Hello Everyone.
"As many of us have discovered, moments of spiritual depth and insight strike us like lightning bolts on a dark night. They illuminate a profound horizon of potential in front of us, as well as what we must do to live up to what we've seen. Depth of this kind is essential for spiritual progress. But it is not enough. We also need to walk the path we find, with consistency."
I found this quote today in a email sent to me from EnlightenmentNext magazine. I thought it was a good topic for my newsletter. I have always taught students to stay away from what I called 'psychic whizz bangery'. It is so easy to get caught up with the pursuit of phenomena and mistake it for true personal evolution. I have seen many people have abilities to see auras, channel, do psychcometry, astral travel and so on and on. But it does not necessarily equate to their ability to evolve, manage their psychological and emotional lives, grow their understanding of the way the Universe works, and move towards their potential. So called 'psychic' skills are no different to any other skill. We can be a magnificent artist, and lousy at personal relationships. We can easily experience non-ordinary states but be unable to control our anger.
Psychic skills are just part of the overall creative possibilities of the human species. What is more important is taking the experiences we have in life and understanding the messages that we are being sent that is behind them all. We are part of the greatest learning experience ever conducted, and its happening in all our lives all the time. We don't have to look for psychic 'buzzes'. That is no different from alcoholic or any other type of adrenalin stimulation. It's always fantastic when we have an experience that shows us that there is 'more'. Once we get that, our job is to take that knowledge and apply it to our lives so that we grow to a new level of understanding. That's called 'grounding it'. If information isn't grounded into our understanding of life it is merely window dressing. In my practice, I always create sacred space, for my client and I to work in, at the beginning of each session. That takes it out of the mundane and focuses us on the greater possibilities. At the end, I open that space to allow the experiences we had within it to be free to flow out into our everyday lives. If we don't take that knowledge and apply it to our current reality, there's not much point in doing any of it. What happens in our heads, stays in our heads unless our body actions it and our feelings experience it in the context of life.
And isn't that the hard bit? We need to " walk the path we find, with consistency". We need to 'make it so': weaving it into the fabric of our work, friendships, domestic lives etc. When we do, we find the whole picture shifts a bit. Our perspective of what we are seeing and experiencing becomes a little wider. Our capacity for understanding becomes greater. It doesn't matter how long this process takes. After all we have Eternity. It does matter 'that' we do it. It's easy to panic at the moment, as we transit through the enormous changes that the Earth and Solar system are going through . We get into a goal oriented mindspace that makes us believe we have got to achieve perfection in the next 10 minutes or it will be too late. Movies like 2012, albeit that some of what they base it on is accurate to a degree, doesn't help either. Ends are transitions into beginnings. Looking at a section of a circle, it appears that there is a finite place that it starts and completes, but widen our vision to take in the fact that it is a section of a much larger event and we see that there is, in truth, no beginning or end. That's called living in a paradox. Just because we cant see the whole doesnt mean there isn't one.
We must seek the greater vision, the higher perspective, and we MUST, bring it down to Earth and make it part of breakfast. That's how you live in a paradox. This part of the way we live our lives is coming to an end but its only part of the eternal cycle. Nothing to worry about. But plenty to learn from and change our lives with. Childhood came to an end but we recovered. And yet, the child lives on in us still. The acorn is always part of the oak tree. So, honour your growth by making it part of your lives no matter what a challenge that might be. Seek the larger view of what's happening for yourself and for our species, and to quote the runes, 'look for signs of Spring".
I am available for personal session work in self growth, personal development, problem solving, shamanic journeying, ancestor work, Psychosynthesis, energy balancing and Munay-ki initiations via this email address. My books 'The Way Through- A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life', and "Reweaving The Web- A Shamanic Journey of Connection" can be purchased from me directly, from UBS bookstore, or from my website: www.spiritflight.co.nz
Go well. Blessings Sparrowhawk (Jay Ray)
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