We talk a lot about it.  But I don’t think many of us really know what Love is.  I know I didn’t.

You bet, I was taught a version of it.  Littered with enough gems of truth to make it easy to want to believe in.  A lie, what my husband delights in calling “black magic”.  Black because it’s dark and dark because it hides something.

That’s the only purpose for dark…to hide something.  Something we fear to see.

I looked.

There is a poem by Kahlil Gibran “On Love”, from his book “The Prophet”.   Here is how it reads, free of any polarity/duality ideas.

“On Love

When Love beckoned to me, I followed,
Though Love’s ways were hard and steep.
And when Love’s wings enfolded me, I yielded,
Though the sword hidden among Love’s pinions wounded me.  When Love spoke to me, I believed,
Though Love’s voice shattered my dreams, as the north wind laid waste my garden.
Even as Love crowned me, so was I crucified.  Even as Love supported my growth, so did it provide a pruning.
Even as Love ascended my heights, and caressed my tenderest branches,
So Love descended to my roots and shook them from their clinging.   Like a sheave of corn I was gathered.
I was threshed to make me naked.
I was shifted free of my husks.
I was ground to whiteness.
And kneaded until I became pliant.
And then I was assigned to Love’s fire, in order to become bread for God’s feast.
All these things Love did to me, that I could come to know the secrets of my heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s Heart.
If in my fear I would have sought only Love’s peace and Love’s pleasure,
Then it would have been better for me to keep covering my nakedness and pass out of Love’s thrashing floor.
Into the season-less world where I would laugh but not all of my laughter,and weep, but not all of my tears.
Love gives nothing but of itself and takes nothing but from itself.
Love possess not nor will be possessed.  For Love is sufficient for Love.  When I Love I do not say: “God is in my heart”,
but rather “I am in the heart of God”.
I am not so foolish as to imagine I can direct Love’s course, being found willing, Love now directs my course.
Love has no other desire then to fulfill itself.
But since I love and have needs of desires, this is my desire,
To be like a running brook that sings its melody into the darkness.
I know the pain of too much tenderness.
I am wounded by my understanding of Love;
And bleed willingly and joyfully.
I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of Loving;
I rest in the afternoon and melt in Love’s ecstasy
I spend the evening at home in gratitude
And then fall asleep calling for the beloved in my heart,  with a song of love on my lips.”

Love loves us even when we’re unlovable.

But it is only in facing how unlovable we are,

That we become Loving.

Told Us so…

On this post, June 6, 2008:

http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-carrot-and-the-donkey/

“I withhold my support for any of the teachings.   It’s the same pile of shallow *crap* that’s been circulating the past 10 years.  A lot of chatter from and about our false egos…that’s all it is.”

My comment was directed towards James Ray’s teachings.   I used the phrase “dumbass” in my comment too.  This is the same man who is currently under investigation for conducting a “spiritual warrior” sweat lodge that resulted in 2 people dead and 17 more sent to hospitals.

Reminds me of the group in Colorado around 15 years ago.  In order to bring more light into their minds, they drilled a hole in the top of their heads the size of a quarter.

“A weekend that will truly change your life.”

At least that much was true.

I wouldn’t believe a word coming out of this man’s mouth.

$9000.00?

…

A fool and their money are soon parted.

Updated Friday October 16, 2009:

“This is the most difficult time I’ve ever faced,” Ray told a crowd of about 200 at a hotel in Marina del Rey. “I don’t know how to deal with it really.”

Noticeably LACKING in emotional skills, huh?  Nothing *wrong* with this of course.  It simply reveals a state of both emotional poverty AND spiritual poverty.

“Warrior”, indeed.   Simply the word itself conveys a state of conflict.  And just imagine…having the audacity to claim being able to ‘teach’ “Harmonic Weath”!    Everything about every idea expressed indicates a LACK of any kind of understanding or realization of the ‘spiritual’ or ‘quantum’  planes of existence.   Much less living in HARMONY with those planes of existence.

One time I asked an Indian Shaman the purpose or meaning of ‘animal guides’.  He told me that these guides are necessary in order to carry us across the great void that separates the realms of spirit from the earth.

And I responded, “If I don’t imagine any void of separation then I really don’t need anyone’s or anything else’s help to access the territory at will, do I?”

ANY and ALL of our ideas based on the concept of separation and/or conflict, are of our own making, meaning Man-made and, do not express ANY Realization nor Understanding of Absolute States of Being.

Finally, all the frauds are being exposed…

Reality consists of both positive and negative.  Anytime we focus our will and our desire upon only positive, is the moment we’ve stepped into a fantasy land founded upon wiping out Reality.

And Reality always eventually shows up and wipes out the wiper.

Harmonic Wealth consists of genuine Attributes of character, expressing an Integration of the dimensions.  A Spiritual wealth will be reflected as mental wealth, which is an abundance of ideas; it will be reflected as emotional wealth, which is an abundance of intimate relationships and finally…it will be reflected as physical wealth, which is defined as the “use of” energy, not ownership and possession of it.

Anyone teaching conflict knows nothing of Harmony.

A man had just died and the Devil was giving him a tour of his options.  There’s room #1, room #2 and room #3.  They first walk into room #1.

There, the man sees naked people chained head to foot together, arms behind their backs.  The only way anyone can move is if the whole mass moves at the same time.   Food and water are in various bowls scattered all over the floor, the effects of groveling like dogs making a mess of the area surrounding each bowl.

In room #2, the man is greeted with an altogether different sight.  People are standing neck deep in shit.  They’re eating by catching bits of food in their mouths that fall from above, the same with drops of water.  Whatever they can catch is what they can have.

Now the man didn’t find either one of the rooms really to his liking.  They both looked thoroughly unpleasant.  Then he went into room #3.  The scene surprised him.

The room was filled with naked people standing knee deep in shit, all socializing as if they were at a party.  They held coffee cups and teacups, glasses filled with wine and exotic drinks.   A buffet table could be seen at one end of the room, where all sorts of goodies were available.  All looked like they were having a good time, enjoying themselves like social butterflies.

The man turned to the Devil and said, “This choice is easy.  I pick this room.”

After taking off all his clothes as was required, he joined the others in the room.  About that time he heard a whistle.  The Devil was at the door, just turning to leave, when he said:

“Back on your heads folks.  Coffee break is over.”

{{tumel}} recently asked about the significance, if any, of the current eclipse activity.    I grew up knowing it as the “once in a blue moon” occurance of two full moons in one month.  The second full moon, known as the blue moon, being thought of as “lucky”.  Make a wish…

The significance of the event is to convey “new beginnings”.

This particular time,  Humanity is beginning an ‘ascent’ of sorts on an evolutionary spiral.  It has to do with awareness and consciousness.  Ever so often awareness expands.  It is all part of a natural order of experience.

I can compare it to when we were little.  First we become aware we have fingers.  Next  we become aware that we can move them.  Then we usually put them in our mouths, further expanding our awareness to include taste of fingers.  Eventually we become aware of our feet and toes.

From the moment we are born, life is an adventure in further expanding our awareness.  We learn how to manipulate and animate our parts.  We become aware that we can initiate action; we can move on our own.    After we learn how to hold our head up, we look up and ….become aware of how much more there is to discover.  This leads to our initiating action to stand, walk, climb, etc.

One thing we can count on, is once we discover there is more to Life, we go after it.  And that is what we are doing now.

I guide to take a deep look at our standards and our ideals.  For if our ideals and standards are limited, so will we be limited as individuals and, from now on, so will our lives be limited likewise.

A very beloved friend of mine happened to witness my cat enjoying himself within recent history.  My cat had caught a shrew and was busy munching away.   He was being True to his nature; the shrew to its.  Death/birth, is all part of a natural process.  Life in action.    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all.

She expressed she had to turn her back.  I smiled and laughed, saying something about being “squeamish”.    Her reply was that there was nothing wrong with being a girl.

This is the sort of thing I mean about questioning our standards.

What does being a “girl” have to do with being emotionally limited when it comes to embracing life?  Seems to me “boys” display the same inner nature with the same consistency.   Our limits are something we all share in common, because it is the way our cultures have raised us to be.  Nothing sexist about it.

The dysfunctional “boy” counterpart to the dysfunctional “girl”, plays the role of taking physical dominion by force, in order to protect dysfunctional “girl” from everything that makes her “uncomfortable”.

These were our “old” patterns of behavior and they are now obsolete.  The more we try to play into these roles,  the more miserable we’re going to get.

Over the past 15 years, I’ve been gnashing my teeth in frustration as quite a few of us rushed off to some group that supports dis-associative disorders.   Most of these groups have been fluffy bunny groups, promoting lala lands of heaven on earth, devoid of everything that makes us feel uncomfortable.  Basically, a “heaven” on earth that resembles something along the lines of a sanitarium with padded walls.  A “gated” community, one that has “boundaries”, that keep everything “negative” out.

It’s what we do.  Being unable to cope with life, we imagine living in a “heaven”,  where we don’t have to face anything that makes us feel uncomfortable.

Behind our feelings of discomfort are emotional “wounds” we have not addressed.  We haven’t loved ourselves enough to seek healing.  All we’ve been seeking for the most part, has been to escape, to dis-associate our selves from our experiences of emotional pain and suffering.

We have sought to wipe out the parts of our realities we didn’t know how to cope with and, in so doing, detach and distance ourselves from the ‘parts’ of ourselves that are suffering, mentally and/or emotionally. All these ‘parts’ of our lives that we thought we had successfully distanced ourselves from, are now all rushing back into our lives, demanding attention.   Humanity is being slammed in ways that are bringing up these old wounds.    It’s definitely not a time to be squeamish about addressing bleeding hearts.

My energy is focused on helping as many of us as are open, to start genuinely understanding the “talk”, walking it and, healing wounds along the way.

Greetings & Salutations!

Both {{{cordieb}}} and {{{tumel}}} deserve WAY more in response to their inquiries and blessings then just the little blip I’ve managed to write so far.   I suppose it might appear like I have been taking a vacation, as in, exit stage left.  But that would be an appearance only.   I’m ~still~ very much *here*.

I have been a busy bee, bumbling mostly, just trying to keep up with the turned up/on intensity.  Woohoo!  Are we having FUN yet?

Gads, it doesn’t matter the outer circumstances that are triggering it…deep seated emotions are all coming up and out.  Sniffle, sniffle, “Pass the Puffs,”.

As far as I can tell right now, what’s happening is Freedom’s Ringing.  Our Soul/Spirits WILL be Free, one way or another.  Soul Healing has begun.  Like….Michael Jackson’s Soul is now FREE from all the pain and anguish he was experiencing.   He was suffering intensely, especially mentally and emotionally.

Our World is shifting, from being outer directed to inner directed.  ALL outer circumstances and conditions right now are manifesting for ONE purpose and ONE purpose only: to motivate/inspire us to start turning inward.  For there is where we will all find the courage and strength we need to face going through all the changes.

What’s ‘coming in’ is what is known as “POWER” on a Cosmic, Universal or Spiritual Level.  And it’s bringing down all our man made delusions of “power” and everything we’ve built on those delusions.

My husband and I were watching a movie the other night.  A thief had kidnapped a female US Marshal and both of them were stuffed inside the trunk of a car the thief’s cohort was driving.

“Why aren’t you struggling?  No screaming, no crying, you aren’t acting like you are afraid at all.  Why?”, the thief asked.

“I’m not afraid.  I know all I need do is sit back, relax and wait for you to screw up.  You’re a man.”, the US Marshal replied.

Then the thief exclaimed she sounded just like his ex-wife.

And that’s basically the  story behind the “Divine Feminine”: the “Holy Spirit” or the Third Aspect of the Divine Trinity:  Intelligent Activity.

Man, as in Mankind, screws up and in comes the Holy Spirit to the rescue.    And from Spirit’s perspective, there is NO such thing as any “order of difficulty”, for nothing is difficult.  *Now* we can ‘do’ this the hard way, the old way or, we can choose to ‘do’ this a new way,  the easy way.

We have reached the end of our bass ackward ways and it’s cause for celebration.  No longer will we be going bass ackwards, so now maybe we’ll be able to get someplace, besides over well trodden ground.

Real soon, within the next couple of weeks, I will be posting a “taste” of what is being assembled right now.

*drum roll*

I’m going live, hosting interactive classrooms.  I’m going to “channel”….

~me~.

While streaming video, an interactive classroom will be set up for live interactive chat, discussion and questions.

Like I’ve been saying, there is a difference between a teacher and a preacher.  The main difference being group participation.

A website that is the platform for these live events is what I am building now.

Blessings & Hugs,

Sue Ann