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Being carried to the water’s edge …

July 28, 2014 By Cathy Silver

ocean9On many occasions I have walked upon the sidewalk only to be somehow carried to the water’s edge and to the Atlantic portal near my home. As I gaze out into the vastness of the ocean, I can imagine a world of possibility. I silently ask, what lies beyond the horizon? Where does this Ocean go? Who is out there – and are they like me? And then, the worries, fear and heaviness that I have carried to the beach begin to be washed and carried away like magic by the moon or sun, salty breeze and rhythmic waves pounding gently on the shore –

In minutes, not days or weeks, my problems seem to dissipate like clouds – swiftly moving – moving – moving – and a lightness comes to me once more. Why? I do not know. Perhaps it is because I pale in comparison to the vastness of the Universes to which I belong; just like the grains of sand on the beach that spread out like a brilliant starlit sky.

I must surrender to All That Is and the bigger possibility of what lies before me – the unknown – as I sit in the softness of the warm sand staring out at the sea or walk upon the wet sand enjoying the waves splashing joy without concern to me. Or collecting shells; ah those beautiful tiny shells. Or sometimes at night, the moon lit sky, lost in thought or the no-thing, knowing that eternity lies somewhere out of time just like the far away shore of somewhere new that my psyche has yet to explore. What peace it brings . . . clear, blue, beautiful, ocean, like a timekeeper with each new wave – my place of peace – knowing my future rests upon those waves of possibility – and that gentle patient reminder, I must trust.

And, when I walk the short distance home – I feel much better. Nothing has changed yet everything has changed. And when again I feel sad, worried or wounded – I tread upon the sand and once again, and am refreshed by our great Mother – maybe it is Gaia who envelopes me in her arms? – because I always return somehow comforted by the waves (of peace) the Sunlight (of hope) and the trust (of God) that everything will be fine – once again.

— Cathrine Silver

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Death: What do we really know? Who are we? Is it programmed within our DNA?

July 12, 2014 By Cathy Silver

We observe change daily. Our lives are interlocking cycles of change. Are we more connected with the earth and to each other than we consciously know? I like to believe this is so. Like puberty and our reproductive cycles, are souls programed to exit our physical bodies too? A biological time-clock counting down pre-programed, before we arrive in physical form? Simply and beautifully, I liken it to leaves when they detach and are blown off the tree? I promise more lightness next week, but today, I have been thinking about death all day. I was awake a 3, 4 and 5 am. At 5:15 am, I decided to get up and make a cup of coffee.

      Brother and sister together in August

Brother and sister together in August

When I lived in Nacogdoches, Texas, I knew a lovely woman from Garrison. One day in conversation she said, that the “old timers” say, when the sap starts to fall many people leave; fall and winter were their busy seasons at the funeral home; that was 15 or more years ago, and I ruminate on that fact today. As I type these thoughts, my phone rings, it is my mother. She has been on my mind all day. I listen for a brief second. She is gripped by pain and grief-stricken; I hear her tears and her muddled words. She tells me her brother has just passed. They were very close. I want to put my arms around her but, she is 3000 miles away.

You do not choose when you are born or when you die, or do you? When I visited Seattle this summer, I spoke with my Uncle. He had had numerous health challenges – but seemed to be handling them in stride and his attitude with me was positive. One comment, however, even today, sticks in my mind. He said, “I told Doc Smith, that it was my quality of life that had taken a turn” then he quietly chuckled – he wasn’t happy about his new regiment of chemo. . . I bit my lip and just listened.

So, here we are three months later and I wonder. It takes nine months for a soul to arrive by birth – is that the preparation time? Does it take approximately nine months for a soul to transition out of this realm and back into another dimension where I believe we exist as pure energy and light and is truly our home? And, because of our modern societies fear and lack of understanding about this transition process, do we miss what our loved ones are really trying to tell us? And, the call to go or the call to come, are they really one and the same? At what moment do we innately know and hear that call? Uncle Carl was 85. Are souls like leaves when they detach and are blown off the tree by the wind? Are we really more like the wind – influenced by some “magnetic indicator” with a set-point? Sometimes a gentle breeze takes our leaves, bark, flowers and branches, and other times, it is more gale like forces that moves with voracious appetite and intention, sometimes even creating hurricanes of tremendous pressure, force and destruction with great suddenness. Are we the wind?

Or are we really more like light and color? Beautiful and yet undefinable by our consciousness? Are we like individual LED lights that light up the universe or like lightning bugs on a warm summer eve? The enigma between life and more life? Seen and unseen? What awaits on the other side of this veil? Our bodies attached to our soul and to our physicality; the inner and outer, earth and heaven, time and space to which we are tethered for a moment?

Most leaves fall in the autumn, but some like the live oak and madrona release their leaves all year. Is there a magnetic message tied and programmed to our DNA that sends a message and our call to leave? Is it the same one that calls the birds to fly south and the whales to migrate thousands of miles away and animals to have innate knowledge of their own world? Is it the same “voice” calling to us one by one? Does our soul get this call and pull and lift off one evening propelled by those same cosmic forces? What moves the world outside, moves within me too?

I know we are not simply biology, and we carry within a piece of this sacredness, divinity – a piece of God, and therefore could the instructions be carried in a magnetic portion of our DNA which is hidden and unknown to us? Does this also include our passage into and out of this world? Is it programmed with our life lessons – our growth – our healing – and some gift we give to another by our passing? In this case, my Mother. Her heart has opened wide, and just like many events in our lives, we are forever changed – also now programed within our DNA.

I bought a card earlier this week – It said, “When you are born, you are crying while everyone else it smiling. And, when you die, you are smiling while everyone else is crying.” If I have to make up anything, Uncle Carl is smiling – looking down on us all – and I hear him utter these words – “you are so right.” God Bless, you are dearly loved.

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Archangel Metatron on Death and Life

May 1, 2014 By Cathy Silver

“Life never ends!  . . .  There is no fatalistic end with a final judgment resulting in eternal reward or punishment. In fact, there is no end. Life is ever expanding. Death is not a fearful experience to dread. What you term as death is a rebirth into your greater reality and in many ways is quite an exquisite, beautiful awakening. In truth, birth into the physical realm is far more traumatic than the return to the angelic realm. Indeed, passing from the physical may be appropriately described as “coming home.” Certain extraordinary expansions of reality are innate to being in a far wider horizon, one that offers much greater sensitivity and understanding . . . We urge you to seize the day, find joy, discover well-being, and know that every choice you make determines the life you live.”

— As channeled through James Tyberonn

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Channeling with a Pendulum: Soul Communication

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From Cathy’s Blog

Liz

Liz

In the early morning hours just days ago—8 weeks to the day of my Mother’s passing—wisps of thoughts pass through my consciousness as I return to the earth plane and my third-dimensional reality.  I imagine it is like the space shuttle’s re-entry into the atmosphere of earth; sometimes a little rough as the turbulence rumbles and … [Read More...]

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