Ossification and consciousness

Posted on August 16, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

The experience I went through during the past nine months, being part of a monolithic (read well-structured, americano-American) organization made me reflect on consciousness—as well as the rising of consciousness—in an organization.

How do we help consciousness spread, and what are the levers that become actionable, once the whole scenario is in place? And once the actors become willing agents.

Not that I have any plans of that sort, but you may think of organizations that you deemed ossified and that you tried to uplift, or that you left, for that very reason?

I can think of one that I left after 18 years of fruitful and assiduous practice; one I couldn’t change, despite my good intentions, and one that I never returned to.

How do we prevent, not so much bone loss, but “spiritual bone” formation?

Please have a look at the definition below, if of any help 😊 and think of ways we can keep our tissues, spiritual and other, healthy and flexible!

the process of ossification

1 a: the natural process of bone formation

   b: the hardening (as of muscular tissue) into a bony substance;

2: a mass or particle of ossified tissue;

3: a tendency toward or state of being molded into a rigid, conventional, sterile, or unimaginative condition.

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A Sleep of Prisoners

Posted on August 10, 2023 by new desert

Hello dear Ones,

A late call for today’s communion and a poem that was given to us (spiritual folks) a short time ago. It follows in the footsteps of Martin Luther King’s words that I shared last week.

See you soon!

Love & much Light

“Ask yourself this: What has to happen in the world for your trances to break? Or perhaps I should say, for you to break out of your trances? When will humanity have had enough of the insanity?

As Micah, the prophet of old, asks, “What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God?”

I might add, “walk humbly with all your brothers and sisters.”

I will close with a poem from yet another wise being. His name is Christopher Fry, and he is an English poet, Quaker by faith. The poem is very short. It’s entitled A Sleep of Prisoners.”

Dark and cold we may be, but this

Is no winter now. The frozen misery

Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move.

The thunder is the thunder of the floes,

The thaw, the flood, and the upstart spring.

Thank God our time is now when wrong

Comes up to face us everywhere,

Never to leave us till we take

The longest stride of soul men and women ever took.

Affairs are now soul size.

The enterprise is exploration into God.

Where are you making for? It takes

So many thousand years to awake . . .

But will you wake, for pity’s sake?

A Sleep of Prisoners is a 1951 verse play by Christopher Fry. It concerns four English prisoners of war locked up in a church overnight, and the Old Testament style dreams they have springing from an argument between them.

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The evolution of consciousness

Posted on August 2, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

I was listening this evening to a lecture that addresses the evolution of consciousness on our planet. While it would take quite a bit of time to summarize it, I wanted to share a quote / more than one quote from a person who had a significant impact on the evolution of the country where he lived. And the world as a whole.

I will not give you his name – it’s a man – yet it should be easy to figure out who he was.

Looking forward to sharing a few moments of “evolving consciousness” with you all tomorrow!

Love & much Light,

Gilles

Here is a quote from a more recent sojourner on the planet. It is worthy of  consideration in the context of the evolution of our planet.

“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. This is one of the biggest problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above the self. Thus, they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

Life has its beginning, and its maturity comes into being when an individual rises above self to something greater. Few individuals ever learn this, and so they go through life merely existing and never living. Now, you see signs all along the way in your everyday life with individuals who are victims of self-centeredness. They do not have the capacity to project the “I” into the “thou.” They do not have the mental equipment for an eternal, dangerous, and sometimes costly altruism. They live a life of perpetual egotism, and they are the victims all-around of the egoic predicament.”

And a few more quotes that defined this person’s legacy.

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“Peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

“It is not enough to say that we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and to sacrifice for it.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“We are not makers of history, we are made of history.”

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The luminescent energy of Forgiveness

Posted on July 19, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

In a week that feels utterly flat, the energy of Forgiveness came to pay a visit.

Forgiveness is a mystery in disguise, one that works wonders behind the scenes. Perhaps Forgiveness is carried both upward and downward by celestial beings? That is, once we sent it out.

As I was listening to a lecture that invited us to forgive, even people we feel (or felt) remotely connected with, some folks came to mind.

Richard Nixon came onto my radar two days ago and then his wife Pat Ryan yesterday. I was mesmerized by the fact that Pat was born 10 months before Richard, in 1912, and that she died 10 months before her husband, in 1993. It must have been a special relationship.

I sent compassion to Pat Ryan Nixon, not really knowing what her attitude was during the tumult of the 1973-74 years. I assume it wasn’t an easy situation for her.

Interestingly, August 9th this year will mark the 49th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation. It may not be something worth celebrating, yet it is an opportunity to send an additional flow of that luminescent energy into the universe.

In the end, the person benefiting from Forgiveness is the forgiver. Forgiveness sets her or him free.

Free of resentment, free of heartaches, free of a sometimes very heavy burden.

May we all be enveloped in the luminescent energy of Forgiveness!

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Topic: The luminescent energy of Forgiveness

Time: Jul 20, 2023 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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A bifurcation of Truth

Posted on July 13, 2023 by new desert

Good morning, afternoon dear Ones,

The combination of these two words came to me yesterday as I was reflecting on a society-changing event that occurred in 7th century France. A pact being broken, a dark alliance being formed and a king being murdered.

The Truth suddenly got diverted, disturbed or bifurcated. Civilization thought life would go the usual way and then another person, perhaps a group of people, decided otherwise.

I’m sure you’re getting the bifurcation metaphor and various examples may come to you. Some of them affect a whole country, the entire world, some are more personal in nature.

A few large scale events came to mind. The way the US got involved in the Vietnam war in the 1950s; the reason for the US invasion of Iraq in 2002.

Something got distorted—the truth or possibly Truth—and consequences followed; often times grim, devastating consequences.

Another small ‘bifurcation of truth’ happened so very strangely on our doorstep this morning. I found a little leaflet saying that “God loves us.” What it alluded to is the fact that we are all sinners and that, because of that sin, original or not, we became disconnected from God. A bifurcated truth promoted by the local Korean Presbyterian church….

It happens at every level of society, at every turn, I shall add, and I firmly believe that one day, this Truth with a capital T will get ‘rectified,’—for humanity as a whole.  

As a gentle acknowledgment of my exploration, I found an exquisite picture as I entered Facebook yesterday.

It says,

“In due time …

The real will be separated from the fake …

Stay consistent.”

signed billie jean

Stay consistent, and be steady, dear Ones.

This ‘due time’ is approaching … fast …

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The Gift of the Goddess

Posted on June 15, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

This week has been really something—not sure how to qualify it and what will come out of it.

I was feeling inspiration-less yesterday and came across the passage below this morning. It is about “the Gift of the Goddess” and the spiritual path we are on, per Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey (diagram attached).

“What might this gift be?” still feels a valid question.

See you in a few hours!

Love & much Light

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The second episode I want to mention is the “seizing of the desired boon,” in Campbell’s words. It brings back the memory of a chart analysis that Gary, an esoteric astrologer in Scotland, did for me two years ago. One of the myths he used is that of Hercules seizing the Girdle of Hippolyte, the Queen of the Amazons. At that time, I simply believed it was important for me to be patient and not rush through the process of spiritual walking. Now that I read it again, I am not sure I have gotten the full understanding of this archetype, especially in light of Campbell’s stage of the Return (gift of the goddess) and the balance of masculine and feminine energies.

What might this gift be?

“In this myth Hercules, as a hero, symbolizes the individual on the spiritual path. He was required to obtain Hippolyte’s girdle which had been given to her by Venus. The girdle symbolized the unity of spirit and matter and the motherhood of the spiritual principle within. Hippolyte was about to give Hercules the girdle but he killed her and seized it. He was aghast at his error. After leaving the bereft land of the Amazons Hercules managed to redeem himself by rescuing Hesione, the daughter of the King of Troy, from the belly of a sea monster by entering through the monster’s throat and hacking his way out though its belly.

The symbolism of this myth essentially relates to self-annihilation as a means to psycho-spiritual metamorphosis. Hippolyte symbolizes, not only mother matter, but all of her attendant secrets and the ability to nurture human consciousness enabling its ascent to the peak of human awareness as symbolized by the mountain of initiation. Hercules as a hero, depicting symbolically the individual on the spiritual path, initially views the feminine principle here as a challenge instead of being aware of its potential gifts. He redeems himself by entering the belly of a sea monster, symbolizing a journey into his own unconscious, to rescue or reinstate this aspect of his psyche.”

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Authenticity

Posted on June 7, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

It will be simple this evening, a spiritual barbecue if you will and not a four-course dinner with wine and bubbles.

I like this paragraph about Authenticity in Christine Clemmer’s newsletter.

These words are beautiful and they resonate deeply.

“It’s important to remember that the heart expresses through authenticity. Our true nature lives and breathes from the heart. If we’ve become conditioned by the inauthentic patterns, expectations and projections of the world, we may feel disoriented at times by our innermost authentic soul expression. The more and more we choose to consciously open, elevate and fully express our divine nature, the more powerfully we embody our truth, effortlessly. Shedding the old layers of resistance or fears, we can transcend the hiding places we’ve built for ourselves and reveal the gift of Light that we are, in a collaborative symphony with All.”

And I must say that it is not always possible, or always easy, to remain authentic or true to one’s self.

What do you think?

I will leave you with a few good words from Tina Turner, which were appended to Christine’s newsletter. Tina was definitely a fighter! And a Buddhist practitioner as well.

“I believe we each hold within us what I call a “coin of God,” a piece of the eternal energy of the universe, the essence of Buddha nature. A coin is a minted piece of value from the greater system to which it belongs, and each living being is a priceless treasure piece, molded from our greater universe. May we each cherish ourselves and extend this kindness to all living beings with whom we share this blessed planet.” ― Tina Turner  

May we all appreciate ourselves and each other for the “coin of God” we carry within!

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The Peace that passes all understanding

Posted on May 24, 2023 by new desert

Good evening dear Ones,

A similar message came this week, from two different horizons, yet part of the same sky.

The words that I remembered from a talk on Sunday are “the peace that passes all understanding.”

Not “that surpasses,” quite interestingly – a peace that “defies” human understanding.

Words which made me look into Philippians 4:5-7; a book whose existence I did not know until this morning. A different name for the inhabitants of Philippi.

4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And the other side of the horizon is about bliss – as it was explained to me on Wednesday.

GA: At the beginning of the morning meditation, you mentioned bliss. Why bliss and what do you mean by bliss? 
DK: It is a kind of divine happiness that is utterly peaceful. In other words, the bliss of having a spiritual teacher is one when a person can utterly relax into the fact that he or she is safe with the teacher; that the teacher is not going anywhere; that he or she will always be there for the student.
Bliss in its earliest meaning was just profound peace. Most people today associate bliss with an ecstatic state but that is relatively recent; that’s certainly not something that I have experienced. There are states of meditation that are ecstatic, of course, but those are not considered bliss states because they are so excited. The whole system gets excited if there’s a rapturous feeling. 
Whereas bliss is just ultimate peace. Utter complete peace, no need to question anything, a sense of divine security, all anchored into this kind of peaceful presentation. This isn’t a state that is well known in the West; it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist here but often it is called something else. What is needed is maybe re-educating folks about what bliss really is.

Whomever the teacher, whomever YOUR teacher(s), let’s aim for a state of pure equanimity, a state of undisturbed peace.

What are the prerequisites, you may ask?

I will vote for Faith—Faith and Surrender.

Two ingredients which are part of the same unique horizon.

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The Pilgrim’s Inner Journey

Posted on May 17, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

I have been having reflections about humility lately—perhaps due to some lessons at work where I think I can do much more than what I have been assigned to.

Or it could be the recent re-discovery of the guide to Saint Gilles’s pilgrim.

Gilles was a man who was born in Athens, Greece, in 650 CE and undertook a long pilgrimage to France before settling in the south of France.

He is well known for living the life of a hermit and taking care of animals—especially a hind that was being chased by hunters.

Let’s keep walking within, dear Ones

Let’s keep enjoying each other’s company

Let’s keep journeying together

Guide to saint Gilles’ pilgrim — Guide du pèlerin de saint Gilles

Even if the road seems empty, long and tedious to you, it will lead you to enter into yourself. Don’t close this door. You will find there, one of these days, God—God who is in you, you will discover his truth. He will give you his life. Because he is the Way, the Truth, the Life.

Même si la route te paraît vide, longue et fastidieuse, elle t’entraîne à entrer en toi-même. Ne ferme pas cette porte. Tu y trouveras un jour ou l’autre Dieu qui est en toi, tu découvriras sa vérité. Il te donnera sa vie. Car il est le Chemin, la Vérité, la Vie.

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The light on the other side

Posted on April 30, 2023 by new desert

Dear Ones,

I felt compelled to post an excerpt of a beautiful post I receive on Sunday. It is a channeled message from the Arcturian Group.

I offer a snippet below and yet the whole message is worth living & reading.

And the picture –of the light on the other side– is very meaningful as we enter crucial times. As I said a couple weeks back, the beginning is very, very near.

“Much of the world continues to believe that spirituality means doing–teaching, hands on, writing books, channeling, or meditating in a monastery or convent 24/7. These activities comprise a part of almost everyone’s spiritual journey but the important and often more powerful spiritual work is often done silently and secretly through being rather than doing.

Never believe you are doing nothing if you are not guided to outer spiritual work because you are doing spiritual work when you hold the Light in every now moment. Keep a part of your awareness always centered in truth as you go about your ordinary days. This powerful silent, secret, and sacred work constitutes the foundation and “heavy lifting” necessary for earth’s ascension process.”

Arcturian Group Message April 30, 2023 | Marilyn Raffaele
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