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Maryke Barclay  BA (Honns), IBCLC, Ordained Minister (AIWP)

I was born deeply interested in the nature of the soul. This thread was present every stage of my life. It has always been the unseen, the mystery of life that has given me reason to live. From an early age on I would intently gaze at others trying to connect with the mystery contained in their beings.

There was the mystery and then there was the hard and dense edge of struggle that every human seemed to be trapped in. This struggle seemed to cause darkness in their souls. My interest in the soul included a morbid fascination with this resulting darkness. What did this dual nature of the soul mean?

I lived, nurtured by this mystery and challenged by the struggles of life and the loneliness of my frequent spiritual experiences as a child. I could not yet see that my early recognition of the juxtaposition of beauty and struggle contained in the soul were the seeds of my spiritual service that would blossom only much later. I did not know that my frequent and difficult spiritual experiences as a child were an attestation of previously attained spiritual capacity and simultaneously a preparation for deepened spiritual service in the future.

My main teacher was life. She - in all her faces and manifestations - from childhood and university years in South Africa and later as a young diplomat in Mozambique, continued to teach me ever more intensely when I married a man in the foreign service and mothered my children as we moved to Germany, South Africa, Ireland and the US. She worked tirelessly to mold me into readiness to eventually give back to her, the Goddess.

For years I volunteered in the field of breastfeeding mothers and babies, immersed in the nature of compassionate care blended with scientific knowledge of the lactating mother and her baby. My heart chakra opened as I expanded in my love capacity, my soul transformed by the sacredness and feminine power of the mother/baby relationship and my intellectual capacity deepened by immersion into science and the healing arts.

This was my training ground. Gradually the doors opened to bring me to the people and teachings I needed to help form me further. My life-long spiritual gifts deepened with initiation into esoteric Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism, Light language and the Tantric texts from Tibet and Kashmir.

I began my healing practice in Ireland, then moved to the USA and ordained as a non-denominational minister and transpersonal counselor, by now clear about my purpose.

Seeing into someone's soul and recognizing their God-self is indeed a privilege and honor – communicating it to them was another matter. How does one adequately describe to another the beauty that lives in their spirit/soul? How do you put into words the feelings, sensations, and wisdom that the spirit/soul speaks?

God answered my questions. I started to clairvoyantly see the colors of a soul's rays as they opened up in the fields of my developing clients. This color was different from the colors shown by the astral or emotional body, different from the chakras or the aura. This was beautiful, gorgeous and brilliant color expressed by the Spirit self! The artist in me sat up in attention: here was a way of expressing on canvas the secrets of another's soul!

I recognized the teachings: In the process of transformation, the soul will draw towards itself divine resources from the upper regions of the spirit. It is then that the soul's rays start to brighten up and appear in one's field. These are the cosmic rays that help us transcend the darkness of duality. These are the colors expressed on my canvasses.

The twelve rays can be thought of as living and vibrating divine aspect of God manifesting through color. Therefore, capturing a soul's rays on canvas gives them a glimpse into the divine aspects of God that live within them.

The twelve rays contain the following colors:

  1. First ray: red/white (Will and singleness of purpose as seen in natural leaders)
  2. Second ray: blue (Love-wisdom and the desire for truth)
  3. Third ray: yellow (Active intelligence as seen in those with higher mental capacities)
  4. Fourth ray: green (The capacity to find balance through struggle and crisis as seen in those willing to work in revolutionary or counter cultural ways)
  5. Fifth ray: orange (The disciplines of sciences and research as seen in those who are seeking truth through knowledge and facts)
  6. Sixth ray: Indigo (Devotion, idealism and religion)
  7. Seventh ray: violet (Divine Freedom, spiritual discipline)


    8. The five higher rays (The higher rays come into awareness with soul development and increased consciousness. They are blends of the first seven and are higher vibrations of light and color)

  8. Eighth ray: green-violet (Transmutation and cleansing)
  9. Ninth ray: blue-green (Joy)
  10. Tenth ray: pearlescent white (The capacity to hold divine patterning and spiritual truth in our physical form)
  11. Eleventh ray; luminescent peach (Compassion and divine will)
  12. Twelfth ray: gold (Christ consciousness and the capacity to carry a strong, positive and clear vibration into the physical earth)

Painting meditation boards is one aspect of my work as a healer and artist and supports me in my intention to guide others to transcendence. In addition to seeing clients on an individual basis, I collaborate with others in teaching group healing courses and workshops also aimed at transcendence, ascension and rebirthing the Goddess. Currently I am preparing to expand my service to include a school of esoteric studies.

Maryke Barclay
Indigo Light Services
Silver Spring, Maryland
indigolight@verizon.net

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