April 22nd launch of the School of Spiritual Learning

Posted on March 24, 2016 by new desert

Dear Spiritual Friends,

Some of you have at times expressed interest and/or listened to my radio show ‘Nurturing the Spiritual Spelunker in All of Us.’

I would like to thank you for your support, your presence, which I value deeply.

My contract with the network—Voice America—ends by mid-April and I decided NOT to renew it.

For two reasons.

First, I do not get the ‘relationship nourishment’ that I seek and need, meaning no one calls and no one emails me. And second, the format of the show does not allow for building community, or Unity Consciousness, if you will.

Starting Friday, April 22nd at 3pm New York time, I will be offering a new weekly program, or a new ‘class.’ Each class will be about 75 minutes long and I will send ahead of time a summary of the topics to be addressed.

I will be using a type of webinar platform which will provide, if desired, an opportunity for interaction (either Instant Teleseminar or Zoom). I understand that not everyone can attend at the specified time; the program will be recorded and anyone will be able to listen 24/7 by simply accessing a link.

As soon as possible, I would like to use a mailing list, and not any kind of messaging system, which can be very limiting.

If you are interested in this spiritual initiative, let me know and please send me your email address, at

seeking@nurturingthegift.org

Thank you very much.

In gratitude,

Gilles

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Remember — Joy Harjo

Posted on March 8, 2016 by new desert

Remember

Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.

Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her
in a bar once in Iowa City.

Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.

Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother’s, and hers.

Remember your father. He is your life also.

Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe. I heard her singing Kiowa war
dance songs at the corner of Fourth and Central once.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you.

Remember that language comes from this.

Remember the dance that language is, that life is.

Remember.

~ Joy Harjo ~

(How We Become Human)

 

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Each of Us Has A Name — Zelda

Posted on February 25, 2016 by new desert

Each of Us Has A Name

Each of us has a name
given by God
and given by our parents

Each of us has a name
given by our stature and our smile
and given by what we wear

Each of us has a name
given by the mountains
and given by our walls

Each of us has a name
given by the stars
and given by our neighbors

Each of us has a name
given by our sins
and given by our longing

Each of us has a name
given by our enemies
and given by our love

Each of us has a name
given by our celebrations
and given by our work

Each of us has a name
given by the seasons
and given by our blindness

Each of us has a name
given by the sea
and given by
our death.

~ Zelda ~

(Trans. by Marcia Lee Falk in
Beloved on the Earth, ed. by
J. Perman, D. Cooper, M. Hart, and P. Mittlefehldt)

 

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Boundaries — Lynn Ungar

Posted on February 9, 2016 by new desert

Boundaries

The universe does not revolve around us.
The stars and planets,
spinning through the ballroom of space,
dance with one another
quite outside of our small life.
We cannot hold gravity or seasons;
even air and water inevitably evade our grasp.

Why not, then, let go?

We could move through time
like a shark through water,
neither restless or ceasing,
absorbed in and absorbing the native element.
Why pretend we can do otherwise?
The world comes in at every pore,
mixes in our blood
before breath releases us into the world again.

Did we think the fragile boundary of our skin
could build a wall?

Let’s listen.
Every molecule is humming its particular pitch.
Of course we are a symphony.
Whose tune do we think
the planets are singing
as they dance?

~ Lynn Ungar ~

(Blessing the Bread)

 

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The Leaf and the Cloud—Mary Oliver

Posted on January 23, 2016 by new desert

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider
the orderliness of the world.

Notice something you have never noticed before,
like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricket
whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb.

Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain,
shaking the water-sparks from its wings.

Let grief be your sister, she will wither or not.
Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also,
like the diligent leaves.

A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.

Scatter your flowers over the graves and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Live with the beetle and the wind.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(excerpt from The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem)

 

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For a New Beginning — John O’Donohue

Posted on January 5, 2016 by new desert

For a New Beginning

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

~ John O’Donohue ~

(To Bless the Space Between Us)

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Archangel Gabriel on “Spiritual Illumination”

Posted on December 24, 2015 by new desert

As channeled by Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana

December 17, 2015

Beloved Ones,

Let us have discourse on the quality of love known as spiritual illumination. Illumination means that one can now comprehend another level of reality. It comes out of the silence of contemplation and depends upon the silence for its stability. As one’s personality comes closer to spiritual perfection, one becomes aware of their higher purpose and their spiritual growth becomes their main focus in life. Their awakening personality will begin to follow the spiritual guidance that comes from within rather than through established rules and doctrines of religion and society. Spirituality becomes the central purpose and focus of their life. As one regains true knowledge through the divine that lives within them while still being embodied on Earth, they become willing to live in unity with this higher aspect of self. This awareness and illumination is a form of divine grace which encourages one to let go of all former patterns of thought and behaviour which do not match one’s spiritual aspirations. There is a longing to come closer to the divine and to feel at one with divinity.

This is a time to make all the new learning they are experiencing their own and to find ways of expressing it in the world. It is also a time to be kind to oneself. After an individual has been sufficiently cleansed and purified and their mind remains fully focused on the presence and qualities of the divine, a state of illumination may unexpectedly arise. In the initial experience, they might perceive a blinding and intense inner white light. They experience deep feelings of universal love and profound spiritual intuition and insight. For many months these deep feelings and insights will keep flowing in. These will gradually settle into a state of a raised and more intuitive and loving consciousness. They become aware of the divine presence within everyone and everything and their intuitive abilities are greatly increased. They radiate a presence of love, peaceful harmony and goodwill towards all who come into their sphere of influence. They become aware that they have received a spiritual gift along with the illumination experience and try to develop this into an ability that will lead them to help others awaken to their own higher potential.

One gradually gives up (crucifies) one’s personality and individuality. It is necessary to examine every aspect of their lives and make decisions about what they want to keep and what is to be discarded. They come to a point where they ask for nothing and desire nothing. They surrender their individual will to the will of the divine within them in total passivity and acceptance. By giving up everything and being completely passive, one is able to be filled with the divine spirit. They experience a constant peaceful and love filled union with the divine. They know themselves as a loving instrument of divine will that is meant to be used for manifesting the divine plan on earth. This comes from direct action of the divine and brings new knowledge and truths that one knows were not something previously known to them. Living one’s life in this state of illumination is easy and full of bliss; there is a permanent state of great happiness and contentment. It is like living in a state of grace that can never be lost again. Whatever one does is never for selfish interests but is always done for the highest good of all. They live a life of selfless service for the greater good of humanity and the universe.

Illumination may also occur simultaneously with the dark night of the soul or with the process of purification, enlightenment and selfless work. These may coexist together, causing emotional extremes over short periods of time. One does not need to be perfect to reach illumination but can continue their purification on deeper and deeper levels. They do not have to give up things, just their attachment to them. Illumination is the result of purifying and learning to control one’s mind, heart and emotions in order to develop a higher mental and emotional body. In today’s world, ones capacity to understand, comprehend and communicate has greatly increased and this makes it much easier to come to a state of illumination in one’s life.  This information that is available helps one to be on an accelerated path rather than being lost in confusion and emotional misery for long periods of time as happened in times past.

With all the information that is easily deciphered and readily available on the different stages of the spiritual path for the spiritual seeker, it behooves each individual to develop the ability to discern and know what is right or wrong for them. They can do this by keeping their highest goal in mind and asking their inner guidance for help to be led to the right information for their next step on their spiritual growth path. What is most important is to maintain one’s purity of consciousness and keep their spiritual goal on the right path. In this way, one is led to the right material, people or events that is important for their evolutionary progress. Whenever one really needs additional information, their spiritual guidance will let them unexpectedly find it. Walking the spiritual path means finding ones own insights and personal relationship with the divine. This illumination can be the pinnacle of achievement of one’s lifetime rather than going with the flow of chaos. Their reality is experienced with unusual clarity, and a radiance and beauty that was never before suspected.

May the vast arena of the divine creativity in which your life is immersed become ever flooded with more light and compassion for all living things.

I AM Archangel Gabriel

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I live my life in widening circles—Rainer Maria Rilke

Posted on December 3, 2015 by new desert

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know.

Am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

(Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

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The True Meaning of Peace and Understanding – Krishnamurti

Posted on November 22, 2015 by new desert

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.

Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

So a [human being] who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he she is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/520382-when-you-call-yourself-an-indian-or-a-muslim-or

 

« Lorsque vous vous dites Indien, Musulman, Chrétien, Européen ou autre chose, vous êtes violents.

Savez-vous pourquoi ? C’est parce que vous vous séparez du reste de l’humanité, et cette séparation due à vos croyances, à votre nationalité, à vos traditions, engendre la violence.

Celui qui cherche à comprendre la violence n’appartient à aucun pays, à aucune religion, à aucun parti politique, à aucun système particulier. Ce qui lui importe est la compréhension totale de l’humanité. »

http://www.gilles-jobin.org/citations/?P=k&au=682

 

― Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Journey in a Boat with no Oars

Posted on November 5, 2015 by new desert

Dear Friends,

I was truly inspired by the following passage from a book by Joan Norton and Margaret Starbird, and the timing of my “receiving it” yesterday evening; to the point I will be using it tomorrow during the 44th episode of Nurturing the Spiritual Spelunker in All of Us entitled, “Where is “this” going to lead us?”

Considering the journey across the sea described above, this jewel appears like the perfect illustration of my question. Enjoy!

Journey in a Boat with no Oars

Chapter 12 p. 72-73

From 14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine – Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene, by Joan Norton and Margaret Starbird

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Legends in Old French tell us of Joseph of Arimathea, the guardian of the Grail, and of Lazarus and Martha (of Bethany), travelling together with their sister Mary and two other Marys, Mary Salome and Mary Jacobi, the mother of James. Several other friends are with them: Maximus and Sedonius, according to some of the legends. The French legends say that this tiny group of pilgrims landed at Ratis on the shores of Gaul in a rudderless boat with no oars, about 42 CE. This open vessel, defying all odds, was guided only by the breath of Spirit blowing it across the storm-tossed sea and casting it upon the rock-strewn beaches of the Mediterranean shores of southern France.

Ratis was known for its temple honoring the Great Mother Cybele, so it is perhaps fitting that it was here that the Christian refugees from persecution in Jerusalem found sanctuary. Their only salvation was their passionate trust in their God and his plan for their safety and well-being. Their journey, buffeted by wind and rain, tossed by tempestuous seas, is the model for our own voyage on the sea of life, trusting implicitly in the guidance of the Holy Spirit to bring us safely to destination.

Reflections and Sharing

A boat is also a chalice, a grail, a place of “holding” life’s journey. It is a symbol of the “womb to womb” vessel of life of the Great Mother. After the Gospel tells us that Mary Magdalene was the woman who first saw the risen Christ and told the others, and after she met her Beloved again in the garden, she disappears from the official story. But that doesn’t mean she’s gone. We next find her in legend as a woman in a “fragile boat,” crossing to France with two other Marys, her brother Lazarus, and a child later called “Princess Sarah,” whom we understand as the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

This is the story of Mary Magdalene traveling in a boat with no oars, guided by the hand of God to a new and unknown life in the south of France.  Among the relics we have of this journey story is a drawing of a small boat on the wall of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem with the words, “We went.”

Another very early Christian relic is a prayer rug woven in about 150 CE that shows the Holy Family, with their halos and Jesus in the center, in a “boat with no oars.” The story it commemorates in weaving is that the Holy Family of Jesus and Mary Magdalene went to France, perhaps fleeing in fear for their lives. In southern France Mary Magdalene is still celebrated in yearly pageants by the sea.

We can all find similarities in our own lives with this story of a dangerous passage to something mysterious and unknown to us. Perhaps we’re facing a new time of life that seems difficult, or perhaps we’re traveling in unknown waters inside ourselves, feeling betwixt and between ways of life.

The theme of leaving something behind and the unknown ahead is a part of everyone’s life. Mary Magdalene shows us the tremendous courage and faith it takes to “cross the great waters” and start anew. From her we learn that, despite tragedy, disappointment, or just resistance to change…we can go on in faith that our vessel is sacred and that a divine hand steers the boat.

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