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Text, illustrations, and photographs copyright 2008 Liz Mitten Ryan
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This book contains insights supplied to the author. It is published or generalinormation and not as a substitute or independent verication by users whencircumstances warrant. It is sold with the understanding that neither the author norpublisher is engaged in rendering any specic psychological, religious, or equineadvice. The publisher and author disclaim any personal liability, either directly orindirectly, or any inormation presented within. Although the author and publisherhave used care and diligence in the preparation, and made every eort to ensure theaccuracy and completeness o inormation in this book, we assume no responsibilityor errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or inconsistencies herein.
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Photographs by: Liz Mitten Ryan, Kevin Ryan, Laurie C. Munsell, andNicole Reynolds.Photo-graphics: Peter Ryan
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ISBN: 1-4392-1193-0
Printed in: USA
First Printing 2008
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Liz Mitten Ryan
Prima Publishing2008
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To God.In all his miraculous glory,To whom I dedicate my life in all its possibility,and my eternal and immeasurable LOVE.
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Contents
Introduction - 5
Sabbatical. . . resting in the power of isness
1 In the beginning 9
2 Possibility 23
3 The Wilderness Experience 45
4 Temptation and Sacrifce 65
5 Baptism 93
6 Lesson in Aloneness 109
7 True Identity 127
8 Isness 147
9 L.I.F.E. Forever 167
10 Sabbatical 177
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Ihave read many spiritual, metaphysical and new age books
and understood and believed in the principles. What I havent
understood is why they are limited to human concepts and
belies. Having spent a considerable time (ten years now) in the
company o my animals and nature, I have absorbed a dierent
perspective that is all encompassing in its parameters. I one
were to imagine a world very much like the original Garden
o Eden state where all the creatures, animals, man and all o
creation walked and talked with each other and God, it would
be similar to the animals understanding when they connect to
higher consciousness. From there, the orce o love permeates
all o lie. There are no opposites, no death, only lie everlasting.
All experience is enjoyed through the power o the imagination
and there is no possibility o harming another to obtain your
desires. Removed rom physical constraints, there would be no
need or work or war to obtain assets that were always available.
We would not need to kill. Lie would be a sabbatical.This vision comes rom a higher plane o existence, both beore
and beyond our immersion in matter, a place where we can visit
in our consciousness whenever we can leave the boundaries o our
physical sel. When we are not conned to a single identity we are
ree to travel wherever our consciousness would like to go.
That is true wisdom, truth, joy, reedom, abundance and love.
That is who we truly are: UNLIMITED MIRACULOUS
BEINGSresting in the power o Isness. All o us one, in the
creative genius o the Universe, the imagination o the All.
Introduction
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PEACE
by Kevin Ryan
In those quiet moments
When the soul
Takes a deep breath
And the air falls still
The senses soften
And an alertness of lifes
Ebbing forces
Lifts the heart.
In those moments lies my peace
When our mountains dissolve
And fears bitter taste
Tastes loves sweet freedom.
Lifes purpose harmonizes
In those eternal moments
of joy.
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Chapter 2Possibility
W
e as humans suer rom an insidious malaise that is
growing like a cancer throughout our species and
our world. Natural System Dysunction (NSD)is a direct result o our alienation rom our natural, lie-giving
relationship to our sourcethe source o all creation and the
sustenance that eeds all lie. The more we distance ourselves
rom our natural state, the more dangerous and ragile our
tenuous hold on lie becomes.
To avoid sounding as unintelligent as the average human being
who says Speak louder, I dont understand your language, the
solution to NSD lies in our ability to listen to the language o
naturea language beyond words. It speaks sotly, but with
wisdom, instantly remembered as absolute truth, both or the
individual and or the whole as one united symbiotic system and
greater being. This is what the animals call the ALL (God).
I dont think you will nd an animal with NSD unless it has
somehow been made so by a human, i.e., held in captivity under
orced and unnatural circumstances. The human antidote to NSD currently being developed is
the science o organic psychology, which enables your thinking
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and eeling to consciously workwith rather than against nature.
In other words, you need to return to your roots as an organic
design, subject to the organic laws o nature, but rather than
consciously working with nature, we can, in act, play with it
and allow nature to play with us. Isness is the astest route. It
transports us instantly to connect with the ALL and benet rom
the immensity and wisdom o an innite resource, and our truth
as spiritual beings temporarily
immersed in matter.
How can we ully appreciate
the possibility o Isness? We must
reconnect to our source. Althoughthis can be done rom a meditative
state, ound by removing ourselves
rom the distractions o our unnatural lives, it is dicult and
time-consuming to attain this state by sheer will. The secret o
continuous and acile meditation, or as the Hindu Buddhists call
it, active Samadhi, is connection to all lie. Samadhi describes a
non-dualistic state o consciousness in which the consciousness o
the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object.
True connection can only be discovered in the absence o thought,
and going about simple tasks in the presence o nature and animals
is the astest route to that state. As my horses tell me:
Our lives are one continuous conversation with God,
or the ALL. We recognize that when humans converse
with God, it becomes a revelation. But why must humans
take ownership o everything? Your translation voices a
collective ownership o God within all humans. God is
True connection can only be discovered
in the absence of thought, and going
about simple tasks in the presence of
nature and animals is the fastest routeto that state.
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within all lie! We are no less because we speak a dierent
language, or because our skin or our culture is oreign.
We have much to teach humanity about the ALL. All lie
is symbiotic. Do not orget us. The part about dominion
is only written in human religions. You humans speak much o enlightenment. What is
enlightenment? We suppose, or humans, it is that ever-
evasive lightness o being. It is dicult or you; you
struggle to achieve; you struggle to avoid; you just plain
struggle, when the true secret o enlightenment is to simply
be in the light, to be o the light. You humans are
o the dark most o the time. You enjoy the stimulation
o game playing, which to us is simply untruth. We arehonest, absolute; you will not nd an animal pretending
to be anything other than their God-given selves.
It is strange how your truisms speak the truth, but you
rarely hear them. You are mostly too busy to listen. That
is the secret: You must listen, and to listen you must be
quiet; you must quiet your minds.
What we know o you is conusinga tangled jumble
o thoughts and desires. One moment you think and eel
one way; the next moment, another. Horses have a hardtime with this because our minds are like a clear pool. We
are the waters o the earth and we refect the sky. We do
not claim ownership o the waters, but share them with
all who would come to drink. We have not orgotten the
truth o who we are. We are the water and the sky. We
are the magic o light in orm, and light cannot be held
captive but or a moment in time. And then there is no
time except when we try to steal a nite piece o the ALLand hold it captive or our own appreciation. A sparkle in
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a drop o dew here, now, only or an instantimmortal
only in the memory o the ALL.
There is only one possibility or your recovery. You
must give up ownership; you must give up desire to have
anything or yourselves alone. I we can pray or ourrecovery, as Thomas Merton says, then, God willing,
our will should become his will or us, a ree fow o light
through liethrough our individual lives, wonderul
and unique, in every way a acet o the ALL, as necessary
to lie as lie itsel. We are, each and every one o us,
created beings, one with lie itsel; we are as necessary to
the course o creation as the blood that fows through our
veins is to our very being. I, in act, we could surrenderto the lie orce and trust in the wisdom that directs the
individual fow o blood in all lie, then we could be as
careree as that fow o blood, o tides, o seasons, and
o lie itsel.
What are we, the created ones, but a mound o dusta
lieless mound o dust, without the breath o spirit to give
us wings. I have always elt rom a very young age that my
wings were something I must earna badge o merit that
required a lot o learning to reclaim.I do remember guratively putting up my hand when
asked, Who will volunteer or God? I will, I said, not
even aintly understanding the assignment. But I would
do it again and again. I would do it orever, because when
one truly loves God and understands that there really is
nothing beyond or beore that state o absolute belonging,
then there is nothing else that matters.
The problem is that when we come to the earth plane,we are plunged into matter rom spiritearth dust rom
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stardustand we are in the dark. The light is ar away, a
distant memory that grows ever dimmer with immersion
into mass mind. The only way to maintain the connection
is to commune with the natural world and maintain an
open relationship with earth and animal energy.In reality, our wings are our birthright; we do not
have to earn them, but we do have to remember to look
ater them. We are born to the possibility o achieving
Christhoodthe possibility o becoming a clear conduit
o God, maniest in matter.
I remember years ago being given a picture o God (and I think
the animals term, the ALL, says it better). God was pictured as
an enormous light made up o smaller, intricate, and multiaceted
lights, or light bodies, each attached to earth bodies, so that,in act, we are all the ALL. The clarity and strength o our
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connection shines through our earth bodies, each unique orm
or earth body brilliant in its connection to the ALL.
Christ, Muhammad, and Buddha were clear acetsprisms,
i you willthrough which the light o the ALL became the
splendor o a rainbow, clearly conveying the myriad beauty o
the God-being.
To even hope to attain that state o perection within the
connes o matter, we must keep our connection to our light
bodies clean and open. We must bathe in the energy o other
clear light bodies. The natural world is energized with light. The
trees, rocks, water, and plants are
all vibrant in their refection othe ALL. It is in their presence
that we can rest, absorb, and
refect the energy that so clearly
emanates rom the pure lie
orce. When we experience the incredible beauty o nature in
harmonya sunset, a spring day, the majesty and myriad beauty
o the changing days and seasonswe all know moments o
Satori, a Zen Buddhist state o intuitive illumination.
We remember and reconnect with our true selves, our one
sel, which is the ALL. When we experience that connection,
the individual becomes or an instant again the whole, vibrating
in symphony with the ALL. We are renewed, rereshed, and
reawakened. When we return to the mass-mind conusion o
the human experience, we are orever changed by the memory
o magic.In the Bible, the woman who wanted only to touch the robe o
Christ symbolizes the act that when we touch or are touched by
The clarity and strength of ourconnection shines through our earth
bodies, each unique form or earth body
brilliant in its connection to the ALL.
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As Picasso, my two-year-old horse, wrote:
Let us explore
the possibility of our communion
together . . .We contribute something new,
and as yet undiscovered
by us . . .
and life itself.
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BUTTERFLY
by Kevin Ryan
Somewhere out o the early morning light, a movement
stirred in the visage o tree, grass, and fower. Slowly, in
arcing movements, jerking along a seemingly random
pattern, the butterfy approached the awakening fower.
Aroused by the futtering silence and vibrant colors, a
curiosity grew rom stem to petal. I only such beauty
could alight upon me, touch me. Oh, what joy it would
bring! What questions I would have, o rootless existenceenlightened upon the breeze, ree to travel unhindered as
a child o the sun and wind. And so the fower dreamed
as the butterfy coursed along the air currents.
So here I am again upon my aimless quest o the
landscape, the butterfy pondered. With its purpose
ueled by the rays o the sun, it circled, searching or a
companion.
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