Blogging for 2020: Haitian Hearts
A tipping point is nigh. The mountain beckons. I don my boots, head straight for the wilderness, my dog quick to join me. I know this is about Haiti. Yes, Haiti. Since the initial tremor, I have been “there” more than here. The connection strengthen day by day and creates sleepless nights.
As I traverse the familiar deer trail, my body reads particularly high on the Richter scale. Every cell is charged with a higher frequency. Brought on the wind moving across the glistening, snow-covered mountainside, the collective voice of the Haitians permeates my awareness. Many, many voices! I listen so very carefully. I listen with my heart, with my spirit ears. I am one with them. “Tick! Tick! Tick!” One second in the lives of the Haitians goes by...another second and then another—time stands still.
I’m pulled into depths of the lives of the Haitians. Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! I see bodies slow down, vital functions seizing up. Tick! Tick! With every tick I am brought closer to them, drawn into them, into their feelings and thoughts and hearts. Moving from this side of the veil to the other and back again, simultaneously, touching spirits—god matter to god matter. Words repeat in my head, softly, gently, “It’s okay. It’s just okay. You are okay. And you are okay. Quiet yourselves. Listen. You who are about to go through the veil stay calm. You are okay. You are not separate from anyone. You are not separated. Separation is not real."
“Many of you have gone through the veil, and are on the ‘other side’ now. With the monumental changes that have occurred, confusion permeates your situation. It takes time to adjust to such monumental changes—individually and collectively. Whether you remain embodied or have left embodiment, these are confusing times. For those of you who left embodiment prior to the body succumbing to death, confusion is intensified. Clinging to the body, life, families—all that’s familiar—is painful. I recognize your pain.
“Let me hold you in my heart. Let me hold you in your hearts. Open your hearts to see that you are okay. Look within the heart of your own awareness to see the truth—the big picture. Know that you now have greater awareness as you complete this passage through the veil—as these circumstances bring you home. Know that you are whole. Be in peace.
“Know that in your “death” you are playing a role to humanity. Your life—your death—will not be wasted. It has become a gift. Be in peace. Be in gratitude now. I come to the other side to be with you who have left embodiment. I ask you to calm yourself so that you may help return to calm those who are still embodied. Let them know that you are fine. They can hear you if you embrace calmness. I know you can hear them. Comfort them with your calm. Let them know they are okay. Help them see beyond death even though death is upon their bodies. Be at peace. Be at peace.
“Your being at peace supports all of us who remain here in the physical dimension. Your suffering has already opened our hearts. You will not be forgotten. Be at peace for we need your continued support. Although the form is not clear, more earthquakes are at hand—further turmoil and chaos. All of you who are leaving embodiment at this time know within your hearts that you are doing so for a reason…for a greater reason. We ask that you hold a space for us—a space of peace and calm.
Right now I see a Bald Eagle soaring through the heart of the Haitian voices. Soaring against the mountains before me— such great majesty. The eagle is soaring directly over my head now. Powerfully god-like…reaching for the heavens. “Thank you Bald Eagle. Thank you for confirming my communion with fellow spirits – our dear Haitian Kin. Thank you for being a messenger of God. Thank you for guiding us. Thank you. Thank you Haitians.”
I now move with the wind, following the eagle up the side of the mountain listening for further message from this winged god spirit who knows no veil.
One final thought as the Bald Eagle merges with the heavens, “Haitians! I’m with you. I cross over. I meet with you. I sit with you. I hold a place of peace with you. We’re so all in this together. Now we must work from a collective mind. We must dissolve the veil—the illusion of separation—whether or not we remain embodied.
“Prayer has its place. Understanding leaves us as one. It’s time to live as a collective heart.”
Kin, Ia

Yes. Yes. Yes. Amen.
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This is truly your most intimate sharing, and without doubt has touched my heart....beyond my heart....thank you for being so open with sharing your experience....for putting into words experiences I have no words for.....
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What a beautiful reference. Opening my heart and living in gratitude allows me to be with all. We are all connected as threads - the threads of our collective consciosness.
To see and live beyond the veil is such a gift. There is no separation...none. Could life be any more grandousness.
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I am filled with gratitude that you shared this information. It paints a profound picture and has led to a deepening in understanding. I also sensed the Haitians' presence and have been in communication with them. What you have shown here, though, has taken my understanding to a new level, a level that will allow me to support to a much greater degree. Each time I read the words, "Let me hold you in my heart. Let me hold you in your hearts" my heart opens and the tears return to my eyes. Ia, you have been the first person in my life devoted to me. You have held me in your heart, you have held me in my heart, never abandoning me and never giving up on me (or anyone) ever, even when I thought I wanted you to. There are no words that could possibly convey the depth of what that has meant. Your commitment to the work that you do reaches far beyond this human dimension.
Your blog has touched lives and inspired great healing in situations around me already. I got a call during my first read of your blog, from a woman who was getting in touch with the pain of her childhood. I read those two sentences, "Let me hold you in my heart. Let me hold you in your heart." The tears began to flow for her as well, allowing her body to release the pent up sorrow that it held for so very long. No one around her as a child had ever been able to support her, and the degree of support you spoke of in this blog was a new concept for that part of her, one she was ready to embrace.
Later, I was receiving energy work. I saw a part of me that had frozen in time. I was 11 years old, and received a call that a beloved friend had been killed in a jeep accident. There was no one able to support me with this loss. I buried the pain, and a part of myself, deep within me. During this session, it became clear to me that it was time for this forgotten part of myself to cross the veil and move into a new reality, providing healing for her and allowing me to fully embody the new energy that has been emerging inside of me since I did the Intensive with you. The woman facilitating the session asked me if it was time for the child to go. Not quite yet. I found myself acknowledging, "If I was her mother, I would have held her while she cried. I see that she needed to cry until she could cry no more.” I saw all of the things that she needed during that time and I spoke them. Then, I began to talk directly to her. The understanding that I gained from your blog was invaluable here! “I’m with you now. When you’re ready to cross over, I will be right here. I will hold you in my heart, and I will hold you in your heart.” The tears just poured. There was an incredible healing in that moment. She finally got acknowledged. She was no longer abandoned. She was ready now. I traveled with her into the embrace of her dear friend, who was on the other side waiting for her, deeply committed and devoted to her.
What a blessed gift true understanding is.
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While reading this blog I found that "I" was tuning into the Haitian heart.
What if you wrote this for me? For me to wake up to the truth about what is really happening? That the earth is cleansing and we are all in this together?
I see that I have support from the other side. Stay calm--I am not buried beneath rubble. I am fully able to walk around on my form's legs as well as my own spiritual legs. I am able to live every day as a gift from God. Without question, the unseen ones are here to help me and humanity move through this, not with our physical sight but our intuitive sight. Because on the physical...using my physical sight, I only see destruction. But looking from a different angle, I see how humanity is coming together. Healing. We are finding our sight.
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Yesterday, while reading the newspaper, I was surprised to see that my former karate instructor had died. I hadn't seen him in years, but I always had a strong heart connection with him. And suddenly I found myself back in touch with him, and so joyous for the reconnection. It was like we were sitting together over coffee, talking and dealing with some serious things. He is experiencing intense pain over having to let go of his human connections to his family. Your blog both gave me a strong reference point of how to support him, as well as opening my heart so I could truly be present with him. Right now, he just needs to know that someone that can hear him is right there with him.
Your blog opened up a new world for me. The veil is thinning.
A song has been coming to me for the last few days, over and over in my head, somewhat intrusive. It's a song about a young man who was killed in the war. It was there enough that I finally stopped and asked the question...is there something I need to see? Someone who is trying to get my attention? Indeed there was. A young man who was killed in Afghanistan, by a roadside bomb. Again, there was so much pain and anguish, amid the confusion and rawness of what he experienced in the war. He is bitter and doesn't want support, yet he yearns for it. I'm compelled to stay right with him. As you said in your blog, I am holding him in my heart, and holding him in his heart, even when he thinks he doesn't want anyone near him, or is unworthy of the support. It's so beautiful to sense his heart unfolding, slowly and carefully, one precious moment at a time.
Sensing beings "on the other side" is definitely not something only reserved for the professional psychics. It is a universal gift, as you have said, available to anyone. Relating to your last blog, I can now clearly see that having a being who is no longer embodied, in my house or around me is certainly nothing to fear or to have to get rid of. My understanding is that it is about support. I am here to serve, whether that be someone in a body, or someone who has left a body. And not only am I meant to bring support to these beings, I have much to learn from them as well, as they continue to broaden my understanding and open my heart.
Life is so much more than it appears on the surface!
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Yes, and even those embodied just need to know that someone can hear them.
It really is just about supporting each other. I love that!
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You're right Papyrus! It doesn't matter what dimension we're in. I watch my young child just bloom when I am right there and he knows he's heard. I know that my presence is the best gift I can give any being, anywhere.
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Beyond being utterly profound, this blog is utterly practical in that it reminds me/us there really is something I/we can do to help the Haitians. In the past when I have heard of disasters far away, I reasoned there was really little I could do to help, though I wished otherwise. But now, spirit to spirit, I can comfort and calm and hold others in my heart, and even more remarkably, I realize they are holding me in their hearts too.
This is about more than I have ever imagined. Indeed, it is heaven on earth. Thank you Ia for showing me a real way to help.
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Thank you Ramona for your thoughts. Thank you everyone who has responded.
Living from spirit awareness leaves us living a much greater relationship--with ourselves, with others, with life itself.
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