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歸鄉之道 細說從頭

5/17/2021

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德蕾莎·M.蒂普頓(Teresa M.Tipton)博士是一位藝術家、教育家、學術界人士、視覺文化學者,以及創意顧問,自2017年以來一直住在臺灣台中市。她離開美國華盛頓州西雅圖市,在坦尚尼亞、中國、捷克及肯亞生活和工作,並到臺灣。她致力於社區服務和志願服務,包括在美國、日本、葡萄牙、西班牙、巴西、肯亞和坦尚尼亞,撰寫資助申請和文化發展專案計畫。
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尋找被遺忘的訊息

為了讓人瞭解我在臺灣埔里崇德道場求道的經歷,有必要從頭說起。
當我在美國伊利諾州出生之前,我母親夢見聖德蕾莎修女到醫院拜訪她,告訴她,我將對世界帶來一個重要的訊息。我母親是在結婚前轉皈依天主教,我也在出生後,在天主堂受浸歸主。四歲時,有幸被選為復活節週日禮儀的花童,也就是當牧師進行祝福聖禮時,我負責在走道上撒玫瑰花瓣。
12歲那年,我閱讀生日禮物書,才得知St. Theresa聖德雷莎修女的故事。我是以她為名,但德雷莎當年給母親有關我對世人的訊息將是什麼,母親已遺忘。這困擾我多年,為了找回那被遺忘的訊息是什麼,這個慾望讓我感到不知所措,我開始從書本中,走入尋找被遺忘訊息的旅程。

看見無形世界的先天稟賦

母親和我都具有一種稟賦,在他人要做什麼之前,會先「知道」。我母親的祖母曾是一位知名的靈媒,能在不同世界之間「看穿面紗」,這份稟賦,在我的一生中以不同的方式出現。小時候,我能感覺到房間裡存在無形的靈魂,也能在夢中預知即將發生的事情。在我未滿四歲前的一個晚上,我記得自己被一種晦暗的幽靈攻擊,然後尖叫。從此我變得害怕晚上獨自一人睡覺,不然就會尖叫或哭泣,直到有人進入房間。
母親去問精神科醫生,想瞭解在我發作時應如何處理。隨著精神異常現象增加,一位精神科醫師建議讓我住進精神病醫院。我在那裡被觀察了好幾天,一位年輕醫生放下了我的病歷,開始和我說話,聊了幾天後,他知道了我的故事,立即安排我出院,不用多待。在此之後,我開始將那部分(看穿面紗或看到靈界的能力)隱藏起來。

青年志願者服務之旅

16歲那年,我在天主堂教會成立了青年團,並隨神父到加拿大參與了志願者服務之旅,當時這位神父在加拿大推動青年計畫。18歲時,我在教會五旬節派團體中開始學講方言。我和一位教友成為「耶穌迷」(熱心的福音派基督徒),每當夜晚鬧區街道人潮洶湧時,我們就去發「耶穌愛你」的汽車保險桿貼紙,以及一些教會出版物。

想從教會找到真實

有天,上天主論「教義主義中的凡人罪」課程中,有一場相關的演講,演講後我問演講的牧師:「如果上帝愛每個人,為什麼無神論者會下地獄?」對於我的無禮,我受到嚴厲譴責,並且被送到主教辦公室,向被我質問的神父充分悔改與認罪,也是他送我去主教辦公室。為了悔改「我的罪」,我在陰暗的懺悔室向他跪著懺悔。其實這並非我在教會遭受公開羞辱的第一例,經過此事,我不再想去教堂了。就像我父親從小總是問我:「你從哪去獲得你所謂的事實?」讓我發現,教會也有無法解答我的事情。

罹患難以治癒的豬流感

之後,我開始做超覺靜坐,進入大學主修宗教研究,之後轉向藝術和社會工作,我取得中學藝術的教學證書,並開始在愛荷華州一家由貴格會經營的寄宿學校任教。我成為這社區學校的一員,學習如何在會議中達成共識決議,並在主日崇拜聚會集體靜坐。那年,我突然得了重病,被緊急送往醫院,病情迅速惡化。我被診斷出感染無法治癒的豬流感,打靜脈點滴治療。我母親詢問一位號稱有「療癒之手」的同事,是否可以幫助我。
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水晶療癒 奇蹟康復

這位女士進到我病房,放了顆大的水晶球在我雙手上,然後繞著床祈禱。過不久,房間的一角出現了一顆結實的光球。我看著它逐漸變亮,突然光球像對焦一樣被拉入我的心臟。我感受到一個光爆炸,一切都溶解在溫暖美麗的光中,那似乎是永恆的。我被帶到一個充滿純淨美麗、和平與愛的境界。當這個光球退回到原地後,我的健康開始改善,奇蹟般地康復。我不明白發生了什麼或如何發生,但我決心找出原因。

參與世界和平活動

到了春季,我們學校邀請了日本佛教僧侶以及印地安霍皮族攜煙斗者來演講,他們走遍美國爭取世界和平,向我們講述此行的任務,準備在紐約即將舉行的聯合國裁軍特別會議上,引起人們的關注。演講結束後,他們邀請在座的學生和教職員工,隔天起與他們同行,我們有些人參與了最後一站,約有100萬人進入紐約市,這是美國歷史上最大的一次示威遊行。在這期間,有位僧侶邀請我參加在普吉特海灣(位於美國華盛頓州西北太平洋的一段海岸線)進行的犁頭運動(一個反核武與主張基督和平主義的運動)。

重啟看穿面紗的能力

我的主管准了我的假,我在華盛頓州西雅圖市加入了他們。後來,僧侶們邀請我成為十二位美國和平運動者之一,與他們一起從東京徒步走到廣島和長崎,以紀念日本原子彈爆炸的受難者。那次在日本徒步走了三個月,我得到無微不至的照顧,並住宿在各種不同信仰或不同修煉方式的寺廟中,對世界和平的渴望,使我們團結在一起。就在這次,我開啟「穿越面紗的透視」,我注意到一位身穿藍色西裝的已故年輕人與我們同行,他想給他姐姐發一個訊息,我能見到他,也因此幫助了他。

探訪不同的宗教與儀式

從那時到現在,發生了很多故事,那個光球一直跟隨著我,即使我覺得自己不值得,光球仍在我生活中不同的時間和地點出現。我接觸過世界主要宗教及其修行儀式,曾花了很多時間住在美國原住民的汗舍(拱頂木建築,藉著蒸烤流汗,進行身心靈淨化儀式),與拉科塔族(Lakota,達科他州的原住民)道路工人一起住在teepees梯皮(美國印地安人住的皮製圓錐形帳篷)中。我還前往亞馬遜叢林,和使用原始叢林草藥的理療師一起工作,參加他們的儀式,並得到一位印度上師啟蒙,學習靈氣。到非洲認識了巫醫,從印度聖師阿南達·馬(Ananda Ma)那裡獲得了Shaktipat夏克緹巴(靈性能量傳遞);然後與非洲裔巴西靈媒一起唱歌和跳舞。我從巫醫、靈媒和叢林理療師那裡獲得一些知識訊息,讓我學會如何運用能量和靈魂。

二度罹患重症

2003年,在我到達捷克共和國不久,罹患了畢生第二次的嚴重疾病,是被蜱蟲叮咬所致的疏螺旋體病或萊姆病。我參加了一個由理療師、心理治療師和業餘醫療愛好者,所組成的生態環保心靈社群,嘗試大家建議的各種非西醫治療方式。之後,一下好轉卻又復發,然後又好轉又復發,這種情況持續了很多年。期間,在阿姆斯特丹遇到了一位理療師,她告訴我,我能感應到受苦的靈並與其對話,邀請我和她一起去巴西工作。受苦靈體的說法嚇到我了,但我也對此感到好奇。

巴西亞馬遜的學習旅程

隔年,我花了幾個月待在亞馬遜叢林,並嘗試了幾種康復方式和靈療。我開始研究受苦的靈魂有什麼執著?苦難從何而來?以及如何提供苦難靈魂認識並用上帝之光進行醫治。在亞馬遜原始森林中,有各種不同的原住民與原始森林藥物,創造本身揭示了世上所有的物質是如何進行溝通的,有時沉默是最深層次的交流。
我開始解構二元對立的思維模式,那些透過價值判斷將世界分為好與壞的固定觀點。在亞馬遜,我學會如何與土地元素建立連結,並尊重萬物彼此間內在交流的活力,這些都是繞過思想與我們溝通。而每位亞馬遜理療師都有一個困惑,關於如何處理個人與集體身心靈的失衡。

回憶起前世創傷與失落

2010年,這個病轉移到神經系統再度復發,醫生警告我,是要選擇西醫,還是選擇死亡。那一刻告訴我「凡事在上帝」,還是要回到過去我所拒絕的西醫。經過西醫系統性的治療,我康復了。之後我用了一種生物共振藥物,將身體器官做了系統性的清洗。我使用的主要是「奶蓟草」,配合其他常見的當地植物、土壤礦物質、草藥和中藥一起使用。經過點點滴滴,我回憶起前世、創傷,以及與此疾病有關的失落。
然而太重視沮喪和悲傷,似乎違背了傳統尋求開悟的道理。但我發現,有必要在情緒出現時與之共處,接納過去所有的經歷、創傷與悲痛,把這些當成靈魂溝通的一部分。另一方面,透過治療又讓我找到了醫治所需的人員、資源和做法。

透過心靈治療康復

照顧身體的過程中,讓我體悟到心靈層次很高,並不意味在生活其他方面也同樣發達。自己或他人的無明,包括無意識和重複的思想與行為習慣,會妨礙心靈上的覺知。為自己尋求寬恕是最困難的,夏威夷卡胡納人教我如何使用H’oponopono「荷歐波諾波諾」來尋求和獲得寬恕。在努力寬恕殘酷謀殺我姐夫的夫婦時,我瞭解,寬恕並不是寬容傷害的行為,而是寬恕遭受傷害而痛苦的那個心靈。我終究明白,我的疾病本身就是在尋求治療方法。最終,我不得不尋找真理,並面對自己以反叛上帝為名、刻意遺忘的責任,我曾責怪祂帶來這些發生在地球上的壞事。
2012年,我請一位美國原住民治療師和他的妻子,為我和我的生命進行淨化儀式。過程進行了一整夜,當他用一根白色飛鷹羽毛指向我的心臟時,所有來自前世和今生的悲傷都被釋放了,接著他的妻子用聖水為我祈禱,所有悲傷都被洗淨。我的身體開始產生這種疾病的抗體,對病毒的測試直到2013年首次呈現陰性,那已是發現疾病十年之後了。

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從聖殿騎士 體悟偉大的奧秘

過去數十年以來,我歷經完全不同的各種傳統儀式和實踐規範,與根源(Source,依據Teresa解說,包括了道、無、生命創始者、大精神,或存有的根源) 聯繫在一起。以祂為名的眾多名稱,舉例包括Great Spirit-Wa’tankana偉大精神-瓦唐卡納,The All that Is即是全部。那「無」的感覺真是太奧妙了,讓人情不自禁跪下來,祈求親近仁慈的祂賜予恩典。
 
第二年,我的康復之旅達到了一個新的層次,當我站在法國森林中的一塊岩石前,我再一次體驗到我的前世,約在11世紀時,我曾是一位遭到殺害的聖殿騎士。我知道,那是比這輩子更久之前,我一直對上帝生氣,因為上帝「讓我」被謀殺了。站在這個謀殺發生的地方,如今我又再次地活著回到這個地方,這是有道理的,沒有黑暗能夠殺死光明或光明的承載者。身為如此巨大而深不可測的宇宙仁慈的一部分,我感到謙卑以及深刻的感動。如丁內長老(美國原住民納瓦霍人的長老)所說的,這就是「偉大的奧秘」。

老子聖靈的呼喚

我第一次在臺灣體驗到神聖靈體,是在2019年於一所道教的殿堂中。出於我的好奇,我朋友把我帶到這裡。出乎我預料的是,她會與一個靈體接觸,他是此生我曾愛過的男人,2001年死於白血病。由於我的悲傷,他一直陪著我,我們會在晚上我睡了之後相會。而這個關鍵的時刻,讓我瞭解到,我在這個地球上是被如此深深地愛著,我也從未真正孤獨過。
自此幾個月之後,透過一位靈媒接觸到老子的聖靈。老子呼喚我靈魂的名子,並向我說,我與祂以及《易經》很親近。祂告訴我,祂是我主要的嚮導之一,引導我入門,如何運用四級之光與我的光體一起工作。幾個月後,當與德瑞克(Derek)和克萊兒(Claire)一起參觀崇德佛院時,我非常激動地站在老子聖像前。彷彿歷經累生累世以及此生的數十年,兜兜轉轉整個輪迴之後,回到了原點的家,那天晚上,ChiChi(廖點傳師)邀我求道,我答應了,時間就訂在2021年3月1日。

從求道儀式體悟「道」

從儀式開始的那一刻起,我感覺彷彿自己歷經幾千年的生命旅程,透過老子的傳達,帶我回到我早已知道的地方,就是那不朽之道。只有這次,我不再需要以死去或成為僧侶的方式,就可以回到這個地方。道是活生生的領域,當下即是。我知道,我的探索之旅已經完成。
佛堂的空間變得廣闊無垠,且呈現一團光明。除了數十年前曾出現的宇宙之光,這光芒的浩瀚籠罩萬物,不論有沒有形式或者是否存在,都是永恆與無盡的道。我總是被各種大師或導師所包圍,不論他們是否活在世上,或來自精神領域,我知道他們一直陪伴著我,即使我無法接觸到他們。在儀式結束之前和之後,他們都在那兒。
存在本身的感覺是合一,非常珍貴,一切從「無」開始。我曾多次離開那個原點,從未實在的待在那裡。這次,消除了自我懷疑,我終於瞭解了一切。而且,我不需再做任何事,只要單純讓自己成為光,成為那個已經在我裡面的光。

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找回聖德雷莎的訊息
內在含光照亮世界

儀式結束後,進修班的孩子們在天元佛院,舉行了茶道和音樂表演慶祝活動。我發覺這個場景,幾周前我已在夢中經歷過。當中一位負責國樂和書法班的黃練金講師加入我們,我開始講故事,而Chi-Chi點傳師邀請我將故事寫下來。在寫作中,發生了最後一個來自光的啟發:我找回了被隱藏起來的那一部分的我。
被邀請加入道場這個傳統中求得大道,真是幸福。在我一生大部分時間裡,我總是生活於外在的精神領域,現在是時候將信仰錨定於內在,同時幫助人類提升。這不再一個觀念,而是一種醒覺,活在這個合一的光之中,在我們生活的每一個當下,從實踐中得到領悟。將天堂帶到人間,並再次返回天堂,為世界建構一個模式,讓人們得到療癒和啟發。這就是我向世界傳達的訊息,其實很簡單,就是「做為一盞光」。這也就是「道」對我的意義「成為照亮世界的光」。
 
感謝您收到我的訊息。再會,Namaste(南無斯特,向你鞠躬致意)!

原文:德蕾莎·M.蒂普頓(Teresa M.Tipton)博士
翻譯:電子報翻譯團隊編輯整理

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Dr. Tipton is an artist, educator, academic, visual culture scholar, and creative consultant who has lived in Taichung City, Taiwan since 2017. She left Seattle, WA (USA) to live and work in Tanzania, China, Czech Republic, Kenya, and Taiwan. Her commitment to community service and volunteerism is found in grantwriting and cultural development projects in the USA, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Kenya and Tanzania.

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By the time St. Theresa’s story was transmitted to me at age 12, while opening a birthday book about the life of the Saint whose name I bore, the message my mother was given had been forgotten. That news tormented me for years. I was wracked with the desire to find out what that forgotten message was and my journey searching for it began in books.

Endowed With the Gift to See the Metaphysical

Both my mother and I had the same talent of “knowing” something before others did. My mother’s grandmother had been a known psychic able to “see through the veil” between worlds. That gift appeared in different ways throughout my life. As a child, I could feel spirits in a room and often dreamt something before it happened. One night when I was not yet four years old, I remember feeling attacked by a dark spirit and started screaming. I became afraid to sleep alone at night and would scream or cry until someone came in my room.
My mother went to a psychiatrist to understand how to handle me and later in life, as my psychic experiences grew, a psychiatrist recommended I be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Held there for some days for observation, a young doctor put his chart aside and began talking to me. Over those days we talked, he came to understand my story and arranged for me to be released instead some days later. But afterwards, I started hiding that part of me away.
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The Journey of a Teen Volunteer

At 16, I started a youth group at the church, went on a volunteer service trip to Canada with a Catholic priest who organized youth projects there, and I started speaking in tongues in the Pentacostal group of the church at 18. My friend and I became a “Jesus freaks”, giving away “Jesus Loves You” bumper stickers and publications for that purpose to those populating the streets at night downtown.

Wanting to Find the Truth Within the Church

One day, after a lecture on Mortal Sin in Catechism class, I asked the Priest, “If God loves everyone, why do atheists go to hell?” For my impudence, I was severely reprimanded and sent to the Bishop’s office. My punishment for questioning a Priest was copious penance and confession to the Priest who had sent me there. Genuflecting to him in the dark chamber of the confessional in order to repent “my sin”, was not the first instance of public shaming I endured in the Church. After that experience, though, I stopped wanting to go to church. Like my father’s persistent question, “Where did you get your facts?”, I found there were some things the church could not answer for me, either.

Acquiring the Incurable Swine Flu

After that, I was initiated into Transcendental Meditation and started college with a major in Religious Studies before changing to Art and Social Work. I received my teaching certification in Secondary Art, and began teaching at a Quaker-run boarding school in Iowa. I became part of a community-run school and practiced consensus decision-making in meetings and group silent meditation in Sunday service. That year, I became suddenly and severely ill and was rushed to the hospital. My condition rapidly worsened. I was diagnosed with incurable Swine Flu and put on an IV drip. That was when my mother asked a colleague who had “healing hands” if she could help me.

Crystal Therapy Led to a Miraculous Recovery

When the woman arrived in my hospital room, she put large crystals in each of my hands and around the bed and prayed over me. At some point, a focused orb of light appeared in the corner of the room. I watched it grow brighter until it suddenly zoomed across the room into my heart. I felt an explosion of light and everything dissolved within that warm, beautiful light. It seemed to last forever. I was transported to a realm of pure beauty, peace, and love. After the orb returned the way it came, my health started to improve and I miraculously recovered. I didn’t know what had happened or how, but I was determined to find out.
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World Peace Activism

In the spring, our school invited Japanese Buddhist Monks and Hopi Nation pipe carriers walking across the USA for World Peace to come speak to us about their mission to bring attention to the upcoming Special Session on Disarmament at the United Nations in New York. At the end of their talk, they invited students and faculty to walk with them the next day and some of us did. We joined them for the final leg of the journey into New York City with one million people, the largest demonstration in US history. During that time, one of the monks invited me to work with them in the Puget Sound along with Plowshares activists. 

Restarting the Ability to See Through Veils

My headmaster gave me leave to go, and I joined them in Seattle, Washington. Later, the monks invited me to walk with them from Tokyo to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as one of twelve American peace activists to commemorate the A-bomb victims in Japan. On that three-month walk in Japan, I was cared for with great generosity and stayed in many temples with greatly different beliefs and practices; but the one that united us all was the desire for peace. It was here that I started “seeing through the veil” myself when I noticed a deceased young man in a blue suit was walking with us. He had come to give his sister a message and my seeing him, had helped him reach her.

Partaking in Different Religious Practices

There are a lot of stories in between then and now, but that orb of light followed me in my life and appeared at different times and places, even when I felt I wasn’t worthy of it. I tasted all of the major religions and their ceremonial practices. I spent time in sweat lodges run by Native Americans and in teepees with Lakota roadmen. I traveled to the Amazon to work with healers using forest medicines and participated in their ceremonies. I experienced Reiki and was initiated with a Master in India; met witchdoctors in Africa; received shaktipat from Ananda Ma; and sang and danced with Afro-Brazilian mediums. I received messages from psychics, mediums and healers who educated me how to work with energy and spirits.

Diagnosed Again With a Serious Illness 

In 2003, shortly after I arrived in Czech Republic, a second serious life illness began from an infection from a tick bite, borreliosis, or Lyme Disease. I joined an eco-spiritual community of healers, psychotherapists, and laypeople, and tried every possible non-Western healing modality recommended. I would get better and then relapse. Then get better and relapse. This went on for many years. During this time, I met a healer in Amsterdam who told me I was a medium for suffering spirits. She invited me to come work with her in Brazil. The news frightened me, but I was also curious.
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A Learning Experience Through the Amazon

The following year, I went to the Amazon for several months and worked with several healing modalities and mediumship. I began my study of what suffering spirits attach to, why they come, and how to offer them to the recognition and light of God for healing. By being in the virgin forest of the Amazon, its different indigenous communities and their forest medicines, it was creation itself that revealed how everything in the world can be communicated with and that silence was sometimes the deepest communication possible.
I began deconstructing thought patterns that divided the world of experience into good and bad with judgments and maintained them with fixed opinions. This is where I learned to connect with the elementals of the earth and to honor the interactive aliveness of all creation, which communicate with us bypassing the thinking mind. Each healer there has some piece of the puzzle of how to work with imbalances at the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions—both personal and collective.

Remembering the Pain and Disappointment of the Past Life

In 2010, the disease returned in my nervous system and a doctor told me to choose between Western medicine or dying. That moment taught me that everything is of God—even the medical system I had rejected. After the medical regime, I found the full recovery I was looking for through the physical body systems. I began a systematic cleansing of the body’s organs with bio-resonance medicines. The plant I knew as ‘milk thistle’, was used with other common regional plants, ground minerals, herbs and Chinese medicine.  Bit by bit, I remembered past lives, traumas, and loss related to the illness.
While honoring sadness and grief appears to be counter-intuitive to traditions seeking enlightenment, I found the need to work with and through my emotions as they arose—to accept all parts of experience, trauma and grief as a part of my soul’s communication system, which in turn, led me to the people, resources, and practices through which to heal them.

Body Recovered through Healing of the Heart

Attending to the physical body, taught me that being spiritually advanced does not mean someone is equally advanced in other areas of one’s life. Unenlightened conduct from oneself or others can challenge spiritual awareness by unconscious and repetitive habits of thought and behavior. Finding forgiveness for myself was the hardest of all. Representatives of the Kahuna people of Hawaii taught me how to ask for and receive forgiveness through the use of H’oponopono. Forgiving does not mean to condone the act of harm, I learned, when working to forgive the couple that brutally murdered my brother-in-law. It means that we forgive the part of our heart that carried the suffering from the harm. Eventually I understood my illness itself was the healing I sought. Ultimately, I had to find the awareness of a truth and face the personal responsibility that I had chosen willful forgetting as a form of rebellion against God, blaming Source for the bad things that happened in life here on planet Earth.
In 2012, I asked a Native American healer and his wife to create a ceremony for me and my life. During that all night experience, he touched a white eagle feather to my heart, all of my grief from past lives and this life released; and when his wife prayed for me over sanctified water, all of them washed away. As my body began creating antibodies to the disease and my first negative tests to the disease happened in 2013; it had been a decade of discovery. 
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Realizing the Great Mystery 

Through these decades, I experienced completely different traditions, rituals, and norms of practice for connecting with Source and its many names, The Great Spirit—Wa’tankana, the All That Is—to name a few. So great is that feeling of ‘Wu’, that one could not help but want to kneel down and ask for a dispensation of its benevolence in its presence.
My healing journey came to a new level the next year when I was standing in front of a rock in the woods in France where I reexperienced a past life being murdered there in the 11th century for being a Templar. I understood that longer than this life, I had been angry at God all these centuries for “letting me” be murdered. But standing there in the place where it happened, it made sense that I would return now, alive, and that no darkness could ever kill the Light or those who carried it. I felt humbled and deeply moved to realize being a part of a cosmic benevolence so vast and unfathomable, “The Great Mystery”, as Diné elders say.

Lao Tzu Called To Me

My first experience with Holy Medium in Taiwan was in a Taoist temple in 2019. My friend took me there because I was curious what it was. What I wasn’t prepared for was her contact with a spirit, the man who had been the love of my life, who had died of leukemia in 2001. Because of my grief, he had stayed with me and we met at night when I slept. That was a pivotal moment for me to understand how I was so beloved on this earth and that I had never really been alone.
A few months after that, I received Lao Tzu in spirit form through a psychic medium. He addressed me by the spiritual name he gave me and explained I had been close to him and the writings of the I Ching. He explained he was one of my primary guides and took me through an initiation to work with my light body using four levels of light. Months later when visiting the Chong-De Temple with Derek and Claire, I got very emotional standing in front of the statue of Lao Tzu. I was as if I had come full circle, across many lifetimes and decades, back home. Later that evening when ChiChi invited me to receive Tao on March 1, 2021, I agreed.

Experiencing Tao Through the Tao Receiving Ceremony

From the moment the ceremony began, I felt as if my whole journey over thousands of years had brought me back to a place I already knew, the immutable Tao, through Lao Tzu as its emissary. Only this time I didn’t need to die or become a monk to return there. Tao was a living field and way of being here and now. I knew that my journey of searching was complete.
The space in the temple opened up and became the orb of light itself. More than the cosmic orb that had appeared decades before, it was the vastness of the Light that surrounded all of creation with no distinctions of form or beingness—the timeless, endless Tao. Surrounded by all kinds of Masters and Teachers, those who were living and those from the spiritual realms. I understood they had always been accompanying me, even when I couldn’t reach them. They were there before and after the ceremony was over.
It was a feeling of beingness itself, the treasure of Oneness, that started with Wu. I had felt that place many times but had never stayed there. This time, my search to dispel self-doubt had been realized. And there was nothing more I had to do—just let myself be the Light that was already inside.
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Recovery of St. Theresa’s Message: Illuminate the World with the Inner Light

After the ceremony, the children of the Temple school celebrated on the Chong-De grounds with tea ceremony and musical performances. Being recognized was something I had experienced in a dream a couple of weeks before. There, with the Headmaster of the Chinese instrument and calligraphy study joining us, I began to tell my story and Chi-Chi invited me to write it down. In the writing, one final piece of illumination happened: I reclaimed the part of me I had hidden away.
It has been a blessing to be included in this tradition and to receive the gift of a Tao ceremony. For most of my life, I had lived in the outer spiritual realms. It was time now to anchor the spiritual within, while helping lift humanity up. It was no longer a concept but an awareness that being within “Wu” is a practice of being present within the unified field of the One Light, and is realized through our living presence. Bringing heaven to earth and back again, creates a template in the world for others to be healed and illuminated by. It was clear that my message to the world was simply, to “be a candle of Light.” That’s what the Tao means to me—being the Light which illuminates the World.
 
Thank you for receiving my message. Namaste!
Original Author: Dr. Teresa M. Tipton
Compiled by: E-Paper Editors
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