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The Web Site of Betty Jane Rapin

About Betty Jane Rapin

I am the author of the study workbook: Dreams Designed by God for You. I am also a freelance writer who has published over 250 articles, essays, poems, and personal experience stories, in anthologies, magazines, newspapers, newsletters and on Web Sites.

In addition, I am a minister, a spiritual teacher, adult education teacher, workshop facilitator, inspirational/motivational speaker and a spiritual student enrolled in a continuous lifelong spiritual educational course. Learning all I can from my experiences and applying this knowledge to better my life has been a wonderful focus.

This Web Site is about how I found ways to survive spiritually in a troubled world into which I have incarnated this lifetime. I have discovered that I am not a victim of my circumstances, but rather a victor who has awakened to the call of Soul and this call of Soul has changed my life.

I enjoy sharing with others what I learned during my quest of finding that which I sought, the conscious awareness from the perception of Soul. Living with this viewpoint has enabled me to look at life as enjoyable, not matter what state of affairs it brings. It is my hope that the visitors to this site will be inspired to answer the call of Soul and prove for themselves that conscious living from this higher viewpoint can be a wonderful spiritual rewarding experience.

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Spiritual Experiences Gifts from God

When I was four years old, I unknowingly discovered a parallel world where I was able to interact with other beings and develop a loving relationship with a puppy. This experience came with the heartache of ridiculed by relatives and a stern request by my mother to cease my “imagination”, which was getting out of hand and also becoming a source of embarrassment for her.

Then at the age of five, my dad began to encourage me to tell him about my dreams. This started my interest in dreams, which continues to this day. My dad had an ulterior motive for his interest in my dreams. He used the symbols of these nightly adventures to look up their meaning in his dream number book. Then he would write the numbers down and take a short walk to the neighborhood bookie.

Never the less, I am truly grateful for my dad, who unknowingly started me on the exciting and spiritually rewarding path to dream study. The story about this became the preface for my book—Dreams Designed by God for You—a study guide and workbook. If you are interested in learning how to remember and understand the language of dreams visit http://goldendreamkey.com

Over the years while focusing on dreams, I experienced many unexplainable spiritual happenings in my life. Some were amazingly unbelievable, but I knew in my heart they actually did occur. The more I researched and studied out-of-the-ordinary paranormal phenomenon I slowly began to remove the mask of uncertainty about my adventures into the mysteries of the unknown. I eventually discovered explanations for most of these unusual events.

Some of these events were three near-death experiences, and other out-of-body travel to explore the worlds beyond the barriers of the earth. I visited different levels of heaven without dying and still do. I became fully aware of the presence of angels, spiritual guides, saints, and spiritual masters working with me. These heavenly beings taught me how to recognize the many ways God speaks to me.

This sign language of God is formatted to fit the consciousness of the individual on the receiving end. In other words, you can easily understand these signs from God because they come at your awareness level. Much like different levels of education, you go through in a classroom. The University of Earth is your daily classroom of life’s experiences that brings with it lessons.

The secret code of your personal sign language from God can be translated with confidence when you open your spiritual insight with daily contemplation—spending time daily with God. Your physical senses are the instrument used to catch these signs from God, but it is your spiritual senses that define the spiritual meaning to these messages from God.

Everyone has the exceptional ability that needs to be fine-tuned, honed for a greater degree of perception that includes intuitive knowingness. Divine Spirit attempts to communicate with you on a daily basis to deliver messages from God! That in and of itself is indeed a blessing; this having a specialized language created by God, for your individual state of awareness! That is truly unconditional LOVE in the finest form.

I have created this Web Site in hopes to spark the flame of inspiration. A yearning to become more observant and consciously aware of your inner connection with Divine Spirit with determination to understand the signs sent from God. If I can do it, so can you!

We are—all of us—born into this world for a purpose—to complete a spiritual mission. This mission is to do our best, learn from our experience, share what we learn with others, and above all learn to give unconditional love to all humanity and creatures. That does not necessarily mean you have to like everyone, it means you look beyond the human form with love for Soul.

During this present incarnation, some of us may bear witness to a phenomenal vision that astounds us or have an extraordinary experience while in a higher state of consciousness. Then again, we may never have an exceptional experience. It all depends on what you label a subtle occurrence or an insight you received from an incident. No matter how magnificent or how minor an experience may be, they are all spiritual gifts. For me a spiritual experience is a gift of love from God that comes in any way, in any form, at any time, awake or asleep because I am special—I am Soul. Moreover, so are you!

There are millions of people who never expect a grand and glorious spiritual experience and are perfectly content with the little things—blessings—that come to them. They often are able to recognize a spiritual experience after it happens by the result of their request for help in a situation. They understood the spiritual guidance from Divine Spirit on how to make the necessary changes in their life that were beneficial to them. In addition, other times the result has a welcomed outcome if they have no idea how it happened—but the smile within their heart tells them there was a spiritual intervention. They had unknowingly opened spiritual gift. Have you opened a spiritual gift lately?

A Spiritual Awakening

Dreams are one of the ways God communicates with us. Learning to interpret these sleeping dreams is the same way one learns to interpret the waking dream—symbols. Most people are familiar with signs from God terminology, but perhaps the expression-waking dream is new to your vocabulary. A waking dream is a sign from God, which occurs during the waking hours—the sign language of God.

A spiritual awakening is realization coming from an expanded state of consciousness. An awareness that goes beyond what the mind can grasp—the viewpoint of Soul. From this vantage point, the sign language of God is easily recognized and understood.

When going about your daily affairs and something gets your attention that causes you take a second look, have a second thought or ponder the happening in any way, it could be a sign from God. With daily time spent in prayer, meditation or contemplation, focusing on wanting to be aware of the obvious as well as the subtle signs one can awaken the dormant ability we all possess.

I will describe for you how to perceive a spiritual experience—that is going beyond what the physical senses are conveying to your mind. Using the tangible object like a strawberry, your five physical senses respond in the following manner. You recognize the strawberry, when you see it because you are familiar with this fruit. You touch it when you pick it up, smell the aroma, as you bite into it and your flavor buds are delighted with the taste so you hear the soft “ummm” you utter in satisfaction.

When your spiritual senses respond you receive insightful guidance. Such as, if when you are eating the strawberry, a thought flashes into your mind that relates to a present situation or you get a gut feeling about something going on in your life, this is a spiritual experience.  An alert sign from God, to pay attention to these sensations and thoughts that have significant meaning. You intuitively know exactly what to do.

Intuitiveness is an inherent, instinctive knowledge, the ability of knowing without the physical senses or the deduction of reason. This knowingness is a natural part of the human body—present at birth. The development of this innate ability is up to each individual.

Now use the strawberry again but this time no physical senses are involved just the spiritual senses— intuition—your sixth sense. You smell the scent of strawberries when there is no apparent reasons for having this aroma reach your nostrils. You look around trying to detect where the scent is coming from. As you sniff the air for the direction of the odor, the mind is trying to see the logic of this experience as it attempts to deduct the reason for its presence. However, there is no reasoning and the scent has gone.

This was a spiritual experience. It is now up to you to find out what message this scent of strawberries means to you. What were you thinking about and doing at the time of this occurrence? With practice and daily contemplation to spiritualize your consciousness there will be no need to go through this questioning phase—you will have a direct answer—a knowingness why this strawberry smell permeated the air at this particular time.

Example: You were concerned about your daughter, Grace, who developed a rash on her arm. You were considering canceling your weekend trip to take her to the doctors. At the time of this thinking, you had the strawberry incident. An ah ha moment! Grace has developed an allergy to fresh strawberries.

With this flash of insight, you recall breakfast and the fresh strawberries you put on top of her cereal. This knowledge eases your concern about your daughter and a call to the local pharmacy resulted in getting information about what over-the-counter product would ease the allergic reaction to the strawberries. You received a spiritual wake-up call to which you responded, and are now well aware of your purpose in life—to live and learn.

Being on the look out for signs from God might prove to be a lot of work at first but in time, it is less of a struggle to begin to see that signs from God are easily recognizable. You will learn to take a second look at out-of–the ordinary happenings of your daily life. You also become more aware of anything you hear, read, smell, etc. that lights up for you and gets your attention.

Life can be a fun and interesting adventure when you realize you are on a constant learning curve with life. All that comes you way is what you need to experience to become a spiritual survivor during the trial and tribulations of this lifetime. You will greatly appreciate not only the pleasurable happenings that come unto you but you will find yourself also being grateful for those not to your liking, because you know they are a necessary learning experience.

An Unmistakable Sign from God

At a young age, I was often told that everyplace I am is sacred ground because God walks with me. My mother would add a few extra words, “God know everything you do or say.” This, of course, was meant to make me fearful of the wrath of God causing me to be a good girl. As I grew older, I vaguely believed this to be true, after all, I had no proof God was walking with me. Then I knew it was a fact that everywhere I walked, I was walking on sacred ground because God was walking with me—I was having conscious experiences.

As positive proof, one such experience that is etched forever in my heart and mind happened in 1971. I had been a heavy smoker, three packs a day. Maria my co-worker asked, “When are you going to give up that nasty habit?” I spontaneously replied, “Today is my last day.” I could not believe what came out of my mouth. Why would I say that, when I gave no thought of quitting smoking that day or any other day. I enjoyed my smoking habit.

That evening as I lay in bed, I reflected on the answer I gave to Maria. Staring into the darkness of the room, I had a conversation with God. I asked him if the answer I impulsively gave came from him. Did he want me to give up cigarettes? Sound silly, huh? Then, would you believe, I asked for a sign? And it came!

On the double closet doors a brilliant flash of light appeared. With a fixed gaze on this light, I became captivated. There appeared in three dimensions, a church steeple, and a ringing church bell covering the entire length and width of the closet door. Telepathic words entered my mind, “I am as close to you as your hands and feet.” With these words came an image: first a hand and then a foot. The vision was so real, so human, and, ever so wonderful. The color of the flesh, the veins in the foot and hand were all indisputable. I sat upright in bed, watching this breath-taking vision. “Is this message from you God?” I wanted to be sure I wasn’t hallucinating.

I said with a love-filled heart “If this is a sign from you dear God, can you prove it to me, by taking away my desire to smoke.” Can you believe, I requested proof from God? I got up the next morning, without realizing that I never reached for the pack of cigarettes. I had my breakfast, which usually meant two cigarettes with my cup of coffee. I never lit one. I quit smoking! I was a changed person.

How this happened I am at a loss for words to say. Why it happened I do know. I was a spiritual student of life striving to become the best I could and to stop smoking was something I definitely needed to give up. I have been smoke free ever since that experience. Needless to say, this was a major turning point in my life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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