Dear Lipstick Mystic,

I want to tell you about two wonderful experiences I had in the past. And I also have a question about them

The first one was a few years ago. I was cleaning the lawn of fallen leaves. At a particular moment I stopped cleaning and I realized that I was one with the Universe. There were no borders between me and everything else outside of me. There was no "me." I was the Universe and the Universe was me.

It was wonderful, and I was in a total calmness. But then I started thinking about what was happening, and suddenly it faded away. Bloody thinking came to spoil the day!

The second experience was last summer. I was just on my way to post a letter. At a moment I started to feel very joyful and playful. I felt a tremendous love for myself and everything else outside of me coming in. I started dancing, and I smiled at everybody passing by. Those people - even the most stressed ones - had a joyful moment and started smiling too. I felt unconditional love for everything you can think of. Also came in the Oneness experience, feeling One with everything.

You can say it was like the first experience but this time filled with a tremendous lot of love. I also could use my thinking. But again, eventually it faded away

My question is how do you get in these states of mind, because it just
happened? I was not doing meditation or heavy spiritual stuff at the moment, I just was doing what I was doing. And I can tell you, sometimes it can be very frustrating knowing it is possible, knowing it should be like that

And I wish everybody has experiences like this......and they don't fade
away. It will make the world a better place to live....for sure!

What can I do to develop contact with all there is?

-- Love Pjotr from the Netherlands

Dear Pjotr,

What a wonderful series of experiences you had! Thanks very much for sharing them with me and my readers.

What you are describing is a "peak experience," a heightened moment of sense perception in which the ego temporarily dissolved, and you no longer felt a barrier between you and everyone else. You were "one" with creation.

This experience of having all of that joy flood through you is one that mystics are always seeking. Congratulations on achieving it without really trying! This should show everyone that you don't have to quit your job, move to a mountain-top, and meditate for twenty years in order to have great moments like this where you are tapping into the Divine.

Sometimes, these experiences find us when we least expect them, and this colors such moments with a unique feeling of "grace" or blessing. How wonderful it is to receive them!

I've found over the years, both in my own life and in other people's lives, that such times of ecstasy and connection with God/Goddess/Great Spirit frequently come in answer to our ongoing prayers. For instance, if you regularly pray and ask to receive moments of bliss, times of divine inspiration, they will eventually happen. Sometimes, they can flood into your consciousness when you are taking out the trash or doing something really "mundane" in your regular life. This can be fun, because it's like stumbling onto a treasure when you least expect it.

When the hand of the Divine gently reaches out to touch you, it's truly an awesome and marvelous experience, isn't it? And I agree with you - if more people could experience this even ONCE in their lives, world peace would be immediate. We would suddenly remember the spiritual realm and the world of the divine and realize that we are all a part of God's magnificent creation, every one of us, without exclusion! And so are the trees, the animals, the very Earth herself. Everything is connected. Everything is linked with the same energy. We are all united by a Cosmic Internet, a neverending quantum field of love.

For people who are seeking to experience those moments of bliss and interconnection with creation, I can recommend one thing that might be very helpful. You may wish to try this yourself. Start chatting with the joy angels!

The joy angels are a special group of angels who are often sent to people who are aching and suffering to keep their hearts open and to prevent them from shutting down spiritually. When you're living in a war zone or experiencing abuse or misery of any kind, it can be so tempting to shut down your heart. When you feel really beaten down and sad, your heart goes through extreme trauma, and that's when it's more important than ever to remember the world of Spirit and to seek reconnection to the world of the Divine, so you don't descend into darkness. When you're suffering, if you can reach out to God/Goddess/Great Spirit and ask for the joy angels to help you, you'll feel them arrive on shafts of golden light, ready to lift your spirits.

But the neat thing is that you don't have to be suffering to connect with the joy angels. You can pray for their inspiration and ask for their companionship at ANY time. And it sounds like during each of the two experiences you describe in your letter that you were tapping into the joy angels and their wonderful, happy energy.

So, to recreate these experiences, I would recommend giving thanks to the joy angels in your prayers and asking that they be around you more, reminding you of those incredible vibrations of love, surrounding you with their incredible lightness of being. People experience the joy angels differently. I used to experience them as these strong waves of bliss that just came over me when I least expected them, and they were extremely common for me throughout my childhood and early teens. I'd be having dinner with my parents, playing the piano at home, or playing outside with my friends, and suddenly I'd feel this incredible rush of joy and love. I felt so thankful for everything in my life at those times. They were truly moments of "grace," when I felt connected with everything and everyone.

As I grew older, these moments became more rare, but your letter is an excellent reminder that I should start chatting with the joy angels again and to thank them for their many blessings.

All of the frequencies in the angelic kingdom can become more accessible to us if we learn to focus on them. I tend to work a lot with the angels of healing and the angels of creative inspiration, who are also very lovely. But this is a great reminder for me to remember the joy angels in my prayers, too. Thank you!

Joy angels also carry a lot of love and creativity as part of their vibration, so there can be some overlap between various types of angels. But I'd say give thanks to the joy angels for having blessed you with those past peak experiences, and ask for their help in creating more of those moments for you and those around you in the future. Then report back here! I'm eager to learn more about what you experience, and I'm sure my readers would like to know, too.

The wonderful thing about the joy angels is that they flood you with so much love and bliss that you immediately start to radiate that energy outwards and share it with everyone in your environment. And that's when you can play the role of the healing superhero, silently zapping people with frequencies of divine light and spreading sunshine wherever you go. Some people do this naturally. The rest of us simply need to be more conscious that we have this capability. Each one of us can tap into this radiant field on a more regular basis, learning to spread this energy throughout out homes, neighborhoods, and throughout our entire world.

I truly believe that this is the wave of the future, this energy of divine bliss and love. And I also sense that this energy is becoming more and more available to all who would care to participate in it. All we need do is to get out our surfboards and start riding those cosmic waves.

So get chatting with the joy angels and report back on your adventures!

Many thanks again for your letter,

Lipstick Mystic