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Leiah Bowden
- Dec 3, 2016
- 9 min
In the Beginning
People have asked me how I began channeling. First of all, when it began happening, I had never heard of or read any accounts that described what I was feeling. A friend in my workplace asked me what it was like and I had to think a minute before finding the right image. “It feels as if I am somehow standing aside, an empty tube, or a channel through which all these words and images are flowing.” I had never encountered the word that came to be so popular that we don’t even w
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Leiah Bowden
- Nov 23, 2016
- 8 min
Not Xena: coping after the election of Donald Trump as President
I am currently listening to the audio book version of The Game of Thrones, and have come to like Samwell Tarly, the self-confessed coward whose finer qualities his Lord father would not acknowledge as valuable. Sam is a philosopher, perceptive and sensitive. I am identifying with him. I’m afraid of violent encounters, too. Remember seeing the student stand defiantly before the tanks in Tiennanmen Square? As soon as I watched that, I wondered what would propel me to do such a
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Leiah Bowden
- Nov 7, 2016
- 4 min
Seeds of the Divine
We come to this planet, seeds of the Divine. We come to this planet with the pulse of the cosmos in our hearts. We come to this planet to express the Creator in myriad possibilities. We look out of the Creator’s eyes and listen with the Creator’s ears with hungering zest, pulling in the shapes and sounds of all creation. We swallow all we perceive and all that we do and we call it our own. But it is not our own. We are stewards, using these bodies, filtering information throu
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Leiah Bowden
- Oct 27, 2016
- 2 min
With Gratitude
Most of all, of course, I am grateful to have lived long enough not only to know my grandchild, but to look forward to being part of her life. If I had been born well before the date I emerged, embodying the same physical configuration that felled my maternal grandfather at age 45, I would probably have not have lived this long, with the expectation of many more joyful, appreciative years ahead. So first, thank you to All That Is for this timeline. Thank you to my family, fri
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