Wisdom Connections

During our May meeting we explored how to call or name what we experience as God/Goddess/The All; or the “Nameless” who as soon as we name “them” become less than what we are trying to talk about…as from the Tao: “The Name that becomes a name is not the immortal Name…”

Synchronistically/serendipitously on May 9 I listened in on a first ever webcast by Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber. Much of this four hour discussion was on the “three faces of god.” As a follow-up Cohen’s organization “enlightennext” is addressing each of the three faces on separate tele-calls, and they are using the material from the May 9 event. The first of these calls was last Thursday, May 21; the next call is this Thursday, May 28; and I presume the third call (on the third face) will be on June 4. Here is the link:

http://www.enlightennext.org/webcast/index.php?ecp=wc-052809&q=audio-us

This takes you to a recording of last week’s call on the “First Face of God”; from there you can navigate to the rest of the website and future webcasts.

I highly recommend the time to listen to these brilliant and forward thinking men discuss the evolution of consciousness in the context of the “god experience.” Enjoy!

On this Memorial Day we, as a country, honor those who have served in the Military Services, especially those who have died in service to the country.

It can also be a time to look at yourself and your life and ask yourself if there’s any part of yourself that died in service to a cause that might not have been yours.  Did the teachers in elementary school tell you what was right for you when some part of your inner being wanted to be something else?  Did family or friends try to shut down a part of you that wanted expression?  How about a boss who forced you to do something you felt uneasy about but felt you had to do to conform?

Society, TV, peers, families, churches, schools all ask us to form ourselves around some structure that they have defined as ‘the norm’ and we all do it at the time because it is expedient.  Often times it also keeps us safe.

But as adults we have options.  We can make choices about who we are, how we express ourselves.  What are you doing or being that now, in the light of all you have learned, might not be the expression of your essence?  Who would you be if you were a pure expression of the essence that is you?  What part of you has been ‘sleeping’, waiting for you to say, ‘Wake up and play!’?

Instead of mourning a loss of a part of self, let’s use today to find that part that we THOUGHT was dead and buried and resurrect it.  Let’s take a minute or two and ask ourselves if we can now give ourselves permission to express our essence in the world we live in.  Maybe now it’s safe to be whoever we truly are.

What part of you wants to hear, ‘Wake up and play!’?  Let’s bring that inner part out to play today!

Hello, all!  What a wonderful week it has been since our last gathering!  Thanks for all the heartfelt sharing.

The Shack is by William P. Young.  It is an interesting novel, like The Celestine Prophecy, that steers us into an understanding that there’s a lot going on around us and in us that some have tried to squelch by confining those experiences to a ‘truth according to them’. Eileen, your post was eloquently stating what this Spiritual Exploration Group is all about – there is so much to explore that it is not useful to constrict the exploration by declaring something as True with a capital T.  All we can ever say is what we believe to be true for us at a given moment.  And if we keep ourselves in the posture of exploration, we will always be open to new discoveries.

Isn’t it exciting to be in the place where we don’t have to have all the answers?  And the Field of All Possibilities is still in front of us?  I love this space!