Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Give & Take

This is so beautiful. Keisha is one of those rare gems. Listen to Step #4. This is exactly what I was writing about in my post about Mixed Messages.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Mixed Messages

I was recently told by a psychic that I would receive clarity in a session with him. In a way, he was right. In a way. After spending an afternoon in an event he hosted, I came away with this...

I seem to be have been born with a cloaking device or scrambler in place that has made any readings, predictions, or prophecies others made about me pretty far off base, enough to give me absolutely no faith in psychics. I've also come to realize I have a personal truth gauge as well...one that I can trust. When I hear the truth, it's like every light on a string up my spine lights up. When I hear opinion, projection, or distortions of truth (my own or someone else's), my guts twist.

And I think that's part of my message. We don't need to and in fact are not generally served by investing our faith in what others tell us, teach us, or say about us. Of course, there are those rare masters, true gems, who can use words so artfully that they do no disservice to truth, rather they ground it. In any moment, Spirit provides us images, feelings, and perceptions. That experience is the truth. Our own interpretation is always less powerful if not completely distorted. So why remove our experience one step further from truth by allowing others to hook us with their stories and interpretations about us? No one can interpret our reality for us. How could they? Yet, if we give them that power, we risk losing our own message...and ourselves.

Again and again, in spiritual circles, I hear the same message. We need to change and evolve, we need to be different, free of anger, free of pain, more this, less that. I hear that we need to connect with the Divine or receive this or that blessing, experience, or teaching. I hear that true unconditional love is rare and not experienced every day. I hear that by sheer will alone we can have everything and anything we want right now, if we only do it right.

Maybe. But personally, I'm not sure I like that story. I prefer the story that says we are fine just as we are. There's nothing to change, no need to be different, and there's no way to be better than the perfection we already are. Anger is just as beautiful as joy, and there's nothing wrong with pain. There's no need to connect with what we already are; the divinity is inside, not out. Unconditional love is everywhere because it is the stuff of the dreams we live in. Breathe in and we experience it. And whatever we have or don't have, we always have what we need. If something doesn't appear in life, it is not because of some internal flaw or state of mind. There's nothing wrong with us. It's all okay. Every choice is beautiful and equal...though maybe some are more pleasurable than others.

To me, that feels SO much better, kinder, truer. Care to join me in that dream?

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Music and Spirituality

The Spiritual Significance of Music

"Music is a powerful tool for cultivating community and a powerful drug that allows you to reach states of ecstasy without the come-down, writes Justin St. Vincent. Music resonates within the human spirit. At the heart of humanity is a song of the soul. The spiritual significance of music can transcend communities, cultures, and creeds...more