It’s not that there is nothing happening to us. There is something happening in our world all the time. But the main event for a person who is truly free is creation, and the intensity that is felt is the power for that creation.

Personally, I am seeking more intensity in my life, not less. When I reflect on my world and all that I am about and what is happening in my world, I want to bring an intensity of current—greater love, greater penetration of whatever is not true, greater penetration of the darkness to bring light.

Intensity gets dangerous for people when they are attempting to avoid it. What the person often doesn’t realize is that the primary intensity they are feeling is from within them, not from other people or circumstances. The creative spirit within them sees the circumstance, however it may be evolving, and wants to have a creative influence upon it. That creative spirit demands entry into the person so that it can move through them and act in the world. If you attribute the pressure your own spirit is bringing to you to other people and circumstances, you stop the creative process. And attempting to avoid that pressure and intensity, you may be unwittingly attempting to avoid the flow of your own creative spirit. Of course, the ultimate avoidance of intensity in this way is death.

If a person feels intensity and doesn’t understand that it is related to the creative spirit within them that wants out, then they may miss the opportunity to participate in that flow. They may not see that the creative current within them needs a way to ground in the world. Electrical current is far safer if it is grounded. So is the spiritual current within a person. So if there is great creative intensity working through you, you have to have a way of grounding that intensity, of putting it to good use, of living your life in a way that manifests that intensity with integrity.

Often people believe that spirituality is good, that they will live a better life if they pursue their spirituality. That’s only true if they find a way to ground that spirituality. If you truly are opening up to the current of universal love, you are plugging into an amazing power. You are welcoming that current into your being. When you do, it is looking for a creative way to ground, to manifest in your life. And it will do you no good if it isn’t grounded.

Whatever spiritual opening there is in a human life has to be matched by integrity in the world, which grounds the universal current that has increased in the human capacity. The integrity that is needed is the whole and accurate expression of the current of universal love. That’s what lets the power within us flow out, unadulterated and unchanged. Yes, maybe transformed, so that it can be in this world through human form, but still unadulterated, uncorrupted by any preoccupation with drama.

Today, there are people around the world, performing a spiritual act together. We are coming together. We have come together, not in physical space but in a space in consciousness. We have come together energetically. That experience is both a state of being and a conscious choice. We have come together for a particular reason—to let the spirit within us collectively address the world as it is.

Do you believe you have that power in consciousness to connect with people around the world and come together with them energetically? I know I do. I prove it to myself when I travel and meet people in various parts of the world. But conscious energetic connection doesn’t depend on travel. So knowing I have the ability to connect in this way, I know that you do too. Even if you haven’t yet found that capacity in yourself, I know you have it, and I know we have it collectively.

In this moment, as you read these words, I invite that coming together. To evoke that experience, think of the story of Pentecost. It is fresh in my mind because on Sunday, May 19^th, I was invited by Clive Larsen to offer the sermon in his church in North Reddish, England, on Pentecost. The occasion celebrates a biblical story of 120 people that were in what was described as an upper room after Jesus’ ascension. They came together in one accord and in one place. And, coming together, a process unfolded whereby universal love became real to them in an immediate way. Could we, as people around the world right now, come together with one accord in one place? That requires that we leave behind whatever is in our past. That past will go wherever the past goes and wherever memories go. We are not booting it out with dishonor. There is a way to set down the past that is honorable, with gratitude to it for bringing us to this place and time so that we can be fully present here and now, fully present in spirit, with an open heart available to join with others.

Magnifying creative spiritual energy with other people, what I find is that this work can’t be done without an open heart. There is no way to be a powerful source of unconditional love with a heart that is shut down, that is tied up with the drama of the past. So we are present here and now to let go of all that. To whatever has brought us to this place, “Thank you.” We are released to be fully present here and now. And being fully present, we are released to be with one another, heart to heart, being to being, gathering together with people around the world. Wherever people are awakening spiritually, our hearts can be available to them right now, so that together we can create a collective crucible, a collective vessel that creates a home for good, clean, and healthy intensity—not intensity that’s going to fry our circuits but intensity that we agree to ground in our living.

The depth of our own heart, the depth of our own communion and our own openness, allows us to receive a depth of current from within ourselves, each of us individually and then all of us together. In that, we are being empowered from within to receive healing. Healing is born out of integrity with the current of universal love that flows from within us. Experiencing that flow personally, we have that to bring to our world. We become empowered to manifest it in our life, giving birth to forms that embody it, each in our own individual ways and then all of us together.

My recent experience of sharing the current of universal love includes traveling in England, Wales, Norway and Holland with Ruth Buckingham and Phil Richardson on our Practical Spirituality Tour.We affectionately called it “Trains, Planes and Automobiles.” It was great to meet new people in many places and go to spiritual depth with them. Our experience included travel adventures, including finding ourselves in Heathrow Airport for ten hours after it had been shut down for a time on May 24^th following the emergency landing of a jet. Our travel included a train ride to Voss, Norway, to be with Kari Bye and friends. That part of our journey took us alongside a rushing river swollen with spring snowmelt. Altogether, our tour was an experience of being in the world, and it made me think about my life and then about what we are about together.

Sometimes at Sunrise Ranch, where I live, we have said that it’s a place set apart, and in some way it is. But more and more, the world is coming to us. We have the Arise Music and Camping Festival at Sunrise Ranch on August 14^th, for about five days, and the world will definitely be coming then. So if it is a place set apart, it will be set apart for a lot of people. We are in the world, even if we have been a little “out of the way.”

My recent experience leads me to ask this question: How about this recipe as a fulfilling life? Be as far out there in the world as you can go. Enter your world as deeply as possible and with as much breadth as possible, and bring as much of a gift to that world as you could possibly bring. And then, at the same time, holding the other end of the spectrum of experience, open up to the highest and the most beautiful, the most gorgeous reality of being that is within you, and open as deeply and as profoundly as you can to that inner reality. Then let that inner reality flow through yourself out into that furthest reach of the world in which you live, receiving back what comes, however it comes; receive it into yourself and offer it all the way up, as high as it wants to go.

That is a recipe for allowing our humanity to be cracked open, because definitely you and I would have to come totally out of our human drama to be up for this one. We have to be totally at the service of that which could come through us and could change this world in which we live. We have to be committed to integrity in action that grounds the spiritual current to which we have opened.

Spiritually awake people are coming together for this. This is what we are doing with people around the globe—opening to the highest vibration of universal love and letting that penetrate the world. We are taking this process to its ultimate conclusion, which is the total transmutation of the human experience. This is the Pentecost experience.

There are the more personal dimensions of my life and of all our lives. There is a closer-in reality than the world-at-large, and there is no skipping over the things that are closer in.But what if the immediate things that come to us are all part of this opportunity to bring the profound gift that we have to bring to the world? What if we see the immediate events of our life as the world-at-large coming to be with us to receive this gift?

We come together in one place with one accord to be about exactly this: opening up to higher and higher ranges and awareness of being, so that we are clearer and clearer in our attunement with those ranges. And therefore that reality is coming through us in a more and more lucid way, in a clearer way, in a more spiritually empowering way, in a wiser way, in a more intelligent way, in a way that has greater perspective and then greater reach into our world.

Maureen Waller and I are currently in South Australia at the Riverdell Spiritual Centre, with Andrew and Lyell Horwood and friends. I don’t know Maureen’s age, but she is older than me anyway. Many people her age have retired, not only from their vocation but from life itself. She got on a plane and went halfway across the world because she knows she has a message of import and of value to bring, and she knows that she has nothing better to do in her life than that. I’m so proud to be traveling with Maureen and to be offering this gift with her.

This past Saturday, 33 people joined us for an in-depth exploration of our spiritual journey entitled Change: Navigating Life Transitions.We will be offering a four-day Practical Spirituality workshop on Saturday, in which we will be assisting people, first of all, to have a large vision of who they are and what their life is about, and then assist them with the practicality of what it means to receive universal love and act with integrity around what they have received.

We are very serious about bringing what we have to bring to the larger world. For me personally, I have no great need to travel—I don’t think Maureen does, or Ruth and Phil. But I am interested in acting with integrity and effectiveness to bring to the world what is mine and ours to bring, to the highest of my ability now. I believe that’s the calling of each one of us. I propose to you that our greatest spirituality is in allowing this great spectrum of experience to be had by us, from the outermost to the innermost, from the deepest to the highest. That could be the most spectacular, the most magical, the most ecstatic way to live a life. That could be the fulfillment of why you are here, and why I am here.

When this is our experience, we are on fire with people around the globe who are sharing this magnificent experience. I am on fire with those who share this sacred agreement, who lock arms and join hearts to be together in one collective field of consciousness, saying yes, we are here for this. We are on fire together. It is the fire of love that warms and holds us together and forges one body of love on earth. It is that fire of love that is what we are bringing to the world. It brings a blessing and brings the light that is inherent in that fire.

So whoever you are and wherever you may be, you may not be traveling the globe on planes, trains and automobiles, but you’ve got the world that is yours to touch and to bless. And your challenge, like mine, is to be open enough to receive the highest reality within you and to have the courage, the determination and the commitment to bring that internal reality into your world. You have that gift to give. And if you ever forget that you do, just let me know, and I’ll remind you. We have that gift to give.

So thank you for being together today, for communing with me and with friends around the world in this openhearted space where we share together this sacred agreement. And if there is any kind of faltering or any kind of misunderstanding, any kind of failure along the way, we can just forgive ourselves and others and let that fade into the past, and then recommit. We are here for this.

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The Most Spectacular Way to Live

There are changes here at Glen Ivy, also unprecedented, and also signifying major change in this ministry. So I’m not interested in denial that this is so and I’m not interested in hearing that centuries ago we went through similar weather patterns. I’m interested in “What am I doing in this day with this intensity?”

It is said in the 91st Psalm: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” That’s where we belong at times like this. And actually, I would say, if we’d had the wisdom we wouldn’t have left in the first place. My friend Ruth Buckingham recently gave me some cocktail napkins printed with the words “Will whoever is raising the high bar give it a rest?” I don’t want to be giving it a rest! I don’t. We worked for this; we came for this. We came to bring and handle this intensity.

At the same time as all these dramatic events are going on around the world, and in our personal lives—I don’t know about you, but I sure have some—there are magical things occurring. There are magical things occurring spiritually on the planet, with the raising of consciousness that’s going on in all kinds of ways. I remember back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a slogan used: “Consciousness-raising.” I think someone had realized there was this surge of something pushing to come through.

The “something” that was pushing to come through was reality. We’ve been living in this man-made, mind-made world for millennia; and we came to do something about that. We came to remember and to do something about that.

So I would ask myself the question: What is the job of conscious people at this point? It’s actually always been the same job. When things seemed to be all nice and easy and flowing, and there were not too many dramas and minimal intensity, we tended to relax and forget. I don’t believe that’s what is required now. I think we all need to be on the job; we all need to be on duty. That was always so. And when times of intensity come, then we really know that it is so. This is no time to be falling apart. It’s no time to be inconsistent. It’s a time to actually celebrate the fact that what we came for is happening. We have had lots of training, and this is what the training was for—to be consistent when the heat comes on, to be steady, and to be a “still point in the turning world,” as it has been said—at a time when the world really, really needs us.

And as is said in the William Stafford poem A Ritual to Read to Each Other, “It is important that awake people be awake.” So it’s important that we be alert at times like this. I’ve noticed, here at Glen Ivy and further field, that there has been an increase of accidents. This is not coincidence. This is the intensity coming on. We need to be alert; we need to be cautious but not fearful. We need to be prudent. We need to watch.

So there is the need for alertness, the need to be on duty, to be present, to be conscious, to be all the things that we have the training to do. All of these things are being called for in this day. And, along with this, there is plenty of man-made drama. We have the choice of buying into the man-made drama or of acknowledging that as consciousness is rising, as truth is putting in an appearance on the planet, other things are going to be displaced. And guess what the other things are? They aren’t going to be God’s things. They’re going to be the humanly created mind-made things that need to get out of the way to allow reality to put in an appearance, without our ideas and opinions. We may think “That’s not right—that doesn’t work for me.” Whatever it is, get that out of the way and see what magic will occur as a result.

Years ago, a friend said to me, “Heaven is just stuffed with things waiting to come through, if only we’d let them.” So I considered “Why do we not let them?” And the way I would sum that up is that there is an attitude of “I want what I want when I want it and in the way that I want it.” That’s not God’s way. Who is it that’s speaking? That’s not the angel incarnate who came to do something on this planet towards restoring it to balance. That’s coming from a consciousness that thinks it knows. That’s a mind that thinks it knows, that thinks it has the whole picture, which actually is camouflage for self-serving the self-centered identity.

So when what we think we need doesn’t happen, and what we actually need shows up, do we ignore it or disapprove of it and mentally tap our foot, waiting for God to comply with our wishes?

We say we’re interested in unconditional love. In the past I’ve seen unconditional love as being my attempt to love everybody in my world, no matter what. And there is nothing wrong with that—there is something real and true about that. But I had a realization that actually love itself is unconditional. We cannot place conditions on love. That’s the mind trying to control the power that is running everything. That’s not going to work. It just isn’t going to work because it cannot work.

But thankfully there is all kinds of room to change our attitude. It requires trust. As things rev up, as things get intense, trust can be in short supply, because some of the effects of the intensity will directly impact us, and each one can say that. So what? I’m held in the arms of love. It is true that I am, and it is the only place where I can safely place my trust and come to rest.

I remembered a quote last night from Isaiah 55, verses 8 and 9, that I think sums up how it really works:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

That’s clear, I think. I can’t see any other way to interpret that than as it is put there. Have you ever had the experience of a thought coming into your head that you hadn’t consciously been thinking about? Something that just popped in? I have this regularly—I enjoy it too—and I can’t claim credit for how clever I was to dream up this thought. This thought lands in me and I know it’s true. I do believe that thoughts of that sort, if they’re accurate and true and they carry the essence of love, are coming from that place that was described in those two verses. And I also believe that it is my job to let those thoughts come in, to let them come through me and the consequence of them manifest on this planet through me. Not only do I believe that’s my job, I believe we all signed on for that.

So I want to return to magic. Magic is real for me. I see it every day. But the only way I can see it is if I keep myself from dwelling in the drama, the intensity, the judgments, and all of those things that get in the way of the thoughts that need to be there that are creative. They are of the creative process, they are trustworthy, and they are true.

Magic. You never know what’s going to happen. That’s my experience. That’s where I go, and that’s where the real drama, the true drama, the creative drama is, in allowing that magic to appear through me. I don’t have to make it up—it is going to come through if I let it come through. Let us reveal the heavenly story moving through the intensity and power of unconditional love.

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Magic and Intensity

Later the minister said, “In human form, this kind of agreement can be difficult, because there will be things that will come your way that will try to enter into the space of that agreement, the space where you said, ‘Yes, we’ll keep this safe.’ Something else might try to get in there, and you have to protect that space and keep it a home for love.”

The other day I had a dinner party where I made spaghetti for all the people who watch my cat when I’m out of town, and they all happen to have kids. So this morning, as a result of the sense of safety felt by these children, there were two six-year-olds up in my tree, three three-year-olds on my porch swing, and a two-year-old riding her Big Wheel on my porch with roly-polies in the back of it. And I thought, I’m not sure I wanted to be that safe; they are taking over my home!

When you hold a place of safety, things want to come and be with you. And it’s not just children. It’s ideas, it’s projects, it’s people. And it is important to figure out how to continue to be trustworthy, how to sustain a clear loving atmosphere, how to be the kind of person that someone knows they can trust is holding a world with them.

This week I was reading the Reader’s Digest, which this month happens to be all about trust. Listed within are “The One Hundred Most Trusted People in America.” Do you want to guess who’s number one? Tom Hanks. Second, Sandra Bullock; third, Denzel Washington; fourth, Meryl Streep; fifth, Maya Angelou. Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates, Alex Trebek (he’s not even American; he’s Canadian), Melinda Gates and Julia Roberts top off the top ten. All I can say is wow, because when I speak about trust, I don’t know how that is achieved if you don’t have a real experience with the person. Would you trust Tom Hanks to hold a sacred space? I think he seems like a really nice guy. He’s done some great movies and his interviews reveal him to be a substantial man. But when I’m talking about trust, I’m talking about my life. I’m really talking about someone to whom I could bring what’s unfinished into their atmosphere and know it will be held and blessed and lifted up. Someone who I know holds their own integrity, no matter what. I don’t think any of those ten people have proved any of that to me personally. The idea that someone would vote for that person is just so intriguing. I guess it was a bit of a setup even asking the question. Somewhere else in the issue it reveals that people put their doctor at the top of the list and yet elsewhere it states we trust TV doctors more than our own.

This Monday was Memorial Day here in the United States. Originally, it was called Memorial Day to honor those who gave their lives in serving this country. It currently honors all those who have served. This country has stood for something high and fine. It was founded on principles of freedom and possibility. It was Benjamin Franklin’s declaration that this country be a beacon of light to the world. So many of the people who fought and died for this country were doing something honorable in the giving of their lives to sustain the freedom of those who live in the United States.

Today I’d also like to remember the people who lived their life in integrity so that I might find out what it’s like to be a real woman in the presence of people who hold the space of integrity and truth and love—the people who did not let anything else violate their agreement to keep their living sacred. In doing so, I touched someone who was living in that sacred agreement, that kind of service, and felt that vibration. I could feel within me the cells of my being that remembered. I had come here on this earth and forgotten, but something was kept alive in their living that made it possible for me to remember.

The name of this holiday, Memorial Day, might make you feel like we are living in the past, because the word memory implies that. So I would like to call it Honoring Day. May my life be an honoring of those who went before me. May I live an honorable life in integrity to carry forth the legacy of anyone who has ever done that, ever. I may never have met them, but in their decision to keep their highest agreements sacred and to live in their integrity, they affected my life.

There is an idea that many people have, that they’d like to find the Garden of Eden. They think of it as some kind of Shangri-La, so that if you could just find the right GPS coordinates you could get there. The fact is that the Garden of Eden is an experience, and you enter that experience when you know the magic words: I surrender. I surrender to the truth of who I am, and I live my life in integrity. Then you enter in. And the only person who can throw you out is yourself. To sustain the experience, you must continue to surrender to the holy spirit within you. You must serve unconditional love and protect the agreement to do so at all costs.

A friend of mine once said if you take a person who lives in a beautiful home and put him in a rundown house, it will become a beautiful home. And if you take someone who has let their yard and their house become run down and put them in a palace, it too will fall apart. The Garden of Eden works the same way. If you bring it, it appears. If you violate it, it goes away.

So how do you create heaven on earth? How do you keep the Garden safe so that life might be there more abundantly? You must commit to serve unconditional love and be trustworthy to that agreement. So when we decide that we will sustain what it takes to live in Paradise, to surrender to the truth of ourselves and not let anything in to violate it, Paradise appears. When we keep that experience pristine, it becomes a womb of love and truth, so that life might actually come, and we live in a glorious kingdom. As a result, power builds amongst the people. The Garden serves those who have surrendered to the truth of who they are. And so the kingdom builds up power amongst those people. It is a powerful place to live. You create in that place. You are the Almighty representation in that garden. And then what happens? Glory upon glory.

People think glory happens because somebody gives it to them. I have never known any glory that sustained itself that was not a result of my serving, my creating from a sacred place of love and agreement. Glory is created from the powerful experience within the clear and beautiful sustained experience of the Garden. That glory is shared amongst people who sustain their agreement to bring it.

In my life, there has been a lot of time dedicated to building and then rebuilding because I didn’t know how to sustain, or I let negative elements in. Anybody let things in that violated your space? Bad relationships? Friends who took over? Bad ideas? Bad habits? Bad thinking? Whatever it is, it comes in for a visit and you give it a room—and it takes over. So you have to clean house and you have to do that cycle again to rebuild. Thankfully, the entire house is usually not ruined. But I am ready to build and sustain, from glory to glory.

Here is my prayer. Let me honor all the people who have given their lives to what I serve. May my living honor the legacy they have given me. And may the way I am as your friend be a constant invitation to a safe place for you. Let me sustain my sacred agreement.

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Sacred Agreement

For most of my life, I have been in the practice of attending a worship service once a week on Sunday morning. I grew up in a Unitarian Church. For years afterward, I attended services of Emissaries of Divine Light conducted by others, and for many years now I have led services myself weekly.

This past Sunday, I offered the sermon at the Anglican Church in North Reddish England, outside of Manchester. The vicar is Clive Larsen, a gifted man with the courage and creativity to re-imagine the experience of worship. He has brought surprising innovation and great vigor to the very loving group of people who gather with him. On Sunday, there was a time in the service for an exchange of greetings, and I felt such warmth and love, particularly from the elder women of the congregation. They gave me great hugs and spoke to me, “Peace be with you,” with the rich accent of the people of Manchester. And my friend, Tessa Maskell, and I had the glorious opportunity to offer a laying on of hands to people as part of the communion ceremony, as Clive served the wine and literally broke the bread he had made in his bread maker the day before.

The weekly cycle of worship on Sunday is another kind of coming home for me. That home may be housed in a church, or some other sacred site. The Dome at Sunrise Ranch is a beautiful structure, and the church in North Reddish evokes a sense of the sacred. But the sense of home I am speaking about is not dependent on those buildings. It is a coming home to what is most real in oneself and in all people.

My last service at Sunrise Ranch was on Mother’s Day. I can’t imagine the presence of real home without motherhood. And if we’re talking about spiritual home, we are talking about the presence of Mother God. I felt that reality in the Dome at Sunrise Ranch. I knew that we were together in the heart of the Mother that morning, and we could feel and sense and know that great heart as the morning progressed. We felt ourselves surrounded by Her love, which surrounds all living things.

Our life is lived in a circle. That circle is an orbit that has us experiencing creation, and all the wonder, excitement and challenge of creation. Our experience of creation as human beings includes the opportunity for our own growth, our own healing, our own learning and development. It is so essential that in that process we have the homing instinct, that we allow our own longing for home to be high in our heart, that we allow it to bring us home to the reality of who we are and home to the heart of the Great Mother.

Our whole life cycle is like that. But a week is like that too. A week can be our opportunity for a creative process in seven days. The celebration of the Sabbath is a celebration of our opportunity to come home and to keep returning home. In that experience, we are imbued with the reality of home and we have it to give into the creative process—to all people that we meet, to all the challenges that we face, to all growing things, we can bring that spirit of home. Being at home, the creative fire within us has a place where it is nourished and blessed. The reality of the Mother of all Being loves who we are at our core.

The job of a healthy human being is to truly come home, to keep coming home and, in doing so, to know these things about themselves. The truth is that you are loved. The truth is that the creative wisdom and power within you is loved. And you have that to give.

What I notice is that people look at the course of their lives—they look at what’s happened to them or they look at what they have done, and they have feelings about that, one way or another. Oftentimes, people have shame about having been treated badly by another person. That shame can come with the thought, however irrational, that they must have deserved it. Or a person may feel shame about something they themselves have done that in hindsight is not all of what it could be. Do you ever catch yourself in a moment and notice those feeling states entering into your experience?

Here is what I know about this kind of shame: it is very likely to be the cause of another negative experience, because if you are living in that reality, you will be acting out of that reality. You’ll be inflicting it upon yourself and on other people and upon your world. You may think that you feel shame because of your past experience, and that may be a factor. But shame can also be the cause of experience. It may have caused your past experience, and it could cause negative experiences in the future.

So if you are feeling shameful about yourself, let it go. It is not a virtue, and it is categorically not true of who you are. Shame creates another kind of orbit. Instead of an orbit between home and creation, shame creates an orbit between the feeling of shame and the experiences that confirm it. That orbit creates a descending cycle in your life.

The ascending cycle begins with coming home. It begins with knowing that the power and wisdom of love within you is good, and it is blessed. You are that, and you have that to give. And to give it is good for your world and for you. If you do give this gift that is within you, you may have to endure mistakes that you make; you may have to endure other people not liking you for whatever reason; you may have to endure learning how to do things better; and you may have to endure your own growing. But I can promise you that you will get back the confirmation of your own glory and the very glory of what life is. This is the path of fulfillment and life.

Shame is a self-fulfilling prophecy. But so is coming home. In coming home ourselves, we are inviting the whole world to come home. We are inviting all people to be themselves and to know that the truth of who they are is a blessing, that the Great Mother doesn’t care about your failings. She doesn’t care about your mistakes. That’s not the business She is in. She loves the truth of you.

We as humanity have the privilege and the honor of being the embodiment of that spirit, of being the embodiment of the Great Mother. As we are, the cosmic Father is present also. The cosmic Father is welcome here. The cosmic Father, which is the power of unconditional love within all people, is welcome here.

Do you think our world needs this? If you think of the people closest to you in your life, and then go on out as far as you want to go—to your community, your country and to the whole world—is there a need to know this experience? Is there evidence that people have lost their ability to come home? Can’t all the issues of humanity be traced back to this?

Some might say that this is a mushy issue, or a soft issue. I say this is the hardest issue facing humanity and that all other issues stem from this. From the largest geopolitical issue, to wars around the world, issues of the environment, issues of nations, communities and families, and personal lives near and far, it comes right down to this. And if we don’t fix this issue personally and assist other people to heal this in themselves, so that they come home and release their shame, all our other efforts may be in vain.

For many of us, we are about great projects in all kinds of ways—careers, families, organizations and creations of all sorts. In all of that, let’s do this. If you can assist the people near to you in your life to let go of their shame and find their way home, you will have done them a great favor. And in the process, you will have begun to invite the whole world home. You will have become the spirit of the Great Mother, embodied through a human being who has received Her love for themselves.

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Inviting the Whole World Home

Unconditional love through a human being brings the presence of the divine. And where there are friends who accept for themselves the attitude of love itself, which is unconditional, there is an attractive force that draws to itself everything that resonates with that spirit, and sets aside everything that does not.

As that is our choice, we have the privilege of being friends who know the bonds of love between us and among us. Love is no respecter of persons. It is an honoring of the beingness that comes through people, but that’s a different matter. It is not personal, ultimately. And ultimately our love and our friendships with each other are not to be taken personally—not when they go well and not when they go poorly. Love is no respecter of persons. Love is a transcendent, universal presence. It is a cosmic presence to be found in the smallest dimensions of being and in the farthest galaxy. And it is present in a very special way through a human being when that human being accepts the attitude of unconditional love.

Unconditional love is an acceptance of our oneness with all of being. All of being is love. And then in our own life that we live day to day, we have the opportunity to walk the path of love. That path of love has us move in the world of form—the people, the events and all the realities of our life every day. And while we are one with the power of love that’s behind all those forms, in fact we are directly in touch with a small minutia of the totality of what is available on Planet Earth. We are present in a place that is a minute fraction of all the places on Planet Earth. We meet a minute fraction of the seven billion people on our planet. By choosing to be where you are, you have chosen not to be anyplace else. And in meeting the relatively small number of people you will meet in your life, you are choosing not to meet all the other people on the planet.

As we walk through life, there is the way that opens up before us. It is the way of love, and in that way there is a big yes. There is a big light that greets us. We could call it our future—our future is coming to us. Our future is bright, and it is always so when we are walking in the way of love. That future is opening up before us as we keep walking, as we keep stepping toward it.

While we are taking those steps towards what is opening up before us, we are walking past a thousand-thousand noes. And that is what it’s like to live a human life. You and I have the world around us saying no to us all the time: “No, you can’t do this. No, you can’t go there; that’s not open to you. No, you can’t have this. You might have it tomorrow, but you cannot have it now. It’s not yours now.”

There is something that is yours. It may be another person; it may be a whole community of people. That is the true love. It is what’s opening up for you to be embraced. As David Whyte so beautifully said in his poem The Truelove, “…and you’ll walk across any territory, any darkness, however fluid and however dangerous, to take the one hand”—and the one life—“you know belongs in yours.” There is a life that belongs to us and that is coming to us, which is rightly ours. It is what is right before you and coming to you to be embraced.

And there is that which is not yours and is not opening to you. That is a shut door. If you try to go in that door, you’ll be in a place you do not belong. You’ll be with someone or someones that you don’t belong with. You’ll be in a situation that is not yours to be in, that does not belong to you. You have no business being there on the other side of all those shut doors. And it’s a waste of your time and mine to be banging at the doors that are not meant to open, fussing about that door and then, in the process, neglecting to walk down our path of love and greeting what does belong to us, and that to which we belong—failing to walk across the territory before us and take the one hand and the one life you know belongs in yours.

Why should we fret about the noes in our life? Why should we park outside a closed door, when there’s an open path in front of us that leads to goodness, to fulfillment, to wonder and beauty and the knowing of love? We have to stop being ourselves to bang on a door that is not meant to open for us. We have to lose our integrity to do that, the integrity of unconditional love.

That unconditional love unfolds something in our experience step-by-step. Our life is a process of unfoldment. Things open up. We spiral higher and higher. We touch higher and higher essences of love in the living of a life if we keep walking that path. We enter into a fuller knowing of light.

This path is the path of attunement. Attunement can’t be reduced to something that one person offers to another, although it is applicable in the interchange between two people. The path of attunement is this unfoldment of unconditional love in a person who welcomes their life and accepts the noes that come to them. Such a person is in fuller and deeper attunement with the source of their own being as they continue on that path. And because they are on that path, they implicitly invite other people to have the same experience.

When we find that future and that reality that we belong to and that belongs to us, we are in position to invite others to know that for themselves. We are in position to invite another person to walk the path of attunement, the path of unfolding unconditional love. That is the true path for any person, and it is individual and unique to each one of us. And yet, in the magic of love, in the magic of life, we have the privilege of finding that we are together and that we belong to one another, that you belong to me and I to you, as we walk that path. There could be no deeper joy, no greater fulfillment, than this.

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The Path of Attunement

Attunement is an energy medicine practice as well as a way of life, and it is used as a healing modality by people. This morning, on the front page of The Denver Post, I saw this article. “Mother Theresia Bonzel, who founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Olpe, Germany, in 1863, is scheduled for beatification in November—a step towards sainthood—as a result of a boy’s miraculous recovery.”

I think every attunement server needs to be up for beatification. The story is dramatic—this young boy was sick for six months; he was four years old. Two nuns did a nine-day novena, asking for Mother Theresia to intervene, and the boy miraculously was well. I’m not sure why the nuns who did the nine-day novena weren’t offered beatification, but they were praying to this particular nun who was deceased. And there was a healing. Here is another comment from the article: “The situation or illness doesn’t have to be terminal or even dramatic. The cure simply has to be rapid, complete and utterly inexplicable by ordinary means.” Attunement!

I think this is the magic of attunement. It can be rapid, complete and inexplicable to the human mind. It magnifies cosmic love current moving through the human body, so that it might be made whole, so that it might know life, so that it might be able to express life in its natural design through the human experience. I’m not in any way mocking the process of beatification. In the Catholic Church this is a way they acknowledge miraculous things, or things they can’t explain. So at least it’s noted that something happened that’s inexplicable to the way the world has been seen to work. Someone is seeing something.

Many of us have shared long-distance attunements, where the person or situation that is being offered the attunement is not in the same room. Someone we know or someone with whom we have connection is receiving this loving cosmic current without even being present. I have heard reports that an individual may feel the presence of angels or of light. They often have a sense of ease or of love and support. What they are experiencing—whether it’s pain, grief, a medical procedure, or life’s pressure—is met with a greater sense of ease and surround. Magic happens. A miracle? That’s the way life works. That’s the way humanity is designed to work. We embody the cosmic love within and magnify that when we consciously do it together. I know many people who have said, “I have felt held in love and I don’t know where it came from.” It is inexplicable in earthly measure. There is no traceable line or mental process to explain where that love came from or how it got there.

You don’t have to join this convent, Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, to participate in miracles. For an attunement server, the idea of being in perpetual adoration is probably a natural state. It is an adoration of how life works…perpetually! Never ending or changing. Not when you need it, not when it’s convenient, not when you remember. There is a process of being conscious and staying conscious. I am alive, and I am in perpetual adoration of the life current moving through me. I perpetually bring the cosmic current of love.

In that experience we see how life works. I am surprised by the number of people who have learned how life works—it brings joy, it brings majesty, it brings pressure, it brings wonder and miracles—and then when they step out of that experience of the current of life they feel miserable, lonely, sad, angry, and blame something or someone outside themselves for the result. They took themselves out of the current of love. They may even try bargaining with life: “I will be back in the attunement current when this person apologizes or when things get better.” Boy, does that give the person who offended you or the circumstance a lot of power. And who are you serving? Who is paying the price?

I understand that at times we can lose our way and lose our positioning. I think holding each other in unconditional love allows the path back to be much easier. To be surrounded by people who know, remember and express this incredible design of how life works makes it easier for you to remember how you operate. We may lose our orientation because there is pressure in our lives. You may call it stress or tension. You may be in a part of the creative cycle where things are not clear. This is not decision-making time. This is holding-steady time. Stay in the attunement current and surround yourself with friends who know how this works. Let the miracle happen.

It may seem easier to blow off steam or take yourself out of that pressure. The pressure is a result of your creative cycle and it is building to serve that cycle. Leaving the process may result in some instant relief but it will be short-lived and unsatisfying. The process or cycle will have to begin again.

A good friend of mine once said if you are feeling pressure and don’t know what to do, don’t buy a house, don’t get married, don’t have a baby! It’s a long-term commitment decided at the wrong time. Wait—stay in the attunement current. Let the pressure build and reveal the glory round about.

I want to be totally responsible for my orientation. I really don’t want to spend my life apologizing for cycles I didn’t complete. I’m willing to work and wait and follow the rhythms of what will assist me to bring more of who I am and what I love. You may forget that you’re a child of the universe, animated by love, but that doesn’t mean you no longer are. The universe might be up there drumming its fingers, wondering where you went, wondering why you’ve left the party, but it doesn’t mean it’s left the party.

We are designed for greatness. Things come to us for transformation that may make us uncomfortable. Let them be transformed. Stay in the attunement current. There are things that bring you no joy. Let them go. Hold them in this perpetual current of cosmic love and let them go. Let the miracles happen. Let these changes happen rapidly, completely and utterly inexplicably by ordinary means. That is the power of cosmic love embodied in the human experience.

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Let Miracles Happen

Imagine that switch is somewhere deep in the recesses of your mind. You’ve come across it, and the problem is the arm is down and the circuit is not on. And you have a chance to do something about it.

But here is the rub. There is a big sign in front of the switch. The letters on the sign say “You did it.” Inherently you know the deeper meaning of the sign. It is that you have created your life experience as it is. Then you see below, in smaller letters, this statement: “You are doing it.”

There is a large, white pill sitting on the table next to the sign and you know that to swallow that pill is to accept the message on the sign.

You can imagine, seeing that switch in that condition and then seeing the sign and that pill, there might be some recoil. Being confronted with the idea that your current experience, with whatever suffering may be a part of it, is being created by you, you might think, “I’m getting out of here! I don’t want any piece of this. It is just too hard a pill to swallow, to believe that the responsibility for my experience doesn’t lie with anyone other than me.”

So a timid person would walk away, knowing that it seems to be a lot easier to believe that somebody else did it, or the world did it, or, if you’re religious, God did it. Your parents did it—they are easy targets; your school, your government, your teachers, your boss, your…whatever did it. There is a certain perverse satisfaction we get out of believing that somebody else made us live our life as it is. But there is only one problem: as long as we won’t swallow that pill and then grab on to that switch and accept responsibility that we are creating our lives, the circuit isn’t closed, and life current is unavailable to us—at least, in the magnitude and in the way that it’s meant to be for us as human beings. We’re not lit up.

So what happens if we are willing to swallow this bitter pill and accept that “I did it—I created this life”? We become empowered. We are talking empowerment here, because when you accept responsibility for what you have been doing and what you are creating, you can find out how you could do it differently. You can explore within yourself how you’ve habitually created the situations in your life. Then, with the current on, you can allow the necessary intensification of life current into your experience that reroutes the whole pattern, in yourself and in your life—that takes that habitual way of thinking and feeling and reorients it.

The life current that runs through our personal circuit can restructure our life. It can repolarize all the patterns and forms of our life. So if you want your life to reshape, you need to bring an intensification of that current. But as long as a person is not taking responsibility for their life, they can’t find the switch. They are wandering around, wondering why their life experience is what it is.

So as soon as you finish reading this paragraph, I invite you to stand up from where you may be sitting. Imagine that this huge switch is open before you, sitting in a horizontal position. See the sign between you and the switch, saying “You did it. You are doing it.” And then swallow the large, white pill that is your acceptance that you are responsible for your life. With that acceptance, step up boldly to the switch. Using your inherent strength, lift that switch until it is fully upright and engaged. Feel the current of your empowering life choice surge through your body, from your toes all the way up through you.

This power will reshape your life if you let it continue to flow. It will take the courage to face the heretofore hidden ways you have been choosing to live your life as you do. With that insight comes the opportunity to choose to create it differently.

Is this not real freedom? The freedom to be ourselves and the freedom to shape our lives and our world in the most creative way possible.

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Turning the Switch

So here we are with the seeds of love to plant, knowing that those seeds are bringing a new world. And where are you going to plant them? There is no choice but to plant them in the middle of an old world. If you think about a garden, when you till the ground in the spring, you are in the middle of the remains of last year’s harvest. There may be some corn stalks around; in the ground there may be the compost full of vegetable matter from last year that is still rotting. That is a good metaphor for how it is in the rest of our life. We are planting the seeds of a new world, and we are planting it in the middle of an old world.

That old world may be taken for granted by the people around you. In their minds, it may be a world that will never change. If you are bringing the seeds of love into that world, other people may look at you and wonder, “What are you doing?” They don’t feel or perceive or know the world of universal love within you, out of which that seed is coming. They see you planting the seed; they see that creative act or kind word that looks so small. You might be bringing a fresh idea or inspiration. It might be the tiny beginning of something. Someone else who sees you planting that seed might not have any idea what you are doing. In fact, they might think you are a little crazy. They might think you have grand delusions.

Isn’t that how it goes with anything great that you’ve ever done? Didn’t it start with something small, something seemingly insignificant? But if that small and insignificant thing contained within it the DNA of universal love, it is the seed of a new world. And you have to be confident enough, assured enough, so that you are not looking for confirmation from this old world around you, into which you’re planting this seed. This old world is the fertile ground for a new world.

But if you’re waiting for people in that old world to slap you on the back and tell you you’re doing a good job and this is really going to go, it’s never going to happen. When the garden is grown and people are eating the corn or whatever else it is that you’ve grown, they’ll be slapping you on the back then. It’ll be a rare person who acknowledges the seeds that you are sowing now.

Where does assurance and confidence come from? Initially it doesn’t come from other people, for the most part. In fact, if you are depending on it ever from outside yourself, you are on shaky ground. But it is present within if you are willing to receive it.

A new world is present within you, just as surely as it is present within me. It is all there in seed form. And when we refer to that, and keep referencing it, we feel the assurance and confidence of its presence. We begin to sow those seeds. We are creating a new world.

Daphne Bramlett sent me a note with these words:

It occurs to me that the world can use a refresher on what love is and what it does.

The deeper I open to love I find that it demands more of itself in feeling, knowing and action. It seeks itself out in the next most powerful and true way. It will take the lead of our experience if we let it.

Love opens, explores, delves deeper, is not satisfied with assumptions and can turn everything inside out—mind, heart and body—in a moment of deeper recognition. Love wants nothing and is utterly free and can be completely relied upon.

Daphne says that love will take the lead of our experience. How many people you know are looking for that? Or are they looking for a tame kind of love, a pet love. A love they could take along by the leash and could be trained to act like they want it to act.

This is the myth of spirituality and the myth of what universal love is like. But is that really how it goes? I think Daphne has it right: “It will take the lead of our experience.” It will devastate our experience as it’s been. It will turn us inside out. It’ll break us open. It will shuck off the old and call out the new. It will call us to stop dying and start living. There is no real living without love. Without love, there is going through the motions. With universal love guiding our experience there is real life.

Here is more from Daphne’s note:

My heart is devastated with love, broken free again and again with the wonder of this love that I have within me and the deeper that I let it run through me with other people—no matter what—the more intense and awe-inspiring my life becomes and the more free it is truly in the arms of God.

It is the interchange between the body of consciousness we hold and the focus of love within us that creates spiritual power. We could turn our back on that presence, we could try to ignore it. Or we can face that reality within us and have this incredible interchange; this incredible hosting and welcoming of love. When it is welcomed it enters us in a new way, and it is lovely. It is energizing, it is renewing. It is dunamis, the power of the possible, that’s coming into us; the power to create a new world.

We can do that for ourselves, and we can do it between each other. When you meet the potential brought by universal love through another person, what do you do? Just yawn and look the other way? If the person is up for it, I love to embrace that reality in them and applaud it, cheer it, welcome it, usher it into the world, shout it from the rooftops. Nothing makes me more delighted than to receive that from another person.

Then it is your turn. It takes some courage and some daring to bring the seeds of possibility that you have to sow, and bring it to other people, knowing that it will change them, and knowing they may not appreciate that very much and may wonder what you are doing. Bring them anyway, because there is no other good way to live a life. Because we are here to sow the seeds of love that create a new world.

I invite you to visit our Pulse of Spirit Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/PulseOfSpirit?ref=hl) to share your experience of bringing the seeds of love in your life and in your world. And you also have the opportunity to be a raving fan when someone else brings those seeds in their own way.

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The Spiritual DNA of a New World

That was my experience at that time and at some point I had a look at it. I started to realise that I was confused in my “knowing,” because a lot of what my “knowing” was is what I now call “Secondhand Knowing.” I knew what I’d heard from other people, as opposed to what I call “Firsthand Knowing,” which is based on my own spiritual experience, my own spiritual exploration; finding answers to my own questions, my own discovery. This knowing is based on what it is to be in spiritual expression. Having been guided by, and been resonant with, others who have generated spiritual atmosphere and had some spiritual understanding, I found my own knowing.

I remembered a discussion some time ago when I was talking to one of my sons and I said, “You can know all about girls, but it’s different when you go on a date.” In this light, one can know all about spiritual principles, spiritual thoughts, spiritual concepts, spiritual beliefs, but it’s different when you’re actually living a life inspired by spirit, with the expression of love and the clarity of truth. This is because there has to be integration between what my principles, theories and beliefs are and what I’m actually expressing and proving out in my creative field. As love, caring and honesty are expressed by me, they have an impact on my creative field. If all I am doing is spouting some theory that I’ve heard from some teacher or spiritual leader, there are huge limitations as to what impact I will have on my creative field. The principles and theories are very valuable, but they have to be put into expression and practice. Putting it into practice also implies a level of resonant communion with that which is higher and finer.

So it requires a different set of skills—skills that I could say that I’ve found out by learning on the job. I have had to test out and bring into manifestation some of these principles, teachings and understandings. I’ve had to explore and find out what they mean in my life. Now, as I said above, there was a trap. The trap was thinking that I knew based on a theoretical understanding. So I thought, how can I find a release from being in that trap? I discovered that this release is based on vulnerability, spiritual vulnerability. At some point I had to be open to something new that is beyond just a secondhand spiritual understanding, and it actually was a matter of the heart. It relates to a matter of being open, of re-exploring what I knew to make it fresh and make it real. The stretch was to find out what it takes to be loving, even in difficult circumstances; to know what it is to be truthful in an open, honest and clear way, as opposed to pretending everything is okay. These are things that I found needed to be looked at, and it takes some strength and assurance to begin to explore. I found that to some extent I used my “theoretical knowing” as a defense mechanism. I knew how to protect myself from going into new spiritual territory by pretending I have the answers. I had this strong defense system, so if ever there was a problem I would think of a concept or something I’d learned in the past. I thought at the time that I didn’t need to hear anything new from anyone else because I knew a lot—but what I knew was theories and what I needed to do was to go into situations where I was open.

Sometimes the most unexpected sources revealed themselves to be the next step in spiritual growth. There were times that I was in a seminar or class, and inside that class or seminar that wall of belief and principle and knowing still had to break down. There had to come a point where I was open to what was being offered—and really open, not just on the surface…being all calm and relaxed and in my head, and appearing to be on top of it…but actually saying to myself, “Gee, maybe I don’t know as much as I thought I did and maybe I’ve got to start being open to new inputs. I have to be vulnerable in opening my heart to new experience.” Realizing that it is not enough to just talk about truth, but actually being honest with myself—really honest—which I found takes some strength to do. I was beginning to be honest and becoming aware of the kind of impact that I’m having on the world around me, on the people that are closest to me, and asked how could that be transformed in some way?

So this is spiritual work that over a number of years I’ve had to do and continue to do. I thought that some of this trap was that I had climbed the first step and thought I was at the top of the stairs, but actually I had just reached the plateau of the first step; there are more steps to climb. Some of the first step was learning from others, receiving new ideas, teachings and concepts, being open to new input, even if it for me was “Secondhand” learning, receiving teaching, guidance and mentoring from those who did have “Firsthand Spiritual Experience”; otherwise I did not know what the next step could be, what was possible in moving to “Firsthand Knowing” in applying those teachings and concepts. I realised that in climbing that next step I have got to put to one side the knowledge of that first step, so that I am actually open to something new.

So I found, in doing that, I had to realise that it required something of my exploring in vulnerable territory. To begin that exploration requires self-belief. I had to know it was okay to go into new territory. If I didn’t, the defense mechanism of concepts just stayed in the way. I may have thought that the defensive wall I had built looked impressive to others, but actually I don’t think anyone was fooled, and it didn’t get me to “Firsthand Knowing.”

I was recently reading a book called The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, by John C. Maxwell. There was a reference to a baseball scene in a “Shoe” cartoon. There was the pitcher and there was the catcher, and the catcher was advising the pitcher: “You gotta pitch the ball with self-belief,” to which the pitcher replied, “What I really need is belief in myself—and in the area of belief in myself I’m an agnostic.” Clearly, regarding self-belief, the pitcher was experiencing some skepticism. That very often is the case for people.

There have been times that required some verifying evidence before I believed in myself and believed that expressing love could be valuable. Usually “belief” applies to “Secondhand Knowing,” whereas “Spiritual self-belief,” “Spiritual Knowing,” is based on actual spiritual experience and expression. Spiritual exploration requires self-belief. It requires being willing to go beyond a “Secondhand Knowing” into “Firsthand Spiritual Expression” and experience. It is not just a matter of believing what I have learnt from what leaders and teachers have said, even though what they had to say was very valuable and showed the way forward. It also required experiencing a spiritual transformation myself.

Having a sense of self, of spiritual knowing of myself, was to know that I can bring love into any situation—I can always do that. Bringing love actually generates strength of spiritual identity. I know the experience of orienting in something higher, to which I am connected. I can bring divinely inspired love, no matter how challenging or how exposing the situation is. I know that I have a central higher reference point that gives me a sense of self and allows me to open up into new territory, allows me to explore what I know to be true in a new way. I then find there is a lot more to discover and experience spiritually.

There’s always more to know and discover and express, and vulnerability is that little key that opens the situation up. Sometimes it’s actually the key that I don’t want to turn in the door, because I know that when I open that door it will lead me into the more vulnerable places and I don’t know quite what the territory is going to look like. I could say it’s a lot safer on this side, where I am relying on what I know from the past. But it is actually essential that I use that key of vulnerability if I am actually going to move forward into something fresh and new. It is the process of discovery of what it is to have a “Firsthand” experience of Spiritual Expression and Understanding.

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Secondhand Knowing

This past week I was speaking to someone about moving to Sunrise Ranch, the spiritual community and conference center where I live. In the middle of the conversation, she said, “I’m scared.” And I said, “Good!” Good, because she has some real appreciation for what she is getting into. She senses that her life is going to be turned inside-out. Her reality, as she has known it, is going to be devastated by the power of universal love. And she’s ready for what really happens when a person walks their spiritual path—she wants that in her life. I think she has less illusion than many people about the cushiness of that experience.

The spiritual path is not cushy and it’s not comfortable. Probably, most people would do better if they found a way to eliminate all the ideas they have of what it is like to be spiritual or enlightened, or what it is like to be a fully awakened human being. Maybe it’s just like this. Just how it is for you, here and now.

Usually when people think about what it would mean to live a spiritual life, they think about what is outside them: “I will be in a state of enlightenment because everything around me will be nice and cushy. There will be good people all around me.”

Taking this a step further, I notice that people can have a lot of imagination about their own capacities of consciousness, their thinking and their emotions. It is easy to have imagination about what that will be in a spiritually realized state; all very calm, with never a ripple emotionally, unbothered by busy thought or troubled feeling.

What would happen for a person if they could let go of any imagination about what it might mean to experience spirituality? Freeing the mind of all that imagination opens the door for a person to be fully present right now in the face of whatever they really are thinking and feeling, and in the face of whatever is happening in their world.

The first place to start having a spiritually awake experience is right within the worried and distraught mind and turbulent emotions. And if you’re waiting for your mind not to be worried and your emotions not to be turbulent before you bring the spiritual, you’re going to be waiting a long time.

The enlightened person is bringing the spiritual right now—into those feelings that you have right now, and to whatever your thoughts are. The enlightened person isn’t identified with all that thinking and all that feeling, never mind all the things that are happening in the outer circumstance. An enlightened person says, “I’m here for this, right now. This! I’m scared—I’m here for that. I’m here in that.” Something remarkable happens when we’re here for whatever is occurring in our life. We are not that; we’re not all those thoughts and all those feelings, but we’re here for it and we’re here in the middle of it. We’re here to upset that applecart, if you will—our own applecart, to begin with.

Something happens in thinking and feeling when we really show up spiritually, when we aren’t waiting for nirvana, however we think it might come. We’re here now—we’re awake, alive and aware now, and we’re bringing awake, alive and aware consciousness to all the things that are happening for us. If we really do that, it is a total game changer in terms of what is happening, first of all, in consciousness. All those thoughts settle down, and the feelings now have a spiritual presence around them that can hold them and that can tell them it’s okay that you feel that way. It’s fine. You feel afraid about coming to Sunrise Ranch—it’s fine, it’s all right. We feel many things. It’s all okay. And the more our presence is there with our feelings, the more our feelings become entrained to that presence, the more they open up to that presence, the more they calm down and truly are at peace—not because we’re waiting for them to be like that, or depending on them to be like that. They just are that way when we stop waiting for it or depending upon it, and we are fully present.

We are the presence of universal love. We are the presence of love for other people, and we are the presence of love for our world. But where does all that start? We have to be the presence of love for this human being right here. That’s what self-love is about. Self-love is about being the presence of love forme. Not just comforting love, although love is comforting; not just nourishing and caring love, although love is nourishing and love is caring. I’m also the devastating love for me. I’ve changed my life on that basis. How about you? Because my presence demanded something different in my life. My presence said, “This is enough. This is not okay. This is over for me. This is it. I’m not doing this anymore; I’m not having this anymore in my life. I am bringing something profoundly new that is true of love, that is true of me.”

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Devastating Love