Leiah Bowden Lightspeak Blog

A big step, today, Lying in the sunshine Alone I forgave myself For being who I am And this is how it comes upon me, this convers(at)ion. And the angel, seeing our mass shock at the horrors we allow and from which we suffer in every way, said to all of us, “I will not leave you. I will not turn my back on you, leaving you  to think that you have offended me. You can never offend Angel. “I will not leave you. I do not and will not see the ugliness you see when you regard yours

A few weeks ago, at our first potluck in the aftermath of the ravaging fires, I had a spontaneous conversation in the kitchen here at Ner Shalom with two members of our congregation, in which I recounted my 1980 conversation with the great teacher and founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, of great blessing. That conversation was a result of my recently having read a book which changed my thinking about what is for many Jews, certainly to many

I have been an animal communicator, having meaningful conversations with other species, for many years. Some of these conversations changed my ideas about who animals are and what they think about. Many of them moved me to tears, opened my heart, and helped me embrace life more tenderly than I had been able to before. So I decided recently to share some of these conversations in a book. Today, I finished the first several short chapters, in which I described the method of com

I invite you to step with me into a column of light – if you’d like to say “an imaginary column of light” that’ll do just as well – serving as an axis on which our planet spins. This column of light is so bright, we cannot open our eyes while we are inside it, even with sunglasses. (If you want to really let go and be guided through this, give your eyes a break and just listen.) So we take a few steps back, and a few steps more, until it feels safe to open our eyes. So we do,

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

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