“Kuan Yin is showing me something very interesting. I see the large diamond and realize it is also a flower. I see a beautiful flower and realize it is also a diamond. She is explaining how enormous wealth is not necessarily materialistic. There is the clean and clear wealth of higher consciousness. It is devoid of the depraved energy that can be attached to money. This is the “pure” wealth—the wealth of higher consciousness. I’m being shown a dimension (or plain of consciousness) where that pure wealth of consciousness is a reality. It is reality where everyone is loved, where everyone is fed and healthy."

"Prosperity can happen at any time,” insists Kuan Yin. “I want to give you everything that you need. Focus on that symbol (the diamond) of prosperity. Taking that first step is what you need. Say and believe that more and more you can have all the possibilities. It is your mantra. I want you to be lieve and be open to receiving. Perhaps you can imagine a crystal in the place of a real diamond. Focus upon it and breathe in what it represents (it’s energy) to those areas of the body that need healing. Practice the meditation of seeing me Kuan Yin holding and giving you this huge, chunky diamond. Remember this diamond doesn’t just represent material wealth. Its myriad facets also represent consciousness, love and all other forms of abundance. Practice receiving it.”

Kuan Yin states that divine intervention can only come when strong intention is put forth, through either prayer or meditation. For it to be effective, one's intention, according to Kuan Yin, must also be accompanied by a deep faith, a belief that one’s prayers will be answered. Indeed, according to Kuan Yin, praying for others is the most powerful thing one can achieve while living on earth.

Deeply engaged in my Client-Centered hypnosis class, just prior to authoring The Living Word of Kuan Yin, I was interested in knowing how to more-precisely direct my personal trance experiences. As there were numerous opportunities to facilitate and also receive hypnosis, the class offered the perfect opportunity to understand the profound connection between personal intention and manifestation.
During one particular hypnosis session, I recall making it my strong intention to walk the path of wisdom. My greatest wish, at that moment, was to create my most ideal simultaneous reality: parents who would teach me wisdom early on in my next lifetime.

Counted down, now deep in trance, I found myself staring from a top-floor window onto a lush green lawn below. Far off in the distance, swans gracefully drifted across the glass-like surface of an azure-blue pond. Standing in that immense room filled with books stacked from floor to ceiling, I suddenly knew I was in a library of works written by the Ascended Masters. In this sacred place, where I spent most of my waking hours, a massive collection: all ancient wisdom had been gathered from this universe and beyond.

As I was a young child in this particular trance, I gravitated to writings appealing to me at that particular stage in my life. Spending many joyous hours deeply engrossed in study and discovery, it was in that very library that I began to fulfill my passion for truth. Still in trance, discovering myself lying on a bed, I realized that I, as this somewhat frail child, had fallen gravely ill.

Extremely concerned, my parents watched over me day and night, ministering to my every need. My trance vision suddenly interrupted, I began to slowly drift back into waking consciousness. Shortly after this illuminating trance session, I was contacted by Lena Lees. It was during our very first appointment together, upon being counted down to her trance state, that Lena immediately began conversing with the Goddess, Kuan Yin.

I cannot help but believe there was a connection between my intention to walk the path of wisdom and the pro ject Lena and I were about to embark upon: the creation of the Kuan Yin manuscript.

Upon completion of The Living Word, I was struck how personal and immediate the Goddess' teachings are. Addressing problems arising from the ebb and flow of daily existence: what Kuan Yin terms “a realistic life”, Kuan Yin insists that one's life is the vehicle for achieving divinity. Emphasizing this point Kuan Yin insists the two cannot be separated--that choices made in one's day to day life can render an ordinary drama, spiritual.

Upon conceiving the title for this article, I heard Kuan Yin ask me, “What is your idea of the most divine life imaginable?” Deeply reflective, I initially imagined myself fully engaged in writing and lecturing: explaining Kuan Yin’s teachings to the masses. Such a lifestyle seemed truly rewarding, an activity worthy of pursuit. As much as I still desired that life, I realized my ultimate answer to Her question was to be living in a world free of suffering.

Falling into a deep reverie, I saw children a nd families no longer living in poverty and hunger. I saw the world free of disease. In my vision, fear and guilt had been forever banished from the earth. Kuan Yin teaches that we have incarnated on earth to learn that everything is spirit. We are here on earth to learn and experience and to understand in the most intimate and physical terms that beliefs create reality. In fact, if it were not for our learning experiences here on earth validating and/or challenging our beliefs, we would, no doubt, remain on some endless karmic wheel, forever recycling within countless lifetimes of ignorance and darkness.

So it is with great love and graditude that I welcome Kuan Yin and strive to incorporate her teachings into aspect of my personal reality. Perhaps the most profound interpretation of Kuan Yin's shape-shifting is that achieving divinity is not some unrealizable dream--that physical reality is indeed a manifestation of the divine.

In fact, Kuan Yin insists that while suffering can be an opportunity for learning ingenuity and cre ativity, (because we have free will) our path of liberation need not be strewn with fallout frp, pain and misery. Her parables and shape shifting teach that because we are the Authentic or God Self, we possess an abundance of natural free will and creativity so to hone our ability to better care for each other and the earth.

What is the "Kuan Yin Spirit", that is constantly referred to throughout The Living Word? Many define it as compassion and loving-kindness. Others state that it is consciousness, a sense of what can be made manifest. Kuan Yin stresses that attaining the "Kuan Yin spirit" cannot be bartered for or bought. It can only be attained through approaching one's spirituality with an “empty cup”, a heart and mind void of pre-conceived ideals and yet filled with compassion. It therefore rests upon each of us to discover our own unique path to spiritual healing: to be open and aware of all levels of consciousness, envisioning and creating the most expa nsive possibilities.

The following dream of me stranded behind a huge alabaster wall might explain it best. In the dream I stood on one side of an immense wall stretching as high and wide as one could see or even imagine. Aware that my favorite beach lay just on the other side of this huge blockade, my goal was to somehow get beyond or through whatever spiritual barrier was keeping from attaining happiness and fulfillment. Wishing for something to rout or smash out a hole in the wall, I watched as bulldozers glacially rolled along, building and fortifying that barricade’s huge expanse. Approaching the end of my dream, I suddenly found myself at the beach I’d so desired to return to. Spying a group of Buddhist monks, I watched as, one by one, they each each stepped down off the etheric Greyhound bus. Their appearance in the dream seemed an omen: prophecizing the inevitability of my own spiritual arrival.

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About The Author

Born in Manhattan, New York, Hope Bradford received her BA in Women's Studies and Fine Art. Since then, she has continued to paint while also maintaining a hypnosis practice for over twenty-two years. Even though she had facilitated hundreds of trance regressions she was not prepared for the phenomenon that changed her life: witnessing the channeled teachings of the Asian Deity Kuan Yin. Agreeing to transcribe each of the twenty-seven sessions, she then recorded them in manuscript form.