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Greetings fellow wayshowers and Welcome to my page. I am an artist, a drum maker and a writer that sometimes has to work as a nurse to support the arts. I wish to change that.

The Water Goddess is Complete and has a great story to tell. Vist my blog Living in the Now to read her story.. I would appreciate youre comments.

My Blogs
Living in the Now Paintings with Stories Drum Maker - opening soon
Guardian Totem Welcomes the VisitorsAnd She Rises - Water Goddess

MY Newest Project~ Expect a Miracle - always free.

website: www.taylyn.com
Emmylou Harris - animal portraits
love the animals!!!
emmylou - Oil on canvas 16 x20 november 2009


Am I a Wayshower? I've never given myself a name for what I do and in listening to the videos and reading this site it is a good name.
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I Am An Artist, Drum maker and writer.
STAR SYSTEM: mmmm
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FIRST BREATH:
(Jan/31/1952/2330/New Westminster, BC/Canada)
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LOCATION:
(where ever I am guided)
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Email Address
LindaDianeTaylor@gmail.com

Web site www.taylyn.com

HOW I FOUND THE GOLDRING:
Spirit !!

This is a computer generated graphic
I produced for a sweet friend
"Shaman-Priest"
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The Golden Being


Golden Beings

CREATIVE TALENTS:

Drum Maker

I finally have a space where I can make drums again. I have been making drums for near twenty years now. I have been honored to make drums for world class northwest coast artists, pagen ritualists, shamans, priests and musicians. I've also taught drum making to and amazing assortment of people: native and non-native youth, womens' groups , pagen and other ritualists and church groups. Recently, a small group of professional drummers made drums with me. The drums have been sent all over North America, Europe, to some places in South America and to Hawaii. I started to keep count of the number of drums I've made but lost track around 800.

My whole family has been involved in the drum making, My younger daughter is a fine drum maker. However she has put here energies into other work, as drum making has been a no profit venture. The cost of the materials and the labor is so intense it has been a challenge to contiinue making of the drums.

Why I make drums? In the search for my fathers native roots I became facinated with the drum and the teachings around the drum. The sounds of the drum seem to touch the very core of my soul. I also discovered while teaching drum making especially to the young people there is something that happens to heal the heart. I call connecting with the heartbeat of the mother.

It is a simple instrument anyone can learn. The first beat one learns to to beat to the sound of a heart beat. Sitting quietly beating to your own heartbeat becomes extremely meditative and within a short time one can travel to amazing inner and outer worlds.

A psychologist friend asked me it I would do a reading for him. Although some claim I have a clairaudience or clairsentience I do not make that claim. I do not do readings on other people. I didn't know what to say to him at the time. Today I can be very clear about that but at that time I was less than confident in setting boundaries.
Not knowing what else to do I picked up my drum and started drumming the heart beat and walking. After about 15 minutes a great blue energy appeared. It came from my right. I kept drumming and the blue energy manifest a volice and showed me how to receive and then give an energy. It went on to show me the people I would be working with and what my role would be with those group.

I stopped drummig. I was in awe. My psychologist friend asked me if I had a message for him. I told him, I did not. Years later, he disclosed that he received his own message that day. He went on to pursue the instructions he was given. Although I can not dislose who he is I can tell you that his practice is on the cutting edge of the healing world.

For me I was clueless as to how my vision was going to manifest. The group I was shown was very foreign to me. I ddn't know them. Within a few days I was not only offered a position that would put me with this group, I was also given a blank cheque to write for whatever I needed, a place to live and the car to get there. The vision from the drum was life changing.

The drums I make now are meant to be used. In the earlier days I was making a white headed drum. The northwest coast artists liked them as a backdrop for their paintings. The bleaching process of getting a white hide was extreme toxiic and although the result was a good canvas the drum head became rather brittle and had arather tinny sound. Although I do occassion make the wide hide drums I much rather make a drum that can be playerd.

The round frames of the Drum are made by a canoe maker on Vancouver Island. I don't know his whole process but he layers yellow cedar and laminates it somehow. I have tried other frames but these ones are lighter and I haven't had one warp. He is also a soulful man and has incredible integrity and you can feel the love in his frames.

The Drum Heads. I've had to really look at the fact that I am a vegetarian and have a deep respect for the animals and yet I use deer, elk and other animal hides for the drum heads. I actaully stopped making drums for a while because of this. I tried some manmade drum heads but they were not the same. Then I decided that I had to find hides that were gathered in a good way. I found two people that collect hides from animals hit on the road. One visits the local drums druing hunditng season and collects discorded hides. They are both very hard working, simple men. They do a job in cleaning and preparing the hides. The challenge is the supply is now limited but I do feel a bit more conscious of the fact that I no longer use factory processed hides from deer farms and unconsious hunters. Bless the animals. I love them so much.

Now I am back making drums and rattles too. Blessing the yellow cedar trees and the animals. I am very thank full for the gift of the drum. May they be used in a good way.

Artist & Writer & Story Teller
As an Artist I create a variety of art in a wide range of media from oil, to watercolour, to paper collage to digital art.

I also paint Drums
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I also make and paint frame drums and have done workshops for many groups.
Drum Maker

to see some samples of my drums visit my blog page
Reproducing Great Masters Work
has been most rewarding.
This piece took 4 months to complete.
During that time I imagined
I was actually talking to Leonardo and I was like a
Child and my name was Katerina or Catherine.




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Exploring Self .. digging into the depth of my personality, inner me, soul, spirit or whatever one wants to call it is an insane adventure.
I can hear a small litttle girl saying, "why can't everyone play nice.. she can go on and on about playing nice and she even gives instructions on how to play nice." And there is a hurt teenager, a happy teenager, a newborn and every age from prebirth to now. Add to that other peoples inner children that need a place to hang out for a while.
I see Morrigana.. and Goddess Diana.. and Kali and White Buffalo Woman, Quan Yin, etc etc.
Morgan le fay and her Raven.. cause me a great deal of distress.. as does Goddess Diana.
I feel my ancestors all around. Coming from mixed blood - there are soooo many songs .. they like to sing songs especially prayers... christain, tibetian, jewish, hindi, native.. they are always praying something and showing up in robes and ceremonial dress.
Add to that the archtypes.. not just the ones of Jung but the archypes of modern day,, the Canadian, the American, the Nurse, the Artists, the creator, inner slut, inner tyrannt, inner lover, shesh too many to name.
And must not forget the influences of malevelolent and benovolents ufo types, Angels, Demons, Archangels, Witches and Magicians and all.
Then there are the words, the many words of teachers, gurus, shamans, my mother, my father, and everyone else in so called authority.
Then there are messages from trees, water, plants, animals and every other Relation.. in all my relations.
and must not forget that I am so sensitive I think, feel and hear so much that is not even mine. Then there is the shapeshifting, out of body, travel to unknown lands and other psychic phenomenon.
And what about Karma and Dharma...
No wonder I am feeling a somewhat insane..!!! and paying the rent.
I really have to make a move before it all engulfs me more than it already has..
anyone got any suggestions?
Writing Stories
with lessons
This was a fun painting to paint.
Golden Beings:

I am not sure when the golden being first appeared to me but it always shows me where within myself I can find tools from the universe. This particular Golden Being is holding a pipe.

There is a story to this painting.

I was working with the Native Communities in British Columbia on a mission as directed by a Blue Being. The Blue Being had instructed me to go into the communities to help the people go back to their culture. I was not to be their leader or healer but rather show them how to get back to their hearts through their culture. The Blue Being told me the Native people are in a period of redemption.

Many of the Elders honored me by naming me. I never actually used the names but did understand the respect they were showing me.

One old woman, I will not call an elder, gave me a Pipe. I did not want it but as to not offend the community I graciously accepted it. I was very troubled by this Pipe.

A few days later I travelled to another community where Melvin Grey Bear was conducting a Yuwipi Ceremony. This is a Sioux Ceremony. (more on this another time) The room was totally dark during the ceremony and constant drumming and rattling took me into another world. In that world the Golden Being appeared. I am not certain that was the intend of the ceremony but for me it was good.

She, I call her that as she has soft gentle energy. She told me the pipe was a trap.. She went on to show me my pipe. She asked me some questions and after I made some agreements she showed me where the pipe was within my own being. Over the next few months the Golden Being instructed me on the use of my pipe.

The interesting thing about the other pipe was that when I got home I opened it from his wrapping and the whole stem of the pipe had cracked. I respectfully tossed it in the Fraser River. A few days later the old woman came to me and apologized for giving me the pipe and when I told her that I threw it in the river she seemed relieved.

I learned later that the old woman had once practiced good medicine but personal tragedy had turned her bitter and angry. I do not know what ever happened to her as I never saw her again.

There were many lessons in this experience for me. And in 2006 when someone gave me something and told me it was the key to the door the Golden Being appeared very spontaneously and told me that item was like the pipe, a trap. She proceeded to show me where this was within my being and later how it worked. Over a period of several months the Golden Being showed me how to manover around the trap. In a way I felt like I was playing dumb. In another way it was good as it kept me safe.

I DREAM to be in a circle of people who are loving and supporting of me becoming lavishly abundant which includes perfect health, harmonious relationships, peace of mind, being of service in a good way and financial plenty.

I Dream of Bliss: Waking up each morning watching the day wake up with a lightness in my heart and closing each night with thankfullness for another day on this earth.

I Dream of Wisdom: To know when to speak and when to be silent and to have the words I do speak to be heard with a open ear and open heart.

I Dream of Love: To feel the love inside my own heart and to pass that love on to others.

I Dream of Power: To have pure information.

I Dream of Vision: To see what is on the other side

I Dream of Service: Through art and writing.

I Dream of Creation: To create Art and Writing that provides a lavish income.

I Dream of Walking in Silence healing people without them AND perhaps even me knowing it.






Thank you!!! Please join me in my Vision.. My Dream...



Painting on the Porch!
THIS IS MY DREAM

I have a dream of creating a space where I can paint and talk to people. Where others can come and create art and perhaps music.

It is like painting on the porch... a wonderful experience I had while house sitting in Santa Cruz, California.

Painting on the Porch: I sit here on the porch in beautiful Santa Cruz painting and watching the people. It is early morning and the joggers and dog walkers are out. As the morning progresses people are hurrying to work and then the university students arrive and hurry on to their classes. The moms get their children off to school. By mid morning the grandmothers and grandfathers are heading to town for their collection of needed groceries. The morning is full of many people, all ages. Then a whole new group arrives in the afternoon.

After a few days of this routine of me painting and watching the people some notice my painting and say hello. Some ask if they can come closer. Within a couple of weeks I have a couple of students stopping by asking me about art techniques.

Other artists start arriving and one joins me for an afternoon. Then a young man comes and sits and just talks and tells me about his worries and concerns.

Before I know it many people are stopping to share their world. A mommy with three small children arrive. She just wants to talk. The kiddies are restless so I set up a table with brushes, paint and paper and they create beautiful abstracts. Mommy and me talk about dreams.

This is my Dream... My Vision.
home - The GoldRing-Game of EnlightenmentFrom Jan through April 2009 I had the wonderful opportunity to paint on the Porch.

Many people came.

Many ideas and wisdom was shared.

And a few new artists were born.
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I received my art training while working full time as a Registered Nurse. A retired professor had opened his home as private art institute for people just like me, ones that wanted to create but who had to work to maintain their families. He had the studio open from 7 am til 11 pm and his students could come anytime. As I painted on the porch and told others his story many aspiring artists told me they would love it if they had a place to create.



THE TRUTH OF MY WORLD

~ I live in a multidimensional world ~

WEBSITE(S): www.taylyn.com

www.taylynsblog.blogspot.com

  • AKASHIC RECORDS: There is a huge library where I have seen some of my records.
  • STARSYSTEM: unknown
  • VALUES & DESIRE: I value truth, kindness, serenity & being of service in a good way.
  • COLOR OF AURA: Primarily blue, sometimes green, sometimes red. Ever changing
  • GOD(S) & GODDESS(ES): Jesus,White Buffalo Woman, Kali, Shakti, Quan Yin, Morgan Le Fey
  • HOME: Is in my own Skin ANGEL(S) & GUIDE(S): Blue & Gold Beings, an old Indian Woman.
  • LIFE MISSION: To show others how to get to the door and let them choose to go through or not
  • TEACHER(S) & GURU(S): Catherine Ponder, Stuart Wilde, Dick Sutphen, Shatki Gawain, Dov Baron, Norma Cowie, Christobelle, Osho, Drums and Bells and Gongs. My children, friends and everyone I meet.
  • LOVE & JOY: Even though everything is not love the answer to everything is love
  • LANGUAGE(S): English & petite espanol TRANS-FORMATION: Ongoing BELIEF(S) & RELIGION(S): Raised Anglican with a Native American bent. Studied bits of eastern religion and walked through many churches, temples, synagogues, and sacred circles.
  • HAPPINESS: Walking in Nature. Watching the Day wake up and the night wake up.


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