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A One Day Intensive, Saturday, June 23, 2018, 9:30am – 4pm
The perennial wisdom teachings tell us that our outer reality is a mirror for our inner one. This is true on a personal level, as well as a collective one. If we are emotionally triggered by others (here we are using the personality that is Donald Trump), then this becomes an opportunity for self-inquiry and healing.To be clear, our objective here is not learning to condone another’s egregious behavior, but rather to take responsibility for what we experience, personally and collectively.
Using three unique, simple, but profound journaling/processing techniques based on the ancient mystical teachings of the reconciliation of opposites we will identify and clear the schisms that are keeping us stuck in judgment, anger, fear or anxiety. At the end of our day together you will be more grounded, emotionally centered and clear minded. And you will be able to take these very practical tools and apply them to everyday situations in your life going forward. By using them regularly over time you will polish your “inner mirror”, deepening your connection to your inner wisdom and higher Self. As you become more balanced, whole and at peace your outer reality will reflect this integration.
The intensive will be held in the Outer Richmond District, San Francisco and is offered by donation. Space is limited to eight people. Email garyb@fastmail.com for questions or to reserve your space.
The astrological winds are blowing and I’m being called inward – since June’s full moon lunar eclipse and Grand Cross on the 26th, in fact. Potent astrological alignments like this are invitations to go within, availing ourselves of rare super-charged transformational energies. They offer us the possibility of making a leap in consciousness. Personally, I feel like a veil has been lifted. Consciousness has shifted and I am different – oh so subtley, but palpably, the out-picturing of this yet unfolding.
Taking time for meditation each day is in no small way making a bid for spiritual power. In meditation we prepare to meet the Divine, accessing our conscious awareness, and our lives change in profound ways. At the very least, we ride the inevitable waves of change with more ease, grace, and equanimity. If we also incorporate a process of self-inquiry with the intention of processing and clearing our limited personality patterns, we find ourselves accessing greater and greater levels of transcendental light. We grow and change, moving steadily towards Absolute Truth and the experience of what is real beyond the personality.
There are many beautiful writings by sages and mystics who, across time, have written about the benefits of quieting the mind. The Lake of Beauty is a favorite poem of mine by a more contemporary mystic – Edward Carpenter. Can you feel the power of this poem as it calls you home to the truth of your nature – to Self?
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world,
and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart desires,
all that your Nature so specially fits you for — that or the
counterpart of it waits embeded in the great Whole, for you.
It will surely come to you.
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Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed time
will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of
hands will make no difference.
Therefore do not begin that game at all.
Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind
in this direction and in that,
lest you become like a spring lost and
dissipated in the desert.
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But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them
still, so still;
And let them become clear, so clear — so limpid, so mirror-like;
at last the mountains and sky shall glass themselves in peaceful beauty,
and the antelope shall descend to drink and to gaze at his
reflected image, and the lion to quench his thirst,
and Love himself shall come and bend over and catch his
own likeness in you.
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