Featured Miracle Team Member

Mark Lombardi

Namaste Everyone.

It is truly an honor and a gift to share with you my story along the path of Self-Ascension and what it means to me to be a Miracle Team Member.

As I reflect back on those early days circa April, 2009 it was a turbulent time for me. I guess you could say everything in my life had been turned upside down and I felt as though I was heading down a river on a boat without any oars. It was at a time when I was just coming through the other side of this turbulent time after having just learnt the art of letting go and surrendering that my path through life brought me to the work of Self-Ascension.

On a particular trip to San Diego around that time I remember walking from my hotel to a nearby Bookstore. During this walk I was contemplating all that had gone on before me in my life and I was also imagining what the future was holding for me. During this walk I had a vision of a vast network of brilliant points of light, all interconnected and pulsing with a vibrant life force. I can still remember the surprise, gratitude and jubilation I was feeling as I sensed sending and receiving emails to/from people all over the world. We were sending each other messages of reassurance, encouragement, love and gratitude through a unified field of consciousness. At the same time I had this precognition of somehow being honored to witness people walking through pivotal moments along their sacred paths through life. At this time I had no idea what it was I was experiencing. For all I knew at the time I thought this was the next big thing, some kind of dot com bubble that I was going to a part of perhaps. I had no idea at the time that I was having a premonition of the Miracle Team Ceremonies and the experience of being a Certified Self Ascension Coach. So looking back it comes as no surprise when I realize how it came to be that "2012 Awakening" would jump out at me holding a kind of magnetic pull calling to be heard directly from the bookshelf when I finally arrived at the Bookstore. This was my first miracle experience and my introduction to beloved Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa. The Universe was calling and I was arriving.

A part of my awakening journey was the realization that my life had to change. Not in a small way like starting a new job or even moving to a new town or city, but in a big way like breaking through to something much larger than myself. One realization or aha moment I had was: "my life had to stop being all about me" and had to start being about "how can I live my life in service, in truth and authenticity, in alignment with my true nature and being with my heart and soul taking the lead?" I went through a process what many call the "dark night of the soul" while completing the Navigating the Inner Matrix Course. What I was being called to do at a soul level was to wake up and start doing what I came here to do. I also had the realization that if not now, when? If not, then there was no need to be here on the planet anymore. There was no longer any reason to remain on the planet living that ‘old life’ any longer simply because it did not satisfy my soul any longer. Waking up to this path of Self-Ascension for me has and continues to be a process that brings conscious awareness to my daily actions and is refined day by day, moment to moment. It requires effort, confidence, commitment, determination and above all an unconditional love for all life everywhere. It is not always easy and yet the rewards fulfill the deepest depths of your soul that fills your life with meaning and with a never ending expansion and expression of love in form. Just like the vision I had when I first came across the path of Self-Ascension, today I am able to realize the passion and the joy of living a life that is aligned with my true nature and purpose each and every day.

It is only now with 20/20 hind sight that the pieces of the puzzle have started to come together. Being a witness, being a participant, being a  presence holder, a Miracle Team Member and now a CSAC Coach these are some of the qualities that inspire me everyday to go and out and be a beacon of light for those who are here, ready, open and looking for guidance. It brings me great joy to be a member of the Sacred Community of Love and Light called TOSA and this love and light is realized or made manifest as it is expressed in the world. Our beloved community offers us the gift of the unification of consciousness if we so choose through participation in the the monthly Miracle Manifestation Ceremonies where we are all able to come together as a unified field consciousness where we meet to hold a space of unconditional love, with sincerity and divine presence. Even now as I remember back to 1/1/2012 where I was privileged to be one of the three witnesses I can quote my response from that Miracle Manifestation Ceremony as "Even now as I am sharing this I feel myself melting into that oneness and can feel the unification and complete oneness of connectivity with you all. It has truly been an honor to be a witness and a participant and my heart is filled with much gratitude and love for this wonderful and momentous experience."

Sometimes when you take something out of consciousness, out of context and try to express it in words, it loses something special during the conversion process. In any case one particular sharing I would like to offer that comes to mind is from October 2011 where I was being called to anchor TRUST in my life which is also one of the themes that came up from my attendance at the Golden Ray workshop in Albuquerque in October 2010, one year earlier. I had registered through TOSA for AMI, an Avesa I class in Guatemala,  Teacher Training as well as some additional classes and some private time at TOSA La Laguna. Part of the challenge of walking through a door into a new way of life is that you lose all the markers of illumination that have guided you through your life up until that time. For me that had resulted in not knowing how to translate my new way of being in service in the world into dollars and cents. By mid October I was down to my last $45, my credit cards were maxed out and I had no way of knowing how I was going to pay for my flights and the rest of my tuition to head to Guatemala by early November. What I remember is that as I lay down to go to sleep on the 15th October, I made the conscious decision to drive to Sydney some 10 hours away from Brisbane to sell some items I had in a storage unit for $200. It was going to cost me twice that just to get to Sydney and back in fuel. I had to borrow money from a friend just to get to Sydney – in short it din’t make much sense or logic however I felt compelled to go.

I made that decision to go at 10 pm that night by sending a txt msg to my friend to tell her I needed to borrow $200 for fuel to get to Sydney the next day and would pay her back upon my return. As soon as my head hit the pillow a few minutes later I received a text msg in response to one of my online ads wanting to buy my HDTV. I was stunned. On the way to Sydney I received another call from a person wanting to buy my electronic keyboard. I was also shocked and surprised to find that the person who wanted to buy my HDTV had just arrived in Australia from Egypt, had never owned a TV before and he had several small children who had not seen many of the DVDs I had lying around in a storage box so I ended up giving him the box of DVDs and a BluRay DVD Player and he gave me whatever cash he had remaining in his wallet, another hundred dollars or so. [It is interesting to note there was a TOSA Group in Egypt at the time. Miracle Manifestation] By the time I had arrived back home in Brisbane I had a few thousand dollars. However that wasn’t enough to pay for my trip and expenses. It was only at the end of October (less than a week before I had to be in Guatemala) that I was able to sublet my apartment and sell my car before I was able to buy a return ticket and pay rent for the next few months. There were many times I would check in and ask "Do I need to do anything?" and the answer was no, just TRUST. It was the hardest thing to do – which was to do absolutely nothing. I like thinking back to stories like this one along my path as it reminds me that when I am feeling most vulnerable, yet anchored in trust and following my intuition and guidance that the universe provides everything I need to navigate through life. Everything is provided if I just get out of the way and start taking action, doing what I know needs to be done even if at times that might be absolutely nothing. If I had lacked perseverance, commitment, confidence or trust then I might not have ever have had made it to Guatemala in November, not have been able to have completed teacher training in 2011 etc.

I’ve included the above story just to provide some insight for you into a part of my journey in the hopes that it may illuminate parts of your path for you, deepen your trust in the Divine and propel you forward along your path in ways that only you know. Now I know that it is ‘my soul’s intention to employ creativity and to express wisdom to help people navigate their way home to God.’ I hope reading my story has perhaps inspired you in some ways to keep moving forward along your path as you navigate your way home as well. And remember "I respect the place in you that is of love, of truth and of light. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me then we are one".

Namaste,

Mark
R-Ay R-Ah