Hi TT friends,
An artist friend of mine, S, and I had a long talk about the Bill Deagle predictions for 10/7 and beyond and we've decided to try and experiment. Here's her re-cap of our conversation
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So, to re-cap and remind: for the next week or so we will endeavor to
slip into the state of being as though it were a dream, to intend the
dream to go well, to go in the direction of harmony and sustainability,
and observe and report the results!
Great talk, thanks!
--S.
Hi,
I had a long talk last night with a socially conscious friend and we decided to
run an experiment this week and look at the results in a week.
run an experiment this week and look at the results in a week.
We are going to try to get out of the "us and them" space and all the
smugness and spiritual pride we get out of that, and, instead, try to
become aware of an inner space we've touched into once in a while, the
pure being/higher self space in which it feels like one is the creator
of this dream. Allow a smile and a sense of inner knowing, and just
INTEND wonderful things. Do it whether or not you believe it. Try it on
for size, seeing life as though it were a dream, but an increasingly
lucid one in which one realize one is just having a dream, and one is
going to intend a happy dream now. The true secret, hidden from oneself!
smugness and spiritual pride we get out of that, and, instead, try to
become aware of an inner space we've touched into once in a while, the
pure being/higher self space in which it feels like one is the creator
of this dream. Allow a smile and a sense of inner knowing, and just
INTEND wonderful things. Do it whether or not you believe it. Try it on
for size, seeing life as though it were a dream, but an increasingly
lucid one in which one realize one is just having a dream, and one is
going to intend a happy dream now. The true secret, hidden from oneself!
For lack of a better name, I think I will call it the "Source space." In
this space, the various players are not seen as separate from oneself,
but as different aspects of one's own mind, just like when you do a
good dream analysis.
this space, the various players are not seen as separate from oneself,
but as different aspects of one's own mind, just like when you do a
good dream analysis.
Can't hurt, just one
week!! After a week, we are going to report back and see how both our
personal and collective lives went, if there were some improvements!
I'm inviting others to join in also. My husband is going to, so far. If
it's an abject failure, we can always go back to our struggles and
judgements and battles.
week!! After a week, we are going to report back and see how both our
personal and collective lives went, if there were some improvements!
I'm inviting others to join in also. My husband is going to, so far. If
it's an abject failure, we can always go back to our struggles and
judgements and battles.
We got to this place,
partly in response to a psychic predicting a terrible financial event
tomorrow, and even more terrible (as in dirty nuke in a major city,
martial law, etc.) events to follow soon (hey, "cancel that thought!").
We have been having a lot of fear and foreboding the last month or so,
and this new plan seems like the response that is most called for, and
often suggested lately, by a number of people contemplating the
seemingly fragile state of our world right now. I have also been more
aware, personally, of correlations between outer events and my inner
state lately, so this is an attempt to explore that more consciously
and carefully, and collectively.
partly in response to a psychic predicting a terrible financial event
tomorrow, and even more terrible (as in dirty nuke in a major city,
martial law, etc.) events to follow soon (hey, "cancel that thought!").
We have been having a lot of fear and foreboding the last month or so,
and this new plan seems like the response that is most called for, and
often suggested lately, by a number of people contemplating the
seemingly fragile state of our world right now. I have also been more
aware, personally, of correlations between outer events and my inner
state lately, so this is an attempt to explore that more consciously
and carefully, and collectively.
So we are going to try it.
And you are invited to join in!
Best,
S.
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Yes, I've set up a recliner and a cot in my inner space after my friends told me I'd lost my sense of humor in this highly charged political/economic atmosphere. But remaining here, I've learned to be especially kind to myself and embrace a relationship with loneliness.
Let me cite a passage from Pema Chodron's book, When Things Fall Apart. She is writing about meditation as simply acknowledging thinking without all the usual drama that goes along with right and wrong.
"The experience of certain feelings can seem particularly pregnant with desire for resolution: loneliness, boredom, anxiety. Unless we can relax with these feelings, it's very hard to stay in the middle when we experience them. We want victory or defeat, praise or blame. For example, if somebody abandons us, we don't want to be with that raw discomfort. Instead, we conjure up a familiar identity of ourselves as a hapless victim. Or maybe we avoid the rawness by acting out and righteously telling the person how messed up he or she is. We automatically want to cover over the pain in one way or another, identifying with victory or victimhood.
"Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down."
It's a spaciousness beyond compare without the grasping and avoiding, but it will become a huge drama if we don't practice a forgiving lovingkindness with ourselves now and now and now.
Namaste,
Tricia
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Oh, and Tricia, as to your erudite experimentation with the balancing approached by an inspired and expansive understanding of the illusion of loneliness, know that you are in my heart so strongly all the time in a kindred spirit way that can only be explained by the very real possibility/probability that we have known each other in other incarnations and have learned much from our collaboration.
Loneliness is an amazing catalyst, as is wishing everyone would just leave one the hell alone sometimes, haaaahahahahaha.
And so many catalysts and places in between to thoroughly, safely and freely investigate while knowing, just knowing, knowing and ever expanding in one moment that goes on forever.....
Love/Light, Chris