Our Living Dream: Desire and the path to the Divine

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Desire and the path to the Divine

"Deep Sea Diving", Oil on canvas, 36"x48", $2600
If you are interested in purchasing this painting please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

"To know God is not the negation of desires, but rather
complete fulfillment.Just as by feeding somebody else
one's own hunger cannot be appeased, so the soul can
never be satisfied by catering to the senses. The senses
crave indulgence,greed, and temptations to excite and
amuse them; the soul feels fulfilled only by calmness,
peace, and bliss bestowed by meditation."

"By contacting God in the world and in meditation, all
desires of the heart are fulfilled; for nothing is more
worthwhile, more pleasant or attractive than the all
satisfying, ever-new joy of God.

Desire limits the consciousness to the object of desire."
"One who bathes his consciousness in the Holy Ghost
becomes unattached to personal desires and objects
while enjoying everything with the joyousness of God
within."

Paramahansa Yogananda,
"The Second Coming of Christ:The Resurrection of the
Christ Within You"

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About Katherine Treffinger - Spiritual mentor, counselor and healer

In 1981 after a long bout of travel related hepatitis I began a spiritual journey that was all but forced on me. I was seeing spirits everywhere and my perceptions of people and events around me were radically changing. Up to this point I had considered myself an agnostic. There was no longer any denying that there were other realities. I was very fortunate to find incredible spiritual mentors to help me through this change. I was very wounded and I had much work to do on my path to wholeness. I studied metaphysics and healing techniques and the tarot. I started using what I had learned and did hands on healing, massage, tarot readings and spiriual consultations.

I no longer see spirits; that was just to get my attention. I no longer value all the bells and whistles I experienced at the beginning. There is a quiet magic that shows up for me now. What I find I am valuing is the quieting of the mind and a sense of peace that is taking place. All healing takes place in the Peace and it is where I love to hang out.

Our Living Dream - The philosophy

We live in an interactive Universe, where what we believe, think, and most of all feel, creates our reality. Quantum Physics has shown that what we observe we affect by the way we observe it.

We are living a dream, or rather we are dreaming a life, a very malleable reality. I have seen that the affect of our observation, which we experience as our lives, can be interpreted as a dream, giving us a key to our most hidden motivations and hence, our freedom. With awareness, intention and presence,we can participate in creating this dream.

Each one of us, individually, is here as a wondrous manifestation of the Divine. The Divine through the individual, is experiencing a diversity that happens through each one of us being fully the unique special beings we are.
We are Universes unto ourselves Every one of these Universes is essential. We are God experiencing God and that is our one and only job.

Our deepest desires are our Higher/Divine Self informing us on our soul path.

The desire for healing of the self is not simply a self-serving motivation. We are one with a field of Energy, of Intelligence that connects all people, animals, minerals, plants, the earth and the cosmos. What we heal, liberate, and transform, we do for All. This healing ripples through the field and affects the entirety.

Learn how best to love you, and in doing so you align with the truth of who you are, love. Your alignment radiates and informs all beings.

There is no better way to help anyone, anything, anywhere.

Transformational Advisor

When I listen to someone tell the story of what they are experiencing in their life I listen as if I was hearing a night time dream, all of it up for interpretation. Through this active listening I help facilitate conscious recognition of what the enactments in the person’s life are about symbolically. In this way one can free themselves from the pattern, change the resulting manifest reality and come more into alignment with their Selves.

Over the years I have developed my gift as a spiritual mentor, both through working with myself and others. I know that how I work with people is powerful and deeply transformational if the person I am working with fully embraces the work. People have come to me with severe wounding. I have given them the tools to heal. The healings that have transpired have been amazing to not only them but to me. I love helping others get free of anything that holds them back from their naturally fulfilling lives. My insights into a persons process is highly intuitive. Many of the ways I work with people are individual to me, a result of working deeply with myself and many others.

The Healing Work

As a healer, I do distance healing and laying on of hands. I have studied many spiritual lineages and have learned how to line up with Divine Truth. Divine truth is that All is Harmony and Grace, therefore there is no such thing as discord or disease. This is my form of prayer and healing. I align myself with this truth and many times a healing occurs. During the process healing energy comes through me and a strong intuitive understanding of what to do with the energy. The healings are not something that is done to a person, transformation is being requested from the persons soul and the person requesting the healing must be willing to embrace that transformation fully. No matter what level of awakening a person is at it is challenging for a person to know Divine truth when they are experiencing serious discord. It is important to have someone that can hold that truth for them.

Sometimes healing does not occur, or at least, it does not look like what we were hoping for. I cannot know the reason why some healings 'work' while others do not. Maybe there is an aspect of needing the discord to push us to a new level of transformation and freedom. For those with life threatening illnesses that do not experience healing it is possible it is simply time to leave the experience of being incarnate. We all leave and have different ways of doing so. This can be one of the most beautiful and transformational times in a person's life, which in itself is another sort of healing. I am available and honored to be present with a person in this sacred stage of life.

Testimonials

Caitlin Ecklund
Katherine's fantastic sense of humor,
humanity, humility, and faith are an
amazing cocktail that allows her healing
work to be completely non-judgmental,
empowering, and deeply compassionate.
Her pitch-perfect insights always ring
true for me and her work always feels
so gentle, organic, and respectful...it
feels like she waters and shines on the
seeds that are already waiting to thrive.
Katherine and her powerful work have
assisted me in making some of the
biggest transformations of my life.
I am beyond grateful for her!"

Tara Pfister-Minogue
"Katherine Treffinger is one of the most
powerful healers I have ever met. She has
a gift of vision which is completely unique
to her. She sees to the bottom of things in
a way which is unique because of the purity
with which she does it. Her motivations in
helping others are completely clean. The
heart of her being is loyal as the lion and
pure as the sun, purified by its own fire.
Throughout the time I have known
Katherine she has been a guiding light on
my path which assists in bringing my focus
into complete clarity. With Katherine's
integrity and giftedness and my sincere
desire to grow, we have formed a healing
alliance which supports me in the merging
of the non-physical and physical parts of
my being. This allows my dreams to become
a physical reality. All of my life this has been
my dream and with the assistance of
Katherine as witness and the sharing of her
gifts as healer, I am living my dream.

I am writing this testimonial with the
intention of conveying the true value of what
Katherine has to offer so that others who are
in need of Katherine's services can receive the
true value of what she has to offer. If you are
ready to have your life expanded and your
being transformed in the way of the highest
potential, call on Katherine."

Joe Burull
"Katherine and I have been good friends many
years. Any time I've asked for advice on
anything she has always been available and
open. She has a way of addressing issues that
gets to their essence very quickly. The
combination of her life experience and amazing
intuitive abilities get right to the heart of the
matter. She never tells me what to do but
guides me to discover what I truly want to do
by showing me, and/or reminding me, of how
to access my own inner guidance. All this,
and a great sense of humor and vitality and
groundedness."

Eva Lynn Hassan:
"Katherine Treffinger is a sensitive listener who
has deep insights that are conveyed with a
delicious sense of humor and great care for
personal growth and development. Always
mindful of different perspectives she does
not impose her views, but rather collaborates
with the client to develop an informative lens
to see through. Her capacities to respond all
conspire to create a vibrant session with long
lasting reflections or rumination for any
engaged participant. I know this from my own
direct experiences with Katherine!"

Dr. M. Ruth Davenport:
"I have suffered with a knee injury for many
years. It is mostly under control and doesn't
bother me, but once in a while, I overdo it and
it flares up. I was on vacation in Eugene
recently and had been lifting a lot of heavy
boxes and suitcases just before I left town
and my knee was a wreck. I called Katherine
in Cove and requested a non-local treatment.
Katherine graciously agreed and went to work.
I quickly fell asleep and when I woke up, my
knee was significantly better. The next day
there was no pain at all. Usually when I have
these flare-ups, it can hurt for weeks. I am
most grateful to Katherine for her intuition,
grace, and powerfully perceptive skills as a
healer.

Katherine has so much to offer us all through
her years of background in this work that she
brings to guidance in pursuing one's course,
and in her spiritual healing. I am blessed to call
her friend and grateful she is in my life and
available to turn to for advice that keeps me
focused and grounded. I highly recommend her
to anyone seeking a teacher who is powerful
yet humble, wise yet a learner, and open to
immediate resonances yet informed by the
knowings of the ages. She is creative, intuitive,
and so kind in her ability to help me on my
learning journeys. Thanks, Katherine."

Melissa Over:
"My tarot reading with Katherine was, quite
literally, phenomenal. I did not enter into the
experience with an agenda, other than to be
open to whatever message came my way.
Katherine began by helping me focus on intent
and offered amazing insight into my life
experience. What followed with the reading of
the cards, blew my mind. I believe a skeptic
would have been awed by the relevance of the
cards I chose, especially following Katherine's
and my conversation. Katherine brought
meaning from each card to my own life
experience, and offered a deeper exploration
that felt very safe. The reading made absolute
sense to me, and I credit Katherine's incredible
talent that made it so. I recommend to anyone
who has never had a reading but may be
curious, to visit Katherine. And those who are
familiar with tarot as a spiritual and forward
moving medium - you'll know you're in the
presence of an authentic and spiritual soul.
In gratitude, Melissa Over "

More testimonials.

Please read what Teri Mahl at 'Working the
Earth' has to say here. And here.