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E104 Honi: The Presence Of Being Present After Loss Of A Friend & Birthday Of a Friend · Ascension Alchemists™ — God Led Sacred Marriage For Purpose & Impact. A Couple's Embodied Walk with Presence of God ALMighty

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Blessings and welcome to the Ascension Alchemist Podcast.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's your host, Reverend Honey Burden.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcoming you to this wonderful episode, my solo episode today.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: As usual, I'd like to welcome those of you who have been returning back and listening to another truly heartfelt episode.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: And those of you who are new, really welcoming you to this community where we are a community of believers, those who are choosing to live from unshakable faith and living from the presence of God Almighty, aligning with that truth, embodying that truth, living from there, and having this personal relationship with the presence of God Almighty.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Not from a lens of religion, but really a personal relationship.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: And it is a place for those of us who've gone on a spiritual journey for many years, the ascension journey, we've experienced all sorts of modalities, and we have come to a place where we recognize we want to live in unshakable trust and faith with the creator, with the source, with that divine provider, the presence of God Almighty.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we found a home here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where Mikel and I live and lead and serve our purpose, and we've created a community just like you all, where you can come here and know you belong.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: And you also are someone who wants to lead his or her life with that incredible, amazing Christ's presence.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't need an institution, you don't need a building, you don't need any of that to tell you because you you have that direct relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: So welcome, welcome.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is about being really present, being in the presence of the great presence.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to speak to this and how meaningful this is, particularly today for me, as I've just come back from a lunch date with my son, my youngest son, and I had organized to go on a lunch date today and have some just mama-son time together.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: He likes to tease me.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come pick me up, and we get dressed up and go to have some lunch, have some beautiful conversations together.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: And today was extra meaningful for me because yesterday Michael and I got a chance to go to the end-of-life celebration of one of our dear friends, the Lisa Goodwin, who transitioned on August 4th.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: And we were in a community with several friends at Unity of Fairfax together, where Lisa wanted her celebration to be celebrated.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And she had, before she crossed over, she had planned for all of this.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to speak a little bit about the way Lisa chose to embrace her transition into a spirit side.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yesterday, as we were sitting in the Unity Church with others, and her beautiful daughter Hope spoke, and her son Thomas spoke, I felt the conviction to speak and share a little bit about Lisa and the journey Michael and I have had with her, and especially the night before she transitioned, the dream I had about her, which was very significant.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to go a little bit deeper into this episode about it and why I'm talking about being presence with the presence, is so vital for me in this moment.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: So Lisa would come to our Sunday services for a few years.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Michael and I had Sacred Sundays, spiritual service, which was all around the presence of the mighty I Am.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: We would have sermons, we would communicate, and we'd gather the people in the living room, and it was really, really heartfelt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was all around the sacred flames, just so, so beautiful.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: And Lisa always wanted to know how the experience of love is, like, what's it like to really, really love God?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to say, during these past few months of her life, she really allowed that.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: She got to know the presence of God Almighty through that love that she allowed in herself.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: She was supported around so much love and received a lot of love.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: And what was so beautiful yesterday was the video that she made before she transitioned for all of us.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Michael and I were sitting in the audience and we're just holding each other's hand as Lisa was laying in her bed and speaking through the camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she was just so beautifully lighthearted.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I could see that peace that was in her.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: And she was communicating about how this moment was very awkward for her as she was getting ready to transition, but she was again, she was in this state of ease.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I believe the gift that she left with all of us was being able to have the courage to accept this phase of her life that she was getting ready to transition, and everything that came with it, and being so present with it.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And with her being so present, yesterday her presence was very much felt in the audience, as well as her presence of being so accepting of where she was going and not fighting it, and allowing others to be uncomfortable with not wanting to be saved or anything like that.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was really, really incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I appreciated the most was the way her daughter, particularly Hope, came around, journeyed every step of the way with her, and she was able to communicate from that lens to us just so much courage, so much poise, so much, like so, so present in going through every spectrum of it.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: And that takes an incredible amount of courage.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: And it touched me a lot.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: It touched me a lot thinking about Lisa and thinking about my own children.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: And what is it that I would want?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it that I really, really would want?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: And as my son and I had planned this day today to be together, I just wanted to be very present.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: My son wanted to show his, you know, how fast his car would go and just mess with me.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, you know, I just want you to like, you know, slow it down.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let me let me just be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me look into you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me hold your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me let me look into your lens.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Let me be so in this moment, because this is all we have, just this moment.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let me get to know what you're thinking, what you're feeling, you know, what are your what are the the decisions you have?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Are you wanting to go on some travels?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, are you buying more houses?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, like I just want to be so present.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: And it was very, very, very present.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna come back to Lisa in just a minute, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for us to to experience this present moment with food was so beautiful, and I felt I appreciated it so deeply because I got to also be experiencing life yesterday, where my dear friend transitioned into spirit side, and her children in physicality won't be experiencing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, there's a divine perfection in all of this, there's a divine plan in all of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't really interfere with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet we get to we get to be so present with it as it's taking place in real time, as it is streaming, so that way somehow we get we can decide, okay, how do I want this to be for my life?
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: How do I want it to be different?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: What choice do I want to make?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I felt like yesterday when we came back, Michael and I, I just had these few things inside of me that was so alive in terms of the way the quality of life I want to experience, where I can stand behind it greater, where I can speak through it greater, where I can where I can actually be so clear with it, not to dim it down, not to sacrifice it, not to compromise it in any way.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I wonder if any of you have experienced this, like a a friend that may have just recently crossed, or a family member, or loved one, where suddenly on the inside you're experiencing this internal shift where being so present, it's like you come out of a fog.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: You become so alert in the desire to experience life to its fullest.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Have you experienced that as well?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you have.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you have, especially if you have um recently experienced a love on crossing over.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: What's so beautiful is Lisa, before she crossed over, had a dream about her.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: This was such a beautiful dream.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michael and I were together with Lisa, all giggling, happy, joyous.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: We were in this, we were in this place.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: It seemed like maybe it was like ski resort or like glaciers.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was just pure white.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: We had ski outfits on, and we had these baby ski on our feet that were very small, fitting the size of our boots.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I was in the middle of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Michael had his arm locked in my left hand, and Lisa had her arm locked in my right hand.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: And Lisa was like, I'm so excited to go visit that place you had gone to.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Oh my gosh, it's so exciting, you're gonna love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we just held each other as we started gliding through the snow, giggling and laughing and like children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this place started getting narrower as we were going through.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was like as if the path was getting smaller, and then there was a cliff to the right.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: So as Michael and I were coming into this path, I was saying, Michael, it's a cliff.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pull Lisa up so she doesn't fall into the cliff.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: So Michael pulled the weight to the left, so we both lifted Lisa so Lisa can be on the path, as the the path got narrower, and then we came to the end of the path where there was a bridge.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, to its left of it was like this golden sand, and the bridge itself was golden.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: And Michael and I stopped, and Lisa's like, Well, I gotta go there, I'm going to that place.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: And as she walked on the bridge, it was all gold, and past the bridge was gold and then light.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it was in my dream that I realized where she was going.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was the place that I had experienced in afterlife, which was heaven.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Oh my god, I love it.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: And and in the dream, it was very clear Michael and I are standing there, we can't cross the bridge, and she had to walk over the bridge.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: And it was such a beautiful joy and celebration that she was walking over a bridge.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: We were just so happy.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: She was so ecstatic, so joyous.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I woke up from the dream and I looked at Michael, I woke Michael up.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Michael, I believe Lisa transitioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a few days later, we learned she had transitioned that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I felt so honored she visited, really, really grateful.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: And because she was curious what my ND experience was in these many, many years, as she had learned I had that, and what was it like being in the other side, the afterlife?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, sometimes we come into each other's life, we don't know what the purpose is.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Certainly, Michael and I did a lot of collaboration with Lisa at her center at Rise Wellbeing and all the events we did there, especially Michael facilitated so many transformational sessions there.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: Forever we're grateful for the community that experienced everything they experienced.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: And Lisa herself truly rise, she rose to what was her call, which was this expression of grace and this beauty, and and really faith-filled as she lived these last couple months of her life.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: And coming back to the presence of it, being in the presence of God Almighty, we get to be so present with what's happening in life, being able to celebrate the end of life of someone dear and really celebrate her life and her eternal life as continues.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: And yesterday we also went to our dear friend Fidel's birthday same day from one end of the town to another end of the town, and and celebrating someone's birth in that way.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just so amazing to be in also the range of the emotions with it, being so present in the human experience, experiencing it all, not identifying any of it being in any way, but so present while being held by the presence of God Almighty.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever experienced that where you're experiencing extremes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're you're sensing it, you're feeling it, the emotions are there, the thoughts are there, all is there, and you're actually in peace and ease with all of it at the same time because you're very present with all of them, and you recognize all have a value, all have a meaning, all are perfectly perfect as they are, and you don't need to control any of them, you don't need to, you don't need to turn your back or shove any of them or suppress, avoid any of any of them.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: You're just very present with all.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: And yesterday I really recognized, wow, I'm so present in this moment, as God Almighty is so present with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I can feel so safe being so present with all of this.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I realized the amount of times that I didn't feel safe being with so much range of emotions because I was experiencing it just in my human, and it then would tap into all these other unprocessed areas within myself that I hadn't processed.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: So it didn't feel safe.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas as I became very present to it, and there's nothing like when a loved one is crossed over, you become very present, and as you're present, the presence of God Almighty is present within you.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: Then you can be present really in the now, in the moment with all of it, and be okay.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when the appreciation really, really grows, the appreciation of life.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like as I'm recording this for you all, I'm looking at this magnificent tree in front of me with these leaves, some of these leaves blowing, some of them are steady, and the way the the beautiful blue skies with these fluffy clouds, and the way the sun is hitting, and just how gorgeous it is.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm hearing the sound of jujuberry in the other room, and sometimes pineapple are birds, and there's a gentleness of this cool air of the AC that is blowing down on me, and I'm sitting looking also as this on the orchid that's just so radiant, where one of the flowers just blossomed out, and how beautiful everything is in this moment, the perfection of this moment, and the perfection that you're on that side that I'm aware you're gonna be hearing this tomorrow.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Well, as you hear it tomorrow, it will be today for you.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: The recording will come out, and how beautiful it is that this presence is so vivid, it's so real.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a cushion.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: That wants to show itself, reveal itself, and when we allow it, we are allowing the experiences of it to be in us and through us and around us, and how fulfilling it is.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: So it reminded me, isn't it interesting that when we are overtaken but a lot of the heavier emotions, like let's say sadness or anger or frustration, resentment, any of those, when we face them, we're not present with them, so then we we want to suppress them, avoid them.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: So what happens is there is a part we want to step over them, which is which is important, but what happens is they just stay on the inside and they make us very heavy, so then we can experience the presence of life and the presence of mighty God within us.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: So then we're constantly trying to escape or run away just so that we don't experience those suppressed emotions.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's so wild.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm trusting you're following me with this.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know if you are.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: God almighty created you exactly as you are, put you in a form because you have a purpose for you just for existing.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Just for existing.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: And you're the most beautiful expression of that gorgeous presence.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: That wants to be so present in you.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I acknowledge that in you.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm very grateful, even though I can't see you through this recording.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: I know you're there.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: You may be driving, you're listening to this, you may be walking, you may be with your pet, you may be cooking food, you may be working out, you may be on the airplane, you may be on a paddle board.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where you are, but wherever you are, I can feel our hearts are very connected in this moment.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're also allowing the presence of God Almighty to touch you on the inside.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: And to know this moment as you're just taking that breath.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is a gift from God.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: You are a gift because God Almighty gifted you to experience life today.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes you just have to come in this moment and feel so appreciated.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: And just be so present without having to run around, without having to push, we don't have we don't have to like struggle other than feel the depth of appreciation for just this now.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you for feeling this now.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for appreciating this now.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being in this now and sharing this moment with me as well.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Deeply, deeply grateful to you and humbled by your presence.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you all learn to be more present.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take this with me more, be even more present.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: There were some decisions I had to make this week.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just put it, I just walked away from everything.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know what?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna do it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna step aside.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna be very present.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be so present in life.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: So God Almighty's presence can show me greater.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's my choice for today.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: Love you all.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know if anything I shared landed with you, and also send your questions.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: We would love to hear your questions.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Get several great things coming up with our beautiful community.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: We have our celebration circle tomorrow at the end of the month.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Celebration circle, yeah, where we get to really celebrate our wins this month, so that will be handled tomorrow.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: And welcome those of you that want to join a community.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start start a school community so that way those of you that want to join, it will be easier to join there.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: And you can navigate with us, walk with us, and be stronger in a community of people that want to be light-hearted, you know, light-hearted, our minds to walk each other home, to lead our own life.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: Michael and I do not want to lead others, we want to lead our own life, and we are helping others lead their life.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: So have a beautiful, blessed day.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: This Thursday is Michael's Sacred Conscious Men's Circle.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: So, those of you that are beautiful men on a journey, he has Paul Luftenegger as his beautiful guest speaker coming on.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be a really great one to sign up and experience what Paul is gonna share, which is all about devotion.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: And Michael is gonna be focused on purpose, and that's a free circle.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: Looking forward to it.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: Much love.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Please share this podcast with others, and we're really looking forward to the in-person celebration for our podcast coming up on September 13th.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: There's this is a private invitation, in-person event.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Looking forward to that as well.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be the one year anniversary coming up.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a celebration because life is a celebration.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: So go celebrate your life and let it continue to flow through you so God Almighty can celebrate more in you.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Have a beautiful day.