The Truth About 2012 – Part III
Wouldn’t it be funny if the Mayan Calendar just ended because the stone wasn’t big enough? Actually on my theme of it doesn’t matter – this is included. But wait! Here is the irony of the age we find ourselves in: While nothing matters – everything counts. Whaaaat?!? Let me explain…
There is a quickening of time – there is no doubt about that. We seem to be hurtling forward into our future and in these weeks before Christmas it is double and treble pace as we try to fit in holiday plans, shopping and parties into the already overflowing bin of to-dos.
And while you continue to skip along your personal yellow brick timeline of self fulfillment and discovery, Earth is spinning mid-latitude (halfway between the equator and the poles) at about 800 miles per hour – day in, day out. Whew! We’re moving!
Now, between the relative eternity of the Earth’s life – a few billion years hence in relation to ours – duration unknown – there is a vast and infinite pool of potential and possibility for every living person. And here is where ‘nothing matters’ but ‘everything counts’ creates the alchemy of a rich life – well loved. (I made a typo and decided it read better than well lived).
Pool of Infinite Possibility
There are things in this life over which you have no control whatsoever. The spinning Earth for example. There are things in life over which Read more…
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The truth about 2012.
There is a big truth about 2012 and there is a little truth about 2012 and they are both the same: It Does Not Matter!
The other day, I was chatting with a woman who is an industrial psychologist. That means she goes into large working environments – in this case corporate or industrial – and assesses every person from plant sweeper to Chair. In-depth psychological analysis combined with years of experience and intuitive skill allows this professional to advise on the best way to bring each individual to their optimum level of potential within the business entity for the greater good of the whole.
2012 Mayan Calendar
At any rate, she shared that a prevailing concern for many was the spectre of 2012 – and the end of the world. I was really surprised by that. I thought the whole Mayan Calendar thing was more in the realm of New Age and that the infiltration into popular consciousness Read more…
With a Little Help From My Friends ~
So many friends have written or called this week with kind words – sorry that I have been saddened or in pain – concerned that I am all right. I appreciate it because believe me, in the midst of the drama no one feels sorrier for me than I do. However, the reason I am so explicit and exposed in my experience is not to kvetch or whine, but to share an experience as a map out of the tangle of the Little Drama and into the vast and beautiful landscape of our own Big Picture.
Beautiful Landscape of Self
When I seek prayers – it is not so others will weep with me, but so that with the collective outpouring of love through prayer whatever is needed will find its way to me – and to those with whom I am engaged in the drama. We are all gathered to learn something about Read more…
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I’d Rather be Liked
When I first began to study the Bhagavad Gita with my spiritual teacher, she advised the small number of students, “Be aware that when you study the sacred scriptures, Life will offer you the circumstances to understand the lessons.” That is certainly my experience and choosing to live from a higher understanding frees us ultimately from pain, fear and suffering – but (and here’s the catch) – not without experiencing it first.
The Meaning of Courage
It is in walking through the fire of fear, betrayal, loss, suffering, grief that we see that this is the fire that strengthens the steel of our character and spiritual expression and burns away all that does not serve the Higher Self.
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I believe in people!
This past week we have seen and experienced some spectacular views. We have taken hundreds of photos – each one capturing a dab of colour of the rich visual tapestry that is Greece. Emerald and ultramarine of the sea, fuschia and magenta of the bougainvillaea that spills abundantly over whitewashed walls. Red rocks, blue doors, black sands.
But last evening we witnessed something more extraordinary that lifted my heart in a way I will try to explain. The Oia sunset. If you picture a bass clef of sheet music with a cluster of dots in front rather than behind you would have a stylized image of the island of Santorini. Oia is at the top as the upper curve drops and curls slightly inward.
Oia, pronounced ‘ee-ya’ is on the highest point of the island and is apparently the sunset capital of the world. At the height of the searing sun, we had arrived in Oia and followed a tall young man who hefted our bag on his shoulder. Knee high walls of whitewashed plaster are all that separates the walker from the drop. All the while, is the breathtaking view of Read more…
“And they lived happily ever after.”
I don’t know about you but some of my happiest times have been after I have vanquished a foe – either in real life or in my beliefs; when I finally defined the lines of my personal kingdom and shoved someone or some thought into the moat. But here’s the rub. All those nefarious creatures which engage you in thought, dream or reality all reside within the walls of your kingdom. They infiltrated before you knew you were royal. Before you discovered the only one who can defend your walls is your Self.
Your Personal Kingdom
And who are they? They are your parents beliefs about themselves as seen through you. They are the cultural and religious mores and doctrines of your time. They are the collective beliefs of nation or global village. And who are you? You are the spark from the brilliant flame of all that has ever been created and all that may ever be created. Your preciousness is not debatable. Your potential as the hands, eyes, voice of creation is limitless. Your value as a human being is beyond all imagined riches.
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It’s not polite to say you are truly happy.
I was raised to be ‘good’. Good meant humble, passive, helpful, respectful, and self effacing. I grew up ‘good’ very well. So well, in fact, that Life scared me to death. Anyone older, richer, more educated, socially superior or just louder was awarded my abeyance and deference. Life in our turbulent family constellation was fraught with its dramas and tragedies like manic depression and suicide and trussed up in the bonds of God’s will. So God being the ultimate authority was good and scary and for sure ruled a world of sadness and uncertainty. Suffering was inevitable and enduring suffering without complaint was nobility itself.
But like every good Christian (religion is interchangeable), I hoisted my burden – my imperfect self – and set out to make that truth true. I looked for the broken people who I could relate to. We shared a distrust of the world and the acceptance of a dysfunctional universe. It took me a few decades to discover that ‘thoughts become things’ in the words of Mike Dooley and I found exactly what I was looking for. Suffering. This ‘proof’ fed my belief in my own unworthiness and even when – or especially when – Read more…
The Elegance of Living Peace and Beauty
When I was a teenager, there was an army greatcoat that hung on a hook behind the heavy wooden door in the cottage. On rainy days I would shrug into it, wrap it ’round me and cinch the wide belt. It was khaki coloured with epaulettes. A real ‘trench’ coat from the war when my dad was ‘overseas’. It was full of deep pockets and folds and unexpected inner stashes. I would grab his old wide brimmed fedora, stained and much loved and pull it down over my eyes. Slipping into black rubber boots with the red trim around the top and toe, I would leave the cocoon of the fire warmed log cabin and slam the door behind me. Read more…
Happy Mother’s Day!
No chocolate chip pancakes with jelly beans in bed for me today. Nope. This evening I am assured of a very special menu – homemade pasta with a sauce or stuffing (not sure which) but I know it will be a culinary delight. I am to bring wine (we’re having Italian) and a brick of Parmesan (my treat because the good stuff is beyond the budget of two young men forging their way in the music business.
Part of the pleasure of the evening with my two princes will be to watch them cook. They are a choreographed team in a small apartment kitchen. The younger one will be in charge and the older one will act as sous chef. One will rinse a dish and without turning his back pass it over the shoulder where the other will scoop it and put it in the dishwasher. What the??! I don’t recall that at home! Read more…
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“I AM the Resurrection and the Life”
John: 11 25-26
What if the resurrection never happened? I mean, what if there was no Judas, no pieces of silver, no Pilate – no Crucifixion? What if Jesus worked it all out with hugs and left everyone in his wake feeling warm and bubbly as he flashed the peace sign while he repeated ‘Love is all there is’.
My question is how can we despise Judas when he fulfilled the prophesy of a new age dawning and served the peaceful warrior up on silver? He had to betray the Lamb of God in order for us to pay attention. It’s not human nature to go looking to change the status quo. So we paid attention but in the convoluted journey from then to now, we have betrayed that gentle message of love and compassion and awakening over and over and over again. Read more…
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