The Cyclic Turning of Life: From the Inside, Out

The Cyclic Turning of Life -- from the Inside Out
Our lives are an interconnected force bending and moving, attracting and retracting, growing and dying together, in a continual system of change. From the molecular structures unfolding within our being, creating our metabolic identity, to the developmental stages of our psychological growth, we are evolving through a cyclic continuum of life systems that coalesce with all other life emerging forms. In short, we are energetically inseparable from all that is and have an imminent responsibility to evolve in consciousness through self-reflection, self-care and the care of all of life.

Chickasaw novelist, Linda Hogan, writes in the book, Mean Spirit, “We are part of everything in our world, part of the roundness and cycles of life. The world does not belong to us. We belong to the world. All life is sacred. Restore yourself and your voice. Remake your spirit, so that it is in harmony with the rest of nature and the universe” (McLuhan, 1994).

This is an essential re-membering of who I AM, of my divine heritage, and with this knowing comes a commitment of Truth and integrity that is inherent in the path of self-discovery -- going deep, ripping the seams of old patterns, pulling the threads of denial, reworking the fabric of identity to that which is beyond the restrictions of social, cultural and personal norms. This is my story.

Running on Energy
There is a reciprocal flow of energy that is exchanged in the process of evolution and growth. This energy has a design, a divine order, intricately woven into the atmosphere of creation. From conception, our bodies are forming an energetic grid work of DNA. This “system” of creation is part of our own inner knowing. It is connected to the womb, our mother’s womb, and the womb of our Earth Mother. Our fathers have planted the seeds. Our mothers have agreed to carry us through our cycles from conception to birth and through the growth of many moons thereafter. If we pay attention to these cycles, we can see the interconnectedness of who we are with all things and with the world, as a whole.

When I was a child, I was creating a story. My story was made up of the energy that I was surrounded by. My parents taught me and “guided” me into the social norms of what was right or wrong, what was real or not (through their eyes and what had been passed down to them from their parents). And then there was this other force. This force was something beyond comprehension yet deeply rooted in my psyche, within my core being. It was as if I had eyes that could see the world beneath that which was cognitively understood as “real.” These eyes dwelled inward and I could feel this luminous thread connecting each of us. It was as if my heart could not contain itself. The pain seemed unbearable at times. It wasn’t a pain that was inflicted upon me. My childhood was good. This pain was felt, beneath the surface layers of existence, under the radar of that which I was creating on the outside. What I didn’t know, at the time, was that these “worlds” were not separate at all. I could not, yet, see the divine grid that blended these worlds, as one. There was a veil, a memory that was placed before me in which I had to re-member in order to move beyond the veil of my identity.

Barbara Marx Hubbard said in her recent ACE (Agents of Conscious Evolution) online training program (2011), “Cosmogenesis is cosmic evolution studied from the outside, but the soul of evolution is subjective and is studied from the inside, out.” For me, going within was always followed with an emergence of loss and then, gain. Learning how to adjust to the cyclic changes and recognize the patterns, unfolding, was part of my own soul evolution. Through this learning or “awakening” process was the assurance that all energy being utilized was for the betterment of all, that my forward movement was a reflection of the forward movement of the planet and the cosmological ordering of the changing “times.” Thus, nothing was lost – even in my darkest moments, nothing was lost.

No Waste
During my adolescent years, I yearned to know myself. I did this by channeling my energy in creative ways. As a writer and poet, I expressed the angst and frustration of feeling “less than” who I was. I still attracted the light but always through partners who mirrored the veil that hung, like a cloak, over my eyes. I was also a runner. There was a loss and a gain to this predicament. I was the fastest runner on both my cross country and track teams. I was quiet. I had a plan to leave it all behind. You see, running was a metaphor to me. I was running from this pain that I knew as a child. The world was suffering, I could feel it. But in this world, this poetic and athletic world, I could, literally, FLY into another dimension where pain was an illusion, albeit temporary. And I did this for six years until one morning…I woke up and arrived at my cross country meet. I looked into my coaches eyes and asked, “Don’t you ever get tired of running?” In that moment, I was asking on a physical level, but energetically, my soul was tired of running from the pain. It was that moment that allowed me to take a step into the acceptance of another cycle that had ended in my life. There is no wasted energy here. I was not going to exert myself in a way that was not beneficial to the whole. By quitting, I was allowing the world to win. I was allowing freedom into my breath again. And although I could look in the mirror, confused of my choices (that were beyond mind), deep down, I was smiling from the inside, out.

Diversity is Necessary
Life is filled with diversity - from the many forms that have evolved into existence, today, to the systems that keep these forms alive. Ecopsychologist, Theodore Roszak (1992, p. 179), states, “the flower seemed designed for the bee, the bee for the flower. Order in this sense is far from simple and may not be mathematical at all. Rather, it is the very intricacy of the arrangements that elicits wonder.” These arrangements are part of the reciprocity of discovery that is inherent within us. It is a natural attraction for the bee to be lured by the flower and the flower to open its buds and share the divine nectar of life with this bee. Life is like this – simply divine in order yet somehow complicated with the mental capacity we yield upon it.

As I recall my own arrangements in life, I see the necessity of the exchange(s) that happened with each turn. A dear friend of mine, Ahmath, was very different from me when I met him. He was African America and incredibly in tune with his own cultural and ancestral heritage. He was also dying. I was 22 at the time and had just begun a new journey after a heart-felt “awakening” or “re-birth” into the cosmic consciousness I was so trying to re-connect with through my childhood. It only made sense that I would be accompanied with a growing love with my new friend that was, subsequently, holding onto a short life-string in the physical realm. This was when I learned of my psychic connections (that were being re-awakened of what I had lost in my childhood) and how the energetic grid between the worlds that I knew created an even wider meaning of what “diversity” meant to me.

Through these experiences, upon deaths such as my friend, Ahmath and other friends and family members, I was opened to the arrangements that exist beyond the physical mind and being to that of a soul-ular connection. In these lucid experiences, the memory of this veil became penetrable and thus, the fragmented illusions of self were freed from my own mental entrapments. It is not that everything had changed with these experiences. No; it was just the Truth unveiling the mystery within my very core -- the Truth that nothing is separate, everything is connected, and we are only as diverse in perception as we allow ourselves to be.

Connection Leads to Change
By recognizing our interrelatedness, we are recognizing the value of our true essence in life. There is purpose in this recognition that is only honored by seeing all of life as a direct reflection of who we are. There is no doubt that pain exists. It is part of the “going deep” process that opens us to our divine heritage – the Truth that we are beneath the pain in which we feel. If we become numb to this pain, then we are choosing to forget to re-member our divine essence through humanity.

Change is inevitable; this much we know. Yet it is up to us to be CAUSAL in our expression(s) of change. Barbara Hubbard (2011) continued this idea when she said:
We are in our own birth narrative and are “story tellers” – we have the ability to be causal and see our own crises to improve and evolve our own creative potential and thus, the world. There are emergent properties here where the planet is going through evolutionary consciousness (we are at the advents of conscious evolution). Our own impulse to create, incarnating the impulse of evolution from our 13 billion year story says that when we tune into this impulse and want to do more, be more, express more, we feel LIFTED - not burdened - by this impulse and are then set free from limitations.

As a conscious being, I take an oath with my reflections before me, all of life, and find peace in the agreements I make for a sustainable and peaceful future, now. I have a daughter who is my witness, and I make amends with my past to allow for her life to evolve in a way that supersedes the restrictions I placed upon myself before. I am not these restrictions but a divine spark mirroring and shining upon the world as the world shines upon me.

There is no separation here; we are all connected; and by choosing to be causal in my re-membering, I am also choosing Love as the envisioned change that is happening within and without me. I do this not only for my daughter and her generation, but for seven generations to come…
For life is worth loving ourselves and the greater whole.



References
Hubbard, Barbara M. "Accelerating the next evolution." Agents of conscious evolution. 3 May 2011. Web. 6 May 2011.
T.C., McLuhan. The way of the earth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Print.
Roszak, Theodore. The voice of the earth. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, Inc., 1992. 179. Print.

Moving Beyond Separation to Symbiotic Expression: A Systems Approach to the Great Turning

Moving Beyond Separation to Symbiotic Expression:
A Systems Approach to the Great Turning

According to Paul Hawken (2007), environmentalist and author, the state of this world is evolving into a place of “blessed unrest” between the one and the many. The one is no more separate from what people claim as being “different” from their selves. We are one and the same, no difference.
Yet, at one point in time, there was misrepresentation of the human conception of life. There was the thought that we were, inherently, separate from ALL THERE IS which, ultimately, resulted in the disconnection of species on the planet. There was a distinct placement of doubt that resonated through the w(hole) of existence that challenged the constructs of mind and habitual patterning, developed through the millenniums up to this moment in history.
In this paper, I reflect on the degree of separation we have created, as humans, from ourselves, each other and all of life and speak of the abundant energy necessary to rise up and release the constructs of the mind within this universal context of understanding --and return to the core integration of our symbiotic existence on Earth.
Unraveling the Memory
When I consider how our existence came to be, there is a fine line, I notice, that bleeds into my awareness with a perception unlimited to “time” and knowledge, itself. This depth of perception is the wisdom of the archaic Truth embedded through the lineage of our primordial memory. This “memory” unravels itself into a diverse continuum of life-emerging forms. Such structuring of form has been a result of a systematic dialogue between Nature and a self-organizing Universe inherent in its divine order of creation.
Physicist and systems theorist, Fritjof Capra (1982), addressed these patterns of emergence as a “web of life” in which there are two complementary tendencies that contribute to the phenomenon of evolutionary adaptation : (1) Self Maintenance (the process of self-renewal, healing, homeostasis, and adaptation) and (2) Self Transformation/Self Transcendence (expressed from the process of learning, development and evolution).
These self-organizing drives coalesce with the structural adherence and genetic mechanisms of DNA formation through reproductive and hereditary traits, but also through the “underlying dynamics of evolution, whose central characteristic is not adaptation but creativity” (Capra, 1982).
Through the lens of transpersonal creativity (or creation), it is important to note that these molecular structures, that attract and retract from the physical appearance(s) before us, are only limited by the subsequent “knowledge” derived from the belief structures (or illusions) we create(d) in our mind. Thus, when I see myself as a limited reflection of that which surrounds, I limit the entirety of existence itself. I exclude myself from the constant flow of energetic exchange that creates space for evolutionary fulfillment. Because of our dualistic human nature, it is difficult for many people to conceptualize that we ARE an intricate part of this self-organizing Universe. Thus, our disconnection with the environment (and Self) has become the real crisis in the world today; A crisis, “some wise people have suggested, that stems from a genuine lack of creativity and imagination” (ATD, p. 55). So, how do we fulfill the necessary changes needed to sustain the life of the earth in which we cohabitate?
First, we must recognize that we are not separate from each other or this planet-- that we are, in fact, a social and global “community,” and it is our responsibility to come together and co-create a reality based on a collective vision (imagination) of a Life-sustaining Society by consciously changing our perspective to one that mirrors our innate ecological self .
Our Stories Create our Reality
By default, Nature IS self-organizing. Our development, as humans, has taken this concept, this reality, and centralized it into an illusory dream in which we “control” everything. But life is not like that. From the book, The Medicine Wheel, Chippewa medicine man, seer, and Indian leader, Sun Bear writes:
“Today we tend to see the earth as a stable backdrop for all of the affairs of humankind. We see the minerals, the plants and the animals as servants of man. We have forgotten that they can be our teachers as well; that they can open us to ideas and emotions that have been blocked from the human heart for too long a time. We have forgotten that we are connected to all of our relations on the earth, not just our human families. We have imprisoned ourselves in tight little worlds of man-made creations.”

This being said, our habitual patterns and misunderstandings of this “separation” with life have been passed down from generations preceding our own existence and therefore, become hard to break. From a psychological perspective, we can look at the early stages of development in which developmental psychologist, Piaget, concludes that the ego is formed during the pre-operational stage (2-6 years of age) (Sigelman and Rider, p. 46). During this stage, thinking is not yet logical and perception is limited to an egocentric view in which the child is unable to take on another’s perspective. A sense of separation is established and with this growing sense of separate-self, coupled by the dominant consumerist approach from the Industrial “Growth” Society in which we are raised, comes a disconnection with the world, as a whole. Although we might recognize that we feel good in nature and share similarities with many species (to include our own), our egocentric world-view keeps us in an autonomous state where we, as individuals, are in competition with each other, all species and the illusory “need” to industrialize what few natural resources remain on the earth today.
As I look at my own life, I recall emotional and psychological “traps” that have imprisoned my own mind, psyche, and being to a place of indecision, judgment (of self and others), and ultimately, created self-destructive tendencies of denial that perpetuated out into the living world around me-- to all my relations. For instance, since early childhood, I have looked in the mirror of doubt when my attraction to nature was diffused, even demolished (in a psychological sense), from the inherent connection I had with it. I observed the mass of society and life, in general, as having a huge element of suffering in it; From the homeless animals on the street and in captivity, to the homeless people sitting on the side of the road, holding signs, to the insects and creepy crawlers that were killed with poisonous chemicals (and sometimes with a look of pure aggression - and then gainful satisfaction - on the face of the “killer”) as they got rid of the “pest” that was interfering with the human world. The pain I witnessed and subsequently felt, although I wasn’t aware of what was happening to me on a deeper level, was becoming numb.
By the time I turned ten years old, I had retracted into my own private dream-world where pain did not exist and even if it did come up in my life (which, of course, it did), I could write about it or tell stories into a tape recorder of how this world was “different” for me now – how I could use my imagination to create a utopian, ideal life where all things were beautiful, peaceful and all “systems” worked together in a unifying degree of reciprocity. I knew, deep down, that I cared about life and I also cared about what people thought of me. I was torn (the duality) between the Truth that I was a part of this intricate web of life and the illusion in which I was being socially and culturally “raised” to believe was the truth.
Healing the Separation
Metabolically, DNA forms the grid work for the duality of separateness (through hereditary values and individual traits) yet simultaneously releases the same molecular brain structure that has the potential (in all) to return to the delicate atomic level of peace within. The metaphorical “serpent” (or kundalini), that contains/is our vital, life-giving energy, spirals in a continual dance that becomes the double helix of reciprocal understanding within us. Our DNA twists and unravels with each curve of our spine – breaking old patterns into illuminated portals of energy. What transpires from this mirror image reflecting through the darkness, into the constructs of mind, is the direct conception of power birthing from the heart center of Love.
Any divine form wishing to transcend to its original form-less nature/state can do so when the reflection of another is seen as our own. This “returning” is the release of the constructs of illusion in the mind.
Joanna Macy (2011), eco-philosopher, author and activist, looks at a systems approach to the Great Turning -- where we are being called to reconnect with the Truth that we are during this ecological and economical crisis and begin to “WAKE UP and take ACTION knowing that we have the authority of our 14 billion age of existence to create a pathway to liberation – freed from our self-created suffering.”
By following the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, through an ecological perspective, we have the ability to:
1) Befriend our pain for the world and know that our caring and compassion stem from our interconnectedness (our inter-being) with all things.
2) Know that this suffering has a cause arising from conditions that we CAN change through developing right action in behavior, attitudes and ideas. (Finding this cause is a systematic response to the feedback loops presented in our lives and the world).
3) Cease the suffering by recognizing our interconnectedness to all of life and consciously choosing to break free from our limiting habits, patterns, and belief structures that have been contributing to the Industrial “Growth” Society and begin to create a Life Sustaining Society.
4) Follow and create a pathway to liberation and freedom through the practice of self(less) discovery by approaching our meditations and actions through the holographic view of the Universe as non-separate from Self and all that exists (Macy, J; 2011).
Universal in Nature, our human-nature finds “home” in this Truth time and time again – beyond the scope of “time constraint” all together. Thus, the true purpose we heed, that perpetuates change and internal expansion of being, is the result of the degree of non-separation that we choose to accept into our life.
Healing with Love Creates Action
For me, “healing” occurs on many different levels. I think of the mind, body and spirit and the myriad philosophies and beliefs that are projected about how someone can or should heal yet, ultimately, I feel that this adventure, this life, is the healing process. From the innocence of birth and bonding to the realization that I AM someone (ego), to the “search,” yet again to find myself through all experiences, good and bad, healing happens. And even the word “healing” is an illusion because, deep down, within my most intimate, creative and expansive Self, I am already free from pain and suffering.
It has taken me a long time, as Sun Bear would say, for my heart to open to the Truth that this journey in life is one of discovery and Love. For Love IS the crucial ingredient we must embrace and use in the actions we take to fulfill our transition from chaos to a state of peace within the system(s) we live. What is Love, to me? Love is growth; Love is action; Love is breaking down (composting) every part of my "self" I believe is real. Love hurts so much it heals the heart with a compassionate yet disciplined slap to the ego.
What I have learned, in life, is that when I am ready to let down the guard that constrains my heart, restricts my breath, and pours longing from behind its shield, then Love comes - whipping my Spirit into a fine-grained substance of humility, self-acceptance, and a new desire for something so deep that all other self-created "needs" dissipate into the cleansing fire of Truth.
What resumes from such a cleansing is power. This "power" is the intensity of life where breath evolves, where my heart rejoices with the abundance of communion, and where my voice is blessed with angelic praise and raised to a vibration other worldly. It is moments, like this, my heart grows with the heavens and Love detaches from the face I thought I had. What is removed is gently replaced with an innocence unknown to time but brought to life with the power of healing.
And with this new sense of Self, emerges the “need” to bond with others wishing to do the same – people who are willing to take the initiative to rise above the constructs of the mind, their self and the collective “illusion” --and become an integral part of the Great Turning that is happening now.
Conclusion: The Great Turning to our Creative Self
What is “meant to be” is the primary evolution of Truth within our being. And what is birthing, in this moment, is a reflection of all that has transpired on a Universal scale of personal and cultural creation. There is birth, there is death, and there are the balancing forces that exist between the two. In mythology, the owl sees into the darkness of the contemplative mind and sheds light onto that which is not accessible otherwise. Thus, within this light, there is no lack of understanding because we make a conscious choice to join in this participatory revelation of cosmic consciousness, The Great Turning of Love.
This unlimited feeling pulses through our very core – integrating our divine allowance with what already “is.” Questions cease, answers naturally unveil in our consciousness and we are no longer held back by the mental stagnation of what “belonging” means through societal standards.
We are what we create and create that which we are in this reflective light. Who are you in this moment, now – what do you see when you look into the eyes of another? Do you shun your beauty? Reflect your Truth? Do you hold witness to the power before you? Do you embrace the imminent departure of fear that lurks through the Truth that you are “one” with all that you encounter? Do you embrace the power of your Being? Do you follow the eyes of doubt to the revelation beneath that which you see?
There is no doubt that, in this moment, we meet in the middle of that which we believe. Do not be afraid to unveil the secrets within. Do not be afraid to rise above the inventory of your upbringing. Find your heart through the eyes of another and know that Love exists in all beings, through all things, and that there is no separation in our Loving at all.




References
Awakening the Dreamer. Symposium Presenter's Manual. Vol. 2. San Francisco: Pachamama Alliance, n.d. 55. 2 vols. Print.
Bear, Sun, and Wabun Bear. The Medicine Wheel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. 4. Print.
Capra, F. (1982). The turning point. New York: Simon & Shuster.
Hawken, Paul. Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest. New York: The Penguin Group, 2007. Print.
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Macy, Joanna. "The Great Turning." Naropa University. Boulder. 6 Apr. 2007. Lecture.
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CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Portal to the Unseen

The state of this world is evolving into a place of blissful manifestation between the one and the many. The one is no more separate from what people claim as being “different” from themselves. We are one and the same, no difference.
At one point in time there was misrepresentation of the human conception of life. There was the thought that we were, inherently, separate from ALL THERE IS which, ultimately, resulted in the disconnection of species on the planet. There was a distinct placement of doubt that resonated through the whole (hole) of existence that challenged the constructs of mind and habitual patterning that has developed through the millenniums up to this point. There is a place and a time for everything in which manifestation occurs most naturally to the individual, thus resulting in the “whole” of pragmatism. At some level there will be a rise in the abundant energy necessary to release the constructs of the mind in this universal context of understanding. The limitations will be stretched to the potential of evolutionary fulfillment in which questioning will be unnecessary for the agreement of commentary output and evolution of the constructive framework of mankind. Many will not understand or be able to relate to the agreement that is happening on a Universal unfolding pattern – beyond limited views and palpable realizations of the people so integrated in their belief structures that they have no concept of the Truth that they are one with their own realizations and belief patterns of what they have placed their true essence of reality within. There is only one place in which the whole resides in the eternal : the heart. This Heart Space is beyond their mind – their personal affiliation with all of their belief patterning resulting from the paternal conditioning and resurrection of the Systems of Old. We will not give power to the results of the limiting creations of yesterday. We will look toward the empowerment of the NOW to be the eternal framework of what Tomorrow holds. There is no withdrawal from what is a permanent agreement of our Eternal Truth. We look in the mirror and see who we are. We fall in Love to know our agreement patterns. We let go to find where we are and what we mean to this moment at hand. We disagree to agree to what we are transpiring within us. We agree to disagree with our manifestation process of old. This is a new paradigm emerging from the eternal flame of faith. There is no room for illusion. We will catch ourselves every time. We will see who we are through our mirrors. Come out from behind the shield and emerge from the darkness of who we think we are. There is a limitless view of perception and we are being called to open the portal to the eyes of the unseen.
2-25-11 Tatiana Casey

The Molecular Expansion of Self

The Molecular Expansion of Self
I’ve been meeting myself in the mirror of doubt – transcending beliefs constructed through a darkened landscape of habitual thoughts. There is a fine line, I notice, that bleeds into my awareness with a perception unlimited to “time” and knowledge, itself.
This depth of perception is the wisdom of the archaic Truth embedded through the lineage of our primordial memory. This “memory” unravels itself into a diverse continuum of DNA that bridges the formless into form, itself.
These molecular structures that attract and retract from the physical appearance(s) before us are only limited by the subsequent “knowledge” derived from the belief structures we create(d) in our mind.
The true divinity that perpetuates change and internal expansion of Being is the manifestation of the degree of non-separation that we choose to accept into our life.
When I see myself as a limited reflection of that which surrounds, I limit the entirety of existence itself. I exclude myself from the constant flow of energetic exchange that creates space for evolutionary fulfillment. And what is “full” can only be received when the mind is empty of all entrapments that are formed through the apprehension of core integration.
The serpent spirals in a continual dance that becomes the double helix of reciprocal understanding. Our DNA twists and unravels with each curve of our spine – breaking old patterns into illuminated portals of energy. What transpires from this mirror image reflecting through the darkness, into the constructs of mind, is the direct conception of power birthing from the heart center of Love.
Any divine form wishing to transcend to its original form-less nature/state can do so when the reflection of another is seen as our own. DNA forms the grid work for the duality of separateness (through hereditary values and individual traits) yet simultaneously releases the same molecular brain structure that has the potential (in all) to return to the delicate atomic level of peace within. This “returning” is the release of the constructs of illusion in the mind.
Universal in Nature, our human-nature finds “home” in this Truth time and time again – beyond the scope of “time constraint” all together.
12/29/2010 – Tatiana Casey

Goddess of the Flame

There is the underlying communion that comes in the sharing of the world between eyes and hearts and melting pots of who we are- beyond what we appear to be to ourselves. One moment I am in a sense of equilibrium living as a sacred identity of Self and a totality of all there is – universal and physical. Then the polarity of my attraction to light comes in and pursues my deepest urge to be a warrior in love. As if natural to instinct, I fight for the love that exceeds my expectations of survival. I am the “fittest” in my own search, in my own dwelling of creation and within the natural formation of ALL THAT IS, here and now. I get a sense that the world is watching with eyes that push the limits of my own imagination. I take the moment to acknowledge the ultimate perception of “knowing” the risks of this love and what it means to not have to know anything. The peace of this union is enough to state the obvious. The heart is softened from the harsh winds of reality but bring together the open marriage of compassion and reflection. Sometimes our mirrors shatter in front of us – showing us what we fail to see with the lights on. I want to retaliate with firm appreciation of the finite things in life…but my heart, my soul and Spirit know better. The merger of this union between warrior and Goddess has a place of surrender beneath the surface of betrayal. There is no victim here – only solace and impressionable realities turning this tragic “hiding” into a revealing fire of release – burning from the inside, out – combusting into something incomprehensible to thoughts of this modern play. I return to my heritage…to the ancient lineage of who I AM through the mentorship of my higher guidance. The power of this moment is in the flame of the unknown. May it light the world ablaze!

Divine Heritage

There is no necessity if necessity resides outside of the inner flame of the heart. The only Truth there is thrives in the reflection of divine order and the universal strings attached to the order of manifestation. We create to grow and grow to create that which we seek - we are- in this paralleled Universe. It is a full circle weaved with consentual perplexities of thought. We get lost in these “thoughts” not knowing the direction of our soul evolution. But there is no way to discern what is right or wrong when the head (our thoughts) becomes a symptom of survival. This “survival” is derived from the habitual “fight or flight” tactics reared since our birth into this world. When we open ourselves to the perceptive states of knowing that are beyond perception all together, we are embodying the integrated system of “allowing” into our Being.
This “allowing” is divine in nature – not separate from Self yet a delicate conceptual understanding of Truth that is birthed from our innate desire to merge with our divine heritage. What is heritage? Heritage is our birthright. It is our reflective patterns and evolutionary unfolding of who we truly are reflected in another and thus, our inner Selves. We have grown from the roots of our maternal source that stem from the ancestral lineage of metabolic order. We continually “gift” each generation with a set of derived structures inherent within us – some formed and some formless with integrative motives.
We can see our soul encounters as an invitation to growth and the limitless beauty accessible to our existence. There is an underlying Truth that rests in our unconscious – sifting through the days numbered by our thoughts – patterning a world of misunderstanding – trying to make sense of the world in which we have created based on our metabolic upbringing.
And here it stands – an opening into the intrinsic power of the heart. We merge together finding peace in this perfection. In this union, there is no separation. This is the first encounter with the eternal flame – the “one” that we are within the light of our own divine Truth.
When the moon smiles, there is a creative beauty that mirrors the maternal spark of insight onto the soul. The Spirit emerges from the darkness. The womb creates a new beginning – a new metabolic meaning emerges from the flame. How will we nurture this emergence of Spirit? How do we release attachments from the constructs of the mind in which we derived such imminent pleasures before our soul awakened to this Truth within?
Let it go! Translate the surface desires to a meaning beyond the conceptual mind. Power rests in the unknown and thus our hearts thrive in the ecstasy of the arrival of that which we once feared from the universal upbringing of our divine heritage. This IS our birthright…

You can view this piece, published in OM TIMES Magazine April 2011 Edition, pages 64-65 in the simply spiritual section.
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The Undefined

There is the undefined that rests in the consciousness. Some would like to consider it separate from self but this “separate self” is only the creation of the mind outside of the Truth that we are, in fact, the pinnacle creation of all that exists now and of all that has gone before.
Life is produced from the myriad dimensions of our heart -felt attraction to the evolutionary evolvement of our biological sustenance. We are of form yet formless, create yet are created upon - and ultimately, our goal is to re-unite with the power of love that is our inherent unity on Earth.
To be a part of this unity one must be willing to accept responsibility for their actions and rise above the mundane aspects of their mental articulations to develop the sense of autonomy and interdependence that functions as a core principle in the understanding of human engagement. This is the beginning of the social omnipresence that is moving through the hearts of those that choose to open to the power of their own limitless Being. This presence forms a bond that reaches beyond the polarities of the matriarch and patriarch to a union that breaks the structures we have encoded into our DNA and subsequently adopted as “mental roadblocks” into our daily lives.
What is being called forth is the awareness necessary to indulge in the mystery of the creation that is our birthright and forging “body” of transformational heritage. And when I say “heritage,” I speak directly of that which has propagated a surge of energy through our cultural life-blood to a place of inner-knowing that is far reaching and ever-present in the cultivation of who we are beyond our beliefs and cultural patterns of “knowing.”
What we “know” is not by what we read or hear but by the experiences that have shaped our soul evolution as “man.” These experiences are molded by our upbringing, challenged by our divine allowance, and transformed through the integration of Spiritual evolution within and of the DNA structures that correlate a system of “bonding” that we can only become through the integration of our planetary reflections and core practices we embody along the way.
To participate in life beyond the capacity of our collective consciousness, we must be willing to look beyond our mind’s constrictive intricacies of judgment, blame, fear, self-indulgence, retribution, and intolerance. There is an unlimited perception available to us in each moment we open our hearts to the core principle of our existence. Knowing that this “principle” is formed through the mere acceptance of Self that is reflective to the Love that we are in this world (through mirror-image), we are then capable of moving beyond perception all together. What is manifested from such musings of transmutation is the freedom necessary to access the Divine union of grace and love within and from the planetary structures that coalesce with our own unique DNA helix.
Our ultimate “bond” in life has nothing to do with perceptual understanding, but everything to do with HOW we are perceiving our reality in the midst of the “separateness state” we have created through time. To bring about the changes necessary for survival, we must look in the mirror of Self and see beyond the mask we wear to the world in which we have created in our minds. This role is our creation and the “created” is our manifestation played out in action. Are we taking responsibility for these actions? Need we make this illusion a reality upon which our desires find no attainment in the beauty we strive to create? These questions can only be answered when the desire to “bond” is released from attachment and fear.