A quiet mind and still emotions is, I think, an intermediate state. I can’t see the end of the story being this, as interesting as it is to explore. If you think of it, this state is the epitome of presence. There’s nothing else in here with me than me and this body I operate. […]
Darkness to the Mind and Emotions is Light to the Self
Wow, what a change of mind I’m going through. I don’t know where to begin. I’m in this zone of spiritual quietness of thought and stillness of emotions, which I called a “dark night.” (1) While in it, I’m experiencing a few changes of mind on a very basic level. —> I can’t let the […]
Like a Dark Night of the Soul
As an awareness writer, I report the good, the bad, not so much the ugly. At the moment, I’m in what St. John of the Cross might call a “dark night of the soul.” (1) Not what we might call a dark night. What we mean by it is a very difficult, even hopeless, situation, […]
St. John of the Cross on the Dark Night of the Soul
The purification that St. John of the Cross called a “dark night of the soul” has three stages, which he here describes: “This purification of the soul … we can call the dark night…, whether it is the purification of the sense or of the spirit.” (1) “A soul must ordinarily pass through two principal […]
Detachment is not the Same as Stillpoint
I no sooner wrote this sentence: Want, want, not want attracts an “I” to fulfill itself, after which “I want” sets “the entire universe in motion” to get what it wants. (1) than I saw that desirelessness and stillpoint were not the same. “I want” is attachment. The absence of want is desirelessness, detachment from […]
Stillpoint Recedes into … Uhhhh … Memory
Sorry, nothing more to report on Stillpoint. Except a peaceful day spent in self-awareness. Which I really needed. The event of Stillpoint now exists only in a rather unreliable memory – and whatever made it to paper. (1) Thank heavens I obeyed the Arcturians’ advice from long ago to write down one’s experiences immediately. Another […]
The Secret Awaits Eyes Unclouded by Longing
From the Tao: “The secret waits for the insight Of eyes unclouded by longing; Those who are bound by desire See only the outward container.” (1) Let me use these last waning days of “eyes unclouded by longing” and not “bound by desire” to describe what it feels like to be desireless. Pretty soon it’ll […]
Is the Mother Tempering Us?
Written before reading the Mother’s own message! (1) She answered the question. Just as the Mother used the Pause to have us reflect upon ourselves and where we’re going, so now I think she’s using the election for a purpose as well. Not the only purpose, to be sure. But a particularly important one. I […]
Anneke Lucas Explains Trauma and Control Within/Without
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Anneke Lucas has a new podcast dialoguing with Shaun Attwood, True Crime. In this video, Anneke goes into greater detail of her childhood experience as a sex slave, and how her subsequent internal work has helped her to see how our rampant lack of self-worth can be reflected in our outer reality. She […]
The Big Change – Part 2
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The point I wanted to make however is: what do we do in the face of this constant change to maintain our equilibrium, our balance? Things are going faster than I can keep up with. What do we do? I can only say what I do, which I’ve been doing […]
The Big Change – Part 1
I’ve rewritten this article to drop the debt relief components of the earlier Six Point Plan. These will be addressed apparently by G/NESARA. It now becomes a Four Point Plan. If we were to see the ending of the careers of corrupt politicians, of big business’s control over the finances of the world, of the […]
A Flood of Generosity and Singing Offers Flow in for Homeless Opera Sensation from Subway
Good News Network, Oct 6, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/y4ncvhug The City of Angels opened their hearts for a woman with an angelic voice, and it’s lifting her up to new heights. A homeless Russian-American woman was singing opera in the subway when an admiring police officer asked if he could tweet a video of her voice—and, now […]
The Dark Night of the Soul
Reposted from April 2014. The “dark night of the soul” is an expression that St. John of the Cross used to describe three stages in the aspirant’s journey to what he calls “the state of perfection.” (1) The rigorous discipline that St. John and others followed to achieve enlightenment is not necessary for us in […]