starting with a drive from Delhi to Rishikesh that lasted some six hours for just about 168 kilometres. Driving on that particular road stretches one in all directions. I kept thinking of how many of my friends would never survive the drive without some serious damage to their physical and mental bodies: the potholes, the pollution, the noise and the heat combined with the density of people, animals, vehicles big and small and the uncertainty that one will ever reach any destination, given that it is never clear on which side of the road any car stays at any given time, all made me think that India is not for the fearful, the sick, the vulnerable or the fragile and much less for the too orderly, too clean, too comfortable, too set in their ways, too stressed, too rigid, and surely not, for fragile backs prone to slipped disks.
In my assessment of the situation on that particular trip within India, one either trusts the flow or flows with it, or one just gives up there and then. Pranay and I trusted, surrendered and stayed in the moment fully aware that we had a good itinerary ahead of us and therefore lived on a moment by moment basis. After that we laughed: Yeish! We made it!!!
In Rishikesh another of Pranay's friends awaited for us…Harem the famous artist-painter. We soon became a triad of devotion and much fun and laughter and Harem lost no time showing us his unique decorating skills of his little hotel room with long hanging and beautiful saris… like only a keen-queen artist is really able to…. Harem, like me is totally in love with India's sacred cows and his magnificent work shows much of that love…pity he is too famous to be easily affordable now but just check him out for yourself at:
As the Yoga capital of the world, Rishikesh attracts people from all over the planet and is an absolutely beautiful and magic place perched on both sides of the sacred Ganges River, with beautiful white sandy beaches and thousands of steps to climb up and down. Check out these two pics, the one with Lord shiva being the place we all joined for Aarti, the sun set fire prayers and ceremonies:
Most visitors from all corners of the world, like myself, arrive here prompted only by their soul's longings and in my case, the desire, after having seen Him, to be closer to the earthly abode of beloved Lord Shiva…the third aspect of God in Hinduism (which teaches that God has three facets: Creator-Nurturer-Destroyer).
Thus I couldn't wait to climb higher and closer to the highest points on the distant roads closer to the feet of the Himalayas and so the next day the three of us rented an old Land Rover with a driver to take us higher and higher…to the highest and oldest Lord Shiva Temple of Gangotri.
On our way there the winding road was at times positively scary and even worst is the way that drivers seem to hang on by their tyre threads from falling into the precipices below…and again only the certitude that my time was not yet up kept me smiling at the joke of it all. In my mind I told Lord Shiva: gratefully, I know you are taking care of us all, otherwise we would have to be brave and nuts to be here and still smile through the diesel fumes at this altitude…
Suddenly we came to a magnificent source-waterfall-pool and our driver encouraged us to get out, walk and relax while he took in his drinking water supply. The falling pure water sound was so blissful and the gift so huge after so much dust and travel that I just realised this was one of the mountain sources of the sacred Ganges, feeding Mother Ganga Herself…and as I pondered on what I so often experienced in my spirit body my prayer to Lord Shiva went something like this:
Beloved Lord Shiva I am so deeply grateful to be here-now and to have survived this far and I so much would love to experience in my physical body what I so often did in spirit…am so happy…so grateful…bla bla bla
Without further ado, the beloved complied immediately and Ploof!
I promptly fell fully clothed and made up, with glasses, jewellery, dollars and rupees, passport and credit cards under my T-shirt on my travelling belt…
So, there I was on that sparkling cool pool of pure sacred water with the magnificent water fall singing and falling all over me.
Once inside I tried to see if I could actually touch the bottom of the pool but all I did was to scare my travel companions as they could not see me anywhere after hearing the big splash…soon though I was up for air, reassuring them that I was perfectly OK and I laughed so much that just telling it again I am still laughing at the sweetness of this Shiva joke….
Check out the pic Pranay managed after almost suffering heart failure….
Amazingly as you can see, I emerged peacefully, with my glasses and jewellery on and my flip-flops on and my money belt on and all was in perfect order. Of course the soaked white T-shirt was no temple gear so I changed into the jacket I had brought along in case the temperature would fall with the escalating altitude…my hair and pants soaked and dripping had grown by a few centimetres and I arrived at the temple looking as if I had just been accidentally baptized…
Many bows and Namastes ensued by the temple and later I was told that traditionally people who fall in the Ganges by accident are said to be "instantaneously enlightened" and therefore it is highly probable that many of those humble people were bowing not to a fallen blonde joke but to another facet of the divine in wet and funny disguise. As I tell you this, I am still laughing at how fast my prayer was heard - and answered!!!!
Not wanting to be too long here, let me tell you that my visit to Prasanthi Nilyam in the south was gentler and I made still more friends and was fully and completely heart present in the presence of Sai Baba's loving energy. But before getting there we stayed over two days in Bangalore from travelling a whole day from Rishikesh to Deradun and then on again to Delhi and on to Bangalore where again we rested. Maneesha our beloved friend here in Johannesburg, had given us a two night voucher for a five star hotel and we were not going to waste it…Bangalore is India's IT capital and has a magnificent airport and better infrastructure all round. It also has the best fresh fruit juices (paw-paw and water melon especially) on earth…
As promised before my trip, by my spirit guides, I would receive a personal message from Sai Baba and I did – in dream – as he appeared together with Shirdi Sai Baba, his previous reincarnation and as they both looked at me and at each other smiling they encouraged me together in one voice saying: "give more"
Lovely message indeed as I already live by the proverb "what is not given is lost" and therefore I know I can give more and still more in all facets of my life.
Inside the hotel dining room where I joined Pranay, after giving up staying in the far too big and crowded ashram, I met Juni a Chinese lady of 62 from Indonesia and long time devotee who has come to be with Sai Baba for the past 31 years, as well as Haryanto her son, and Tuti her best friend from Bali. We became inseparable and they gave me special gifts blessed by Sai Baba and told me about what it is to be so close to him for so long. They are part of the inner circle devotees and have their own private quarters inside the ashram given to them by Baba personally, so I stayed with them, ate with them, prayed with them and drank their stories and sharings and that was as close as I could get to beloved Sai Baba.
Seeing him on my first darshan (collective blessing ceremony) was an emotional time and even though he is now old and fragile when he looked in my direction albeit from far his face "came" very close and his eyes were filled with God's love for us all. No wonder people came from all over the world, many Russians, from Georgia to Siberia, Argentineans, French, Spanish, German, English and from all other languages I could not always identify. Humbling and amazing and so much love and devotion in that huge ashram that we feel as if walking on thin air. On Maha Shivaratri, the celebration of Lord Shiva's birthday, I only went inside after half past nine at night and with Pranay we stuck to the garden only, but we meditated in our room in the morning and the afternoon as well. The crowds on that day were a moving human sea.
Made many friends in India and three special soul connections of note: an old lady at the Lotus Temple, Ram at Rishikesh, an young man of great beauty and wisdom who "saw" me and again another young Kashimiri man in Bangalore, Muzzafar, who almost cried when I departed gifting me with a silk scarf so that I would remember him always in my prayers and when I touched his gift.
All three, souls of the same cluster surely as our encounters were emotionally charged with tears of recognition. Special moments these when we prayed and meditated together especially Muzzafar, the Muslim Kashmiri young man, perhaps both my children in another lifetime… him and Ram.
We met many other Masters too – India is the land of abundance in this respect – so many masters walking that sacred land. Of note, Prem Baba a Brazilian who runs a beautiful ashram in Rishikesh where we joined in for inspiration and meditation with hundreds of Brazilians, Germans, French, etc and the current Master of Krya Yoga in the lineage of Yogananda's own master, with whom we shared private time and hot chilli sandwiches at Deradun airport.
As for Pranay my spiritual son – he was perfect in every way – kind, sweet, generous to a fault, respectful, very protective and devoted. We both agreed that if we had any doubts about having done this before now we know for sure and without a trace of doubt, that indeed we have. The entire trip we did not have a single disagreement or a singe instant out of harmony with each other, in fact - not the smallest single false note and we both felt absolutely blessed to have each other!
Mah…Mah…became our mantra as that was the sound of beggars in India when they called after me…food Mah…money Mah…
Give more was my special message and I gave… till my last rupee…but what I received in return was Divine Love throughout every single instant and despite its many challenges India truly felt like home and I loved every single aspect of it for I felt God everywhere in everyone and in everything, every single moment I spent there.
With Love
Lou Bognon
Here we are again – at the beginning of a "New Year" – even though by now many of us should be somewhat disconnected from any calendar and be instead in the eternal NOW. For the ones of you following the Hindu calendar you are ahead by a few hundred years on this cycle and a few thousand in all other cycles, same could be said for you following the Jewish calendar, the Chinese calendar, and what about the Dogon calendar of Mali, which is aligned by Sirius and not by our earth-moon cycles…
Which all brings me nicely to an interesting "time" dream I had about a most beloved soul standing with me peacefully by a gentle waterfall when I said: "on 19th of June we celebrate your birthday" . In an unexpected appearance his ego self, oddly, tried to argue stating most seriously:
My birthday is not on the 19th, it is on the 47th of June!!…
I broke out in such laughter that I woke myself up. Speak of vivid dreams!
Vivid dreams are becoming more prevalent as we integrate more facets of our Divine Presence as an ever growing awareness of our ego's tendency to control all in this denser dimension. Exciting times ahead indeed as we stand witness to the on-going agony of our egos as they become ever more transparent in their need to hold on to the illusions they have created over lifetimes: pain, separation, fear, control, argumentation, war, destruction and the entire gamut of what we term as negative experience.
Hopefully, as more and more of us learn to function from our Divine Presence, and thus relate as and with love to all other facets-Atoms in the Body of The One, we find ourselves more and more often refusing to relate to, or engage with, those of us who want to keep our egos well and alive at all costs. Relationships of all types will become focal points of application of what we have learnt, and how far we have awakened, by giving us innumerable opportunities for application, thus allowing us – or not - to learn and exercise true disciple-in(e), the kind of reined in inner discipline and Self commitment which, if we do not learn to master fully, will ensure that, and for yet another life cycle in this dimension, we will have "lost the boat" and once again failed our soul's longing to ascend and be free in this lifetime.
And still on the issue of relationships – of any kind – never mind how good they may temporarily feel, none will make it into the future if ego makes even the smallest of appearances…Ours, as a collective is a testament that we all have managed to put our egos aside and focus on the Light shining brightly within each one of us. This is the reason (and no other), why our meetings have become – and more so now than ever – a place and a space we cherish so deeply in gratitude, where we long to be in, more and more often. That is also why our collective mantra has become: can't wait for the next meditation….
This state of collective grace we experience together, gave me a seed of an idea, idea which I want to propose to you all and ask you to "water" and seed still further in return, when you leave here today:
And that is: let us commit together to be as one in meditation every single day as we wake up and let us thus offer ourselves as vessels of Divine Love – willingly and joyfully allowing IT to flow to and through us for all Life on Earth as well as situations, places and events that may benefit from our Light.
All we need to do is state in all humility that we offer ourselves as disciples of the Light, to being the instruments through which Love Divine may flow and overflow to the rest of humanity. Our intention will be amplified by Love Itself and Its many life streams throughout the countless dimensions of Creation.
Our collective mantra/seed/thought could be as simple as:
Divine Presence fill me with your Love and Light
And let me radiate your Love and Light to All Life.
No-thing else needs to be said or done and you could stay in that state of grace as long (or as little) as your time-level of commitment permits.
This is more about being than it is about doing…Just BE more Love-Light and the radiating part will take care of itself naturally…
May we continue to nurture each other as we have now been doing for so many years, holding each other in our hearts with love and the growing joy that comes with it as an added bonus and let us together watch and study and integrate the timely invocation/ meditation focus: Releasing the Human Ego from Patricia Cota Robles (check out YouTube for this link)
Let us pray together to our Divine Presence
Beloved Divine Presence in us all
Let us always know and feel that
You are the supplier of all our needs
Even before we are aware of them;
Let us always feel and receive
Your Love and Life giving Perfection
To dissolve all imperfections we create;
Let us never forget these divine truths
Not even for a single instant so that we integrate
Each one of them individually:
I Am Whole and Complete
I Am never alone, lonely or separated
I Am never in lack, fear or poverty
I AM One with You! Beloved Divine Presence
Update 22 December 2010
Beloved Friends,
These are my final words for this year:
Thank You for your love, for your attention and the time you spent visiting my website, reading and sharing my own sharings.
For all those waiting - like me - my book 5 - The Cosmic Alphabet - it will be available only from February 2011. Really long wait I know!
I leave you this year with a loving prayer of gratitude shared with my Meditation group last week - enjoy and share and may 2010 end peacefully for you. For those of you that celebrate Christmas, enjoy the spirit of love and giving it is meant to convey to all on Earth.
And may 2011 bring Divine Love closer to us.
I love us All.
Gratitude prayer
I Am grateful to All Life
I Am grateful for my life
I Am grateful to Be who I Am
I Am grateful to Be here and now
I Am grateful for all my experiences
both pleasant and painful which
have brought me to this awakening.
I Am grateful to all the souls
I Am grateful to all the things
I Am grateful to all the events that
My soul has attracted in this Life, for,
Each one has offered at some level,
A special lesson, a special gift and a unique
Opportunity for my soul to grow and evolve.
With every breath I say: thank You to our Creator
With Love and Light in my heart for I know now
That I can choose, every moment, to feel, to live and to say:
I Am Gratitude in action!
And so I Am!
Update – December 2nd 2010
Dear friends if you are a practicing healer here is some of my sharings you may wish to share in return - given with and as Love - always - Lou
Tell yourself often:
My role is to comfort and to awaken the other soul to its own DIVINE potential, to the HEALER WITHIN.
A true healer:
* never diagnosis,
* never gives a prognosis
* and never promises a cure.
*Never stops a doctors' treatment.
*Never engages with the role the person is playing, choosing to focus on the patient as a Divine Being - only - and always!!!!.
* Always says: Everything will be alright.
* Opens all senses and becomes aware, that is: listens with all senses: especially with the heart as many things remain un-said by patient...It is important to listen to the "non-spoken" parts…
In the case of a tumor or illness, ask what happened in previous 6 – 9 months? That is generally how long it takes for a serious issue to manifest in the physical body.
This may also be a starting point for the person to open up.
Always relate to the person as a divine being (teach the true meaning of the sacred word/greeting: Namaste)
Do not verbalize everything that you hear/receive as guidance, it is not for you to tell most of the time but rather for you to understand...
At any given time during a session and exactly because we are playing roles, you may find to your humbling surprise that your roles are inverted.
This is a good sign that you are doing well in terms of sharing of yourself too…after all the patient must feel that which you must convey: you are both Divine souls playing roles and learning from each other…
To any WHY?
The lesson/s is always the same answer.
Make everyone aware of any and all soul connections:
The roles we play and lesson or lessons we agreed or need to play with each other in order to learn and evolve.
Always ask if it the right moment to see/speak about lessons as people are often reluctant to see any good in their pain/disease/situation etc.
Comfort them physically, hold their hand, or even better discretely place your hand/rub their back (at heart chakra point)
ALWAYS ask theirs and your own Divine Presence to take command if the energy is not flowing.
Take a moment to have some tea/coffee before starting the healing. Healing starts at the top (meaning the levels of the subtler bodies first and then only does it filter to the physical body).
Don't move into another's body straightaway.
Be gentle, break in slowly – this allows for your energies to blend.
Ask permission to the Divine Presence of the person first to do healing.
Start with the emotional bodies and then other bodies before the physical.
Remember to proceed using the Metaphor of a concert.
Allow everyone to sit, then make themselves comfortable, then test their instruments, then under the command of the Director/Divine Presence the concert/healing can start and you must actually remember you are just the instrument – NOT – the music!!!!!
Prepare your hands in meditation and prayer poses - for they are an extension of your heart.
There are 27 main chakras located in your hands.
Ask your Divine Presence :
Hold my hands and
hold my heart in them and
guide me through this process
a single step at a time
BE FULLY PRESENT – that is how guidance can be received-given.
POINTS TO CONNECT (physical demo needed).
1. Heart chakra at the back. (clockwise)
2. Shoulders – with finger tips.
3. Place end of palm at the collar bone to points leading to the breast.
4. Underarms (only in sore hearts or cancer breasts).
5. End off with the feet, between the big toe and second toe.
6. Gently massage side of feet. People usually fall asleep.
Tell Yourself before patient arrives:
The Universe will never send me anyone that I cannot help.
They have chosen their experience/pain as souls.
Always engage with the patient as a divine entity – can't repeat this enough!!!!
All healing should be a joyful experience.
People will only receive that which they can take or feel they can take.
It should never reflect on you as the healer….even Jeshua did not heal everyone…
Never take anything personally - it is their choice to heal or not to heal.
You just have to remain a pure instrument that means:
cleanse yourself of ego, expectation, approval (need), reputation worries, outcomes, fears of any kind etc…
SURRENDER to HEALING – as it is a spiritual process you can NEVER direct healing…IT DIRECTS ITSELF…if the patient is ready and open.
Say: My Father, I am ONE with you. And KNOW that IT IS SO.
All My love - Lou
Update – November 30th 2010
Beloved Friends,
This year is definitely ending with a bang and I must admit I am deeply grateful for it all.
At times my levels of fatigue were such that I was made to feel every single bone in my body with such intensity that I could not help but be reminded that in my seemingly non-existent capacity to say no to another demand for healing I myself needed some...
And so it was that the universe decided I needed spoiling when my beloved friends Professor Giraud and his lovely wife Kathy gave me a few days of their time share at the very posh Kwa Maritane in the truly magnificent Pilansberg National Park...and guess what?
While there, the very shy LOURIES!!!!! - of all birds, also known as "go-away" for their chant and for being so wild and suspicious of humans, came in their droves to eat in my hands!!!
Check out the pics below if it sounds too good to be true and - best for last - one of them after eating almost half a banana dropped a little bean in my hand to say thank you...amazing grace indeed...am keeping that little bean as very precious!
Then as I was driving out of the park just a few meters from the road I saw what at first looked like really big rocks... till I heard them breathing....?!? yeah...they were the rhinos those beautiful creatures so in great danger at the moment...check them out as well.
And when you have checked all that you will see my last self healing focus which I am sure you will love to read and share - I surely was divinely guided and inspired there.
Book 5 is being typeset as I type and hopefully printed as per the Divien Plan before the year is over!!!!
Enjoy with all my love. Lou
In the last (for 2010) on the series of self-healing programs and meditations, our sharings today will focus on the emotional body.
Kept alive for thousands of years, in the Vedas and the Upanishads and far beyond in time, in The Emerald Tablets, (by the Three Times Great, better known to us as Lord Hermes or the god Thoth), the secret relationship between Sound and Form, is fundamental in understanding Life and of course todays focus.
Even if we just understand this premise a little as in the biblical sentence then there was the word and the word was God, we start to at least understand how sound can indeed create and affect form, all Life forms.
Today we learn a little more about maintenance of our emotional body form through sound, because this is how we re-program and heal it, this being the body with the greatest impact in both our physical and mental bodies, both of which we briefly have looked at before.
Our emotional body equates to the water element, much as our physical body equates to the earth, and our mental body to the Air-Wind element. Our Spirit-Soul is of course the fire element but that is for another time, hopefully sometime during 2011, as our program for December is one of closure and celebration (see details at the end).
So, if our emotional body is water meaning the biggest body of all, making us in the image of our Mother, the Earth, we could also call it and perhaps even more accurately so our Feeling Body for indeed whatever we feel always feels like an ocean
and weather we feel an ocean of joy or an ocean of sorrow they both feel quite overwhelming for such is indeed the nature of our emotional body.
In fact some of our common expressions capture well how truly overwhelming our emotions and feelings can be: feeling an ocean of sorrow and grief, as if drowning in my own pain, laughed till I cried, peed in my pants, water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
Therefore, if our physical bodies relate to the element of earth with its particles of solidity, our mental bodies to the element of air-wind with its particles of flying and passing thoughts and ideas, our emotional body is then simultaneously the liquidity, the frozenness, the steam and vapour particles in short - all the changing states of water. Those of us so connected to our emotional body can, as I often do, enter the ocean so to speak, when I am healing, thus feeling the (often) tumultuous emotional field of another but only to calm it and give it healing love of course.
For emotionally connected beings other peoples emotions and thought-feelings become an open secret which is very seldom the best script to engage with.
Still, feeling, true feeling is the destiny of all humans. When we as humans will have completed our cycles of learning in human bags of water-cum-biology we will no longer need to come back here. But before that, we are here to learn to feel, truly feel until we truly experience what is Oneness, with each other and with all of Life.
In this state of true Oneness we learn to refrain from harm in thought, feeling, action or word who would want to harm him-her-Self as One?
We are on the right path when we only engage in what One needs and desires: love, peace, joy, abundance, forgiveness and - when generating ever more of these feelings becomes a common, conscious, collective action by all selves as OneSelf, then we have arrived
Praying, chanting, Angelic music, sacred (deep, audible) breathing and sacred sound is how we do it. This is the body that needs the spoken-chanted Word-Mantra more than any other. The body of water needs all the other elements to find its balance: loving thought (air) loving sound (wind) and loving care (earths nourishment) - after all - its seat in the physical body is the Solar Plexus.
And so it is that, just like a lake needs to be fed with new clean water, to heal and allow its muddy bottom to grow the much needed benevolent reeds and flowers, like the lotus, which transmutes the ugly mud into divine beauty it also desperately needs the force of the wind to better oxygenate its Life force and affect the very energy and conductivity of its waters, increasing its self-healing capacity, vibrating with renewed Life.
Meditate on being lake, lotus, reed and wind for we are all of them
It is indeed the sound-music of the wind like a lullaby sang by the reeds that will assist the water of any lake to heal and regenerate itself
.(SOUND again!)
Much like tornadoes, hurricanes, and cyclonic winds bring renewed vibration to the seas and the oceans by howling and singing to them their sacred music sounds.
So how do we apply all this to our own emotional body and how do we reprogram it to self heal again and again?
By using sound, making sound and creating sound.
Use of Tibetan Bowls, both Crystal and metal; sound instruments which copy nature's sounds such as
.bells, gongs, wooden frogs, rain pipes, aboriginal wind blowing horns etc.
Wind chimes are magic for melancholia
Music of the purest form and vibration: some classical, new age, angelic etc but not music with words unless they are sacred words, chants and mantras of course.
Be very mindful of music words that relate to some persons own drama or event and is thus capable of subliminally influence your emotional body to also cry, grieve, identify yourself with their experience, etc, such as so-called love songs, often holding sad memories, commercial music which just rattles ones inner peace, words that sound good but mean absolutely nothing, etc.
Making sound can also simply be learning to breathe audibly and gutturally especially so when exhaling this is a very powerful program when associated to thoughts and intentions of healing and letting go of all that no longer serves us: relationships, pain, fear, lack, things, events, emotions, feelings and or any such thing/issue that could be holding us back.
We should breathe as if we were breathing them out of our system, consciously!
OM vibrated up, down and in any direction brings Peace and heightens energy levels in the energy centres to which it is directed.
If you are a beginner at humming the OM start by practicing in a bath with your ears immersed as you chant you will then feel the vibration heightened through the water, especially if you add a hand full of sea salt crystals to the bath water
best done in the morning as this can energise one too much at night, or even cause insomnia.
Try to direct the OM down to the Solar Plexus very calming for anxiety.
Then chant NAMAH from the Solar Plexus upwards into the Heart Centre
SHIVAYA this is a sound of completion and dissolution (of all illusion).
Sing the sacred mantra of Lord Shiva: OM NAMAH SHIVAYA finding your own tune and rhythm till peace again reigns in every single one of your cells this is the ancient and easy way to reprogram Love, Light, Peace and Healing back into our emotional being and beyond, into the totality of all our bodies
Sing it on!
CDs with only Natures sounds also help: bird songs, waterfalls, wind, frogs, and the like are also very recommended in order to affect very deeply those parts of the emotional body requesting or needing assistance. I particularly like to recommend all sounds pertaining to water as this body is our waters and they need the resonance of other calm waters. Like a trickle in a stream or a river, to get into their original resonance. CDs with sounds of sea waves gently breaking are widely available and they are superb healing tools and excellent meditating background sounds.
Last but not least and always in view of the fact that the emotional body is our body of water, therefore a body within another, hyper-interconnected to all other bodies, especially the physical body, it is of the utmost importance to:
BLESS every single drop of water we take with infinite LOVE AND GRATITUDE as well as any intention you wish to bring about in any new programming.
For example: you could hold your bottle/glass of water, as I do, against my heart and say aloud: I bless and thank you with all my love on behalf of all humans and I thank you for the gift of Life you represent to my body and the body of all Creation. Please help me to reprogram my own body of water back to its divine Peace and Perfection. Thank You I Love You Infinitely!
You can also hopefully, by now, learn to do this with your food and add a new program that will include for instance take my nausea away or any such request to your food BUT ESPECIALLY YOUR DRINKING WATER
Then know that it is so!
None of the above is wishful thinking but rather the new frontier of scientific discovery as per the magnificent DVD Water the great mystery- which hopefully I will screen for us all soon and where you will be able to see some of the worlds greatest minds share their new experiments, such as the very spiritual 2009 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry Kurt Wuthrich from Switzerland, Leonid Izvekov, Konstantin Korotkov and Vladimir Voiekov from Russia, Rustum Roy from the USA, Masaru Emoto from Japan amongst many others
from China, Austria, Britain, Argentina, Kazakhstan etc
Here you have the most important for now.
I remind you that our last meditation for this year will again be held at Margaret Roberts magnificent gardens, which she will open exclusively for us, her store included (www. margaretroberts.com) on SAT 11 December 2010 from 09h00 to 15h00 Sandy will spoil us with a few treats both for breakfast and lunch and our friends, Alice and Adele will give us the healing treat of a Tibetan Bowl and Gong concert, so that we can all gong out that which we no longer want to experience again in 2011, or no longer serves us going forward and on toward our Ascension . Please do let us know if you are joining for catering purposes @ my cell: 082 732 9009 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 082 732 9009 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
I encourage all of us to move ever closer to our predestined state as Ascending Beings of Light
After all Ascension is indeed our collective destiny and the promise of Creator to all Creation. The Inbreath has started. Let us choose to breathe consciously again as Divine beings
Let us breathe in Light
And Breathe out Love
Thank You for BEING!
Let us pray slowly and consciously, integrating the meaning of every word:
I am a child of the Light,
I love the Light,
I serve the Light
I am protected, illuminated, provided for and sustained by the Light
I bless the Light.
I am the governing love wisdom and power
with its intending, intelligent activity
which is acting today in every single thing, that I think or do.
I command this infinite activity to take place every instant of the day and be the sustaining guard about me that I move, speak, or act only in Divine Order
I am the Light of this World
I am a visitor to this dimension of duality
I am a soul joining other souls in experience here:
I am aware of finiteness even though I am Infinite
I am aware of fear even though
I am pure, indestructible eternal Love
I am aware of imperfection even though
I am Divine Perfection
I am aware of darkness even though
I am Gods Light in action
I am aware of separation even though
I am One with God
Ascension Prayer
I choose every instant to Ascend
I Am ascending from darkness back to Light
From ignorance back to knowing
I Am aware that I Am on my way Home back to the Perfection where
I came from and where I belong
And - as my awareness grows
So does my Love-Light and my determination to awaken the many
other souls who have temporarily lost or forgotten their way back home
My Ascension is only dependent on my choice of adding to the Light every single instant of my awareness
And so I choose
to add to the Light
with every single thought, word, feeling and action.
I choose to ascend.
I Am that I Am. And so it is.
Update – November 12th 2010
Beloved Friends,
The Hindu Festival of Light - DIWALI - was again celebrated with Joy and Light here in the South of Johannesburg and our meditation group held a special reunion on Friday 5 November 2010.
This is the prayer I received and shared in devotion:
I am the Light in this World
I am a visitor to this dimension of duality
I am a soul joining other souls in experience here
I am aware of finiteness even though
I am Infinite
I am aware of fear even though
I am pure, indestructible eternal love
I am aware of imperfection even though
I am Divine Perfection
I am aware of darkness even though
I am Gods Light in action
I am aware of separation even though
I am One with God!
Enjoy and check me out dressed in a sari by my friend Hema for the celebrations...
Visit me later again this month to download the third of my sharings on Self-Healing and the re-programming of the emotional body...
Been working on it for a while now and intend to post it just after sharing it with my meditation group on Sat 27 November 2010...
Book 5 on target to be printed by December and all is always unfolding as per the Divine Plan.
All my love - lou
Update – October 1st 2010
Beloved Friends,
After another long silence I have so much to share that I can only hope to make it all as interesting to read as it has been for me to experience. So far, 2010 has been a year of challenges, surprises and gifts of all kinds…
Computer – crashed and I simply lost all in it including all email addresses – should you note I do not e-mail – do let me know as it means I do not have it in my records…am starting to gather my addresses all over again…in any emergency please just sms me as usual on: +27 82 732 9009
Healing – been busy with demands for absent healing from friends in France Japan and Argentina mainly, and of course with hands on as usual right here in my healing room; miracles big and small are the gifts we receive and that includes healing this little baby weaver who had flew into a pole and whom I held in my heart till he healed, but not before he decided to check out my book cover up close for a while….sorry if the picture is not too sharp I took it with my Blackberry
Book 5 – The Cosmic Alphabet an introduction to the Language of Light - coming along beautifully – now at the stage of its second editing, after I have been away twice to the Golden Gate and The Vaal River to re-write the intro…better and simpler now…let us see if my Editor agrees. And so who knows? I may still manage to have it ready for publishing by year end…Check out some extracts – I have created a new section dedicated to it with what will be close enough to the final front cover…
Book 6 – coming along beautifully too but much slower of course as my greater focus really is on The Cosmic Alphabet till it is complete and out there doing what it is meant to do…
My Prayer and Meditation group now on its ninth year is – more than ever – a place of nurturance and devotion to the Divine within each one of us who have stayed and prayed together all these years… it has become a highlight for us all now (almost always) twice a month. Check out the last subject we shared on the 2nd of October - about learning to re-program parts of our biology and if you are ready to accept this work, then enjoy as I am offering a series of such teachings freely after realising that I do not have to go all the way to Mozambique to give them to just a lucky few …(click here to jump to that section or scroll down it is all pasted below). I have also finally accepted the idea of running workshops on healing matters if the demand continues. Do let me know your feedback.
Radio work – still going strong as well – and I may just have my contract renewed by the SABC for the eighth year as feedback tells us that people – especially in French speaking Africa - really are benefitting from what I share with them in my programs. If such is the Divine Plan – I will happily oblige -filled with ever greater love and gratitude, after all how many people have a voice able to reach so many millions at once? I truly feel blessed and infinitely grateful to those "above and below" who have allowed and enabled me to do this sacred work of spreading the Light and making a difference in my beloved continent…
Long Live Channel Africa!!!!!
Karina, my daughter – almost 100 per cent well again – she has recovered well, rested a lot, finally managed to write her best seller all over again and is slowly becoming accustomed to the slower pace of the Cape. Having asked to be used by Light to serve as best she can, she has already been approached by other servers and surely in Divine Time that will translate in her work impacting all those it is meant to, exactly as, when and where it should… And again she has invited me to visit a few days later this month sweet generous child she is…and beautiful Cape Town is now my second home by the sea…
October first, I started fasting – like my devout Hindu friends, I try it almost every year till Diwali – the Hindu Festival of Light. For this period we do not eat anything animal to bring about greater light into our lives. I will push my body a little further by eating nothing solid at all for as many days as possible. I started serious fasting in my yearly twenties and my record without solids is close to twenty days, give or take a day or two, as the last days I really started eating a few dry peaches too many..perhaps this year I can break this record…will see…
Will try to post news and updates more often…
With all my love as always – Lou Bognon.
Beloved Friends,
In what I hope will become a series of sharings I have been guided to pass along before I myself move on dimensionally "for real"…this is a first attempt at reminding us as a group about our God given capacity to reprogram those parts of our biology that may need some help, to make our life in the here and now, easier, thus helping us fulfil our part of the Divine Plan, with greater ease and grace.
After our friend Margaret nearly did her own dimensional shift last month with a serious lung infection, I decided that this was the time to finally share and put in writing the very basics of an easy procedure to do this programming. But before, let us discuss a few "foundation rocks" needed for doing this spiritual work.
NB: a part of the info was given orally as I often channel Archangels Michael and Raphael during teachings pertaining to Healing)
Simplified Procedure
Using words that resonate with you here is my example:
Divine Presence I NOW command with Deep Love and Infinite Gratitude that all aspects of me having simultaneous existence in all places, dimensions and timelines be aware and attend this moment to my request. I ask that my (ex: lungs) are given greater amounts of energy and that the best (lungs) I have ever manifested be re-programmed and manifested in this current lifetime and in this body, so as to allow me to accomplish my part of the divine plan with ease and grace. Let me be stronger and healthier and encoded with as much light as my current biology can accommodate.. Thank you and may Love sustain all existing facets of my Being, till their work too is accomplished.
There – the very basics – now let us discuss the details…
Let us pray together for the Kingdom of Heaven to descend on Earth – that is what we have volunteered for before visiting the many dimensions of this planet.
Lord Kuthumi's prayer:
I Am Light, glowing Light, radiating Light, intensified Light
God consumes my darkness, transmuting it into Light.
This day I AM a focus of the Central Sun
Flowing through me as a crystal river,
A living fountain of Light that can never be qualified
By human thought and feeling
I AM an outpost of the Divine
Such darkness as has used me is swallowed up
By the mighty river of Light which I AM.
I AM I AM I AM Light
I Live I Live I Live in Light
I AM Light's fullest dimension
I AM Light's purest intention
Flooding the world everywhere I move, Blessing, strengthening and conveying
The purpose of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Saint Germain's Prayers
I am a child of the Light - I love the Light - I serve the Light
I am protected, illuminated, provided for, and sustained by the Light. I bless the Light!
I am the governing love wisdom and power with its intending, intelligent activity, which is acting today in every single thing that I think or do. I command this infinite activity to take place every instant of the day - and be the sustaining guard about me, That I move, speak, or act, only - in Divine Order!
Thank You and Infinite Love to you present here today and to those who will come across these words.
May they assist you with your own healing…
Offered with and in Love - Lou
Why my long silence
This long silence on my part has its reasons and here they are….
1. By mid February I finally went into isolation at the Golden Gate and finished the bulk of channelling for my fifth book:
The Cosmic Alphabet – an introduction to the language of light
My book 5 has been a co-creation with Spirit over a period spanning some seven years, my longest yet.
It took me all this time to fully grasp that which I was to teach, but then again as I say often, we are all at any given time simultaneously students and masters…and as we master a little, we are always given more, in proportion to what we pass on. I surely pass on most of what I receive and for those of you who know me close up and personal, well, that includes my crystals, my scarves and my jewellery and to the dismay of my closest family members, sometimes even bigger items that they suddenly no longer find where they originally thought they had kept them….yep been caught often giving staff away…but how else could new staff come our way I ask you?
Make place for the new, that is how!
2. Anyway – that out of the way – Shivaratri came – the celebration of the birth of Lord Shiva – and so my Hindu best friend Mani Mithal got to invite me after having had the first peek at what Lord Shiva transmitted as teachings in my latest book. She thought that it was indeed Divine Time to invite me to come to her home for a few days – and she was right - we had not taken time to be together and prepare our long dreamt of, trip to India, intended to all the sacred places and spaces of healing we so looked forward to visit together – this time not as healers – always giving – but as patients – this time receiving – all kinds of treatments and learning together how we could best incorporate all we experienced in our busy practices.
Mani and I spent these few glorious days of Shivaratri in the temples of Lenasia, in southern Johannesburg and I couldn't help thinking how India was already so familiar because of her loving teachings and introductions to a whole new way of adoring God and all His-Her creations as Sacred; Hinduism does that just beautifully and so we were blessed not only by our love for each other but also by our mutual heart-mind openness and adoration of God in All. The fact that Hindu temples are filled with colour, flowers and even fruit and milk we can help ourselves to, after it has been blessed, only makes it all even more exciting to my inner child, who for ever is searching for wonder and enchantment. No wonder my spiritual name is Haritini – meaning literally – the tiny little enchantress…perhaps enchanted would be more accurate a translation, but well you get the idea…at almost 54 I have kept my inner child's capacity to stay enchanted by Life and its Beauty, if not all, surely most of the time.
Then after these few precious days at the temples together celebrating Lord Shiva and our love and friendship for each other, Mani came to my monthly meditation and she sat at my feet – my lounge is so filled every month that we literally have no other way than sitting on top of each other in order to be together and benefit from the love and the healing energies we all co-create and bring about, as the living portal that we are as Light workers ….and I recall her loving words in response to my humorous apology for smelling feet:
She replied loudly to all in the group – "now you see what I had to endure these past few days at home and in the temples celebrating Lord Shiva with her always bare feet"…and we all laughed…
Then in my ears only, she said sweetly:
may I live to suffer the sweet smell of your feet for a very long time… I love you.
Four days later she went into a coma after a severe stroke and never again spoke another word. She did visit me in spirit and we had a few more conversations but her physical presence was gone and I cried a lot with a sore and very heavy heart.
I grieved her like I have never grieved another soul in my whole life.
Mani's love was pure and simple. She was generous and uncomplicated. There were no expectations and no time constraints – we were happy just to be-know that the other existed and was there always – even if sometimes we did not talk for very long periods not even on the phone. Still we knew we were there for each other as sister souls – in all things that count – unconditional love, support and devotion to God in any form. For us both, no-thing was more important than this ability to adore God in all. In short our love for each other was truly divine and unconditional.
And so I grieved her, her love, her generosity, she often cooked for me, special Hindu treats with hot spices and special blessings, she gave me blocks of pure camphor to purify the air, water from the Sacred Ganges river, Sacred Vibuti from Sai Baba and anything else any friend would bring her from India – she shared it all with me – and it meant more than all the treasures of the world put together – because hers, were thoughtful, love filled gifts, always given in a spirit of devotional sharing that imprinted all her offerings with a love so infinite that I, in turn, just shared them with all my patients as they came along. Mani's gifts to me never lasted long – and she knew this, so she would soon make a plan to get me some more…pass it on was our common way…what is not given is lost …are words I seriously live by everyday…
When Mani passed on, after two weeks in a coma, I kissed her feet in adoration of God in her, said NAMASTE a few times with as much love as I could master and when I saw the flames of the crematorium that would eventually consume her human body, I made a promise: to let my grief go up in the flames too and so it did.
Mani - like India - is eternal, and so is our loving friendship. Life goes on and my time – as far as I know could be any time too…so I go on, a day at a time as if it was my last, doing the best I can and trying as much as possible to remember to love so purely and as unconditionally as she herself did all those she knew.
3. Number 3 is Karina's (my daughter) favourite number.
She was born on 3.7.77. – And seeing the three sevens I joke often:
My child you are born with the jackpot!!!! – Never forget it!!!!
This came to be a truth of such importance as to be really a defining one between Life and Death recently. Karina had a conscious near death experience by mid-March and what an experience that was too!
On a sunny afternoon there I was in my healing room preparing to consult with two new patients – both Russian scientists who, now in their seventies, had themselves a wonderful and varied background. They were soul mates, were part of the Diaspora to Israel, and then later chose to settle in South Africa. The most wonderful and loving couple I have come across in a very long time.
As we were just at the introductory stage of drinking some tea together my cell phone rang and only then did I realise I had "forgotten" to switch it off as I usually do when my patients arrive…
Seeing that it was my daughter, I answered, with their permission. Being parents themselves, they fully understood…
Suddenly my daughter blurted out – "maman I am dying…."
I said Karina – take a deep breath and start again, where are you?
"I am dying maman – I am in my bed and I can't feel my left leg, the place is moving and I can feel my vital energy escaping through the top of my head".
Calmly I said: Karina take a few deep breaths – gently – breathe in with me; and I started to breathe aloud to better guide her.
Karina breathed with me and after ten or so breaths she said she felt better but she still could not feel her left leg. I replied perhaps you are having a stroke of something, perhaps a blood clot…can you take some aspirin?.
She did. We put the phone down and I waited while my two new Russian friends sat their eyes wide-open, in front of me…far more disturbed by then than me it would seem.
I said: don't worry – all is unfolding exactly as it should at all times – she will be OK – I re-assured them and hugged the lady who by now was really feeling overwhelmed by all this and crying...
The telephone rang again, some ten minutes later. Karina said this time: "Maman it is so hard to stay here my symptoms are starting again and I can actually see the tunnel of light joining at the top of my head and thousands of people on the other side waiting for me, I can see my grand-mother smiling with open arms, it is so hard to negotiate, so hard to choose…but I am so scared Maman, I am not ready. I thought I was but I am not ready I want to still do so much here…"
In a reflex of "genius-in-despair", I heard myself telling her:
"Then ask – just ask them all that you want to stay behind a while longer
Ask – just ask and it shall be given – and if it is possible your wish will be granted…(…)
Fast forward – her wish was granted – again – making this episode her third life indeed as she was already living on "borrowed time" after her brain tumour of twelve years ago…
And so it is that Karina ended up in the Intensive Care Unit of the Sandton Clinic for a good week before full diagnosis and treatment were effective – She was suffering from neurocystircercosis and the little virus was in her brain perhaps since she was seven or ten years old…
This condition is responsible for suppressing the immune system, which finally explained to us all why she was so often fighting flu, tummy and all sorts of "bugs"...
Needless to say, she is perfect now and living in Cape Town, to where I had to drive her, with her dogs and her car, etc… and so my life these past few weeks really has really been… well let us call it, eventful…
I have since developed a renewed respect for cell phones. This was not the first time I was able to calm a person all the way to the emergency room of the nearest hospital…technology is wonderful when used for Life and Love. Today I got myself a Blackberry to go further and get my E-mail anywhere…but please just bear with me, I am still getting to know the new toy.
Now add to these events, the increased demand for healing, writing the radio programs every week, preparing two meditation groups per month, running a home, cooking and cleaning, pets, garden, etc. etc and you see how challenging this has all been.
From April 1st, till 2011, the SABC granted me again the honour of a seventh season for my inspirational program, so I continue to touch millions of people in Africa and in the francophone world who listen to me…but due to budget constraints, English is still on stand by though….
My trip to Mozambique to swim with the dolphins is now postponed indefinitely as we did not manage to gather a big enough group to make it (financially speaking). Sorry to all of you who were so excited about being there in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with me…
And in all this, my own mortality too reminded me that I do not need to travel anywhere to pass on my teachings to those meant to receive them. In this spirit I shall start a series of healing journeys right here in my healing room, accommodating small groups of three or four students at a time and thus pass on and share all I have so far received.
Since I have taken this decision my Book 6 has already starting the incubation period and it shall be called:
A Bridge Between Dimensions – understanding spiritual healing-
under the loving Guidance of Archangel Raphael.
With the cosiness of winter getting closer, this could indeed be the year when I write two books.
This – beloved friends – will hopefully explain some of my long silence.
Know that We Are Love and that only Love is real.
All the rest is Illusion – never mind how sore it feels when we bump against it…illusion it shall remain, nevertheless.
For Mother's Day I will be in Cape Town from the 16th to the 20t May for a well deserved break…gift of my Beloved Karina…
Johannesburg, May 5 2010.
Beloved Friends,
Here is an addition to the Gaia Flyer for
my upcoming tour to Mozambique and the wild
dolphin tour. See
more in detail on what to expect from
me for these four days and let me know if
you are joining.
Places are limited
to 12 people.
Beloved Friends,
I was recently interviewed by BBS Radio in California
- by Lance White - on his program called Fire
Side Chat
Check out the website by clicking on the link
below and download on MP3 to listen
I have opened up in ways I seldom allowed myself
- hope you really enjoy.
All my Love - Lou
As 2009 slowly winds down into our southern
summer's longest day (21st) I wish to thank
you all for your love, as well as for your support
in all its forms, but mostly just for sharing
this earthly journey with me.
Some of you play the roles of sick or needy
ones, others those roles of students and still
others those roles of loving soul or biology
family, while still others play the roles of
fans and generous givers and angels in all disguises;
each and every role enriching my life beyond
measure, especially those playing the most challenging
In return I too, play many roles as well, including
those of joyful clown, dyslexic writer, left-behind
ET, angel, spiritual healer, counselor, author
and through the medium of radio and television,
the role of guide to so many I will sadly never
meet, just to mention a few...
Still of all the roles you and I play in this
script called Life On Planet Earth, the best
one is the one we all get to play together:
the brotherly-sisterly role of soul-family (i.e.:
FRIENDS), whom by definition we can always count
Again let us remember though - that whatever
role we are playing, we are not our roles! WE
ARE LOVE - and I love each one of you as the
UNIQUE LOVE that you truly are.
When I say this I truly experience each and
every one of you as simply being a part of DIVINE
PERFECTION and as you may have already noted,
I do not really take any role very seriously,
focusing rather on reflecting as much as possible
back to you - that which you love about yourself
while looking at me/my mirror...all you love
about me is all you love about yourself - mirrors
reflecting only and exactly - what is already
And - if we sometimes do not like what we see,
it is still ourselves we are looking at....
Playing the mirror is it not just the ultimate
of all roles?
My life script within the great Script of Life
Itself would be sadder and much poorer without
every single One of YOU and the roles you each
play in my awareness.
Thank You for the Love and the loving reflections
you give me through your own heart/mirror.
I truly AM BLESSED and very deeply GRATEFUL,
so much so that no words could possibly ever
describe this warm-feathery feeling in my heart
just thinking of you.
In 2010 I shall learn to Love YOU still more
and more unconditionally, and NAMASTE will become
my fully conscious living role and mantra:
The Divine in me honors the Divine in You -
Your Lou
Dear Friends,
It has now been a month since my return from
holiday - and as you can imagine it has also
been a month spent in catching-up with healing
and radio and magazine article writing...and
on and on it goes.
My participation at the national convention
of The Compassionate Friends was a celebration
of my renewed and ongoing nine year old love
affair with this wonderful and love based
organization and I was infinitely blessed
to be welcomed so lovingly by the organizer,
my friend Barbara Dobson and by so many familiar
faces and long standing supporters of my books.
Now a few words about my trip - which was
- let me measure the words here - interesting,
eventful and at times very challenging as
well. Some days were filled with absolute
bliss and others with more downward pulling
vibrations. Up at the very the top of the
bliss scale was my visit to some of the most
beautiful spots of Provence such as the magnificent
Luberon and the Mary Magdalene trail in the
sacred mountains of La Sainte Baume, where
I was blessed with the company of love and
the most beautiful weather.
From France I ended up healing in Canada,
in French speaking Quebec more precisely and
very specifically in the eco-village where
my Beloved friend Jean Hudon lives, up north
east of a national park bordering the Saguenay
Fjord - a place of majestic beauty for sure,
but where I felt on arrival, as if my soul
could get lost for ever, so remote the place
really is. The energy there is held and filled
by millions upon millions of trees and very
preciously few humans, which for the Johannesburger
in me, at first impact really felt a bit scary...I
have realized since of course with hindsight,
that this was due to my still present memories
of previous lives where I lived in small communities,
which were quick to betray me to the authorities
when inquisition came around...and so big
cities are "safer" in my soul's
memory, yet this being just another fallacy,
given this city's well established reputation
as one of the most dangerous in the planet
...and yet it is home...
Up north of our beloved planet and especially
in the Quebec parts of Canada I visited, I
quite enjoyed their smallish doll house type
of architecture but it was the absolute unspoilt
splendor of their forests and nature that
grabbed me, with the autumn colors more beautiful
than the best airbrushed postcards on sale
anywhere, rivers without end wherever I looked...
And - navigating the wide belly of the Saguenay
Fjord in my friend's boat for a few hours
was one of the highlights of my travels in
those northern latitudes.
Check out this picture that speaks louder
than words
Having said that, I always love coming home
and feel the intensely powerful energy grids
we have here, with all the colors, creeds
and cultures at all levels of evolution all
interacting as the one charged live experiment
that we truly are.
I adore our intense electrical storms, the
pouring summer rain followed by clean skies
and sunshine and at this time of the year,
the blossoming beauty of the purple Jacarandas,
the mixed and heavenly scents of jasmin and
seringa trees topped up by the overwhelming
sweet and blissful perfume of abundant flowering
bushes of "yesterday today and tomorrow"
Now that I am again settled and that most
of my catch-up work is done I am already working
on the dolphin trip to Mozambique next year,
perhaps two, one for sure in May (20-23) ,
will try for another in October and will also
be feeding some energy into a whole new idea
- that of a spiritual pilgrimage to the very
places in Provence I have just visited....and
perhaps a short visit to Bali in between....
And so we shall see how the Divine Plan unfolds
for us all in 2010 and beyond...
For those of you who would like to join me
in the December meditation for the closure
of 2009, feel free to email me for dates and
details as I will be gathering a group at
my beloved friend, Margaret Robert's famous
gardens, just outside Pretoria, for a special
day of devotion and adoration in gratitude
for the blessings and the challenges of this
soon ending year.
Below you may want to read some of the more
recent articles I have written for both Biophile
and The Ascension Times Magazines. Enjoy and
feel free to give me your feedback. I will
happily respond.
As With and For Love - Lou Bognon
Beloved Friends,
As you will all
have found by now, since May 2009 I no longer
record new episodes of my inspirational radio
program, The Inner Voice, on Channel Africa,
in English that is - because I continue to do
so in French...La Voix Interieure - and my program
is then included inside a magazine program called
Bonjour l'Afrique...
This radio journey
has been an extra-ordinary one for me and one
where my wildest prayers have been answered
beyond what I considered to be the greater number
I could touch.
Through the often
repeated broadcasts of episodes of The Inner
(up to four times a week and to accommodate
different time zones) Channel Africa, the Voice
of South Africa to Africa and the world, gave
me, for almost six years, the unique privilege
of touching the hearts and minds of millions
of our brothers and sisters all over the world,
with Spirit's guidance in the form of healing
words of love and wisdom.
My gratitude is
infinite to all those who entrusted me with
being able to share my heart with such an incredibly
great number of people, especially the Head
of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's
PBS, Mr. Thami Ntenteni. It was his own heart
alone that informed his decision to allow me
to start this journey, and most certainly not
my previous (and non-existent) experience of
broadcasting nor the commercial value of my
program, all things usually used to gauge the
worth of an idea still to be tested...And yet
- that is exactly what Thami did - he trusted
that a greater purpose was indeed my purpose
and so for ever he will be in my heart and prayers.
Knowing that I
was able to make a difference and bring love
and comfort to so many will remain one of the
greatest joys of my life.
From my own website
statistics alone I could see that more than
five hundred educational organizations in the
USA alone were downloading the program almost
weekly; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
the same was happening with one school's single
computer... and so via shortwave, satellite,
and internet radio this became a journey of
truly great proportions.
Nevertheless all
things change and evolve and so here I am back
to giving more time to my greatest gift - that
of spiritual healing and counselling one on
one, even though I never looked at my radio
work as anything else than a simple extension
of my healing work, even though my words on
radio touched millions at a time...
I remain open
to the reality that if and when the universe,
which had opened the doors for me anyway, will
need my services again - I will return - either
to Channel Africa's English radio service platform
or any other and my work will then be taken
to the next level as I have been thinking for
a while how I would love to actually do a live
program where I can be relevant with live on
the spot guidance to the listeners who call
for help. A television version of the program
is also on the cards, but I feel its time is
not yet here...
Otherwise, I have
been busy with other projects locally and internationally
and I am now looking forward to my special annual
break of a full month with my friends and godchild
in France and Spain.
Upon my return
I will be a key speaker at the National Convention
of The Compassioante Friends, on October 3rd,
which will be held here in Johannesburg and
the theme is: Love, Hope and Healing.
There are two
books in the birthing process and they have
been there a while, even before I wrote my last
published two and they are different from my
previous four - one is about the spiritual significance
of numbers, something I have brought with me
from previous life experience and study and
the other is an alphabet of light based on the
timeless symbols we all know but forgot the
meaning of.
Neither as you
can imagine, will write itself, so I will need
to plan my creative absences if I want to give
them some life. Been thinking that The Golden
Gate will be the place where I will go next
for my gestation period as a new friend came
into my life recently with an invitation to
use her house there as and when I need it...
Keep in mind that
I will be hosting together with Courtney of
Halo Gaia, a special trip to swim with the wild
dolphins in Mozambique sometime next year -
still not decided on dates but I will do what
I never did before and that is I will be teaching
some healing skills to those willing to learn.
2010 will therefore
be a year of still greater transformation for
me - that much I can already promise you all
that care to know...
And as I will be 53 which is a eight, the symbol
of infinity, I have already promised myself
that I will dance more infinitely with Life
and She can take me there...wherever I am meant
to go...and so I shall go with the flow of Love
Divine as nothing else is real for me...
and now, much much more so than ever before...
I love you all
and check out the last article I wrote for Biophile
Magazine based on an insight I got watching
Michael Jackson's memorial and related programs
and the connection I made to my many patients
who self mutilate from so much pain...enjoy
and know I am Love, You are Love We Are Love
- and Love is ALL there IS!!!!!
This month I was
inspired with new healing insights on what it
really means to subject one's body to
radical plastic surgery while, just like the
rest of the world, I watched Michael Jackson's
special dedicated programs after his passing
as well as the very moving Los Angeles family
As the images
flowed on the television screen we all saw how
truly drastic and radical his plastic surgery
became over the years.
Everything about
Michael's features was altered and dramatically
changed – the shape of his forehead, chin,
nose, cheekbones, eyes, absolutely nothing in
his beloved face was original, by the time he
left us half a century later.
And what a half
century it was too – for forty five of
those years Michael's unique talents touched
us deeply from his soothing child voice to the
more mature and loving one we will remember
as he often repeated his mantra: "I love
you too" – over and over again –
wherever he went in the world to acknowledge
his many adoring fans.
Now that you know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that I too loved
Michael, let me tell you the insights his passing
brought me about drastic plastic surgery. Michael
was after all a larger than life example and
we all saw his life in chapters as it is often
the case with celebrities and people in the
Even though he
was a deeply loving human being, he lacked that
love for himself and always felt that he was
not loved for who he was, loved for his core,
his soul, his being-ness. It is no wonder then
that like Michael, so many people think that
by changing something about their outer appearance,
those changes will bring them more love.
All we need is
watch all these television episodes about real
plastic surgery cases in Beverly Hills to have
insights jumping at us about the lack of self-love
of all those who lie there being forked out
(literally) at their stomach fat as in the case
of liposuction, or cut and sliced in pieces
just to loose some extra part which they no
longer – or never did love, not to mention
the ultimate absurdity of placing plastic bags
of different sizes inside the breast as if that
would make any thinking-loving man worth his
salt, love a woman more!
And yet that is
exactly what people, who submit themselves to
such excruciating pain and aggression in their
physical bodies during (and especially after)
such extreme plastic surgeries do think and
hope: that they will be loved – more…
Self-love, just
like divine love, by implication is of an unconditional
nature, so we will – when filled with
self love, appreciate and love everything about
ourselves, including the less lovely bits and
pieces, and especially so as we age.
As a spiritual
healer, a fair amount of suicidal-after trauma
cases is often re-directed to me, and I am thus
often faced with the most wonderful souls who
hurt themselves terribly through self mutilation.
They cut their arms and inner legs and sometimes
inside their vaginas or rectums too, anywhere
not to be seen by others, or in places easily
covered by clothing – and where it is
really more painful than the emotional non-localised
pain they feel all over their emotional body
and even their soul. Yes – there is indeed
such a thing as soul pain.
And here is my
insight – self mutilation and drastic
plastic surgery are two ways of dealing with
the old, very old traumatic pain of hurt, rejection
and abandonment, pain of very early childhood
incest and/or violent sexual abuse, as well
as all kinds of emotional abuse; pain that,
to the sufferer, only seems to be released when
an injury is created – deliberately and
forcefully - on a feeling and bleeding part
the physical body.
If we were to
see it for what it is – plastic surgery
of the drastic kind would often equate to a
plain lack of self love. Of course I am not
one to discard the baby and the bath water –
plastic surgery has a special place in cases
of disfiguration, be it after trauma, war or
accident, as well as in birth defects and even
in creating greater perfection for those whose
lives really depend on it – but when it
is drastic and changes our features as it did
Michael's beyond recognition, then we
could see it as a form of self mutilation –
a way – like any other – only perhaps
more legal and more onerous – to get some
relief from old pain and its deep underlying
In Michael's
case he never hid the fact that he was abused
in his childhood and therefore for the gentle
soul that he was, the pain had been there all
along and he found a way of releasing it from
the emotional onto the physical level through
submitting his facial features to an ongoing
shape-shifting strategy.
Pain – like
happiness is highly addictive and this is a
truth that not many have grasped, yet one that
we healers face everyday. Some of us chose never
to heal and just keep holding on to the pain,
which by then has become the new found land
of the safe-secure and the familiar…
And so it is indeed
a truism in healing that what you do not know
you cannot understand, and what you cannot understand
you cannot heal. My deepest hope in sharing
this insight is that you understand and heal
or help someone you care about do just that
for themselves as well.
As for Michael
– where he now dwells he finally knows
how deeply he was, always has been and for ever
will be loved. For he is Love and we Are Love,
each one of us without exception.
With Healing
Love – Lou Bognon July 09
Dear Friends,
The special event at Zoo Lake had to be postponed
for lack of support at this time - but as we
all know - all things in Divine Time ....and
so it was not meant to be now - appologies to
all those who had so looked forward to being
there with me...as you know there will be other
occasions and I am always just a telephone call
away anyway...
In the meantime check out the last article I
have written for Biophile
Magazine - enjoy and remember - this too
shall come to pass - all we need is to love
and support each other.
All my love - Lou
As 2009 progresses
- we sense a slowing of the frenetic pace at
which we have been travelling for the past few
years, while witnessing, as if in slow motion,
the crumbling of many systems around us.
In all TV news,
local or international, the news readers themselves,
are using the kind of
terminology that reflects our own deepest fear
and worry, and often ask the very same questions
we all do to ourselves:
When will all this end?
How are we going to get out of this mess?
How did we get here?
How did this actually happen?
How can giants in all sectors all of a sudden
and out of the blue, be reduced to a position
of mere midgets?
How could some greedy people get away with it
for so long?
In the two previous
issues I shared with you the insights I have
glimpsed as to where we are headed and, here
hopefully I will take you a little further into
the understanding of what really is happening,
how we will survive these ongoing crises and
what implications there are for us as individuals
and as a collective of humanity.
By the time you
read these words the budget deficits in some
of the richest nations (not to mention most)
will be reminiscent of a big black hole - we
now acknowledge that we have consumed, spent,
promised, pledged and invested more than we
could afford and so the situation is now more
than ever exposed for what it is - greed gone
bust, the "cooked books" looking ever
more like a concoction of figures no one really
knows for
sure whether they are real or imaginary. Some
countries did not indulge in the greedy frenzy
or the virtual financial banking reality and
are thus weathering the storm in a far better
shape. Still, all are affected.
Some governments
will frenetically print paper money as if trees
themselves were cloning each other every nanosecond
and calling it by the euphemistic name of "quantitative
easing" while the so called sound foundations
of economics have
all but vanished, disappeared, and moved into
In short - and
again to quote from the wisdom given in my third
book, The Divine Laws* - the crumbling has started
in earnest.
There is indeed
no going back, no holding on to what and how
it used to be; that is now vanishing right in
front of our eyes: the systemically destructive
and unsustainable way of life we have lived
for so long, with belief systems and structures
of economic governance that serve the greed
of the few against the needs of the many, have
simply now shown us beyond what we needed to
be shown, their absolute incapacity to fulfill
the needs of all humanity.
We are witnessing
the end of an era - the end times of all that
has been divisive, from
economics to religions and politics, as well
as all and everything that has become unsustainable.
In our taking without ever giving back, we have
lived under the illusion that abundance was
only for the chosen few, that the masses of
were just another tradable resource or commodity
and now the masses of unemployed and the suffering
are growing by the day inside the very nations
that birthed these very beliefs, notions and
economics of greedy unsustainability.
Time has come
to play another game, to apply new ideas, birth
new sustainable systems, but we have not yet
grasped what is ahead nor what exactly we are
to create, how to play the very game and rules
we still have to invent, and, because most
people are so lost, they cannot see, much less
sense, the new possibilities. So, here is a
peek at what is coming our way:
*As the old and
obsolete gives way to the new inventions, all
of them will be, not only
user-friendly but also and most importantly,
also friendly towards your environment and all
the elements and kingdoms of your beloved planet.
When and as you
learn to tap into the universal energy, you
will move, communicate, travel and share all
as one, for it will not cost anyone anything
to do all these things that now still remain
an impossible dream for the masses of humanity.
By then you will
have taken your place among all the nations
of the stars and you will travel there just
as they have been travelling to yours since
the beginning. *
Good place to
start - we have to just start imagining this.
After all we all are now able to understand
that our beloved Planet is perfectly able to
provide for every man's need, but of course
she cannot provide for every man's greed.
And one last word:
let us never forget that each time we imagine
something, it is the
Creator-Source who really is imagining it through
With infinite love - Lou Bognon
* Taken from : The Divine Laws, by Lou Bognon
Dear Friends,
Enjoy the empowering
information I share in this most recent article
I have written for Biophile Magazine
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE No. 6/issue 25
We are indeed
powerful creators of our realities. And, now
we are facing one of the most interesting of
our creations: the global financial crisis,
even if most of us will disown the idea of having
had anything to do with it in the first place.
From a spiritual
perspective of course, the financial crisis
is excellent news for our collective growth
and evolution as a species.
Perhaps now -
that we no longer can afford be so focused on
"things" and how many of them our
money can buy after having created this new
reality of lack in the money supply - we will
start tapping into our inner world and relate
to each other in more profound and meaningful
ways. After all, we have been flirting long
enough with the surface of things, through the
stuff we wear, buy, give, receive, consume,
waste, tuck and throw away.
I cannot help
but refer to my third book, The Divine Laws,
where we are informed of the soon to come time
of "crumbling" when all systems
that no longer function for the greatest good
of all will disintegrate before our eyes and
we will be inundated with obsolete staff that
no longer serve any purpose.
As I drive along the many highways of Johannesburg,
I cannot help noticing how the big SUV's
(sports utility vehicles) are starting to look
(at least to me) more and more like "FUV's"
(funerary utility vehicles). Personally, I have
nothing against such vehicles per se –
when and where they serve their purpose in farms
and rural areas where most roads really need
the gifts of a 4x4.
This observation
aside, what we are watching is just not the
beginning of the "crumbling" but
a confirmation and a consolidation of the new
reality that informs us that things cannot stay
as they are and so it is that we have created,
collectively, crisis after crisis to come to
this important point.
As the European
leaders met in China this week to discuss this
financial crisis and try to persuade the Chinese
to part with some of the many trillions of their
hard earned savings as a direct result of their
hard labour and multi-factory production in
their heartland, it was ironic to actually witness
the death of capitalism just as taught by Marx,
Engels and Lenin, namely: "for capitalism
to die all that was needed was to give it enough
rope so that it would hang itself".
And so it came to pass that capitalism hanged
itself in the great hall of China's communist
party as China listened to its request for help
and replied using more of the same rope and
more of the same capitalist rhetoric as we have
been hearing from all capitalist capitals: -
let the IMF become even more powerful and involved.
Given China's astronomical reserves in
US dollars, it begs this pertinent question:
how long will they hold on to the tons of paper
and bonds and therefore how long and/or what
will take for them to "suicide the dollar"
all together? Time alone will tell. This is
a potential reality already inscribed in the
many future probabilities and the global shift
of power to the east, predicted by Chinese visionaries
a very long time ago, even before the rise (and
the fall) of communism.
And so it is that
we are now faced with a reality where we all
need to face how obsessed we have become with
buying, collecting, showing-off and even classifying
each other by the amount and size of the outward
staff. This has bred so much fear (of not having
and being enough) so much injustice, greed,
insecurity and misery that it is only normal
that the frenzy sooner or later, had to come
to an end.
And this is where
we are at present. The least affected are those
who remained somewhat awake through this creation
and therefore did not engage the illusion or
the frenzy. The more affected are those still
trapped in the victim role. Too late though,
to blame stock exchanges, banks, politicians,
policies or conspiracies.
This is the time
to create anew. This is a time to learn to let
go of any idea of a saviour and a fixer –
we are indeed the ones we have been waiting
for all along – and it is time for this
new reality to sink in. No politician and no
economist (certainly not of the type we have
been accustomed to anyway), will make any difference
– we need to start taking our lives into
our own hands and soon realise that the least
we rely on the crumbling system/s the better
off we will be.
In closing I am
reminded to quote the words made famous by Jimmy
Hendrix: When the Power of Love will overcome
the love of power - we will be OK.
This applies
to America, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Canada,
and/or every single country on Earth, as the
Power of Love has nowhere, as yet, overcome
the love of power. But we could create this
reality. Now! Who we really are, our true spiritual
identity – can indeed -create anything
at all.
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE No. 5
WORLD – by Lou Bognon
I make no secret
about being a news junkie as I believe in keeping
myself informed from as many sources as possible,
so as to better be able to make up my own mind
about what truly is going on in our planet.
My sources of
information are, of course many and varied,
being able to read in 5 languages fluently,
to surf the Internet for hours and read its
many information sites and circulated news,
as well as have access to corporate owned and
special interest media, print and of course
satellite TV news such as CNN, BBC, Aljazeera,
It just hit me,
as I write, that I too, belong to the incredibly
complex machine that is the media, and in no
small way, this humble column notwithstanding,
since that, for the past five years, I produce
and present two programs that are broadcast
in two major languages, namely, English and
French, (by Channel Africa, via satellite, short
wave and Internet radio) to millions of people
throughout our continent and the rest of the
In order to make
sense of what is happening one has, at the very
least, to have some idea of what really is going
on. So, here is my take on the American elections.
At face value,
and after much fanfare, the American people
are left with two candidates who, they will
have to get to know better, in order to choose
one to the Presidency of the self proclaimed
"most powerful nation on earth".
This title brings
many questions to my mind: Why is it called
Is it because of its currency value? Is it the
amount of its natural resources? Its surface
area? Its population numbers? Its war making
capacity? Its moral values and standing amongst
other nations? Or is it based on the way it
treats, educates and heals its poor, sick and
dispossessed? Or is it because it teaches by
Indeed, why is
The United States of America called the most
powerful nation? What defines the notion of
"most powerful nation on earth'
if none of the answers to the above questions
actually do?
As for the candidates,
how do you know a candidate well enough just
by listening to selected sound bites and images
that have been so groomed and polished by numerous
"Spin doctors", they could just
as well have been produced in a Hollywood film
and sound studio? This is especially true about
the candidates' wives and families as
they are propped up with all kinds of lights
and make up tricks used by visual media, not
to say a word about the hordes of advisers and
image consultants that constantly decide the
camera angles, the colour of the background,
and all other colours, be it in their banners,
the nail polish, the dress or the tie.
So – here
we are – inside a reality where everyone's
teeth shine like extra polished white plastic,
the sound bites become mantras, repeated "ad
nauseum" by the likes of CNN and BBC,
while the real issues about our collective survival,
our planet's poor state of health and
its ever increasing efforts to signal it to
us, the injustices of famine and land appropriation
by some to the detriment of many, the ongoing
planetary wars of separation, and other urgent
issues, keep being relegated to "drawer
13" so to speak.
Barack Obama,
tries, to his credit, to raise the bar and generally,
to raise these issues, but if America is to
deserve the name it gave itself, of the most
powerful nation on earth, he must first win
this election and then proceed to create a new
reality and a new mindset in his homeland -
and, even if he succeeds, by then the world
may have shifted to such a degree that we will
be focussing on different questions, living
by different standards and counting numbers
really geo-mathematically, and not racially
or financially. Mother Earth can strike anywhere
and at any time and she cares not how many Dollars
we think we are worth.
From a spiritual
perspective, all that we are witnessing at this
time is unfolding according to the Divine Plan
for Earth and all life upon her. But we would
not, of course, see it this way if we are just
tapping into any one single source of information,
as most of them are given from an angle of fear,
manipulation or separation.
Even though
we live in a so called information age, more
than ever information is given selectively,
not objectively and most certainly, not fairly.
Take the Middle East as an example – the
pain of Israel is important, we all agree, but
what about the pain of the Palestinians who
after a horrific injustice of history, by no
fault of their own, find themselves either prisoners
in their own land or refugees in other people's
lands? As for Iran – why can it not have
nuclear technology, but Israel can keep a big
enough arsenal to blow half the planet away?
The Air and Earth elements
As I watched Myanmar
count its dead by the tens of thousands after
being hit by a deadly cyclone, and on the other
side of the world, an ancient volcano in Chile,
thought to be dormant for millennia, spewing
- as volcanoes usually do – his special
kind of fumes, I remembered that it was time
to resume my writings on the elements.
And, as the time
will be very markedly accelerated for us on
earth from this point, I felt that I could write
about the two elements air and earth together
as they both are so well represented in both
cyclonic and volcanic activity.
Indeed if Mother
Earth was to be equated with a human body –
then her volcanoes would be her entrails –
the part of her that really needs to be cleaned
now – almost like when we resort to colonic
irrigation treatment for a highly intoxicated
We all know that
when we get seriously ill, and when we have
kept all sorts of debilitating emotions, toxins
and pain inside ourselves for any length of
time, that our bowel movement starts being affected
in a very powerful and noisy way at first –
we experience severe cramps and bloating, often
associated with abnormal activity of the too
much or too little kind and eventually it all
grounds to a halt till and we need to go for
So – let
us recognize these symptoms in our Beloved Mother
– her entrails are starting to get noisy
and irregular – she is bloated and uncomfortable
and her body is really – seriously –
intoxicated by all of our mental, physical and
material pollution and carelessness. Her air
element is seen in her passing of winds, read:
typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes and the like.
This is her way to blow away from her body all
the discomfort and in some parts the unbearable
pressure we have become to her.
Now – if
you recall when I spoke about water and fire
– the elements we have already seen very
active in her body in terms of what they represented:
the emotional body, the tears, the cleansing
and the fever she needs to heal – she
has done all she could using those two elements
but it was obviously not enough. Not enough
for us either – we still did not see her
pain and neither did we change our ways so as
to help her to heal.
No - we have not changed – we have not
paid any attention - we actually got worst,
greedier, more disconnected and in general became
like suckling zombies - and to a certain degree,
that has become our new normal, when faced with
information and potential future overload, we
all take the safe road – we sort of sleep
standing and go on like zombies, as if it was
none of our business or any of our doing.
Only now, zombie time is over.
In the sequence of disease and the way symptoms
show themselves off, fever is usually alleviated
by water, the effect of cooling and soothing,
which Mother Earth has done quite well.
Now, another set of symptoms are being exposed
and she is showing us her ever increasing pain
before she prepares us for some major surprises.
I feel she will soon use all of her elements
all at once, resulting in some truly major upheavals
and destruction for us as humanity, but for
her, in some greatly needed cleansing and healing.
As China is hit by a serious earthquake, and
like Myanmar it counts its dead by the thousands,
I wonder if this is already not the beginning.
In the meantime
– our world has already changed for ever
– peak oil price is a reality driving
home, as we now await oil at USD200 a barrel
and we have entered a new cycle of who is going
to drive/eat/survive first.
Yes we have arrived at such a point.
In less than a
year, and with a few cleaning strokes, Mother
Earth took away our food from her skin in millions
and millions of acres of Asia, Africa, North
and South America, Australia and generally all
over, anywhere she itched of dryness or over-washed
of pain.
As I write, we
know that the lives of some 100 million or more
of our brothers and sisters will be written
off the list of who does not eat and live next.
We also know that biofuels, now take one full
third of our food supplies. Yes we are now not
just competing with each other and with our
animals for food we have added, believe it or
not, also our cars to the big survival competition.
Collective Madness
is the name for our current state of being.
Knowing our Mother
Earth, like all mothers, she will definitely
fight for her life – mothers seldom give
up in the face of their own pain – they
always – well almost always – put
their children above themselves. But how many
of her children will she choose to protect whilst
needing to protect herself?
Like in a flight nearing its crash landing –
how much will she breathe first before giving
us the oxygen mask? Now that is the question.
Sadly to this
question we do not have the answer – we
have set in motion a somewhat unpredictable
flight that now can only be allowed to crash
or land itself out.
All we can do as always - is to pray - and to
hope - that we are part of those whose love
for her will be noted and that in return she
will be clement with our food fields, with the
roofs over our heads and with our lives.
Again I encourage
you to pray for Mother Earth everyday, to treat
all her creatures with extreme care and reverence
and in your prayers send her all the love and
healing your little child's heart can
master – she loves to listen to children's
prayers especially when they come out of adult
In love
and light
Lou Bognon
Beloved friends,
Here is an article
I wrote for the May-June 2008 GLOBAL
at: www.earthrainbownetwork.com
on the theme of:
What I can share
as a healer by Lou Bognon
Since being told
for the first time that diamonds are of triangular
shapes, I never again looked at rocks or even
at all the sand in the sea the same way. Imagine
my joy and wonder when I discovered along the
Namib Desert coast that sea sand was filled
with billions and trillions and quadrillions
of tiny little triangular shaped "diamonds".
The power of belief
is like that coastal sand – where I see
diamonds, others see rocks, and still others
see rubbish, stinky sea weeds, or silica or
plain discomfort for their shoes, and most see
simply, nothing at all.
Belief is the
greatest gift of all and for those of us who
have kept their heart open like a child, we
actually start with a great advantage at all
levels of life – after all for us there
is always something more wondrous than the ordinary
out there, everything is more marvelous than
it actually looks, more magic, more fascinating,
and as a bonus, belief also makes us feel more
deserving, more powerful, more connected and
more special than the ordinary.
In fact with an
open heart and with an open mind, no-thing and
no-one, is actually ordinary – how could
it be otherwise?
Ordinariness would
be the absolute anti-everything: like anti-wonder,
anti-magic, anti-joy and anti all the qualities
and attributes that actually define our belief
in all things DIVINE if you will.
So, as the years
passed, my heart opened even more – and
at 52, it has now been a few years since I have
made a choice above all others – to always
keep my heart open and for ever opening. I look
to it for guidance, I listen to it for love
and wisdom and I really choose to use it best
when I am offering myself as an instrument for
giving healing to another. My belief being that,
as an extension of the Creator of all, of Love
Itself - through us, all healing is possible.
I choose to walk this road blindfolded to ensure
that all physical, material and intellectual
distractions will not disturb my belief that
I am indeed Love.
Now, being a healer
is something that most people often visualize
and imagine as being either: hard, tiring, exhausting,
or at worst really freaky or weird – the
stuff of wicked and/or illuminated, crystal-wearing
long-robed, long haired carrot-munching nutty-case
types. Unless of course their heart too has
remained open - and then their own healing -
For healing to
happen – just like for music to be created,
heard and enjoyed – first someone needs
to tap into it, hear it, then play it –
which means using an appropriate instrument.
Music –
like healing and like love – is always
there – everywhere actually – and
upon request, intention, attention, need - it
just flows. I hear the music in the rain, in
the wind and the way the elements move in the
sea, in a river, in a storm, in the echo of
a mountain's body, actually everywhere.
I could say that I feel the healing and I feel
the love in the exact same way. There is no
place where they are not for they are inseparable.
For me this is not plain belief – this
is my reality.
Belief is that
which, in quantum physics terms, we are all
just starting to grasp: the observer affects
the thing being observed. And in the same way
our (greater or smaller) capacity to keep the
heart – and the mind - open, will also
affect all our other capacities: what we believe
we can do, we shall and what we do not –
we don't, can't, and won't.
The words of the
Great Master sum it up perfectly: let it be
done onto you as you believe, ask and you shall
receive, knock and it shall open, search and
you shall find.
The question
we all need to ask ourselves is this:
If it all depends
on our belief capacity, our choices, intentions,
and open heart-mindness – from living
better, healthier, happier lives, to claiming
our gifts and abundance from the never ending
source of IT ALL, to having the sort of blind
faith in ourselves that we can indeed do, create
and achieve anything – why then - do we
still make choices of belief in things such
as lack, failure, judgment, criticism, poverty,
war, disease and the like?
I have chosen
to keep my heart open for joy, love, abundance
and so much healing, that my intentions, my
thoughts, my words and my actions will carry
the love of my heart forward to all of creation
and back to the Creator.
In practice, when
one comes to me for healing I say silently,
telepathically the following prayer:
Thank you Beloved
soul, to have come with an open heart –
may I be the instrument of the Creator's
Love for you and may I help you return to the
perfection you can be, for Perfection is indeed
the sole predestination you and I are here to
May the healing
May you remember
that you are Love.
May you remember
that you have the healer within.
May the Light,
Love and Healing of all the helpers in the Healing
Universes be with us.
My Divine Presence
embraces your Divine Presence.
This is how belief
feels in my experience, how belief IS my experience.
With Love Light
and Infinite Healing
Beloved Friends,
It is my honor and pleasure to inform you that
Channel Africa has renewed my contract to continue
to produce and present my inspirational radio
show The Inner Voice both in its original English
version and in French for the 2008-2009 season.
As the program enters its fifth year I will
most certainly endeavour to, at all times take
it to the next level and hopefully continue
to make a difference in the beloved Mother Africa
and in the world at large.
Mother Africa is now poised to bring into the
Light her own ancient wisdom and I can predict
that from the pain and the suffering of the
people of Zimbabwe, the world will learn to
chose its leaders with greater care and change
them faster when they start being overtaken
by the love of power instead of being guided
by the power of love.
To use one of my favorite quotes attributed
to Jimmy Hendrix:
When the power of love will overcome the love
of power - the world will be OK.
Cannot agree more.
Love and Light to you.
Lou Bognon
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Before I resume
my writings on the elements I thought that I
needed to share with you the deeper insights
that came through me from the higher realms
of understanding.
It all happened
quite un-expectedly – during my monthly
meditation group where I had, as I have done
for the past six years – focused on ways
of sending love and healing to our beloved Mother
As I sat with
my wonderful group of likeminded light workers
and prepared to give an outlook of the particular
focus for that day, I recall vaguely having
said something to this effect: thank you for
being so committed to join me on this sixth
year of our meditation group and together let
us pray today for Mother Earth, that in her
need to do whatever she needs to find her balance
and healing, her whims will not hit or surprise
us with too much pain…(…)
We all sat in
silence as we usually do and as is customary
in our group, we allow each one to meditate
and to send love and healing as they feel guided
in their heart.
What happened
next, was not only un-expected but also very
special and this is why I want to share with
To the best of
my ability I shall proceed to give you the words
I was asked to transmit by the Council of Love
and Wisdom, who dictated my third book: The
Divine Laws.
Greetings Beloved
We come to correct
many misconceptions that are circulating about
the so called "whims" of Mother
The information
we wish to share with you today will be beneficial
and important also to our messenger as she is
ignorant of the more scientific aspects of the
interactions and dynamics of energy –
correction – very ignorant – not
being a scientist herself.
All of you present
here today are visitors from a past age where
again the cycles of nature played similar scenarios.
Back in Atlantis you lived through the times
when those who were deeply connected knew in
advance that if men continued as they did then,
the climatic consequences would be the very
sinking of their land. Still the voices of love
and wisdom then, like now, were silenced and
ignored and so that civilization, where you
all played somewhat relevant roles, over a long
period of time decided to continue on a dangerous
path that ended in the demise of that continent,
culture and civilization.
Just like you
had then, you now have the denialists, the ones
that have grown so disconnected from the source
of all Life that they not only have forgotten
the sacredness of their own lives but the sacredness
of All Life.
And so they destroy,
separate and engage in the practices that have
brought you to this place where, once you have
forgotten that you are all part of the same
energy, you start tearing at each other, at
the very fabric of life that holds you together.
From a more scientific
perspective this means the failure to understand
and more serious still - to teach that all is
indeed energy in your world and in all worlds,
that all is connected.
So, what you think
or understand as a simple whim of Mother Nature
– is no more and no less than a mere reaction
or return of the same energy that you have sent
out and generated in your world. Think about
it this way: where are the greater points of
what you also call freak energy or freak storms
as you like to call them? – are they not
happening in the places where most people live
in a disconnected state from Spirit and Life
itself and then fall into entire masses of hopelessness
and helplessness as if hey were forgotten children
of God Himself? Beloved Ones, the real question
is: who is forgetting Whom?
Mother Earth is
simply sending back to you – albeit many
times amplified - the energy you constantly
send out into the ethers, this word being just
an aid to your understanding.
Energy dear friends,
attracts itself by similar resonance, frequency
and vibration – your destruction is being
given back to you collectively, your inner turmoil
and emotional pollution is also being given
back to you as we just said – amplified
– sadly many thousands of times over.
Know then –
that you have the power to send not only thoughts
of despair and destruction – but also
thoughts and intentions of love and healing
into the entire energy matrix of creation and
that powerful and pure thoughts of love can
– and will - stop the greatest storm,
redirect the biggest cyclone and dissolve into
nothingness the seemingly impossible task ahead
of you. Nature and all climatic conditions are
simply mirroring your collective energy. Change
the energy you send out and you will change
the way Mother Earth is responding. You can
change the climatic conditions you are experiencing.
Send out more love, more gratitude and more
More than ever,
you need to remember that Love Changes Everything.
We bless each
and every one of you.
There you have
it – Let me have your feedback and share
as widely as possible, if this message resonates
with you.
The first article
of this series I set out to write on the four
elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth,
ended by saying that Mother Earth was bathing,
and that her bath was running over…And
what do we do when we come out of a long running
bath? We reach out for warmth of course - just
like she is doing.
Focused on the
fire element, I can not help but think how Her
elements seem to be working not just in intelligent
sequence but also in perfect sync: all over
the news we have been witnessing the fires devastating
Southern California, where some of the most
rich and famous earthlings live.
And yet not too
long before the Californian inferno, the lungs
of our planet were literally chocking with fire
- yes – the Amazon was burning…but
the same corporate mass media the world over
(that had showed us California burning), had
not found its fires news worthy. Why should
they? How many celebrities live in the Amazon
Plus who cares about the "what is its
name? zone", the more it burns the more
land is "freed" for grazing so that
the masses of the world can continue to eat
hamburgers…This reminds me about the disconnected
thinking, which was literally decapitated during
the French revolution, saying of the then starving
masses: if there is no bread let them eat cake.
Now the thinking goes: let them eat hamburger.
Yeah! 21st century…Hallucinating I agree.
According to the
UK's Independent article of 5 October
2007, by Daniel Howden and Jules Steven: Vast
areas of Brazil and Paraguay and much of Bolivia
are choking under thick layers of smoke as fires
rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest,
forcing the cancellation of flights.(…)
Roberto Smeraldi, head of Friends of the Earth
Brazil, said the situation was out of control:
"We have a strong concentration of fires,
corresponding to more than 10,000 points of
fire across a large area of about two million
sq km in the southern Brazilian Amazon and Bolivia."
Each year at the end of the dry season, in anticipation
of the first winter rains, farmers and cattle
ranchers throughout South America set fires
to "renovate" pasture land. (…)
Mr Smeraldi was clear on who was to blame for
this year's fires: "They are mainly, I
would say more than 90 per cent, the result
of expanding cattle ranching." The first
rains have arrived but they are weaker than
usual in most areas and have been useless against
the fires.
Yes – you read right: 10 000 points of
fire across an area of about 2 million sq kilometres.
We definitely
live in a world of disconnect from our Mother
Planet – in fact most of humanity is so
disconnected we may just as well be living in
another planet or in some parallel universe
all together.
Nobody seems to
want to connect the dots, to realise that the
fires that devastated Greece this summer, parts
of France and Portugal, as well as those of
Australia, South Africa – and of course
California (twice in a month), were just little
steps by mother nature in her dance of hallucination
that has now reached the beauty and vastness
of the Amazon in a massive, albeit non-reported,
From a spiritual
perspective, fire represents the whole consuming
flame that cleanses, transmutes and purifies.
But fire also represents the Light essence -
that which allows for things to be created and
re-created anew – the blueprint of divine
codes and information. Mentally and intellectually
we often equate fire with passion and in its
positive aspect fire is truly the motivator
and the great generator of energy. In our physiology
and materiality though, fire often means fever,
which when too high results in delirium and
hallucination, powerful signals that the body
is in trouble and fighting an invading enemy.
Given my deep
connection of love to Mother Earth I honestly
feel that her message for us at this time is
one of feverish hallucination. The infection
has been going on too long now from her perspective.
As we continue to refuse to change, she feels
somewhat past our "promised-pill"
dates, drips won't do it either at this
stage – and so we can expect more fever-fires
of the sweeping kind we saw (and those we didn't)
recently on our television screens. Mother Earth
is now really raising her temperature as a defence
against all the invading viruses and bacteria
we have become to her body.
As a healer I
often compare Her pain to that of rape victims:
they share the same sequence: sadness, water
to wash everywhere, till the bath runs over,
then the rage, anger, confusion, the shivers
after having gotten cold physically and spiritually
and finally the struggle to decide to heal and
fight - the resulting fever of survival. From
what I can see, this is where Mother Earth is:
she has already engaged her own fever process.
She is now starting to use the awesome power
of all her elements for her own survival, not
just for ours.
Given the sequence
of things, we can expect her to use more of
her other elements: air and earth – in
combination and in the sequence; no longer just
water and fire but volcanoes and earthquakes,
and perhaps all of them simultaneously in a
multitude of combinations and permeations…but
that is what I will be writing on next.
Till then, again
I ask you: plant more trees, plants, flowers,
walk upon the body of our beloved Mother Planet
with love and reverence, expressing as you go
along as much gratitude as you can master for
the blessings and the bounty of her gifts, for
they no longer can be taken for granted.
And more than ever – let us not forget
to tell her of our love – by consuming
less, driving less and smaller cars, eating
less meat, inflicting no harm, doing what we
can, by making a difference…only love
can make a difference now…
Lou BOGNON
is a spiritual healer, author, teacher, producer
and presenter of The Inner Voice, an inspirational
program on Channel Africa which is broadcast
internationally in English and French.
email her at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dear Friends,
Here is an article - in what I hope will be
the first of a few dedicated to the elements
of Mother Earth - which I wrote for the most
wonderful South African Magazine - BIOPHILE
- whose motto is: for the love of our earth
and all those who live on her.
This has been
a season of water rising records.
In China alone more than two hundred million
people were displaced or affected in some way.
In just two of India's provinces another
20 million people were left homeless and hungry
for days before help on such massive scale could
cover the enormity of the area and the numbers
of people.
As for low lying Bangladesh by the time it was
evident that half the country was under water
nobody bothered to estimate how many more millions
were affected.
Main stream corporate
media suddenly stopped reporting about England's
worst ever floods which of course by then looked
almost benign when compared to Asia's.
As I write this column, Switzerland, Germany
and parts of France are starting to be added
to the list and this is not to mention Eastern
Europe's storms and flash floods that
did not even make it to the world news for us
all to notice. Same could be said of the washing
and killing rains of Sudan, a country we are
more accustomed to associate with war, genocide
and desert.
Now, we all have
– in every continent, without exception
– come to understand what global warming
is all about – or at least the palpable
tangible effects – or should I say side
effects of it. Scientists are still divided
in camps of "told you so" and "what
global warming?' – even though the
latter camp seem to be marginalizing themselves
in the face of such powerful evidence now before
us (and them) even before those paid to look
the other way by some major political and economical
Al Gore and his
documentary "An Inconvenient Truth"
showed us images that speak louder than any
of his own or anybody's statements, especially
those pertaining to the melting of the glaciers,
the rise in temperatures and how the world maps
are likely to change.
From a spiritual
perspective, those of us who are deeply connected
to Mother Earth and all life forms evolving
on Her, we know that this she is a nurturing,
sentient and intelligent being trying to cope
as best she can with the unbearable pain we
have inflicted upon her, her creatures and upon
each other through our collective greed, carelessness
and mindless consumption.
Our collective
pollution is not just the visible rubbish we
have accumulated, from our own homes to the
waste dumps, but most serious still, is the
emotional pollution we have created with the
belief systems that have separated us, drove
us to "just", "liberation"
"independence" "holy"
and all kinds of wars, creating unbearable suffering
and exploitation of all kinds and in general
brought us to this sense of dirt and clutter
that prevails.
And what would
each one of us do if we were to feel dirty,
cluttered, raped, violated, used and lonely?
We would want to wash it all away – and
that is exactly what she is doing. Mother Earth
is washing herself now. And her bath is just
filling up. Like a pained and overwhelmed mother
she is allowing the bath to run over. This season
she will not care - all she wants and all she
needs is water-water everywhere.
Become her life
line – send her your love and gentle words.
Act for Her:
sell your gas guzzler, plant more trees, walk
on Her body with your bare feet and tell her
you love her often, become a mindful consumer,
live from the heart, and whatever you do, buy,
create, invent, sell, connect to her to find
out if it is good for her and all the life forms
she supports.
She needs our collective healing love. Now!
The more of us do this the faster she will choose
to heal.
By not changing anything in our lives and in
our behaviour, we choose to experience the alternative:
sleep in the bath water with her and perhaps
never wake up again on her loving heart.
Lou BOGNON is a spiritual healer, author, teacher,
producer and presenter of The Inner Voice, an
inspirational program on Channel Africa which
is broadcast internationally in English and
I thought you
may be interested in this article i wrote for
Aquarius Metaphysical Newspaper
With Love and Light,
Lou Bognon
By Lou Bognon Johannesburg, South Africa
Absolutely nothing could have convinced a gypsy
man pulling his own caravan filled with fake
silk and "made in Taiwan" kitsch,
to accurately predict that I would some day
teach the world.
Growing up in the rural areas of Northern Mozambique,
without electricity or running water, his monthly
visit became a sort of one-man show in a time
when television was not even a seed in any African
mind. I was five years old then and this year
I celebrate my 50th birthday.
My first sharing of knowledge, as I prefer to
call it, happened right there around our well,
which for the next five villages, was the sole
source of water. The well was a hub of excitement
and news, and as a child I soon learned the
various languages spoken there in order to teach
what was then my world. In less than a year
I had become a child interpreter and all the
events of all the villages was my life: who
was born to whom; who died where; and especially
when was the caravan man due again with all
his colorful goodies.
The flow of life took me away by the time I
was seven - and by my 17th birthday, Mozambique
had had its communist revolution and I had completed
my first year at university. I became the youngest
teacher of the revolution and found myself teaching
students my age and older subjects such as English,
French, Portuguese, Geography and any other
subject I could study beforehand.
Three years later at the tender age of twenty,
I was crossing the border into South Africa,
pregnant, illegal and alone. Johannesburg then
looked to me like a house of horrors: blacks
on one side, whites on the other, and the town
itself looked like a cement abortion without
trees. Where was the green of the mango and
coconut trees of my beloved Mozambique?
Why was everything brown and yellow? I soon
learned the answer was the high altitude and
the winter. That was a winter of great discontent;
the Soweto riots had just happened and the children
had been killed like doves. The baby I brought
with me died even before living -- perhaps because
I had intended to call her Paloma (dove). I
became a Tour Guide for the whole region and
traveled with people from all over the world
to places of great beauty: Victoria Falls, The
Kalahari and the Namib Deserts, the Okavango
delta in Botswana, Cape Town and the Kruger
Park -- places that inspired and shaped my eager
I worked in France as a diplomat for seven years
and then returned to the big city -- the New
York of Africa. The City of Gold, as most here
call Johannesburg, is a place I have come to
love and call home, and where I have written
my trilogy of spiritual books, How to Light
A Candle, We Are Here To Learn, and The Divine
Laws, which I am going into the mountains to
complete soon. It was not so much the gypsy
man as my own inner knowing that I had to make
a difference and touch great numbers of people;
which kept me working towards all I do today.
I am deeply grateful for this innate capacity
to stay connected, to listen to my inner voice
and follow it blindly wherever it tells me to
My radio program, which I produce and present
currently to inspire Africa and the world, both
in English and French is appropriately called
The Inner Voice/La Voix Interieure. And so it
is that the gypsy man's words came into perfect
resonance with the inner knowing that I had
indeed come here to make a difference, to share
myself with the world, to teach and pass on
that which I have learned over many lifetimes,
some of which I recall well.
All is unfolding according to the Divine Plan.
My gift of languages serves me well for English
is not my mother tongue and yet it is the language
I love the most and write the best; it is my
door into the world, it made my greater number
grow from the five African villages of my childhood
well to the global village into which it has
transformed our world.
Lou Bognon produces and presents The Inner
Voice, an inspirational, motivational and spiritual
program broadcast internationally on Channel
Africa, the Voice of the African renaissance.
I thought you
may be interested in this article i wrote for
Aquarius Metaphysical Newspaper
With Love and Light,
Lou Bognon
By Lou Bognon Johannesburg, South Africa
Absolutely nothing could have convinced a gypsy
man pulling his own caravan filled with fake
silk and "made in Taiwan" kitsch,
to accurately predict that I would some day
teach the world.
Growing up in the rural areas of Northern Mozambique,
without electricity or running water, his monthly
visit became a sort of one-man show in a time
when television was not even a seed in any African
mind. I was five years old then and this year
I celebrate my 50th birthday.
My first sharing of knowledge, as I prefer to
call it, happened right there around our well,
which for the next five villages, was the sole
source of water. The well was a hub of excitement
and news, and as a child I soon learned the
various languages spoken there in order to teach
what was then my world. In less than a year
I had become a child interpreter and all the
events of all the villages was my life: who
was born to whom; who died where; and especially
when was the caravan man due again with all
his colorful goodies.
The flow of life took me away by the time I
was seven - and by my 17th birthday, Mozambique
had had its communist revolution and I had completed
my first year at university. I became the youngest
teacher of the revolution and found myself teaching
students my age and older subjects such as English,
French, Portuguese, Geography and any other
subject I could study beforehand.
Three years later at the tender age of twenty,
I was crossing the border into South Africa,
pregnant, illegal and alone. Johannesburg then
looked to me like a house of horrors: blacks
on one side, whites on the other, and the town
itself looked like a cement abortion without
trees. Where was the green of the mango and
coconut trees of my beloved Mozambique?
Why was everything brown and yellow? I soon
learned the answer was the high altitude and
the winter. That was a winter of great discontent;
the Soweto riots had just happened and the children
had been killed like doves. The baby I brought
with me died even before living -- perhaps because
I had intended to call her Paloma (dove). I
became a Tour Guide for the whole region and
traveled with people from all over the world
to places of great beauty: Victoria Falls, The
Kalahari and the Namib Deserts, the Okavango
delta in Botswana, Cape Town and the Kruger
Park -- places that inspired and shaped my eager
I worked in France as a diplomat for seven years
and then returned to the big city -- the New
York of Africa. The City of Gold, as most here
call Johannesburg, is a place I have come to
love and call home, and where I have written
my trilogy of spiritual books, How to Light
A Candle, We Are Here To Learn, and The Divine
Laws, which I am going into the mountains to
complete soon. It was not so much the gypsy
man as my own inner knowing that I had to make
a difference and touch great numbers of people;
which kept me working towards all I do today.
I am deeply grateful for this innate capacity
to stay connected, to listen to my inner voice
and follow it blindly wherever it tells me to
My radio program, which I produce and present
currently to inspire Africa and the world, both
in English and French is appropriately called
The Inner Voice/La Voix Interieure. And so it
is that the gypsy man's words came into perfect
resonance with the inner knowing that I had
indeed come here to make a difference, to share
myself with the world, to teach and pass on
that which I have learned over many lifetimes,
some of which I recall well.
All is unfolding according to the Divine Plan.
My gift of languages serves me well for English
is not my mother tongue and yet it is the language
I love the most and write the best; it is my
door into the world, it made my greater number
grow from the five African villages of my childhood
well to the global village into which it has
transformed our world.
Lou Bognon produces and presents The Inner
Voice, an inspirational, motivational and spiritual
program broadcast internationally on Channel
Africa, the Voice of the African renaissance.