Spiritual Talk with Margaret Merrison.
1. Margaret, please share with us the things about you and your Unicorn Centre, whichever you feel comfortable to share.
I am the owner of the Unicorn Centre in Ilton in Somerset. I was born and brought up in mid Devon in SW England and then lived for a time in London and Essex. In Essex I met my husband, married and had 2 children, both boys and then brought them back to South West England.
I always thought that there was something more and tried different jobs, religion and other things, but never felt it was what I was meant to do. I felt that there was a lot more to life and by intuition realised that our soul lived on and went to the spirit world on 'death'.
In May 1998 my husband and myself, who were both microlight pilots, received our wake-up call in the form of a microlight accident. We were injured in the accident and as a consequence were introduced to a healer, who was also connected to the spiritual world. With the healing we both recovered remarkably quickly and I realised that helping people in a caring and spiritual way was what I was meant to be doing. I enrolled on a massage course and both with my husband learnt Reiki and went to a spiritual circle each week. After three years, with a lot of studying, I left my full time job and became a complementary therapist in Reiki, Aromatherapy Massage, Reflexology and Indian Head Massage. I also started teaching Reiki, as I had become a Reiki Master by now.
I was enjoying my work and knew that this was what I was meant to do, but still felt that there should be more. My circle leader had been on an Angel and Ascension course with Diana Cooper and brought the energy of the Angels into the circle. This was beautiful. So in 2002, with my husband, I went on an Ascension course with Diana and had a wonderful week with some lovely like-minded people. Here I heard about Diana Cooper's teaching courses and enrolled on Diana's last Angel and Ascension Teacher Training course before she handed it over to the Diana Cooper School. The course was in November 2003 and was, under Diana's management, a magical three-week course, which transformed my life. I now bring the loving energy of the Angels into my every day life and do my best to live by the spiritual laws.
In October 2004 I was invited to become a Master Teacher with the Diana Cooper School. The courses that I now run are the Angel and Ascension Teaching courses, Angel Healing Practitioner Courses, Reiki First, Second and Masters Degrees, Angel and Unicorn workshops. Margaret is also a course tutor for Diana's Angel correspondence course.The name 'The Unicorn Centre' was born from a very vivid meditation that I had when in a meditation run by Diana Cooper on the teaching course in 2003. With my husbands help, I have built a centre in my garden where I run my courses. I am blessed to have 2 ley lines that cross in the centre, which makes the energy very special, however, I have to clear them of negativity every day.
2. As you are a Master Teacher of Diana Cooper's School , and working with many Archangels & Masters , I would like to ask, which Archangel & Master do you personally feel most affinity with?
The Angels and Ascended Masters come to work with us at various stages in our life to help us with work, certain projects, spiritual growth etc at that time. At the present moment I have a very strong connection with Archangel Jophiel, who is helping me to learn about permaculture, which is a way of sustainable living that I feel passionate about.
I feel that 3 very powerful and important things are happening in the world today. Firstly, 2012 will be a time when there will be a spiritual awakening of many, many people, as we move into a time of much more love, compassion and understanding for fellow humans, as well as the planet and all life within it. Secondly, we are already experiencing a peak oil crisis, where the demand for oil outstrips the oil supply, as the oil is running out. Thirdly, the climate is changing and, as well as getting hotter, there will be more extremes of weather. I am not painting a gloomy picture, as this can be an exciting time of change where we can live in a spiritual way, in communities, towns and parts of cities that are all self sufficient, with non of the rush and tear that there is now. Permaculture is a way of living sustainably, which we need to learn now if our children are to have a future.
The Ascended Master that has been with me for some time now is Paul the Venetian. He is has helped me with music in the past, as I play a guitar and compose a few songs, however he is now helping me to design a permaculture garden.
3. Margaret, can you please tell us more about Diana Cooper's School as you are a Master Teacher?
Diana established the Diana Cooper School in 2002 when she first taught her teacher training course. In 2004 she handed over the running of the school to those who had successfully completed the teacher training courses (about 130 people at the time) with Diana continuing as Principal and retaining an interest in its activities. The school is growing with many more teachers and more courses being taught. At the present time the main teaching courses are Angels, Ascension, Transform Your Life and Golden Atlantis. There will also be affiliated courses attached to the school very soon and I am hoping to get my Angel Healing Practitioner course affiliated.
4.Please tell us about meditations and importance of it.
Everybody has meditated in one form or another. Daydreaming or concentrating on a problem or situation are both forms of meditation.
Meditation helps us to still our minds, so that we connect with the higher realms more easily. It is when our minds are still that we are receptive to new ideas, perspectives, answers, concepts and visions being placed in our consciousness by higher beings. We may not be aware of this when we are meditating, as meditation is like preparing the soil into which seeds are planted. We see the evidence of growth much later.
Some people, who have practiced formal meditation for years, are able to still their minds so effectively that they merge with God and enter into bliss, which is a state sought by seekers throughout the centuries. However, if we cannot reach this state, we will gain extraordinary benefits from practicing every day.
Regular meditation affects the physical body by lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and stress hormone levels. By spending at least five minutes every day in formal meditation we will have more energy and increased endorphin levels, which will make us happier, more contented, healthier and more relaxed. It is much better to spend five minutes in meditation than hours with our minds drifting.
Most people have days when they can easily still their minds and other days when their thoughts are all over the place. Calming the mind takes discipline, practice, patience and focussed intention, as well as kindness to yourself.
There are many different ways of meditating, here are a few examples: -
" Visualisation (as in daydreaming) " Concentrate on an object in front of you e.g. a candle or crystal " Concentrate on a situation, event or a problem " Focus on your normal breathing " Focus on breathing in positive energy and breathing out negative energy or some other energies like love, peace etc. " Empty your mind and think of nothing (very difficult!)
Example of Meditation With the Breath for 10 minutes
Example of Meditation to Bring up the Earth Energies
5. Please tell us, how do you see the Life Journey? What it is?
A life journey is the evolvement that we have undertaken to experience throughout all of our many incarnations, through the higher planes of existence until we reach Source or the Divine.
6.Why and for what do you feel we reincarnate on Earthly Plane?
We reincarnate on the Earthly plane to experience life in a physical body, to learn specific lessons that we agreed with our spiritual helpers before we reincarnated and to experience certain situations presented to us in different forms e.g. to experience a certain illness.
When we have leant all the lessons, experienced all that we feel that we need to throughout all of our lifetimes and have raised our vibrations sufficiently, then we no longer have to reincarnate and we ascend.
7. Can you please tell us more about Unicorns & how they can influence our lives?
Unicorns are seventh dimensional creatures that live in the angelic realms. Like the angels, they leave little white feathers to guide and inspire us. Unicorns originate from Lakuma, which is a moon that orbits Sirius, but at the moment there are many more of them on Earth, to help the Earth to raise its energy frequencies, because of the incredible changes taking place here.
The Unicorns vibrations are much higher than that of sound or light so we cannot normally hear or see them. Their golden horns are radiations of spiritual energy, like the wings around angels. They represent purity and have come to teach us qualities of beauty, dignity, pride, self worth, joy, peace, transmutation, clarity and honour. They also symbolise hope. Their function is to once more trigger our innocence, which is our original essence that we had the moment we became a divine spark. Because children are so simple and natural, unicorns often approach them and connect with them.
Unicorns can heal, as can any being of the seventh dimension, but unicorns reconnect people to their spirit. Their horns create a spiralling vortex of healing energy, which gives us wisdom and illumination, removes negative karma and replaces it with a high energy healing so that our divine light shines much more brightly.
Unicorns love beauty and nature. If you sit in your garden or walk in the countryside, move into a contemplative state so that the veil between the worlds becomes thin, then you may glimpse them. As Unicorns are so pure they can connect us to the elemental realms, which contain the fairies, elves, gnomes, water nymphs, salamanders and other beings that are of the pure ethers.
Unicorns have been much more in evidence recently and are patiently waiting to pour their light into people and situations. They are encouraging us to hold a higher vision by focusing our hearts and minds on a world where everyone co-operates and lives in harmony. If you find yourself in a situation or see a situation in the news that is not harmonious, then ask the unicorns to help you to formulate a clear picture in your mind of everybody in that situation working together, laughing and honouring one another. When you do this, you help to transmute the dark situations to light and raise the energy vibrations of people and the planet.
8.Why do you think there are much more Unicorns arriving to our beautiful planet Earth in these times?
In response to all the prayers for peace and assistance sent by humanity recently, they are returning to our planet to help us and the planet raise our vibrational frequencies.
9. What is the best way to connect with the Unicorns?
Just thinking about a unicorn wakens an energy within you that aligns you to higher realms.
Unicorns come to individuals or groups of people where the energy is high enough and they touch them with their special qualities. People are rarely born with unicorn energy, but waves of special unicorn light can come into them as they become ready. Other ways of connecting with the Unicorns is by walking in nature where they are abundant (usually quiet woody places) and feeling their energy and in meditation.
10. How can we honour our Unicorn Guide in a best way?
Many people, especially those that have a higher vision for helping the world, have their own special Unicorn guide, who comes to them to help them with their vision. Unicorns may also come in to guide a person with a special project or to help them fulfil their destiny. The best way to honour our Unicorn guide is to ask them for guidance, help and healing and to offer to be as pure and to raise our vibrations as high as possible.
11. Is there a difference with communicating to Unicorn & Angelic Realm or Ascended Masters?
Unicorns, Angels and Ascended Masters vibrate at different frequencies. The Ascended Masters have all incarnated on the earth plane and understand what it is like to be in a human body. The Angels job is to help humans with unconditional love and that is all they know to do. A Unicorn has a very high vibrational playful but powerful energy, but is very shy and so will only come to us when we are ready and when they feel confident.
12. How important is gratitude?
Gratitude is extremely important and is one of the Reiki principals. Giving thanks for all that we have, helps to expand our hearts and increase our sense of joy in life. This may mean showing our gratitude to others, giving thanks to the people who help us and valuing the animals, plants, trees, oxygen and, in fact, everything around us. Noticing all these things helps us to acknowledge that we are part of a larger world and reminds us to respect it. This also means giving thanks to every situation that occurs in our lives, in whatever form it may take. When we appreciate the difficulties and challenges of life, we can learn how to develop and grow. It helps to have a gratitude book and write down 3-4 things every day for which we are grateful. We must also show our gratitude for our own lives and part of this is looking after our bodies. We must try to eat good food, get plenty of exercise as well as rest, meditate often and practice self-healing.
13. Do you agree on the opinion, that all humans on Earth have a gift of connection with Higher Realms?
Most definitely. We are in connection with the higher realms through our crown chakra, which is usually open to some degree and so many people receive spiritual information on a sub conscious level and are not consciously aware of it. The only time that we are not connected is when our crown chakra's are blocked, which can be brought on with deep depression or drugs. This gives people a terrible feeling of isolation and despair, which they do not understand, as they are blocked or disconnected from the higher realms.
14. How would you describe a difference between an Angel Reading and a psychic reading, if any?
During an Angel reading, the Angels are being channelled for the highest good of the recipient. With a psychic reading (I am assuming you mean mediumship), spirits are channelled for the reading, which are spirits of people who have incarnated into this earth plane and are only of the vibration that they were when they were on this plane, which is obviously not as high as the Angels.
15.Margaret, what would you answer people, which think, that all Spiritual Help has to be given free, as it is seen as Gift of God?
Not all spiritual help should be given free, as we should also have respect for ourselves. It is often a difficult thing to charge for Spiritual Help, which is a gift from the Universe or a Gift from God, as you put it. However, it is about an exchange of energy. You need to think how long you are giving the spiritual help. A professional healing treatment, for example, usually takes about an hour, then there is the time the client is with the practitioner before and after, which can be another half to one hour and then there is the time that the practitioner takes to prepare for the treatment and tidy up afterwards. Therefore one treatment can take 2 to 3 hours of time, which the client should respect. Also if a client pays, does a deed or donates a gift in exchange for healing energy they will have a lot more respect and value the healing.
16. What would you advise those souls, which seem to be in need of outer approval?
Souls who need outer approval are usually working with their ego and do not realise their shallow existence. If they can embark on a spiritual path or try to only speak positive words, think positive thoughts and do acts of kindness and generosity then their life will be so much richer, however others can only guide them and they have to actively seek the higher path.
17. What is the best way in your opinion to create a perfect balance between giving - receiving?
It is very difficult to create the perfect balance between giving and receiving. Many people give a lot and then are closed to receiving. When we give, we must also be open to receive and that will create the perfect flow of energy and so we will live in abundance.
18. Can you please share your opinion about any sort of Energetic Healings?
Healing is energy vibrations directed at an energetic entity (person, animal, plant, object, situation, country etc.) in order to restore that entity's own vibrations to harmony and health.
It has been proved that absolutely everything is made up of energy. Each molecule possesses an energy field of a certain vibrational frequency and all molecules that make up a particular part of a living thing vibrate at similar frequencies. For example, all the molecules in your heart are vibrating at a similar frequency and all the molecules in your liver are vibrating at a different frequency depending on the health of your heart and liver. As all the parts of the human body vibrate at slightly different frequencies, together they produce the overall frequency for each person. This frequency depends on the person's physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and well being. The same is true for all living things.
Therefore our bodies are amazing and complex energetic entities and research has shown that the cells of our body actually emit light and that it is used as a form of communication between the cells. Disease and illness are the result of an inconsistent condition within the energy matrix and communication between the cells begins to break down. When healing takes place, it is giving energy to the body, so that it is able to regain the energetic coherence and harmony at cellular level and the cells can communicate more effectively with each other.
Many people have stated that the mind, emotions and the human body are completely inter-related and it has also been proved that the mind and emotions can affect the health of the body. Therefore it is worth remembering that the energy from the mind and emotions affects the energy of the cells and the communication between the cells of the body.
19. Margaret, please tell us how can we help ourselves in times, when we feel really lonely, really scared and do not see the light in front of us?
The best thing that we can do is connect and communicate with the Angels, as they love us unconditionally and offer such comfort and friendship in times like these. We are never alone, as our Guardian Angel is always with us and it is a great reassurance to ask our Guardian Angel to enfold us in their wings or energy. However, I do realise that when we do not see the light in front of us, it is very difficult to connect with the Angels, as our emotions get in the way. I have found that using Angel cards (or any other set of spiritual cards, but not tarot) breaks the barriers through our emotions and we can communicate with the Angels through the cards, which can be a lovely source of comfort.
20. Margaret, do you have any advice for those Souls, which are just starting their Spiritual Journey and still struggle to find their way?
I am always being asked by people to tell them what their next step is on their evolutionary path and, unfortunately, I am unable to tell them, as we all have our own different paths to tread and the only person who knows which way to go is the person themselves, all be it on a higher level. Therefore the guidance that I give is to think or meditate on what makes them feel happy, excited and fulfilled. Usually this gives them a clue to help them find their way in this lifetime.