Who is Lisa Rapha El?

Lisa is a visionary committed to fostering spiritual growth and development through her books, articles, presentations, transformational holistic healing and inter-dimensional communications consultations. From her beginnings as a refugee child through careers in music and psychotherapy and memory of lifetimes in other dimensions and galaxies, she has not ceased in her quest for Oneness.

NEW: Princess From Maldek:
A Visionary Exploration of The Fifth Realm

“A profound step into the world of spiritual understanding.”
Lynn Andrews

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The Fourth Eye:
A Spiritual Primer

“Very thought provoking and mystical, written from a whole different perspective.”
Rev. Alan Rowbotham, First Unity Church, St. Petersburg

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SPIDER IN THE VOID

This morning, as I watched a spider weave her web in front of our kitchen window, I GOT it in a way that was more direct that any inspirational message, philosophy, scientific speculation, guidance or prophecy could express.
She started from where she just happened to land – nothing but empty space around her. And proceeded to weave, thread by thread, a magnificent web. How did she know where and when to turn around in that space, that void? Who taught her produce the threads, where to place them? There were no gurus in sight to tell her “this is your mission, this way next, turn this way to manifest all that your desire. Yet she moved with complete certainty, following an invisible path imprinted in her cellular, genetic memory – a deep, inherent knowing her only guide.
We experience the void in deep meditation, when we deliberately release our attachments to the material, or at times in our lives when we are stripped of all that we believed, all that we owned, everyone we loved. In these challenging times many of us are facing the void.
When we remove ourselves from the chaos created by the illusion that anything or anyone else knows how we should weave the threads of our lives, we discover that the directions are right there, deep inside us, within the cellular, unmindful knowing that landed us here at this precise moment in inter galactic history.
Like a spider, we need only to connect with out inherent, God-given knowing to weave our web into a human design that is uniquely right for us.

THE HEART OF HEALING

The heart of healing is compassion. Compassion is about being WITH a person, feeling deeply WITH them, and being present WITH them. It is different from pity or sympathy, which is feeling FOR someone, or caring FOR someone.The closest in meaning to compassion is unconditional love, love without demands or expectations.

Everyone has the capacity for compassion, and can heal. A compassionate friend can often be a more effective healer than the most gifted professional. A friend who shows compassion does so as an equal, whereas professionals, however compassionate, are separated by the fact of their status. Professional healers naturally expect compensation for their services. Even when a professional healer volunteers their service, operates pro bono, there is still a hierarchical separation. A friend is there simply because they want to be present with you.

The essence of all healing is self-healing. Everyone has an inner healer, and a successful healing experience activates that inner healer. There are many very gifted and talented individuals offering consultations, products, techniques, workshops and seminars for relief of physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. Whenever one of these seems  effective, remember that it is not the person or method or product that is responsible for your release.  It is your own inner healer that has responded to the treatment.

My own understanding of the heart of healing did not come from professional qualifications or recognition, but from the response of one of my clients to the question “Of all the things we did together, what made the most difference?”Her answer had nothing to do anything I had done, or the certificates on the wall. “The way you smiled at me when you came out to get me.”Evidently my smile communicated compassion.

There is no end and no beginning to healing. It is an ongoing process. We all have struggles and challenges to deal with that leave scars on our psyche. We may learn to survive or even to thrive, but the effects of our challenges continue to be present, many of them unconscious. It is doubtful that every wounding can be healed in all its aspects within a lifetime.

May we all learn to be compassionate with ourselves and others. 

BECOMING RAPHAEL

I never  liked my given names. My first name, Elizabeth was all right, but the rest of them, Mathilde, after my maternal grandmother, and Bauer, my family name, were tough to deal with growing up in Australia. Our family was amongst the first waves of non-English speaking people to reach those shores. Mathilde was a special source of teasing in the land of Waltzing Matilda, and Bauer had to be spelled out all the time. It was my music which saw me through those early refugee years. A natural talent for the piano gave me the attention I craved. Whenever I felt lonely, lost or unimportant I dreamed of becoming a famous concert pianist. What would I call myself? Elizabeth Bauer was hardly a name for a famous concert pianist! My mother’s maiden name, Raphael, had a romantic sound to it, and Lisa would sound perfect with it. So along with practicing piano, I practiced signing my autograph, Lisa Raphael.

The name and the ambition were forgotten as I traveled the globe, studied psychology and became a United States citizen. InAmerica, I reduced my middle name to an initial, and adopted the abbreviation, Liz, as my first name. When I married, I dropped that troublesome Mathilde and became Elizabeth Bauer Egoroff. After my marriage and psychotherapy practice proved insufficient to satisfy the yearnings of my soul, I embarked on a spiritual quest.

At one workshop, when we  were asked to draw a representation of our child, adult and higher self, the name, Lisa wrote itself in the circle representing my higher self. A year before my divorce, I had a vivid dream. In the dream there has been an earthquake, and I am wandering, naked and alone, in the rubble. Everything familiar is gone. The word “healer” permeates the dream. This dream came back to me as I thought about what to name myself after the divorce. I was already using Lisa as my first name, but it did not seem to fit with Egoroff. Then I remembered the family story about the origins of my mother’s  name. The story is that a Hebrew ancestor, wounded in a war, lay bleeding on the battlefield, crying out Raphael. The orderly recording the names of the wounded recorded his cry as his name. Raphael in Hebrew means “Heal me, God.” Archangel Raphael has also long been associated with healing, so taking on that name seemed to fit with my dream. But it was not until I put Lisa and Raphael  together that I flashed back to the memory of practicing signing that name as young girl.

The dream, the family story and the girl who wanted to become a famous concert pianist all came together when Lisa Raphael became my legal name.

                                                         

75th birthday concert

But the full significance of the name was not revealed until later. Shortly after my divorce, I developed fast growing cataracts. Removing those cataracts, removing the old lenses from my vision of the world, was an integral part of my healing. After my name change, I found a story in the Apocrypha in which the Archangel Raphael heals a blind man of cataracts. Later, I came upon a painting which depicts the person being healed playing a keyboard instrument.

Relationship Minefields and Mirrors

The realization that relationships are basically mirrors is the key to healing any and every relationship⎯with ourselves, with others, with nature and with the universe. We are all inter- connected. What we think, feel and do affects everything around us.

This may be easier to accept as a general concept than as a truth about a particular relationship, especially an intimate one. The blame game has forever been a favorite couples’ sport. “If only he would do that,” we protest, or “if only she would be more like that.” It is always the other person that needs to change. Yet just as mirrors in everyday life reflect what we cannot see, our partners reflect back shadow aspects of ourselves that we do not see otherwise. It is a not easy to consider that the traits that irritate us in our partners are reflections of ourselves.

The role of the mirror in everyday life is to tell us how we look⎯ is our hair tidy, does this clothing look good on us, are our pimples or wrinkles showing, and so on. When we see something we do not like, we try to fix it. We do not blame the mirror for what it is reflecting back to us, nor do we try to correct it in the mirror. Yet when we see something we do not like in another person, we forget that they, too, are a mirror, and begin trying to fix in the other what needs fixing in ourselves.

When we understand that our partner’s behavior is a reflection or our own, it becomes easier to sort out what is his and what is hers. Close relationships are like mine fields; we never know when an innocent remark or incident will trigger a reactive explosion. We each carry imprints from the past within us, memories of how our family or friends responded to us, reactions to past trauma. When one of these memories is triggered, we react the way we did in the past. We may even say “you sound just like my mother” or “stop treating my like a child” and blame our partner for what is essentially our own childhood memory. This is OUR minefield, not something our partner is doing to us.
Knowing ourselves is essential to good relationships, and relationships, being mirrors, help us to know ourselves.

To see past the distortions of all the mirrors that reflect our reality requires discernment, and discernment requires quiet. Quiet is hard to come in a world in which there is constant noise from traffic, refrigerators and microwaves, television sets, computers, cell phones, and radios. Yet it is in the quiet that we can come to know ourselves. It is only through awareness of the flow of our own psyche that we can discern what is true in our relationships, and create healthy ones.

Cosmic Re-cycling: Beyond Karmic Resolution

“The Creation, or Source, is a pulsing, expanding, spinning energy field of pure light.
“There is no beginning and no end to creation. It simply is.”
- The Fourth Eye: A Spiritual Primer

The Fourth Eye view of All That Is goes beyond the theory that there was Big Bang, a beginning, or a specific entity such as a God that created Life. Life continues to be created, and what we commonly refer to as the Creator is really The Creation process.

Everything that is begins as energy. Energy never dies, it simply transforms. Death, then – be it of a person, a species, a planet, or a universe – is an illusion. Everyone and everything is constantly evolving into new forms and manifestations.

From this perspective karmic resolution is only an infinitesimal piece of a huge picturing. As our human karma is resolved, we simply evolve into a new manifestation of the pure Light of The Creation.

KARMIC RESOLUTION

Karma in a visionary sense represents the soul’s primary lesson to be learned in the accomplishment of its universal mission of unification with the One.
The resolution of karma is an ongoing process that encompasses lifetimes in many different dimensions and time-lines.
Each cell of each body contains the holographic blueprint of the Creation Itself.
Humans mirror the multi-faceted, splintered aspect of Source.
The splintering of the soul self is for the purpose of spiritual healing, knowing and experiencing all angles of a particular path towards compassion, forgiveness and wholeness.

Becoming one with the Creation  involves resolving the karmic balance of each consciousness body – the physical, emotional, mental and etheric – each of which has its own karmic history.
In the ultimate reality, everything is happening at the same time, in different forms, manifestations, locations, dimensions and densities.
Every aspect of every fragment of consciousness, on every level of awareness is simultaneously engaged in the process of evolving towards wholeness, at oneness with itself and with the Creation, the All That Is.

To be completely at one with the Creation involves resolving the karmic balance of each consciousness body – the physical, emotional, mental and etheric bodies – each of which has its own karmic history.
As consciousness expands and the fourth eye opens, more and more aspects of an individual’s path of karmic balancing are revealed.

 KARMIC RESOLUTION LEMURIA/KAUAI  2007-2012

Continent of Mu(Lemuria)                              Island of Kauai

Since accepting the call to Kauai in 2007, there have been several opportunities to deepen the resolution of personal and collective karma through spontaneous and often dramatic recall of past lives on this ancient land.
Three major themes have woven themselves through my personal history: guilt of the survivor; fear of revealing my authentic identity; betrayal of trust.

My earliest recurring dream was of awakening in an abandoned cemetery and crawling out of a grave in which I had been buried for dead. I am the only one alive. As a child of the Holocaust, this was easily understood in terms of my personal history. No-one who lived through that historic period came out without some measure of guilt of the survivor. The karmic antecedent came forth during a healing session during which I re-lived the crash of an inter-galactic research vessel on Lemuria/Kauai of which I was the captain/navigator. As the only one who understood the workings of the vehicle, I alone was responsible for the navigational error that lead to the crash and was the only survivor. My unresolved grief and guilt required resolution in subsequent lifetimes.

Fear of revealing my authentic identity also relates to my personal history this lifetime. It was not safe to reveal Jewish ancestry in Hitler’s Europe, and later, not safe to reveal my memories in my family. Shortly after my arrival on Kauai,I joined a walking group. Crossing the road towards the bike path at a particular location, I experienced a sudden pain in the right hip, and could not walk for weeks. When I re-joined the group, the same thing happened in the same spot. After the third time this happened, I recalled a lifetime as a Menehune when it was only safe to come out at night. We were ambushed, and a spear thrust into my right hip. The pain disappeared and did not recur after I resolved the memory.

The experience of betrayal of trust in this lifetime alone could fill volumes. My brother failed to protect me and participated in sexual abuse by his playmates. A colleague absconded with my entire psychotherapy practice during a 6 month furlough in the 1970s. My ex-husband played every dirty trick in the book during our divorce twenty years later. On Kauai-Lemuria, a lifetime was
recalled in which I was betrayed by a fellow member of a rebel group working against the nefarious schemes of the Atlantian ruling elite.

For decades I have had welts and scratches from beatings and whippings appear periodically on my shoulders, back and buttocks. These cellular memories of earthly and alien violence span dimensions, time-lines and universes.
On Kauai-Lemuria they relate both to the torture suffered at the hands of the primitive humans on Earth at the time of the space vehicle crash, by the ruling elite in my lifetime as a Menehune, and punishment for participation in a planned overthrow of the Atlantian masters at that time.

Karmic resolution requires that we reclaim and heal reciprocal memories. I have remembered being both a soldier in the Hitler’s army and a guard at Buchenwald concentration camp; a powerful Druid leader who ordered and participated in the sexual abuse, torture and death of countless men, women and children;  and my betrayal of the man who became my husband in this lifetime in truly heinous fashion. On Kauai I have been used, unconsciously, as an instrument for the destruction of powerful healing tools for ascension.

Recognizing and forgiving all that we abhor and all that we love within ourselves is the key to Ho-oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian healing art for restoration of harmonious relationships between people, Nature and Spirit.
Earth in the Fourth  Realm was called Maldek.
I remember Maldek as a paradise in which many different species of human, animal and plant life co-existed peacefully.In which the tribes, animals and plants that chose to separate and forgot how to love were allowed to be part of everyday life, separated only by an inter-dimensional barrier that prevented fear, loss, greed and despair from spreading to the uninfected.

Together, we can  re-create this paradise.

THE ILLUSION OF IDENTITY

I recently dreamed that I found myself in totally unfamiliar territory with all my documents, keys and cards gone. There was not earthly way to identify myself. Yet rather than feeling fearful, I felt strangely free.

Our ID, our Id- entity is a grand illusion. A lifeless thing composed of conscious and unconscious conditioning – through fear – of not being loved or accepted if we do not comply with familial, social, cultural or religious rules and beliefs.

Who we are is beyond definition.

I first experienced my Being beyond identity – the void – twenty five years ago at the Grand Canyon. Sitting quietly off the path, absorbed in the changing shadows over the canyon, time stopped. It was not until I began to feel chilled that I realized I had been there for several hours. When I got up I felt I had been truly seen for the first time in my life. Somehow, in the silence, in the absence of thought, feeling, motion or human contact, I had made contact with my Self.

My path since then has taken me many unfamiliar places where I have been unknown. The challenge is to be my authentic SELF without getting trapped in the illusion that these FORMS of identification – including this website!

I am not alone in this dilemma. More and more of us are awakening to a larger reality while needing to function within the matrix of cultural norms. Living off the grid physically is technologically possible. Living free of the grid of conscious and unconscious belief is an ongoing challenge.