"Make a little birdhouse in your soul." -- They Might Be Giants
Birdhouse in Your Soul
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Multiple Awareness as a Tool to be Human
This was partly inspired by discussions in Called By Love intensives. It is also posted at The Axis Mundi.
It's a question of where our focus is.
Intensive 8: Knowing Beyond the Rational Mind, May 18 & 19, 2012
How is the WISDOM of the SOUL DIFFERENT from the intelligence of the rational human mind? How do we access this WISDOM, transcend the rational mind and yet include and honor its genius and gifts?
We come to a point in our journey when the left-brain becomes quiet and the right brain leads. This is the integration of heart and mind, the Knowing that is beyond the intellect. Our left brain will still come forward to participate in what is unfolding when its gifts and skills are needed, but it is no longer under the ego’s commands. You will experience how this happens and feels…if you are willing.
How does our new identity shift from the ego to the Knowing of our Essence, our Soul and its Genius? How do Love and Wisdom become integrated as One? What is the highest and deepest meaning of ‘Where Two or More are gathered?’ How are Miracles and Revelation different? When is the need for miracles over?
You are invited into Emergence and knowing your new identity as your own Essence Self, experiencing what it means to live from your Soul as you are Called By Love.
This intensive is interrelated with Site 6, Mystical Union, and the Cave of the Heart at Site 7 in Unity of Tustin’s beautiful Meditation Garden.
NEW BIRTH, MYSTICAL UNION
The Beloved embracing the Beloved, in form, beyond form, visible, invisible, is revealing Itself as One. I never knew when the beautiful stained glass symbol of the mystical marriage, mystical union, manifested at Site Six in the Meditation Gardens at Unity of Tustin that it would ‘show up’ in the way It has. It is showing me… I Am the Way…
I thought it first had to manifest in my own being, in the evolution of my soul. Then, if it was ‘destiny’, I would ‘attract’ a soul partner at the same level of vibration… Well…sort of…and more…
My human mind tries, yet often can’t understand the Mystery…even after these twenty-five years of being a minister…and more than that on the spiritual path! I’ve seen glimpses, some potentials, but definitely “seeing” dimly.
Love, the Amazing Field of Love, is the Reality in which I live, in which I move, in which I have my Being. It transcends all of the love—yet includes it—that I have ever known.
It has no opposites. My perceptions in time, which sometimes Continue reading
The Axis Mundi – A Union of Heaven and Earth
The event behind this photo prompted this piece.
I was walking around the office building I work at, looked up, and saw two jet streams crossing in a manner that looked like an X and Y axis from math class…but miles long in an impressive blue sky. Then a new jet, barely big enough to see, headed right toward where the first two jet streams appeared to meet. A minute later, there it was, in a colossal scale, a giant set of X, Y, and Z axes, showing a point up in the sky where three of the four dimensions we perceive meet.
After I’d whipped out my phone, snapped the above shot, and put my phone away, another jet mysteriously headed through the same point of connection, almost like an illustration in a physics book to help me imagine how there may be perpendicular directions in dimensions we cannot see. I’d already suspected I was receiving a reminder about the intersections of the seen and unseen…now I knew it.
This was an example of an axis mundi–a union of heaven and earth. There are many such things, usually symbolized by mountains or trees, sometimes the uppermost points of temple structures, etc. I’ll quote from the Wikipedia entry for axis mundi:
The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, columna cerului, center of the world), in religion or mythology, is the world center and/or the connection between Heaven and Earth… …At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms. Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all. The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world’s point of beginning.
Now, in Holy Week approaching Easter, we encounter several entirely different examples of an axis mundi. The Cross of Crucifixion is an axis mundi. It is tall, reaching Continue reading
Intensive 7: The Union of Heaven and Earth, April 6 & 7, 2012
Intensive 7: The Union of Heaven and Earth, April 6 & 7, 2012 ❤
As we live life’s journey, we experience love in many different forms, many different vibrations. Each of the stages of consciousness carries its unique imprint or face of love. Even as we move into awareness of ‘vertical consciousness’ and can see the maps, even of love, there will still be moments of destiny and surprise as heaven and earth begin to express themselves consciously as One. You will let your soul speak and reveal to you, perhaps, your soul biography, which may be different than your human awareness!
This intensive will explore the dimensions of Love and Wisdom in your soul’s journey.
How is Love different from love in all of its many faces? You will be invited to shift into 2nd Tier consciousness and live from it. It is about Love without an Opposite and living from that awareness. It is saying ‘Yes’ to Love in every Now moment of your life. It is about Knowing how Love is different from love and how it shows up differently.
How is Wisdom different from intellectual knowledge? You will be invited to experience and live with Vertical Knowing, Seeing and Being in the world with That awareness. It is the Mystical Union of Heart/Mind and the flowing of That into Life, visible and Invisible. It is Wisdom beyond, yet including, the intellect. It is clear Knowing without judgment and with embodied Awareness. It is the 6th chakra, the Single Eye, spoken of by Jesus. Love and Wisdom are One.~ Marj Britt
A Timely No Choice Moment
I missed today’s intensive. I had been looking forward to it. I loved the theme: Choice or No Choice. This was an area I had been working on personally for a while now. I loved that I would get to meet someone from other intensives, Swami Chetananada, because I currently have temporal obligations that keep me from the other intensives. I loved that we would participate in a fire ceremony that Chetanananda would officiate. I loved that I would see everyone who has been participating in the workshops again and share our stories and experiences.
Then the fire ceremony was postponed due to the intense rain. Then last night I was struck with abdominal pains that had not subsided by this morning and so I went to urgent care—turns out it was nothing serious, but just enough to keep me from participating.
I almost wonder if the fire ceremony was held off in part for me. And the day has been, to me, beautiful.
You see, this is a wonderful example of Choice and No Choice. I could have said how bummed I was that I couldn’t attend. I could say that I was let down. I could say I should have gone anyway despite the physical discomfort. I could say it was bad luck and a terrible thing.
Or I could say how beautiful my yard looks in the rain and how much I love rain in general. Or how much I enjoyed being with Continue reading
Conception Day: March 22, 2012!
We’ll use a little Lynne McTaggart-ish thinking as our introduction here (which is appropriate, as she’s involved!).
Whether one is prone to believe that any particular date is likely to mark an “end of the world” (as we know it) or not, you likely understand or are open to the possibility that the power of the belief of the masses tends to manifest that which they believe. And many, many believe that December 21st, 2012, will herald a massive shift in the consciousness of our world.
The question is, will this be a shift to higher stages or a regression? Will it be a global Call to Love?
As with any birth, there is conception, and the most wonderful lineup of teachers (see below) and speakers will be participating in an event to conceive something wondrous to be birthed on December 21st!
The following is from their invitation email. Please register and participate!
I’m writing to invite you to Conception Day 2012 on March 22nd – a free live webcast event where thousands of us will gather worldwide to make a commitment to birth a new era!
The event features Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, Jean Houston, Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Lynne McTaggart and other top leaders sharing their insights about this all-important year and giving you tools that empower you to create a new story for humanity.
Registration is free. Sign up here: http://conceptionday2012.com
This is an opportunity to come together, envision and cocreate a world that is healthy, sustainable, peaceful and prosperous for all.
I hope you can join me March 22nd! Note: You can sign up even if you can’t attend live and The Shift Network, producers of this event, will email you a link to the event recording.
Sign up here: http://conceptionday2012.com
The Beauty of Community
I was recently asked to do a survey about my spiritual practices and journey. One question was if there was a triggering event which marked the start of that journey. Here was part of my answer:
…We had a wonderful priest, and yet no one ever seemed to learn from the homily or the readings. I got mad that people never got into the songs, nor put any feeling into any of the rituals of the mass. Stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, say the “Our Father.” They weren’t even performing as bad actors. To my mind at that time, they were Continue reading
March Intensive: Choice or No Choice
Choice or No Choice
The experiences of our lives come, sometimes by choice, sometimes with no choice. We experience the surprises of our lives, as well as the clear seeing points of choice. Sometimes we make the choices, sometimes not. Surprises can come as shock, carrying polarities of either joy and bliss or tears and sorrow.
It is often part of the experience of Sea Changes, Upheavals, Angels and “Sea Monsters”. Interestingly, sea monsters are mentioned in the creation story in the first chapter of Genesis!
We will learn how to walk through, live through both choice and no-choice events in our lives. We will learn how responses and reactions are available in both experiences.
We will recognize the paradigm shifts and sea changes that are occurring regardless of our human perceptions. And we will understand denial, surrender, forgiveness and how the Soul is always guiding us… even in the sea changes that may overwhelm.
We will recognize the choices of the heart and the intelligence of the heart-mind. It will be about how we walk through, live through both choice and no-choice events in our lives. ~Marj Britt
