tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24397303603974174892024-03-13T13:55:17.385-04:00World Prophet in ActionThe world needs a world prophet and you are one, so get to work and learn as you go.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-17233138027263969412013-10-06T20:41:00.002-04:002013-10-06T20:41:26.377-04:00Holy Spirit Night WebsiteRecently (last January) Holy Spirit Night got its own website (<a href="http://www.holyspiritnight.org/">www.holyspiritnight.org</a>) and a covenantal statement (see below). The statement is a summary of what we aspire to achieve and of what has been happening all over. Please join the google group <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/newtonholyspiritnight">newtonholyspiritnight</a> if you would like to receive weekly emails about our meetings in Newton, MA.<br />
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy Spirit Night<br />January, 2013</b></div>
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At Holy Spirit Night we practice wholeness together</div>
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Practice. Wholeness. Together.</div>
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Once a week we set aside a time and a place and a form in which we open the doors to joy. Joy is shared. Joy is alive. Joy is here. Joy is now. Together, we give joy a hearing. Together, we live what we hear. The “assignment” we practice each time we gather is simply to see if we are willing to agree that this right now is a time for wholeness. This right now is a time and place and form and event that is set aside for co-creative full communion of Human, Nature, Spirit, and Beyond.</div>
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All are welcome. You are welcome.</div>
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“The Holy Spirit” is a name for an active principle that becomes a pathway. The voice we call the Holy Spirit welcomes all life, embraces all life, and points all life toward joy. The Holy Spirit is reliable. We trust Spirit. We trust Spirit to guide towards communication, creation, communion, and community. These are fruits of the pathway; fruits of the garden. To the Holy Spirit, wholeness is simply wholeness; all of life is all a blessing; joy is always available; and only joy is truly shared.</div>
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Our time together is of no religion and of all religion. Many who have welcomed Spirit and have followed Spirit have returned to tell the story. When we sing the songs and tell the tales of those who have danced with God, our own spirit rises. By raising the spirit, we tune ourselves together like an orchestra or like an instrument.</div>
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We have help. We have help from Beyond. We have help from Spirit. We have help from Nature. We have help from each other. We cultivate the willingness and the wisdom to ask for help and to ask for help in how we do the asking!</div>
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When you come, participate. Bring your challenges. Bring your courage. Bring the grace that is just now dawning into your awareness; and bring the grace you are longing for with all your heart. Above all, bring your will: bring your deepest willingness and your deepest immovability, which perhaps at the deepest level are one and the same. The in-tune approach is to show up willing to ask for help; willing to listen with new ears; and willing to speak what you hear. You may be silent or you may speak. Either way you are a full participant. You belong.</div>
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To bring your whole life is to bring your real life. Your real life is necessary and sufficient. Your real life is not an ending point but is an exact right place to start. To follow the trail of your real life is to make of your life a psalm and a prayer and a garden and a blessing, for you and for all.</div>
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There are no answers. There is a path to find and follow.</div>
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What we find, when we gather in this way, is that something new opens. We welcome it and follow it. We enter the new door together. There is new intimacy, new trust, new clarity, new certainty. Not the certainty of answers to believe but the certainty of being whole together in the right place at the right time. We continually discover that certainty and mystery and joy and wholeness are each a trail; that all these trails are one; and that all these trails are gentle. Certainty and Mystery are One.</div>
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What are the essential parameters of Holy Spirit Night? What makes it a safe space to bring your real life and to get to work?</div>
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Words of wisdom come from any corner. We practice speaking whatever we hear that seems to be coming from spirit. What comes from spirit tends to be accurate, timely, helpful, and local. We practice not going beyond the point of wisdom.</div>
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The true test of such an arrangement is the quality of the fruit in the lives of those who attend. We observe a rooting and a flowering and a ripening and a harvest of lively peace, discerning trust, care-filled creation, and intimate willingness to love and be loved.</div>
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grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-28761825072757832182012-12-16T08:56:00.000-05:002012-12-16T08:56:15.894-05:00Things to be willing to sayAt <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2012/03/holy-spirit-night.html">Holy Spirit Night</a>, we recently started a series of sentences to be willing to say. For some of us, dwelling with these sentences has become a daily discipline. Feel free to add or, within limits, to rewrite. This set is sufficient. Each sentence has a we version and an I version. You can say either or both of these versions.<div>
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<b>Things to be willing to say</b></h3>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7006643374916166"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have everything we need.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have everything I need to be in heaven at every moment and to make of this life a heaven on earth.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The healing power of will holds all we need.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The healing power of will holds all I need or could need. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am willing to learn and to master right use of will.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will heal will</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I AM right use of healing power of will.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are willing to work.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am willing to work to make of this life a heaven on earth. Work is love, freedom and joy. Nothing else will work.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are happy to leave hell.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any moment I stay in hell I am actively using will to stay in hell. To be in hell is to mis-use the healing power of will. I am happy to see where I have been mis-using the healing power of will. I am happy to leave hell. I am happy to live in Heaven. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are happy to speak each day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am happy each and every day to find new ways to leave hell and live in Heaven. I am happy to speak these words each day. I am happy to speak these words as a union of aspects of will that have seemed disjoint and uneasy: Self, Others, World, God.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We ask for and receive help.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlimited help is available at this moment now to assist me in mastering right use of will to leave hell and live in Heaven. I reach out to ask for help from Human, Nature, and Spirit. I receive help by getting to work to make help real.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Amen. </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -----------------------------</span></b><br />
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grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-16432873732614675862012-03-31T16:52:00.000-04:002012-03-31T16:52:38.086-04:00Holy Spirit Night<span id="internal-source-marker_0.021728553405388706" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I love Holy Spirit Night. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy Spirit Night is a time once each week when we gather together to let the spirit speak to us and through as and for us and with us. These days, it happens on Thursdays in Newton, MA.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It has become a foundation rock for those who are participating. For me, it has become a key time for receiving deep new insight about what is happening in the Research Laboratory of My Life. It is a time I ask questions and receive answers. And the answers I receive are of highest quality and timeliness. This is a gift.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be the gift you want to see.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating sacred space is what opens the door to Holy Spirit Night. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Spirit is always present, in every aspect of every day. The more we can open our ears and our hearts to that Spirit, to the Voice for God in our daily lives, the more our lives will turn towards love, justice, freedom, joy, and peace. The Spirit I speak of is nothing other than the Voice of those Qualities. This voice is always speaking. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet we do not always choose to listen. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So Holy Spirit Night begins with our declaration that we are setting aside a time and place for that Voice to be more actively present, to be alive in our midst.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These are the words with which we begin. They are sufficient.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet we continue to invoke the presence of Spirit until it is palpable, touchable, here with us. Very often we play music that praises and invokes the presence of Spirit and our trust of that spirit. One of our favorites is a CD called “Come Holy Spirit” that we play at high volume (through the new speakers recently acquired as part of embracing this part of Holy Spirit Night).</span><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy</span></i><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Spirit great giver of life</span></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flow through this temple great river of life.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Praise </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">raises our vibration</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to a level where we can be more fully aware of what is always in our midst. God nor Spirit needs our praise. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">We</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> need to praise. We need to <i>speak</i> that which <i>speaks us</i>; to <i>uphold</i> that which <i>upholds us</i>; to <i>claim</i> that which <i>claims us</i>; to <i>love</i> that which <i>loves us</i>. As we open our hearts to gratitude and welcome and praise, we also open to truth and trust and pain and joy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Praise equals safety. We create safe space. Spirit reminds us that nothing real can ever be threatened. Our unshakeable reality is established by our Creator, not by what we see around us. Praise reminds us that there is always much to praise. We are grateful that there is always much to be grateful for.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Besides invocation and praise, there may be other actions or statements to help create the palpable presence of safety and of spirit</span><br />
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<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have at times told stories of some present painful circumstance to bring it enough present that we can let it go and trust spirit to attend to it during the session</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have called in other Angelic helpers or invoked the presence of the Archangels</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have at times established an official <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/About-Conings-W68.aspx">Coning</a> structure to do our work in, though that often comes later once the nature of the night’s questions and responses have been established</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we often go around the room and let each person say a prayer or a word of celebration or remembrance. (“Holy Hallelujah” is one of my favorites.)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have at times chanted, “Om” or other holy phrases, or taken deep breaths together, or said together a psalm of confidence and thanksgiving</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">or I suppose there may be times when we will need to say together a psalm of lamentation and even despair</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Then the three ritual questions. </span><br />
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</ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What garden do you bring to Holy Spirit Night tonight?</span></i></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What specific aspect of this garden do you bring to Holy Spirit Night tonight?</span></i></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no limit to what counts as a garden for Holy Spirit Night. There is no limit to what aspect of that garden can be brought.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It helps if the “garden” is one you are actively “gardening” at the time you bring it. Hypothetical gardens and the gardens we wish we had but that we do not actively spend time gardening are less tasty and less rewarding than the gardens in which we actually spend our lives. Work. Family. Health. Finances. Self. Your real life. Sometimes people have a prejudice or belief that Spirit can only consult on “things of the spirit”. Nothing could possibly be less true or less helpful. The “things of the spirit” and the “things of your life” are one. Bring your real life the way you actually live it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What you bring could be a question you have that is troubling you; a setback that you would like help troubleshooting; something new you are starting that you would like help preparing the ground for. It can and will have aspects that are physical, but also emotional, mental, and even spiritual. Any good question will include all of these at some level. These are similar to the questions one would bring to a <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Soil-less-Gardens-for-Beginners-W5591C739.aspx">soil-less garden</a> troubleshooting Coning. That is no accident.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Spirit is not separate from Nature, just as He/ She/ It is not separate from Humanity. The definition, the essence of Holy Spirit is that it is the Voice that speaks for Connection.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All I am is connected; all I am is one; all I am is here; all I am is now.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All <b>I AM</b> is connected; All <b>I AM</b> is one; All <b>I AM</b> is here; All <b>I AM</b> is now.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember that “<b>I AM</b>” is the name of God. The Holy Spirit is our name for that which speaks for Human, Nature, Spirit, that which is beyond Spirit, and for the eternal marriage of all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My own rule of thumb is to bring the questions that are rooted in the day to day but go beyond the day to day. Day to day work issues I can bring to a soil-less garden Coning at work. Day to day health concerns I can bring to a MAP Coning or to a session with the Perelandra Essences.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Every time I just sit still for Holy Spirit Night, there is some topic, some question, some concern that is there, it arises. There is no right question. There is no wrong question. There is only the question I ask. The wisdom of spirit is abundant and shines on all alike.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During these three ritual questions we occasionally pause to request clarification about the responses. Do you mean A or B? C or D? E or F? As in a Coning, the Human must provide definition, direction, and purpose. A vague set of responses to the three ritual questions can provide only vague results. To the other humans present, even the responses to the questions that are “ready to go” might still seem overly abstract or too intensely personal to be helpful. Yet Nature and Spirit can be our guide. Responses that “work” for one person might not work for another. The key is that the Human has declared himself. She has set a direction. He is in motion. Then Nature, the White Brotherhood and whatever wisdom has assembled for Holy Spirit Night (always under the auspices, guidance, direction, and support of the Holy Spirit) has the room to go to work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Several times recently one of us has participated from a distance, present in Spirit. When we pause to ask who is present for Holy Spirit Night tonight, someone will say, “Our friend V is present for Holy Spirit Night tonight.” And we will tune in and speak what we receive about what garden he is bringing and what aspect of that garden he wants help with. There are no limits in what is possible for spirit to accomplish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once sacred space has been established and the questions and responses for the evening have been spoken, the Holy Spirit can go to work. Often there is a Coning at this point, if there has not been one before. Often it is a health based coning such as the “Group MAP shape” where each person’s MAP team is fully present for that person.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Shaped Conings” are not part of the classic Perelandra approach. For example, the Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program (<a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/MAP-Medical-Assistance-Program-C804.aspx">MAP</a>) book would recommend that when you do a MAP session you do it alone without another MAP session going on right next to you. That is true. But part of my research has been to ask spirit for energetic structures that can pool and attune the energy of many people and many tribes working together. And since any such work is likely to stir up health issues, one of the first “shapes” the Research Team suggested I consider is this Group MAP shape. The shared work of the group goes on in the “center” of the structure, while personalized health work is going on simultaneously for each participant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is also often a short or long time, in silence or in talking, for energetic rearrangement. The feeling is of giant blocks being moved from one place to another, or of sudden acceleration to a new course heading, or of the falling away into nothingness of giant impediments to what has been requested (the castle walls come crashing down). I have had all of these experiences during normal Conings. During Holy Spirit Night, I often feel it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more. The changes and rearrangements that occur always seem grounded in and inspired by the responses that were given to the three ritual questions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I guess the most important thing about Holy Spirit Night is that we all are practicing being willing to hear with ears of spirit, to speak with tongue of spirit, to act with hands of spirit, and to walk with feet of Spirit. We do our best to follow what we hear. Every night is different because we listen, and what spirit tells us every night is different.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So far, two of us do most of the outright channeling - speaking the words of spirit that are present to be spoken. Yet all who are present are also practicing.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> At any given moment, one person seems to carry the anointing of Spirit. That person is “it” in the Holy Spirit game. That person does their best to hear what there is to hear and say what there is to say. Somehow we can all hear or sense when the shift happens so that another person is “it”.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So far, it is rare for the outpouring of spirit to be on all of us at the same time, to have all of us speaking through spirit at the same time. Speaking in tongues and dancing in the light of God are certainly possible (and even expected, eventually, in gatherings of this kind). I receive that this may be coming as we raise our energy higher.</span><br />
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<i>I feel called to be at Holy Spirit Night. It feels like home. I wake up from the dream, the trance of separation and suffering. I have a sense of relief, release, possibility, connectedness, oneness, partnership. Holy Spirit Night is a reminder of the one true reality that I keep forgetting. One being, one heart, one light, one spacious mind, the evolution of consciousness. It is a communion and union. It is always surprising and yet paradoxically familiar, reassuring. It is a gift to share this with my closest partner in life. It is a gift to be with each of you consciously under the auspices of the Holy Spirit.</i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><u> </u></span>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-89198652902041284722011-07-27T22:50:00.000-04:002011-07-27T22:50:08.652-04:00World Prophet FAQ Part 1This is my first blog post since March. Life keeps moving, ever quicker. Every day, every week, every month is a thing quite new.<br />
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Today I want to answer a few of the most frequently asked questions about this site and this ministry. These questions and these answers have emerged over the last few months as I talk to people about the World Prophet in Action, what it is and what it asks from each of us. My original intention was to write in "plain English", but I see that I have not always been successful in this. My hope is that these questions and answers will spark further questions and further answers, and thus lead to a fuller flowering of everything discussed here.<br />
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The number one question people ask me is, "How did you get started in this?" But that one will have to wait until part 2.<br />
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<b>What is a prophet?</b><br />
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A prophet listens for the Voice of the present and speaks what he or she hears. Being a prophet is not about predicting the future. It is about giving voice to what is all around us all the time. A prophet hears what everyone hears then says it newly. When a prophet listens and speaks, a new City rises. Abraham listens and speaks, and his tribe leaves Ur for an unseen promised land. Moses listens and speaks, and the Israelites leave Egypt. A prophet, speaking and hearing the words of prophecy, can call into being a City or call an existing city to rise and turn again.<br />
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A City means a place for people to connect; a place for people to be civil; a civilization; a place for living. In current times the whole planet is a City. We will thrive together or we will die.<br />
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<b>What is a World Prophet?</b><br />
<blockquote><i>The World needs a World Prophet and you (together) are one, so get to work and learn as you go.</i> </blockquote>The <i>World Prophet</i> is a job description not a person. It is a job description that Nature has asked for humans to be willing to become. The World Prophet hears the voice of the world and speaks what she hears. She speaks for the world. <br />
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The World Prophet speaks for the <i>World Garden</i>. This world is a garden planet. A <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/A-Garden-as-Defined-by-Nature-W71.aspx">garden</a> is any environment that is initiated by humans, given its purpose and direction by humans, and sustained by humans. As long as we are the dominant species, this planet is our garden. Nature lives now in the spaces and in the ways that humans make room for. This world used to be a wild and natural planet in which humans lived in the spaces and in the ways that nature made room for. Now that is reversed.<br />
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Nature's job is easier when nature has a World Prophet to listen to. We all are beginners in learning what this means; here is a start. The World Prophet must listen and speak not just for humans and to humans, but also for nature and to nature. Nature listens. There is a whole background here -- a co-creative approach. Humans supply definition, direction, and purpose. Nature supplies matter, means, and action. Neither is whole, alone. So one could say that the World Prophet helps to clarify the definition, direction, and purpose for the World Garden and that Nature finds this helpful.<br />
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The World Prophet is shared. Nature need not listen to any one particular human when the voice of humanity is available. The <i>World Prophet in Action</i> is the term for the energetic reality of thousands of humans rising to listen and speak together the words of prophecy. That job description is not for a single one and it is not for everyone. It only takes a few thousand to get the job done. I sometimes call this the <i>Tribe of Ten Thousand</i>.<br />
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<b>Who is a World Prophet?</b><br />
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You are, or someone you know.<br />
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<b> </b>All of us are called to prophecy at some level. Any of us can start a garden, can work in partnership with nature, can help the world wake up together. Any of us can speak the simple truth in a new clear way.<br />
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Yet some people are <i>called</i> to rise together as the World Prophet. A calling is a useful term for a sense that life will not be complete without making an effort in the area of the calling. Someone who is called to be an artist will be happier being a finger-painter than having no art at all. And an Artist will find ways to bring art into everything they do or will be unhappy. Relationships are art. Engineering is art. Love is art. Similarly, someone who is called to be a healer will be happy to the extent they find ways to make room for healing.<br />
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For those of us who are called to the World Prophet, let's say that we cannot help hearing the Voice of the planet. Everything is prophecy. We find a way to listen. All my life, I have followed a thread of approaches that support people, computers, or gardens to work together and cooperate. All my life I have been convinced that neither spirit nor matter is as interesting alone as they are when bridged together. As I have started to tell the truth more and more about what really <i>calls</i> to me, life has gotten both simpler and more interesting. At a certain point, a grand phrase like "World Prophet in Action" becomes a gift that starts to show me who I am and who I must become. There are many of us at this stage right now, for whom this phrase can be a gift. <br />
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Not all who are called to the World Prophet are awake to this calling. That is OK. They will wake up in time or others will step in. <br />
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<b>What if I am not a World Prophet?</b> <br />
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Everyone is called to <i>something</i>. There is no RIGHT THING to be called to.<b> </b>There are people I know who are called to be healer, minister, engineer, builder, governor, artist, poet, mother, father, sister, cook -- the list goes on. I don't just mean they are good at that function. Rather, it is like a huge sigh of relief when they admit to themselves how happy or energized that function makes them. (Often the relief comes after resisting for a while.)<br />
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A key part of accepting a calling is to find a way to accept that gift for yourself. A mother must be mothered; a father must be fathered; a healer must be healed. To be a blessing one must allow oneself to be blessed. <br />
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All callings run together in the end. A sufficiently advanced teacher or healer or minister or mother can accept a calling to function as a prophet. We all accept new callings all the time. So wake up to the calling you came here for, or wake up to a new calling that the world has never seen. Just wake up.<br />
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<b>What is my role in the World Prophet in Action?</b><br />
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And what if you do choose to accept a calling to the World Prophet? Then what is your role?<br />
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Pretty much anything! To join with others to listen to the voice for the planet and to do what it tells us to do -- what could be simpler? And what could be more challenging? So start wherever you are and find some way to get to work and learn as you go.<br />
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Trust yourself. Here's what I said to friends recently: You are invited because you are an originator and a prophet and you have something unique to bring. My part is simply and totally to prepare the meeting ground in which we work. The rest is up to you. Trust in Spirit's readiness to lead you where you need to lead.<b></b><br />
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<b>What is Peter Cudhea's role in the World Prophet in Action?</b><br />
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<i>I AM the meeting ground for the World Prophet in Action.</i> That is <i>my</i> job description. My job is to provide a way of working in which those who have accepted the calling of World Prophet can join together and together listen for the Voice of the world.<br />
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There is work to be done that can only be done together and can only be done now. The classic methods for coming together in large groups will not scale to this. Just imagine 10,000 highly visionary and highly motivated people coming together for a few hours and trying to hash out how to save the world. Imagine the interpersonal dynamics. Imagine the push and pull between seemingly opposite approaches and ideas. Imagine doing it with no "leader". The whole idea is exhausting. <br />
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Approaches such as <a href="http://www.wisdomcircle.org/what_for.html">Wisdom Circles</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Centered_Therapy">Systems Centered Therapy</a> demonstrate that it is possible to take a committed assemblage of willing people through stages of become a functional group. Yet even then it takes a lot. Several days or weeks. Trained facilitators. Lots of willingness to tell the truth and own the truth. And that's just to get the job started. Even then, those approaches seem to be best at a scale where each individual can see and know and trust each of the other individuals. It is an open question how to extend those techniques to huge groups.<br />
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But what if there were an <i>energetic structure</i> that could support this work from underneath -- something that could help the group tap into deeper levels of wisdom and deeper levels of heart and deeper levels of support. Such an energetic structure could help large groups to:<br />
<ul><li>ease the process of joining -- help each and all take a leap of faith;</li>
<li>clarify flow and timing -- what is essential to address when;</li>
<li>see beyond the immediate issues to the wisdom and heart that underlies the seeming division; </li>
<li>deliver healing energy to where it is needed at the moment it is needed and in a manner it can be accepted;</li>
<li>and to do all that in an ever-evolving dance that is always new from moment to moment. </li>
</ul>Consider this an example of the co-creative approach. I as the human express the above intention to Nature. Nature steps in to provide matter means and action. I start to listen to Nature to work out the details of how to accomplish that intention. It is a soil-less garden in the large. It is a research garden.<br />
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My connection with Nature in this research garden tells me that energetic structures such as I have described ARE available for the asking and will have amazing benefits both individually and collectively. An initial approach is to build on the existing energetic structures called "Conings" that are written about by Machaelle Small Wright and the Perelandra Center for Nature Research, and then re-invent them for use in large groups. I am calling the resulting energetic structures "Shaped conings" for now to distinguish them from classic Perelandra conings. <br />
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Deepening and expanding and building on this initial attempt, and clarifying what it takes to engage together as the World Prophet in Action, is what I consider to be my life's work.<br />
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That's it for today. <br />
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More details about partnering with nature, classic conings and shaped conings will be coming in the World Prophet FAQ Part 2.<br />
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For completeness, here are some of the questions I might answer in Part 2. If you have a different question, please add it as a comment to this post or send it to me in an email.<br />
<ul><li><b>How did you get started in all this?</b></li>
<li><b>What do you mean, "Partner with Nature" anyway?</b></li>
<li><b>What is a Coning and what is it good for?</b></li>
<li><b>How is a "Shaped Coning" different?</b></li>
<li><b>Who and what is the Coning "team" for the World Prophet in Action?</b></li>
<li><b>What are World Prophet Activities? </b></li>
<li><b>What are the personal benefits to me of joining in World Prophet activities?</b></li>
</ul>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-74418223018477310952011-02-18T16:54:00.000-05:002011-02-18T16:54:01.162-05:00Anchor Rock Genesa Network<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Each year for the last few years, I have given away one or more<a href="http://www.young-design.com/about.html"> Genesa Crystals</a>. The crystals come from the studio of <a href="http://www.young-design.com/products.html">Jim Young</a>, a sculptor in Maine; they eventually arrive in the lives and homes of friends, family members, and institutions that bless and support the World Prophet work in some way. In between, each of the crystals has a chance to meet and marry with the energy of Anchor Rock, which you see above.<br />
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The small crystal inside the larger one is an example of the 12" spring-band copper crystal that most friends have received. This particular crystal is a key part of this year's "crop" of crystals. It is holding the space for 10 other crystals, all of which are being attuned together and with all the crystals that have gone before. The 11 new crystals in this year's crop together with the 9 that have gone before combine to create an energy installation with enhanced power, clarity, and heart.<br />
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Anchor Rock itself comprises a 36-inch Genesa crystal, a six-foot tall boulder, a tree growing from the boulder, associated other rocks, sticks, pine cones, plants, feathers, and of course, the anchor. All these elements were put in place around the boulder, bound to each other, and rooted together into the center of the earth (and metaphorically speaking into the center of the Universe) during the Fall Equinox several years ago. Now, the total installation of Anchor Rock functions as an energy portal, a holding tank, an energy clarifier, or whatever is needed to support the work of the World Prophet in Action. [It even functioned for a while as a "hospital" for "split souls" that were seeking safe haven far from the trauma that stressed them to the point of splitting.]<br />
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The Genesa crystals are an outward manifestation of an inner network of energy connections that functions similar to a Ley Line grid. Energy flows from where it is abundant to where it is needed. People who consciously "hook in" to this grid will find that it enhances both the network of protection that surrounds them and the network of service that fulfills them.<br />
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By accepting a crystal, the recipient is agreeing to be a blessing to the world prophet work and to blessed in return. That's all. Never underestimate the power of a blessing. There is no agreement to keep in contact with me; no agreement to send energy in any particular direction; no agreement to like or approve of what does or does not happen in the future. Just to receive and give a blessing opens the generosity of the Universe.<br />
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Not all recipients are part of the "Tribe of Ten Thousand" that will eventually function together as the World Prophet in Action, yet each recipient is called to <i>something</i>. At least one is a world mother; one is a world gardener; several are world healers, and so forth. [These are working titles that I have occasionally used in my work with the Coning team. I don't fully understand what each title means. But I have observed that the Coning members listen with a certain respect when someone who is called in an area works and speaks with love and passion in that area.]<br />
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This year, I am asking the recipients to say a short blessing prayer with me, or say a prayer-free version. Most recipients re-word each line until it fits for them while still maintaining a compatible content. Besides this blessing, I have one personal request to each recipient. If it should come about that you are ready to pass your crystal on, please choose a new recipient consciously. This crystal is a part of your legacy as a healer, prophet, mother, or gardener; it belongs with someone who will respect it and use it with grace and with love.<br />
<blockquote><b><i>The Blessing of the Genesa Ley-Line Commons of God</i></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b><i>The world needs a world prophet [a world mother, a world healer, a world gardener...] and you are one, so get to work and learn as you go.</i></b></blockquote><blockquote><i>I AM an indelible part of the City of God. I AM an indelible part of unfolding Life into Life.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>I ACCEPT this gift as an indelible part of shaping the City of God. I ACCEPT this gift as an indelible part of shaping the unfolding of Life into Life.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>I WILL allow myself to bless the world as I give what I receive. I WILL allow myself to bless the world as I receive what I give.</i></blockquote><blockquote> <i>AMEN.</i> </blockquote>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-13186021242478962002011-02-02T09:34:00.000-05:002011-02-02T09:34:36.550-05:00Garden UpdatedThe "World Prophet" work has been going through a necessary transition. Now, I partner at deeper levels and with different energies. The nature of the work has shifted from exploratory investigations to ecosystem engineering, though still mostly in the unseen levels. As a mark of this transition, I am changing the title of this blog from "World Prophet in Training" to "World Prophet - Journeyman".<br />
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Today, the new focus yielded a new statement. The birth of such a statement is to work backwards -- start with the concerns and challenges that are active in my life right now. By sinking into those concerns, asking, "What is the challenge in that?", "What exactly about that is challenging?", I arrive at a key statement that puts into words the aspect of life right now that most challenges me to rise. The key <b>challenge</b>.<br />
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By sinking further into that, asking, "What is the courage that gives rise to this challenge?", or "What is the courage that must be present for this challenge to even begin to arise?", I arrive at a statement of the key <b>courage</b> that underlies my life right now. Note that it is not the courage I must gain in order to deal with the challenge, i.e. the courage that comes after the challenge. No, this is the courage I must have had to have that challenge show up in the first place.<br />
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Sinking further, asking, "What is the world I am living in that has <b>that</b> be the courage that shows up?", or "What is the world I am living in, through no act or thought of my own, that brings that courage into being?", or "What grace have I been given in which that courage arises?", I arrive at a key statement of<b> grace</b>. Something to be grateful for -- in the kind of gratitude that works and moves in the soul.<br />
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Finally, I ask, "What must I have willed, to have that grace appear?" Willing happens every moment. Grace shows up inside a world, and world shows up inside of will. What statement gives life to the world I am creating through <b>will</b>?<br />
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And the purpose of all of this is to make room for the garden. Inside of a statement of challenge, courage, grace, and will, one can get back to the garden. What garden (in soil and in thought and in word and in deed) do I plant and tend right now, that most opens the doors to new life. What do I double down on, and let the rest go? What is the key?<br />
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For me, right now, it all hinges about those different energies I am partnering with. In a previous post, I called these energies <i>Ahrimanic</i>, borrowing a word that Rudolf Steiner uses. The exploration is fruitful, and the fruit is helpful and nurturing. All of the wisdom of the Coning supports me in continuing the exploration. Even the angels and the Christ support this exploration. It is a worthwhile bet. And yet, there is an inescapable awareness that what I am partnering with is fundamentally <i>other</i>. These new "Ahrimanic" partners are not human and are not even allies to the human experiment. For their own reasons, they currently work alongside us and walk alongside us. I do not see another alternative that has anywhere near as much chance to make room for the world that thrives. Yet I personally find it challenging. It takes everything I have.<br />
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And that is what the Challenge, Courage, Grace, Will -- Garden is all about. Get to the heart of the matter. Tell the truth and live the truth. Start to plant the key gardens that really count. Dig in.<br />
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Here's what I came up with today:<br />
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<b>World Prophet -- Journeyman</b><br />
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Challenge<br />
<ul><li>My life and the lives of thousands or millions more are dependent on a partner I do not understand and cannot trust.</li>
</ul>Courage<br />
<ul><li>I partner with all Wisdom for the world that thrives; the world that thrives embraces all.</li>
</ul>Grace:<br />
<ul><li>I am a voice for the world that thrives.</li>
</ul>Will:<br />
<ul><li>I AM THAT I AM the ever-deepening co-creative full marriage between all strands of Life.</li>
</ul>Garden:<br />
<ul><li>I do co-creative science, partnering with Planetary and Universal energies for truth-living, love-owning, and joy-gardening at all levels. I support Earth as a garden planet for the world that thrives.</li>
</ul>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-76682246802057725552010-10-24T10:09:00.000-04:002010-10-24T10:09:56.344-04:00Open all doors, Close all doors<blockquote><i>Recently, the team of non-physical "thesis advisers" that work with me has drawn my attention towards six to eight specific women who they tell me are "candidates" to join me in this work of the World Prophet, in training. I feel ready in many ways for a new dawning of both the inner and the outer woman in my life. Yet I also often feel confused and off-base, as if I am misunderstanding what they say -- pouring new information into worn out mental and emotional models. </i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>In this reading, I had asked for clarification of how to deal with these women, given that in some sense I am "pursuing" all of them at the same time. In the culture in which I grew up, pursuing more than one woman at the same time was frowned on. Now the team is telling me not only to do so, but to tell each of the women all about it. They also suggest that I include it in this blog.</i></blockquote><begin transmission><br />
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Stop taking it personally. We need you to open the lives of many women and support the lives of many men. The ones you are working with so far are examples and "types" of what is yours to do. Your opportunity and challenge now is to <i>get good at it</i>.<br />
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You have made in your house a room called the Lady Room. It is not designed for just one lady, but first and foremost for a lady "principle" (First the lady principle and later the principal lady.) It is fine and expected and proper for you to pursue and honor and open all the candidates we send you, in parallel and in earnest. Stop at nothing in your quest to have the lady energy be fully present and embodied in your life. <br />
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Get to know these women as you get to know your Self. Allow each one to know <i>you</i>. Choose each one totally and fully, and with nothing held outside of discourse. Practice giving yourself. Trust Love. Fear not to lead the way: love provides.<br />
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Each of these "candidates" is a partner, a member of the "tribe of ten thousand". Each is also a possible condensing point with you in establishing the "shape" of the tribe of ten thousand. Your complement and consort will be she whose energy will marry with yours to create the greatest possible reach for the joint married vision. <br />
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Physical marriage is not essential, yet may follow. Physical marriage is somewhat easier than the alternative structures in the sense that it helps to "put all the eggs in one basket". It hence clarifies the resulting lines of energy. But do not stress. Allow circumstances to change gracefully and gratefully along the way. Trust that each of you is sent as an answer to prayer. Allow us to take care of how that prayer is made real.<br />
<blockquote><i>Explore all partnerships. Explore all partners. </i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>Be the answer to prayer. Be the Holy Spirit for each other. Be God for each other. </i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>Be alive. Be fully human. Be and accept nothing else.</i></blockquote><b>Q: What are good ways to "explore all partners" all at the same time?</b><br />
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The above statement in italics is a complete and true answer to this question. Only when you try to substitute your answer for the Holy Spirit's answer, or your timing for "tapestry timing" does this get confusing.<br />
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Here are general principles, for all of life:<br />
<ul><li>When circumstances get overwhelming and confusing, it always helps to <b>clarify the DDP</b>. Start to clarify the <i>Definition</i>, <i>Direction </i>and <i>Purpose </i>of the "gardens" where you are currently at work. Tell the truth.</li>
<li>If you don't like the circumstances you see around you, start to<b> tell the truth to yourself about your deepest prayer</b>. Your deepest prayer is life: it is who you are. You can see it outside, you can see it inside. There is no gap in who you are. You are one. By owning and claiming your deepest prayer, you own and claim your Self.</li>
<li><b>Open all doors.</b> This is a deep principle of life. <i>Open all doors</i> is a motto to hold in your heart. It will help you be open to the gifts that come your way, the gifts that surround you, and the gifts you bring. Remember that in time you will open all the doors of your heart. But this does <i>not</i> mean to open all doors all at once or without preparation. Open all doors in the proper sequence and in the proper arrangement and in the proper timing. There is no door that must remain closed for eternity. Yet there is no door that must be opened all at once. Trust the Voice for God, within you and without you, to indicate which doors are yours to open and which doors are yours to enter into. Leave the rest alone.</li>
<li><b>Close all doors.<i> </i></b> This is also a deep principle of life. It is another way of saying to live <i>now</i>, which is the only time there is. When you are not using a door, keep that door shut. As you move on from each encounter, be aware of the closing door as you mutually depart. Doors do not remain open by themselves. They must be kept open. To close a door means simply to let it close. By allowing the doors to close, you reestablish the <i>living, breathing skin</i> around each organism. Each door will open again when it is needed. The oneness of the open door is never lost. It just goes into a resting and relaxing and ease-filled state. Any door you keep open when you are not using it is a drain. More than that, it is in some sense a lie. By keeping open a door that you are not using, you pretend to yourself there is something you are doing that you are not actually doing right now. So tell the truth yourself about which doors you are currently using and keep <i>only </i>those doors open.</li>
</ul>This is how you can picture passing between your women. Open all the doors of your heart in proper timing and alignment and be with what's there. Be fully present in love. Offer love fully, as it is offered to you. And then let it all go. <b>Stay true. </b>Refuse to be drawn into channelizing the total love gift into an insufficient, untimely, or demeaning "package". Neither a physical package, an emotional package, a mental package nor a spiritual package alone, will have room for the full gift. <br />
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Here are three concrete practices to try:<br />
<ul><li><b>Tell each one about the others</b>. This is excellent practice for all of you. It also helps you all meet each other across the circle, which is important for the total tapestry. This is how the full tribe of ten thousand will gather.</li>
<li><b>Blog about the whole experience.</b> This will be freeing. In fact, you literally have no idea how freeing this will be.</li>
<li>Keep inviting people to <b>Holy Spirit Night</b>. Many questions, issues, and problems will resolve themselves automatically when you see each other in person. One of these women has, with you, been the condensing point for Holy Spirit Night. This is an example of what all of these women can be for you and for each other. <i>Allow each one </i>to be all of who she can be for you and for all of you and for herself. Expect miracles. Nothing else will satisfy.<i> Amen.</i></li>
</ul><end of transmission>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-34587419793699254022010-10-06T20:58:00.000-04:002010-10-06T20:58:55.800-04:00Faerie Tale - Ahriman claims one of his own and is put off<blockquote>From time to time I have a <i>research session</i> that occurs in the form of a discussion with one of the dark powers. I call these faerie tales. The faerie tales are intended to be helpful and timely, but not at all "accurate". Think of it as poetry. </blockquote><blockquote> This faerie tale is a discussion is with Ahriman where he claims one of my friends and is put off. </blockquote><blockquote>In <a href="http://www.skylarkbooks.co.uk/Shop/media/The_Inflences_of_Lucifer_and_Ahriman_Steiner.htm">Rudolf Steiner's material</a>, Ahriman (the name comes from Angra Mainyu, the principle of darkness in Persian mythology) represents one pole of an unbalanced and tempting pull away from truth. The opposite unbalanced and tempting pole that also leads away from truth is Lucifer. Ahrimanic energies are dense, materialistic: too grounded. Luciferic energies are grandiose, ambitious: too high-flying. Truth lies in a dynamic balance that permeates both Ahrimanic and Luciferic energies one with the other. And all must be held in service of the Christ energy, which is centered, whole, and real. The image of Archangel Michael with his foot upon the neck of the dragon is a pictorial representation of the proper interrelationship of the Christ energy with both the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic tendencies.</blockquote><blockquote>In the drama of this faerie tale, I am discussing with Ahriman the fate of a friend he wishes to claim back to "slavery". The voice denoted "<b>All</b>" indicates the voice of the Coning itself, which represents the deepest and most balanced wisdom available. The <b>All</b> voice gives me feedback when I ask for it, but otherwise does not intervene. My questions are addressed to <b>All</b>. </blockquote><blockquote>I am transcribing the session as received, with minimal edits. I am including it in this blog because its themes are relevant at this time.</blockquote><br />
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Ahriman: You have tried to claim one of my own. I want her back. She has <i>pledged</i> herself to me.<br />
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Me: Pledge? Show me the pledge.<br />
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Ahriman: She pledged on her life's honor to <i>heal </i>her brother, her sister, her mother, and her father. They all <i>already </i>belong to me.<br />
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Me: Is this a vow that can be broken?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Not in this life.<br />
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Me: Is this a vow that can be honored?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Not in this life.<br />
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Me: What is the life in which this vow can be honored or broken?<br />
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<b>All</b>: <i>The Life of Joy</i>.<br />
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Me: Does Ahriman have a claim that prevents her from attempting the Life of Joy?<br />
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<b>All</b>: No<br />
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Me: But does he have a claim on the brother and the sister?<br />
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<b>All</b>: The claim goes deep.<br />
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Me: Can she <i>release </i>her sister to Ahriman?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Not and keep her vow.<br />
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Me: So she must <i>find the joy</i> in turning her sister and brother over to Ahriman ("to be tortured")?!<br />
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<b>All</b>: There is no other way.<br />
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Ahriman: If she cannot do this (and she will not) then by ancient claim she belongs to me.<br />
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<b>All</b>: It is so.<br />
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Me: Is there any rescue for the sister?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Not this side of hell. She must enter and pass through. She must be redeemed from inside the belly of the beast.<br />
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Me: Isn't the miracle stronger than any beast?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Of course. But then she <i>would have to ask for it herself.</i> Then all vows are <i>null and void</i>, and the world starts over <i>anew and afresh</i>.<br />
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Me: But you think this is unlikely.<br />
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<b>All</b>: She is heavily defended against it.<br />
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Me. So she must give the sister up to you?<br />
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<b>All</b>: There is no other way.<br />
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Me: What <i>miracle </i>can she request?<br />
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<b>All</b>: She must find that within herself. The only miracle worth asking for is the one miracle she came to this world to manifest and receive and give and serve. There is no other.<br />
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Me: Does she know what this is?<br />
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<b>All</b>: Only in part. To the extent she refuses to ask for <i>all</i> of it, then part remains inside of Ahriman's claim, and hence her <i>Joy</i> is forfeit.<br />
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Me: The miracle is joy?<br />
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<b>All</b>: So it was, so it is, and so it may be. But remember, you who wish to help, that <i>her </i>joy is that which you will never see and never feel and never be.<br />
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<b><end of transmission></b>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-36086319337215512962010-10-03T09:14:00.000-04:002010-10-03T09:14:41.525-04:00A Course in Miracles<i>A Course in Miracles</i> is essential. It is of the essence -- the <i>essential ingredient</i>.<br />
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What is <i>A Course in Miracles</i>? <i>A Course in Miracles</i> is a book. More specifically, it is a set of three books and some related pamphlets all published within one cover. The material was written down by a pair of professors in New York City in the years from 1965 to 1973. The professors would say they transcribed the book, not wrote it. One of them, Helen, would receive the words by a process she called <i>inner dictation</i> or <i>automatic writing </i>and write the words down in shorthand. Later, she would read her notes aloud to the other one, Bill, who would type up the scribed material.<br />
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The <i>author</i> of the course material is Jesus. This bold claim is the one way I can speak my true relationship with the course. Through the course, I have come to know its author and his love. The author speaks with a one-pointedness, an authority, an honesty, and an uncompromising joy that helps me see this world and my place in it through eyes of love, truth, and power. Over time, it has become easy and natural to simply accept what the book itself says about its own authorship, namely that the author is Jesus, rather than quibble, doubt, or theorize. It rings true.<br />
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The first book is the <i>Text</i>. The <i>Text </i>is the heart of the course. It is through the text that you will begin to see the all-encompassing scope of what is possible in the thought reversal of this world. It is a self-study course. One can do it together with others (and this makes most things easier and more fun). Yet it is through ones own internal work that one will make the material ones own and start to live it in ones life.<br />
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The second book is the <i>Workbook</i>. I will not attempt to improve on what the Workbook says about itself. The Workbook starts with the following:<br />
<blockquote>A theoretical foundation such as the text provides is necessary as a framework to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. Yet it is doing the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of this workbook to train your mind to think along the lines the text sets forth. </blockquote><blockquote>The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation. The training period is one year. The exercises are numbered from 1 to 365. Do not undertake to do more than one set of exercises a day. </blockquote><br />
The third book is the <i>Manual for Teachers</i><i>, </i>which could equally well be called the <i>Manual for Students</i>. Many have found that this description of the pathway involved in becoming a Teacher of God is exactly the missing piece to sustain them in their studies and to point the way forward. It seems in many ways more practical, more focused, more down to earth than either the Text or the Workbook.<br />
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Without the <i>Course</i>, I could never hope to occupy the job description known as <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/why-me-why-you.html">World Prophet, in training</a>. Here are a few of the reasons:<br />
<ul><li>With the Course, I have come to trust the aspect of the Voice for God that speaks through me. I have accepted the call.</li>
<li>The year of "mind training" that the Workbook represents, and which I have now repeated several times, shows me at deeper and deeper levels that there is no substitute for joy, that joy is our natural inheritance, and that the pathway to joy is giving freely that which is given us. The course calls this forgiveness.</li>
<li>To fully inhabit the role of World Prophet requires partners -- lots of partners. My job is to gather together with the "tribe of ten thousand". A few of the partners are ready for the call and just need to be reminded of what there is to do. But many of my partners need help. Some need help to even begin to hear the call. Many more have spent their entire life hearing the call but have reached an impasse where it has become clear that what they started out with will not go all the way. With the course, there is something to give them. The course demonstrates both where to start and how to keep going all the way home.</li>
<li>Saying, "Yes!" to life can be deeply disturbing to the status quo. If one is not used to it, it rearranges everything. The course provides a foundation, a stepping stone, and a safety net when people are reaching out into the new.</li>
<li>If used properly, the Course helps one see through ones own hesitation, puffed up arrogance, and lies.</li>
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To explore further, I suggest the website <a href="http://acim.org/index.html">ACIM.org</a>, which is run by the Foundation for Inner Peace, the original publishers of the course. On that site, one can read the full text of the <a href="http://acim.org/Lessons/index.html">Workbook</a> and a good <a href="http://acim.org/AboutACIM/index.html">overview </a>of how the Course came into being and what it says. And lots more.<br />
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When buying a copy of the course, I recommend the third (complete) edition. This edition includes the two pamphlets that were published later but were received through the same process of inner dictation as the rest of the Course. You can purchase this version through the acim.org site <a href="http://acim.org/Whats_New/products.html">online store</a> or at a discount through online stores such as amazon.com (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883360250/ref=oss_product">hardcover</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Dr-Helen-Schucman/dp/1883360242/ref=tmm_pap_title_0">softcover</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883360269/ref=oss_product">mass-market paperback</a>). I do not recommend the copies of the course through other sellers.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-71916051402320923242010-09-30T22:48:00.000-04:002010-09-30T22:48:19.095-04:00To Honor Life's Challenges<blockquote>This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+30&version=NIV"> <i>Deuteronomy 30:19</i></a></blockquote>What does it mean to <i>choose life</i>; to <i>choose to live</i>? This has been a deeply personal question. Perhaps it is the most personal question. Every person's answer is different. One answers by living. This post is about one window on choosing life -- one way of saying one's own deep and powerful "yes!" to the full catastrophe of life.<br />
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Earlier this year, I asked my team of non-traditional "<a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/50-posts-in-60-days.html">thesis advisers</a>" for help in giving the gifts that come from this "World Prophet in Training" research program. I sometimes get tongue-tied when I try to explain this research. Much of the research takes place on inner levels; inner experiences are notoriously difficult to convey to others. When one tries, one generally sounds both arrogant and flighty. So, how can I <i>be</i> the benefits of researching what it is to be a World Prophet, in training, and give the gifts that come from there?<br />
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The team offered the following:<br />
<blockquote><b>Challenge, Courage, Grace, and Will -- then Garden</b></blockquote>Today's post is the first installment of this. Let's start by honoring your challenges in life. <br />
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This isn't a lecture, it is an exercise.<br />
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List all your challenges. Go ahead. You can do it right now. It is not an infinite and unending list. What are all the areas and circumstances in your life that you find challenging? When I do this, I start by telling the truth to myself about what are all the circumstances that I don't like, that I am annoyed by, wish would go away, wish were already different than they are. I sink into those challenging circumstances, looking past my <i>reaction</i> to the circumstances to see the challenge itself. So you do that. Look deeper into each one of your challenges. Stay with it until you can see what about this challenge is calling on you to rise -- to become who you must become. (It is in this sense that the challenge is something to honor -- your challenges can show you who you are.)<br />
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Let's try an example. Today's annoying circumstance is that my lovely six-year-old dog (Dixie, a Golden Retriever Mix) is occasionally peeing on the floor. <i>Yecch</i>. I have an immediate reaction and annoyance to cleaning up the pee. I have an annoyance that my "orderly routine" is ruined and that she seems to need a level of care and attention beyond what I am used to providing. But what, specifically, is the <i>challenge </i>in that? It is not all that challenging to stoop down and clean things up. It is not even all that challenging to start a healing coning or to call the vet. But the circumstance is not just annoying, it is indeed challenging. So I sink down into that feeling of being challenged, and see and look and observe. What is there? <br />
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What arises is a question of, "<i>Whom shall I trust and how far shall I trust them?"</i> Will I trust my Coning partners with this issue from the day-to-day world? If it were my own health, I would not hesitate. But now another being is involved. And my daughter is involved as well, who cares for this dog as much or more than I do. Am I willing to stake their health and their love on the same tools I use in my research? Really? That is today's challenge. <br />
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There is no easy answer. The challenge calls on me to rise to a new level. It calls on me to take a stand about what really is the highest and best standard of care for this loving companion animal who calls my house her home. The particular action I end up taking is less important than the question itself. There is no "right" answer. The challenging question itself is what to honor. It calls on me to choose.<br />
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Perhaps I will involve my daughter in the decision at a new level. Perhaps I will invest several weeks or a month in exploring <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Coning_Animals_P70.cfm">Nature Healing Conings</a> at a new level, and only then involve the vet. Perhaps I will involve the Coning partners in the decision about how and when to involve the vet. It would of course be smart to involve Nature in this way. The Nature Intelligence side of the coning are the masters of order, organization, and life vitality in any situation; the coning will generally be better than I am at determining the most appropriate means, once I have articulated the intention clearly. But only I can (and must) set that intention. That is my job and no one else can do it for me. <br />
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A challenge is not (just) something that is <i>hard</i>. My daughter is now playing high-school field hockey; the practices are hard, uncomfortable, ugly, and long. But what part of that is <i>challenging</i>? Is it the sense of blowing past ones perceived limits? Or is it learning to trust and work with coaches who are calling out the best in their athletes in a way that seems perhaps both supportive and also "mean" at the same time? Or is it dealing with the grief of giving up other options for what to do this fall? Only she can see. Our challenges are as personal as our gifts and our joy.<br />
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What is there to honor about challenges? As you might see from the example above, whatever it is that I find challenging shows me who I next need to become. We normally think of courage as what helps us meet our challenges. The challenge is there first, and then the courage helps us meet it. But I suggest that is exactly backwards. Instead, I suggest you imagine that your challenges are a direct window that shows you what your courage must be. You have exactly the challenges that your courage makes room for. But that is a lead-in to a future post.<br />
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So stick with it until you can list all of your challenges and find something to honor in each one. This by itself is a worthwhile accomplishment. Pat yourself on the back. Then stay tuned for future installments.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-27032482484447454182010-09-25T08:39:00.000-04:002010-09-25T08:39:35.251-04:00Contegrity<i>Contegrity</i> is a word, a made up word that is not yet in the dictionary yet one day will be. <i>Contegrity</i> signifies a deep integrity and wholeness of Self and Others and Life and that which integrates and fulfills life, lived out across a background of time and circumstance. <i>Contegrity</i>, as a word, was invented by my friends and mentors, Ken Anbender and Gail Cantor of <a href="http://contegrity.com/newsite/home.shtml">Contegrity Program Designs</a>.<br />
<blockquote>The following words are my own. Ken and Gail have not reviewed these words; I am sure they would say this all quite differently. Yet just as I feel free to weigh in on Perelandra and the gifts I have received there, while still pointing people directly to the Perelandra material itself, so too I feel free to say in my own words the great gifts I have received and continue to receive from Contegrity. The gift of gratitude works in the soul, and by the fruits of the gift, one, over time, comes to know what the gift must have been. </blockquote>Ken and Gail are professionals who were interested in supporting all that goes in the direction of what integrates and fulfills life. They needed a word to distinguish and set apart <i>what is worth steering by and engaging with</i> when the intention is to have life fulfill itself in and around you. <br />
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There is something whole at the heart of life. Whether one calls it God, Nature, the Beyond, the Inexpressible and Ineffable Wonder of Life, there is something about the way life is working itself out that is worth observing, cultivating, and in a Ken-and-Gail phrase, <i>belonging to become</i>. Life is not (just) a bunch of bodies interacting. Nor is life (just) a set of conversations, disconnected from the physical life that embodies them. Life is whole. It is as unsatisfying to be "all physical with no spiritual" as it is to be "all spiritual with no physical". What is needed now, today, is wholeness, balance, completeness, integration, and flow, and the real-world A-class results that come from there. Ken and Gail set out to determine what goes in that direction and what does not. Nothing else would satisfy. If you will, they simply observed that many, even most, of the approaches to "having a great life" did not offer this. They set out to find what does.<br />
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In my words, Ken and Gail started investigating how to <i>garden</i> wholeness. What are the seeds to plant if wholeness is the intended crop? What ways of engaging and conversing help the tiny seedlings of wholeness emerge and blossom, the way that water, sunlight, good soil and fresh air help the tiny plants become a bumper crop? And, conversely, what ways of conversing and engaging are like weeds that grow quickly yet do not satisfy, and will take over the entire garden if left on their own without being lovingly pruned and weeded.<br />
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And even beyond the means to do so, what is the <i>crop</i> <i>itself </i>that is being gardened for wholeness and fulfillment? <i>What is wholeness and fulfillment, anyway? Contegrity</i> is the word for the<i> crop of wholeness.</i> <i>Contegrity</i> the word signifies the aspect of life that is worth planting and tending and caring for, and defending with ones honor and ones life. Ken and Gail needed a made up word for this. All the existing words already point at something and what they point at isn't working.<br />
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Here are some basics. <i>Contegrity </i>is a different view of <i>what it means to be a Self</i>. To be a self is to be already connected, related, enmeshed, engaged. <i>Contegrity</i>, the crop of wholeness, is <i>relational, not thing-like</i>. To be a self has nothing to do with being <u>separate</u>, though it has much to do with being <i>unique</i>. <i>Contegrity </i>is <i>discerned not invented</i>. There is that which goes in the direction of wholeness and that which does not. One can tell the truth about that but not determine it. Right use of will is to will what works, not to will what one wishes would work.<br />
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To learn more, browse the <a href="http://contegrity.com/newsite/home.shtml">Contegrity Program Designs</a> web page, especially their <a href="http://contegrity.com/newsite/FAQ/main.shtml">FAQ</a> and the pages that are linked from the top right corner of any page. Or consider participating in one of their programs. One of the Contegrity flagship programs <a href="http://contegrity.com/newsite/offerings/programs/lifedesign.shtml"><i>Life Design</i></a> will be held in the Hartford, CT, area on <a href="http://contegrity.com/newsite/schedules/schprogram.shtml#lifedesign">October 21 to 24</a> this year. Life Design focuses on what, uniquely, is <i>your </i><a href="http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html">one wild and precious life</a> designed for. What is <i>unique </i>about you and what <i>connects </i>you with others and the world are one and the same. Getting the truth told about what that is -- and what that is <i>not</i> -- is a key starting place for living with freedom, ease, and joy. In a phrase I have used in the<a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/why-start-with-map.html"> second post in this series</a>, joy comes when you stop giving what you don't have, and start learning to give in abundance what you have in abundance because it is who you are.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-44035766819323119432010-09-24T12:11:00.000-04:002010-09-24T12:11:45.000-04:00A koan<blockquote><i>Keep letting go of control; control is not what you want; you want love.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Keep letting go of love; love is not what you want; you want peace.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Keep letting go of peace; peace is not what you want; you want joy.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Keep letting go of joy; joy is not what you want; you want God.</i> </blockquote>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-61976886191730379732010-09-23T07:33:00.000-04:002010-09-23T07:33:18.617-04:00Emergency MAPMAP is the profound and simple health practice I have talked about in earlier posts <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/why-start-with-map.html">here </a>and <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/intermediate-map.html">here</a>. One of the best reasons for become familiar with MAP is to be able to set up an <i>Emergency MAP Coning</i> when you need one. Chapter 6 of the MAP book describes this process in detail. Read it. It is designed to be something so simple that you can do it even in the midst of a massive and sudden trauma. Basically, you ask for an emergency connection to your team, and keep it open for as long as you are "in the hospital".<br />
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My MAP team holds a somewhat loose definition of what counts as an "emergency" and what counts as "in the hospital". At times of <i>spiritual emergence</i>, when I have opened a new reality and am now stepping into it, I have several times tested to start an emergency MAP coning. The team has asked me to keep the emergency coning open for several days, until the new energy from the emergence can be digested and stabilized. This is not to be taken lightly. Keeping any coning open is an energy drain. Keeping a coning open for several days would never be suggested unless there is an extremely powerful and timely benefit to be received from it right now.<br />
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Using an emergency coning is the only time I have ever kept a coning open while driving. The team has told me that in this special case, the increased clarity of having the emergency coning open can actually make me a safer driver than I would be without it. Needless to say, I never trust my own good ideas about questions like when to start or continue an emergency. The <i>Nature</i> side of the coning is responsible for matter, means, and action of any project or goal. In particular, Nature is the expert in order, organization and life vitality. And this includes all questions of timing and appropriate means.<br />
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The most recent time I have tested positive for a several-day emergency coning was this week. Over the weekend, I received initiation and anointing into a new role with new responsibilities and new challenges. This was a tremendous expansion. And as I said in the<a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/50-posts-in-60-days.html"> first post in this series</a>,<br />
<blockquote>Your health practice must meet and match and balance your expansion practice in every way.</blockquote>So the emergency coning has been very appropriate. After a few days of that, I have now graduated to "only" needing a Two-Week Intensive Flower Essence Process. The two-week process is an incredible tool for allowing several layers of self-definition to slough off and be replaced by a new self-definition. But that is a subject for another post.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-68280133877559009542010-09-21T23:08:00.001-04:002010-09-21T23:25:51.902-04:00Endorsement: Vittorio Passanante<blockquote>This is my first <i>endorsement</i> post. I plan to sprinkle in a few such posts over the next few weeks. I wish to bring attention to healers and practitioners and approaches that reach the level of mastery. </blockquote>The first of these endorsements is for my spiritual brother and partner in healing, Vittorio Perri Passanante.<br />
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Vittorio describes himself as a healer and a spiritual intuitive, and as a channel of the Holy Spirit. I say he is more like a Lion of God. When he is in a spiritual session, he speaks with the voice of authority. Sleepers do awaken; demonic energies do depart (and then submit to their own healing); new openings for healing do occur.<br />
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The deepest and most profound part of Vittorio's work is in the area of healing the holy inner Child. At our core, each of us is a holy inner Child for we are all children of God. Along the way, this holy inner Child often goes underground. Then the holy inner child is commingled with the less than holy inner tyrant. Here, there is both tremendous unshakable wisdom yet also immediate black and white reactions, addiction and repulsion, and magical thinking. The challenge is to awaken the wisdom, love and compassion of this inner Child and to make room for the strength of will that it represents and allow all the rest to gently disappear.<br />
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The holy inner Child cannot be commanded, for it is stronger than the Universe. It cannot be coaxed, for it is wise in the ways of the world that has lured it and hurt it before. Yet the holy inner Child can be loved, can be welcomed, can be spoken to in words of the heart. The holy inner child will recognize one who comes in the name of truth and is willing to honor the truth. The truth is not always easy; the truth is not always nice; yet the holy inner Child dwells only in the truth and will move for nothing less.<br />
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Yesterday, I had an experience that showed how much Vittorio has taught me through his example. I had received some news that at first seemed like a disappointment, and this disappointment seemed to hit home at this inner Child level. By giving "little Petie" a chance to speak in his own voice I could then hear his sorrow. More important, he could hear his sorrow. For just a moment, it was heartbreaking. Without Vittorio's example in front of me, I might not have trusted this experience and stuck with it until the pain could let go. But I did, and then the sun came out again. Just a second later little Peter was laughing again.<br />
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Other approaches have helped me observe and upgrade the kernel of truth that may be shrouded behind early episodes. This is different. It can be a direct channel to wisdom that is beyond this world. It can mean putting down the burdens of a lifetime. Real freedom can emerge from sharing the burdens and dreams and loves of the holy inner Child, for it too can be a channel of the Holy Spirit.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-4064205728730335182010-09-21T05:13:00.000-04:002010-09-21T05:13:54.764-04:00Wednesday Holy Spirit NightsI am hosting a gathering at my house in West Newton on Wednesday night to celebrate the Fall Equinox. This will also be an opportunity to initiate a longstanding vision of mine.<br />
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</b>The exact moment of the equinox is September 22, 11:09pm EDT. We'll gather at 7pm, and continue until 11:30pm. Some people may come later than 7; some may leave earlier than 11:30. That's fine. The point is to gather in company and appreciate the turning of the natural cycle. It will be an organized evening, but informal. All who would appreciate this type of gathering are welcome.<br />
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I have a vision that Wednesday nights all year could be dedicated to being a home each week for the Holy Spirit Voice in each of us to thrive. Not church. Many of us already have church. Not meditation. Not a seminar. Not boring. The intention is to gather together with joy-filled and wonder-filled activities that bring us closer to each other and to the Holy Breath. (Feel free to translate that name into something that works for <u>you</u>.) <br />
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I could use some help fleshing in out this vision, and in hearing which part connects with your heart. Here are some examples of activities I have imagined:<br />
<ul><li>Breaking bread together</li>
<li>Studying <i>A Course in Miracles</i> together, or supporting those who are.</li>
<li>Starting <i>Soil-less Gardens</i> for key areas in life. A soil-less garden is a way of partnering with the supporters of human form and the supporters of human evolution to multiply the effectiveness, balance, and fun in any project. Many of us have big challenges in life that seem <i>stuck</i>. I envision that working together in this way helps all of us <i>un-stick</i> and have fun with these key challenges while moving mountains at the same time.<br />
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<li>Lifting our hearts together in praise-filled song</li>
</ul>Of course, this coming Wednesday is just a one-time event, not the whole series. Since the fall equinox is the start of the natural year, I envision we could:<br />
<ul><li>Eat fun snacks</li>
<li>Appreciate the year that is coming to a close. Take stock of what was planted, birthed, grown, and harvested over the last 12 months</li>
<li>Listen (and maybe pray) together to see whether there is a core of people and a core of activities that might make Wednesday Holy Spirit Nights a reality</li>
<li>And then, open our hearts to the moment of the equinox itself.</li>
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MAP (the Medical Assistance Program) is a profound and simple health practice that is the subject of a<a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/why-start-with-map.html"> previous post</a>. Many people would not think of "resistance", "fear of failure", "fear of success", "resentment", "I want to get what I deserve", "I am set back by not knowing where to start", and "I am afraid that I look at it, it will get worse" as proper subjects for a "health program". Yet MAP will go to work on any physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual block to health that you are willing to bring to the team. So all of the above are fair game.<br />
<blockquote>If this is not health, then this must be time for MAP. </blockquote>Many people don't make full use of MAP. The first impediment is that people haven't heard of it. If you haven't heard of something, it is hard to make full use of it.<br />
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A second impediment is thinking that MAP is too strange and unfamiliar or too nontraditional to be helpful. With a name like, <i>The Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program</i>, MAP can call up people's previous associations. Some people (even many people) would prefer to stick with the medical models that are used widely in our current society rather than branching out.<br />
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Others might be willing to experiment, but find difficulty in <i>suspending their disbelief</i>. It can be tempting to think that believing in MAP is a prerequisite to exploring it. To experiment with MAP is to take it on its own terms -- <i>Here, try this</i>. Even to try MAP, especially for the five-month introductory period that the book itself recommends, does mean a leap of faith and an entry into a different world. But this is the leap of faith of the gardener who plants a seed in the spring never quite knowing what the fruit will be in the fall. You don't need to <i>believe</i> in a garden for the garden to bear abundant and tasty fruit. You just have to water and weed and tend and care.<br />
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Some people worry about MAP. <i>I am not doing it right</i>. Or, <i>I don't feel a thing</i>. Or, <i>it doesn't seem like anything is happening</i>. Or, <i>the muscle testing thing doesn't work for me</i>. Well, how many people give up on their gardens sometime between when it is planted and when it is harvested? I am certainly not saying that you have to wait "all the way until fall" for the results of MAP to show up. MAP can have dramatic and obvious effects even in the first session. But for many people and certainly for me, there has been a learning curve. And it has taken an ongoing investment.<br />
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MAP itself is the most powerful tool for learning MAP. If I bring to the team an issue such as <i>When I don't feel anything happening, I get discouraged and want to give up</i>, or even <i>I want to be better at learning muscle testing</i>, I have seen dramatic and often instantaneous results. At other times, a request such as <i>I want to feel, see and hear more of what the team is doing when they are working</i> results in a much more gradual and sustainable learning curve. It is as if the team is saying to me, "Do you as a beginner really want to see what the surgeon sees when he is doing surgery? Stick with your current work and eventually you can run the hospital."<br />
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Another area I have learned to bring to MAP is when I want to get <i>better </i>at something. There are health related aspects to any new challenge. Here's an example with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual components. My daughter and I sing in a chorus. Like many choruses, we were short on tenors, and I was asked to sing for a term at the higher end of my range. At first, it hurt. I asked my MAP team to<i> help my voice feel better after a night of singing high</i>. It worked. And then it branched out from there. How about, <i>help me prepare ahead of time so that I can sing high for a whole night without even feeling bad at the end</i>. It worked. How about, <i>help open up my vocal chords so that I can sing effortlessly at the high end of my range and the notes are clearer and purer and more beautiful</i>. It worked! Now I love singing tenor.<br />
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I am sometimes unsure what it means when MAP talks about "spiritual health issues". I am asking the team about this as I write this post. Here is an example, again from singing tenor, that the team is pointing me to. At first, there was a <i>secret grief</i> associated with what I had left behind as a bass. Part of what I have loved about singing the base notes of a piece is that the bass part provides the grounding or foundation of the whole. One knows ones place and ones value. One can <i>sing the whole piece from the bass part</i>. I missed this.<br />
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When singing tenor, one is "in the middle". The notes can be harder to find, and it can be harder to distinguish what difference you are making to the piece. I was singing tenor, and even enjoying it, but some deep part of my core wasn't yet aligned. So I asked the team to help me find ways to <i>enjoy</i> being a tenor as much as I had enjoyed being a bass. This might sound like an emotional issue, but the team is showing me that it is indeed a spiritual issue. It is really about, <i>How am I connected to the whole?</i> and <i>What is uniquely mine to do here?</i> And these are spiritual, not emotional, topics. Anyway, it worked! I was able to feel my way into "singing the whole song from the tenor part" the same way I had done as a bass. The <i>secret grief</i> was gone and had been replaced with a <i>public joy</i>. Amen.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-73007164068918482010-09-11T19:24:00.000-04:002010-09-11T19:24:22.714-04:00Why me? Why you?This <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/50-posts-in-60-days.html">series </a>of posts is dedicated first-among-equals to E because she needs the results of this research, she needs it all, and she needs it now. Having her in mind helps focus and hone these words to what is needed this instant, here. (And of course, it is all meant for me as well. It is ever thus.) Although this post may sound very different, it is intended as a continuation of my <a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/lady-room.html">love letter</a> to E and to B and to myself and to the year that is passing. To my ears, this post sounds challenging and a bit annoying. Yet even that is not a bad place to start. I am happy to have written it at all.<br />
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Today's post is a chance to clarify who this research is for--who is the audience. Why you? Why me?<br />
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First, let me start with that research phrase that my non-traditional thesis advisers gave me. This phrase applies to you to whom I write these words, though others can listen in:<br />
<blockquote><b>The world needs a world prophet and you are one, so get to work and learn as you go.</b></blockquote>The title of "world prophet in training" is a job description. The world needs men, women, children, and others who choose to inhabit this job description and learn to give what it requires. The "job requirements" are individually designed and must be owned. No two prophets are ever given the same. No one else can take your part. Are you willing to teach yourself to give what only you can give?<br />
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<i>World Prophet</i> is a joint calling. We are called to join together. There is work to do on both the outer and the inner levels that can be done only together. As we each "be ourselves", we join together.<br />
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The "job" of the World Prophet, the job that can only be done truly by those who come together, is to set the <i>Definition, Direction, and Purpose</i> (DDP) of the <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Garden_Defined_W71.cfm">world garden</a>. Even having one world prophet is qualitatively different than having none. But when it truly "takes off" and becomes something unprecedented is when there is a large collection of "world prophets in training" acting as one within a single group Coning. The coning has to be <i>shaped</i> when there is such a large group -- that is part of what the "research" of my PhD program with nature is about. Not everyone need join this shape or this Coning. There are many callings and many ways to say, "yes!" to them. Yet <i>my</i> calling is to point in the direction of this shared <i>shaped group coning</i> and call together those who will.<br />
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Here are a few of the "articles of faith" with which I write these posts:<br />
<ul><li>You will be happy and joyous to the extent you accept and own your part in creation. Engage. You were built for engaging. The results as such don't matter. Just engage.</li>
<li>For those who are called as World Prophet, true joy will come from <i>getting to work</i> as a world prophet, in training. Some things are so worth doing that they are worth doing badly.</li>
<li>Abandon all good ideas. Good ideas will not make you happy. If you are doing something because it is a good idea, you will disappoint it and it will disappoint you. Good ideas are never who you are.</li>
<li>Honor the challenges of life. Let your challenges show you who you are. Whatever the challenges you face, it is always your challenges that show you where your courage is, and then the grace beyond the courage. Don't be distracted by your <i>reactions</i> to the challenges you face. It is the challenges themselves that show you who you are.</li>
<li>You are given by a Will which you did not invent and which you do not own. Own this will by making it yours, complete and whole and free.</li>
<li>Have fun.</li>
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<blockquote><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;">In nature, this is the new year, the day that begins the next year's cycle. It is the day when the call goes out for the new cycle to activate and begin its formation processes on the deepest of energy levels. At Perelandra, at the precise moment of the fall equinox I, as creator of this garden, initiate the call by saying aloud,<br />
<i>I request the next cycle and wish to assist its full unfolding.</i></span></blockquote>This has been a year of Love and of Preparing for Love. I am the same man I was a year ago, but in a new way. Something is ready to blossom: I have started to marry my own inner woman.<br />
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Starting this year, I have a room in my house I call the Lady Room. It used to be my home office. And for right now, it is still where I sit to do my research, write these notes, and do many of my practices. But now it is ready for something else. Over the course of the last year I have moved almost all of the "office" out of it. The books are gone, the file folders put away. The MC Escher print of a head in ribbons that used to hang on the wall has been replaced by a print of Our Lady Queen of the Universe. It is now a room that is dedicated to the inner and the outer "lady". The "Lady Room" is ready for the lady.<br />
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The inner and outer women in my life have at times felt left out on their own, as if there is no partner here to partner with. My emotional life is more like Earth and Air than it is Water and Fire -- at times dry, hidden, and even bare. The mental life is more obvious, more flashy, more celebrated. (Even here there is much to appreciate, as I learn to let go of trying to be anybody else than who I am.) But this year of love has emerged quite naturally, like a flower after rain. No "forcing", no "will power". Just one simple prayer:<br />
<blockquote>Trust Love.</blockquote>Amen.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-23279644999257732942010-09-08T05:44:00.000-04:002010-09-08T05:44:18.985-04:00Challenge Courage Grace and Will -- GraceThe other day I was walking along a rocky headland close by the ocean. I came across a twisted pine of quite good size that had lodged itself in a crack in the rock. It seems out of place, far from the other trees and completely exposed to the wind and -- in winter storms -- to the waves. In a twisted and low-slung and bonsai-like way, this tree is beautiful.<br />
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A 500 pound rock sits on the roots of this tree. The tree's roots emerge from the back side of this rock, bare and scraggly. The roots barely make it the 12 inches from there to the tiny crack from which the tree draws its life. This "poor tree" must deal not only with wave and wind but also with a huge weight on its back that almost chokes its roots out of existence. Yet without this weight, the "poor tree" would have washed away 10 times by now. Without this rock, the tree could never reach this size, this level of energy, or this beauty. The 500-pound rock, the exposed location, and the tree itself are all examples of grace.<br />
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Grace means ease. Life has a gift of ease in seeming difficulty. <br />
<blockquote>Grace is ours to embrace.</blockquote>To the extent that the tree embraces its location, the tree can live, and live well -- live with ease.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-79525666079931039522010-09-05T08:04:00.000-04:002010-09-05T08:04:34.298-04:00Why Start With MAP?<blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><i>I dedicate these posts to you who can receive all the joy that is in them. May your wholeness continue to blossom into light, and joy, and life. Amen.</i> </blockquote>My<a href="http://www.worldprophet.org/2010/09/50-posts-in-60-days.html"> first post</a> set the stage for joy. Joy comes when you stop giving what you don't have and start learning to give in abundance what you do have, because it is who you are. You need an <i>expansion practice</i> because you teach yourself how to be happy as you extend to give more of who you are. And you need a <i>health practice</i> to balance that expansion -- breathing in after you breathe out.<br />
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Help abounds, but you have to ask for it. Today is a post about what to ask and what not to ask, focused on health practices. For expansion into real joy, it is helpful to start with a health practice called MAP. <br />
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MAP stands for the <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/MAP_The_Co-Creative_White_Bro_P1293C3.cfm">Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program</a>. At one level, it is a health practice that you do yourself in the privacy of your own room. It puts your health into your own hands. There is no one to pay, no one to go see, no complicated steps to follow. The steps are simple and anyone can do them. You can do them, starting from where you are right now. Sessions are relatively short (40 minutes) and yet they can have deep and profound <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/MAP_W5109.cfm">effects</a>. MAP is <i>practical</i>.<br />
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At another level, MAP trains you in asking for and allowing in the help that surrounds us all the time. In MAP, you will be asking for the combined support of the supporters of human <i>form</i> and the supporters of human <i>evolution</i>. The support of human form comes from the world of Nature and of Nature Intelligence. The support of human evolution comes from the collection of helper souls of all genders, colors, backgrounds, and callings that is often known collectively as the <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/About_that_White_Brotherhood_W67.cfm">White Brotherhood</a>. Together, these different experts create a healing "room", called a Coning, in which all of that expertise, along with your Higher Self (i.e. your own pattern and timing and identity) can speak with one voice and work with one heart. MAP is <i>whole</i>.<br />
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But what I love most about MAP is how it challenges us to ask for help at all levels by asking us simply to list our symptoms at all levels. In MAP, the rule of the game is that your individual healing team, your MAP team, will "work on" any area you can bring to them. The clarity with which you can bring your issue -- by articulating all the symptoms of the issue; by describing what you have noticed about it at the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels; by stating and offering up your fears, suspicions, wishes, fantasies and hopes about what else your issue might be connected to -- all of this is what gives your MAP team "permission to go to work". This is great training in surrendering your supposed certainty that you know who you are, that you know what you need, and that you know what should be happening right now. Where you cannot "offer up" your issue -- say if you do not mention it at all or if you make only blanket requests that try to handle all issues right away without taking responsibility for any of them -- they will wait. They wait for you to ask. They will not override your timing. They cannot override your free will. MAP is <i>respectful</i>.<br />
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The way to start MAP is to buy the <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/MAP_The_Co-Creative_White_Bro_P1293C3.cfm">book</a>, read the first 5 chapters, and then set aside some time for your first few sessions. (It is also helpful to buy a bottle of <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/ETS_Plus_for_HUMANS_2_oz__P416C34.cfm">ETS+</a> at the same time.) The book recommends that you do MAP sessions on a regular schedule for the first 5 months. I recommend this, too. It is enough time to learn the program, to work through many of your initial issues, and to determine for yourself if this program is something you want to make part of your normal routine.grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439730360397417489.post-85563743822990120702010-09-03T11:50:00.000-04:002010-09-03T11:50:01.749-04:0050 posts in 60 daysThis series of 50 posts is dedicated to my friend E, who is passing through a major health crisis. And also to B, and D, and V, and many others. These are people who have a deep love of life and a deep connection to truth. Yet their circumstances are so painful that sometimes even to keep going seems impossible. And yet, God put the joy where the pain is. Healing is to be found <i>there</i>, where the sickness is, and not someplace else. To you, then, my friends, are dedicated this series of notes on finding the joy in the unlikely places where it seems to dwell.<br />
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I will also be discussing planetary healing. When I started my "PhD program with Nature", the non-physical teachers who are my "thesis committee" suggested a research phrase:<br />
<blockquote>The world needs a World Prophet and you are one, so get to work and learn as you go.</blockquote>What I have learned from this phrase is that the world is changing out from us at an ever increasing pace. The stress of technological and economic upheaval, of climate change disruption, of spiritual dislocation and beyond, keeps offering us a new world to live in -- every few minutes. What kind of garden can we create from all of what we live in today? What is our "home world"? And how can we create our home world in the here and now?<br />
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The last two years have been the most joyous of my life. Not easy, but joyous. I stopped trying to "fit in" to anybody's picture of who or what I am or where I could go. I determined to do my own research and find my own pathway. I gave up trying to be "normal" and I gave up trying to even understand all of what it is I am called to do. I honor that which is mine to do and let go of all the rest. And in that is the greatest joy.<br />
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Specifically, I set aside time to do research every day. I set up a team of non-traditional "thesis advisers" to assist in the research, loosely following a set of suggestions from Machaelle Small Wright of the <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/index.cfm">Perelandra Center for Nature Research</a> on how to become a <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Co-Creative_Science_P5C3.cfm">Co-Creative Scientist</a>. I use a <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Conings_W68.cfm">Coning</a> as the energetic structure to talk with the team. <a href="http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Kinesiology_W73.cfm">Kinesiology</a> (muscle testing) is the tool for refining and developing the intuitive insight that is my major communication link with this team.<br />
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And I set up a series of health practices. One of my maxims is<br />
<blockquote>Your health practice must meet and match and balance your expansion practice in every way.</blockquote>The expansion practice is where I train and develop myself to do that which only I can do. To expand is an act of Will and of Courage in the face of life's Challenges. Healing is the Grace with which the universe responds. Only one small part of what there is for me to do has never been done. For the rest, I can relax. I can let myself receive healing as a gift. I can allow myself to see and feel and appreciate the multitude of things that happen every day to adjust the balance and the flow as the universe and I spiral around each other in our eternal dance. And I can get good at it.<br />
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In this series of posts, then, I want to<br />
<blockquote>Feel the joy. Write the joy. Live the joy.</blockquote>I want to meet these friends and lovers where they need to be and where they are. I want to give and love and serve, and to have that love show up in the writing.<br />
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And so, I leave off with a simple prayer.<br />
<blockquote>I choose Life. Amen.</blockquote>grokkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710434671990680883noreply@blogger.com1