Once You Start to Awaken

This quote from John Donohue was passed onto me by an IKH classmate (Thanks Daniel!) and I was inspired to share it on my blog, it speaks to mine and I am sure so many others' current journey:

Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for the old patterns. Now you realise how precious your time here is. You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with tired talk and dead language. You see through the rosters of expectation which promise you safety and the confirmation of your outer identity. Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change. You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells. You want your God to be wild and to call you to where your destiny awaits.


From “The Question Holds the Lantern”
Reflection from Conamara

Happy Birthday to Me!

I recently had my 41st birthday and to celebrate I did not bake this cake - a raw Carrot and Goji Berry delectation... it truly was awesome as everyone who tasted it remarked - once again I have Café Gratitude to thank for the masterful recipe.

As part of my celebration I had a party and asked those who felt so inclined, to bring poetry, so Rumi, Hafiz and David Whyte also made an appearance along with several others.

And after the poetry? Music from two of my accomplished friends Mr Paul Carlson and Mr Larry Levine (in the house). My apologies for no pictures of the bash other than my artwork in the kitchen. Next time...

So as I reach the end of this short post I would like to thank Ms Dannielle Wade for the sizable metamorphic rock which now lives on my coffee table (to the exclusion of all else) and assure her son, Dash, that 'it likes it here'!

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In closing, I give you Mr David Whyte with

Everything is Waiting for You

Everything Waits for You
Your great mistake is to act the drama

as if you were alone. As if life

were a progressive and cunning crime

with no witness to the tiny hidden

transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny

the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,

even you, at times, have felt the grand array;

the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding

out your solo voice You must note

the way the soap dish enables you,

or the window latch grants you freedom.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

The stairs are your mentor of things

to come, the doors have always been there

to frighten you and invite you,

and the tiny speaker in the phone

is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into

the conversation. The kettle is singing

even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots

have left their arrogant aloofness and

seen the good in you at last. All the birds

and creatures of the world are unutterably

themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Philosopher's Pie & Lemon Meringue Notes

Raw Lemon Meringue Pie, people... pretty cool stuff huh?

Just thought I would show off.

'Gor' (to quote Miggery Sow) raw you says, how's that then?

Check out Café Gratitude's book Sweet Gratitude for this confection.

No other reason for this part of the post - just showin' off!

And now for something completely different... nope, not a man with a stoat through his head, but this - 'get your wisdom on'.

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Philosopher's Notes
Concentrated Wisdom for Your Hero's Journey

For those of you who have managed so far without the aid of Brian Johnson's expertise, then it's time to stop struggling.

Brian's website gives you the 'Cliff Notes' on all those 'improving' books you keep meaning to read by such authors as Byron Katie, Ken Wilber, Paulo Coehlo, Joseph Campbell and Wallace Wattle. Titles include Rumi Daylight, The Science of Being Great, Ask and It Is Given, Loving What Is, Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The Power of Now and Spiritual Economics. Over 50 titles as a downloadable pdf and mp3.

Each Philosopher's Notes runs about 6 pages, the whole book is reduced to nuggets of wisdom. The bones. And I have no idea how Brian manages to capture, in these short essays, the essence of each literary work. He is a talented artist.

Brian offers this extraordinary service for free - there is the option to upgrade and for a nominal $20, however its not a hard sell and you'll get all you need by just subscribing gratis. I personally think supporting him financially would be a service to mankind but, hey - what do I know? I write a Blog in my spare time...

Never a Dull Moment

`Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I - I hardly know, sir, just at present - at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'

So I woke at 4.16am and decided to blog - yeah I know... but life is that weird for me right now - and then I wondered where I should start? It's been a year after all and there is so much to report:

• My raw and living foods diet (regime not restriction).


• IKH work and imminent graduation (31st May 2009, for those who care).


• My continued journey and education by Nature, with Plant Spirit Essences (PSE) - an archaic term for me now that another year of 'study' has gone by - and Nature vibrations. Hmm... this may be the starting point - I shall come back here if it is.


• 5 Rhythms comes to DC and I learn to 'sweat my prayers'.


• Prayer. Singing my prayers and how my prayers are and always were answered, I just didn't know that was what was happening.


• Kathleen Thomas; extraordinary acupuncturist and healer. A true Lightworker.


• A call to catering; a request to cater raw dessert for 70 at Martin Luther King Day and 44th Presidential Inauguration Dinner hosted by Wholeness for Humanity.

And then there is my personal journey of transformation which underlies the fabric of my daily life - is in fact a reflection of and at the same time is fueled by these manifestations listed.

Let's just start somewhere, huh?

I once asked The Universe (*smiles* - Morning Nancye!) about healing and whether we only had 'one shot' when things came our way. Let me open that up a bit more: I must have been concerned at the time that when opportunities for growth/transformation come into my life, if I don't grab them then and there - thats it, they are gone and so is my chance at healing/revealing in that aspect. (This is a no doubt a much shorter version of what I was actually thinking about, and probably how I worded it to The Universe (TU) however, you have the gist.) As is usually the case, TU responded instantly, it said "How many mathematical equations end in the answer 6?" (Must have been channeling my old Math teacher, Miss Abraham! Or perhaps TU in its infinite wisdom decided to manifest in that particular relationship as a Japanese Roshi and give me a Koan. Rascal....) I got it of course, instantly and the beauty of the answer delivered in this way is it continues to unfold for me, and I remember it and the understanding implicit in it whenever I need to.

The answer? (You probably figured it out for youself.) Infinite. And beyond. Beyond Infinite? Well, this is some personal understanding of non-duality but I think if I follow this thread I will get lost. Another time perhaps.

So if there are infinite equations that result in the answer 6, then there are infinite healing journeys that result in wholeness and revelation (or 6 to use the analogy) and no matter what I choose to do I am still moving towards 6. Working 'backwards' 6 being the end result, there are infinite choices in Life and what I choose in the moment defines, or maybe potentiates is a better word, the next moment. Both words are good in fact. Ergo, if I miss an opportunity as it manifests in a certain form, TU will send it in another depending on what I did choose. Enter free will, and also the underlying knowing that there is some form of Destiny - Destin-ation.

(Here my Ego rejoices at the fact it is not being herded like some mindless, choicesless creature and yet sings with Joy because there is inherent safety in the idea that no matter what I do, I am always 'on track' I am always 'headed home'.)

This means my friends that, the pulse of existence, the energy of Life - however you personally define the movement and life in all things, its expression and its direction - is towards more, not less. And it is, to use a term recently given to me (Thanks Jason!) Anti-entropic.

What a lark! Do you see how that lets us all 'off the hook', how now we get to have more fun and can relax, not take things and ourselves so bloody seriously...?

This also opens up into (for me anyway, it starts to unfold in this way, for you it may unfold differently - see my previous few paragraphs!) ideas such as manifesting, the laws of attraction as some call them, co-creation, consciousness and its relationship to defining our Reality. Individual Reality as opposed to the same Reality for eveyone and so much more.

But enough, Alfred Hitchcock once said that the duration of a movie should be no longer than the capacity of a [wo]man's bladder and I believe that's about Blog posts too.

Check out the movie Leap. Email me if you want to explore PSE as a healing modality and investigate how I work with clients in this area and above all, relax, enjoy yourself and I'll 'see' you next time I post.

'Take heart, truth and happiness wil get you in the end. You can't lose in this game. Have fun. It goes on too long to be taken seriously all the time.'

John & Lyn St Clair Thomas, Eyes of the Beholder

The Leap: The Movie

It's been a while - I know.

I have much to report and yet, as I am in the middle of some big shifts (when am I not, right? and yet this feels tectonic...), I don't have all the words to tell you how I am or what is occurring. Once things coalesce I will write a much longer blog post, bringing you all up-to-date.

In the meantime, check out the trailer for the movie The Leap . Fans of What the Bleep and other 'mind expanders' will find no doubt find something of interest.

If you decide to purchase a copy, it would be great if you went this link which is my affiliate program:

http://www.leapmovie.com/jrox/jrox.php?id=10258

Enjoy!

Close the Gap

'There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural. We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance. '

~ Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 14 Astronaut and
Founder of the Institute of Noetic Science

Weird Kid on the Block

So, there I am, outside singing my prayers at 5am this morning - a practise that I have - (the singing and the prayers not the 5am) and clarity, just like the sun (poetic lisence because the sun was nowhere to be seen at 5am) begins to dawn. I realise that it's not enough to admit to being the weird kid on the block when asked, I have to tell people I am the weird kid on the block. This is not happy thought for me... you mean I have to risk being ostracized for good? Sure, says the voice singing back to me, because in actuality, introducing yourself to life and those in it as who you really are is the way to be included. The fear of being ostracized that leads you to hide your true self IS ostracizing you, is fostering the feeling of not being included. Hmmm... a Divine and risky paradox. I sigh. OK - so does that mean more blog? Well sure, that would be one way to admit to being who you are...

It appears then that I am to tell you all about my continuing work with essences and vibration. I'm not sure that I have enough time to bring you right up to date or record everything that has happened this past year but I guess I could give you snap shots? I will therefore endeavour to write regularly over the next few days. (Who knows, if I say it *out loud* it may happen.)

For today (as my son is now awake and says he needs to watch Stevie Nicks on youtube... well he is 3.5 and seems to know his own mind! - In truth I have lost my train of thought.):

It occurred to me, in light of my difficulty with heroic traditions of therapy and healing, that plant and nature essences do not work to treat the symptom of say, perfectionism, directly, they do not remove the need to fold underwear in neat triangles or iron shoelaces, this relationship with order and design is well established and probably at a mechanistic level (though I would have to put more time and thought into this - and I have niether right now) cannot be tinkered with, 'turned down' as it were. Rather the essences work to foster our relationship to the opposite which is what in this case? Chaos or spontaneity perhaps, and this is where the healing lies, in introducing us to the sacredness of disorder and randomness and holding our fears as we get acquainted. We have then a relationship to order and chaos which is more healing and whole than trying to have a relationship to order only. And more spacious too, how much more can exist in the 'distance' between these two things; the subtleties and permutations are infinite - just like the possible numbers between 1 and 2.

I think this work goes on, and has been going on, with our use of vibrational essences, it is not something I have now created that wasn't there before, but seeing it and understanding it is healing too. Part of the human malady is this desire we have to be all one thing, all the *good* things; to purify and be permanently pure. The heroic traditions can exacerbate this desire with the purging and cleansing and releasing...terminology, but not I think, reality (or the underlying 'mechanism'). So to view the use of essences as a way to allow all of me to exist, all parts and pieces to be given space and be included, is gentle and peaceful and probably more close to the truth of how we heal.