PROSCENIUM

2020, APPARENT/NON-APPARENT, BELIEF, DIVISION, EXPANSION/ CONTRACTION

PROSCENIUM, 2020 MAY 02

PROSCENIUM

~understanding the divide between the apparent and non-apparent

In Greek terms, the Proscenium is the division on a stage that signifies what is in front of the forward curtain from what is behind it. The scenes given by the actors to entertain are planned and devised for certain effect. Whether that effect be to move your compassion, invoke deep thinking, motivate outrage, or merely to inform, the forward stage wears its costumes, advising and building anticipation for what will happen on the great stage itself.

Within the stage proper, the story unfolds. You will follow the characters and track their messages. You will be entertained, and if done well, you will lose your self in suspension-of-disbelief. You will decide to agree with the story's elements, even the ideas that seem impossible, such as Peter Pan's flight. You will want Peter Pan to fly and for Tinkerbell to gather enough hand-claps to sustain her magical life.

Such is this Earth Stage. Your headlines work in front of the Proscenium. Your stories work behind it. And behind the stories are the workings of the theatre. From whence came the costumes, and the idea of the costumes? What informed the set? How does the music, or lack thereof, create the mood . . . and why was the specific mood created? How have the authors, the actors, the builders and the makers commingled their ideas, and to what end? No story ever told has been free of agenda.

Story is powerful. It teaches. It tells us how to live and how to die. It tells us what to believe, and when to revolt. But quite often, the stories we seek out dovetail with our established beliefs, further deepening the beliefs we already hold to be true.

What happens when we engage stories that cause us to question our beliefs and stretch the boundaries of our world, and our world-view? Like fables passed down to youngers in order to teach, train, and warn them, a good story causes us to think new thoughts--thoughts that expand the consciousness and bring oxygen to what might be stagnant. A good story acts as a Catalyst for growth.

What is your story? How much of your story lives at the front of The Proscenium? What is the face you show to the world? What do your actors play out? How deeply do the activities on your stage reflect your social, cultural, theosophical, and experiential normatives? And most importantly, what is happening in the back of the house, in the beehive of activity one might equate to the unconscious and/or superconscious mind?

Do you fight your deepest urges? Is the face you put in front of your Proscenium a mask so false it bears little resemblance with the main stage itself, and little to none with the backstage activities? Fragmentation comes with the pairing of disparate parts and with denial. Enlightenment occurs within harmony.

How often do you inventory what is apparent, and non-apparent, in your life? Have you ever used any phrases like these: "it's the way I was raised" ... "that's how I was taught" ... "everyone knows that's wrong/ right" ... "those people are uncivilized/ less than/ stupid" ... ? Socio-cultural templates are powerful indicators for behavior, particularly where mis-behavior (against the Highest good for All) is concerned.

A willow grows straight until its environment shapes it. Look at your own twists and turns. How have you bent in the wind? When you look out upon your world, do you see beyond the grass? 

Do you connect with the roots and the minerals, and the creepy-crawlies? Can you feel the symbiotic heartbeat of every part of Great-All's Tapestry? Can you absorb and conduct the Love that is ever-present and infinite?

And . . . will you?

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archive: May 02, 2020

 

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CATALYSTS

2020, CATALYST, DIET, ELEMENTS, TRANSFORMATIONS

CATALYSTS 2020 MAY 01

 CATALYSTS

 ~how your alchemical nature reacts with life

Combine two elements in exact measures and methods and you get a third entity that is a result of the combination. Combine them differently, in different measure, or with other elements, and the result is changed. The oxygen, hydrogen, or carbon you began with has taken on a new role and a new identity within the construct of the Whole.

Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event. (The governor's speech acted as a catalyst for debate)  Oxford Dictionary

In the matter of people, this idea is complex. While this can be true:

Catalyst: a substance that increases the rate of alchemical reaction without itself under going any permanent chemical change.  Oxford Dictionary

    most people are changed by their exposure to information. Be it truth, or be it falsehood, the vibration evoked by consuming new information will create a new vibration, one that cannot be undone by returning to times previous. 

Just as you cannot separate milk and eggs once they have been whisked together, you cannot separate the influence of new information from your Alchemical self. The transmutation from not-Knowing to Knowing is permanent, and the influx of Knowing is perpetual.

How you respond or react to this Knowing is a reflection of your core beliefs, self-identity, and your Life goals. Do you accept the new information as it is? Do you use its presentation to further explore a concept? Do you debate where the information is true or a falsehood? 

Do you consider how the information changes you, and whether or not you will positively bond with the information, or reject its ideology through seeking the source and construction of its message?

We live in a time of historic informational exchange. Each moment of each day we are flooded with the possibility of consuming more information than we can logically, and wisely, examine and consider. Information is part of our diet; it is a reflection of our many Earthly realities. It is the outward realization of our inward drives. And like the food we consume as physiologic fuel, we must also contemplate the effects of our data-diets and belief-streams.

If your Alchemical Nature is one of compassion, patience, and integrity, you will deeply and open-mindedly consider your informational sources. You will study the effects of new information on your body, mind and spirit. You will allow for opinions and beliefs that contradict your own, while still remaining true to your own principles.

If your Alchemical Nature is one of blame, anger, and short-sightedness, blocking out all information that disagrees with your own, ask your self: "Why?" Most of us are a mix of both conditions, expansive in certain ways, and contractive in other ways. We are works-in-progress. We are Alchemical beings who respond to Catalysts, and as complex entities, we operate as Catalysts as well.

Look at your Life, your Beliefs, your Abilities. What do you give to the world and what do you take away? Is your ledger running in the black or do you suffer deficits? Clarify your diet. Clarify your Life.

Use the gift of Catalyst to turn water into wine. Share that wine with others.

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archive: May 1, 2020

 

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EXITING

2020, ACTION, ENTERING/ EXITING, GIFTS

2020, APRIL 30 EXITING

EXITING

   ~leaving life with value-added gifts

Exiting one place requires Entering another. While Energies may be dispersed, fragmented, re-imaged, and re-created, it is always driven. Energy always has a goal.

Being born to the mortal form, you enter the Earthly realm, and you have therefore Exited the non-mortal and non-Earthly realm. This offers little comfort when times of Transition are high, and the actions and exchanges are rapid and unexpected, but do not doubt that formulae are at work, albeit they may be invisible to you at the moment.

Who are we? Why are we here? Are our achievements and perceived failings the cumulative data that form the infrastructure of our lives? Are we more than our decisions?

Yes. We are much more . . . but we are not automatons, programmed with data only to follow an external agenda with predicted outcomes. What value has the human experience without the sublime calculations of the Self? 

We choose to be driven and engaging, just as we choose to be withdrawn and apathetic, and repetition of the patterns is the key to actualizing what we would manifest.

If your Ideal Self is courageous, you must engage life events with courage. If your Ideal Self is a risk-taker, you must take risks. Making lists and making excuses does not suffice. It is easy. It can offer false hope. Seeing your Self as something more but taking no action, relegates your current and future transformations to mere musings.

For this month, whatever month that may be as you read these words, honestly assess, evaluate, and invigorate your response to a life condition you find daunting. If you are a procrastinator, complete one dreaded task every day. If you dream creations and do not create them, make creating a daily practice, even if it is a small effort . . . like drawing a happy face in the jam on your morning toast.

To fully Be, we must fully Do. This can include, but does not need to include, the striving in which we engage to earn material goods. You are more than this. You are a.l.w.a.y.s. more than this. Earth is providing unequaled opportunity to learn about Exiting, Exiting from one state to another, from one set of practices to another, from one value structure to another. Use it, so that when you Exit, your Gifts remain behind you.

Use your Light and Love and Pure Potential, as both teacher and student. Engage the cycle. Expand. Listen to the Song being Sung by your every mysterious and magical faction. No one can do exactly what you can do. Exit the shadows. Share your Song.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: April 30, 2020

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FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP

2019, PERSPECTIVE, STRUGGLE

MAY 23 2019 FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP

FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP

   ~greater views for greater insights

From the Mountaintop, the views are longer and more detailed. Rising above the plains and valleys, you may now form insights that were impossible from the bottom.

You will feel wonder. You will connect to the thread of commonality rather than separation. From your village you see the sheep herder, the rice farmer, the weaver, the tailor, and the metalsmith. From the Mountaintop you see how long the rivers are and where they connect. You see green fields touching. You see villages peopled by communities who eat and sleep and dwell in structures.

From the Mountaintop you are more engaged in Heartfulness than you are in Thoughtfulness because the larger more inclusive view causes you to experience the miracle of creation. This is why you feel exultant, taking the world in from a high peak.

This is also true inside Self/self. When you are in the valley, low inside your self, concerned with the struggles of daily living and feeling small, you are noticing how unalike you are to what you desire to be. 

When you rise to your own Mountaintop, that is, Higher Ideals concerned more with Eternity, you will sense greater commonality and therefore, greater potentials.

So, when you are struggling, down in your back, sick in your stomach, having difficulty with moving your feet forward, leave the lower plains and concerns and rise upward, up-up-up to the Mountaintop. Breathe up and out. 

Feel your connections to earth and sky. Give your Thoughts rest, and experience Life through your Heart.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 23, 2019

 

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HEARTFULNESS ABOVE THOUGHTFULNESS

2019, COMPASSION, EMPATHY, HEART

MAY 22, 2019

HEARTFULNESS ABOVE THOUGHTFULNESS

   ~traveling in another’s shoes

How do you travel in another’s shoes? It is not through thought-and-prayer. Thought-and-Prayer keeps you distanced, like the supplicant waiting outside the city gates with too much luggage to pass through the needle’s eye. Thoughtfulness keeps you safe; it causes you to keep another’s pain or distress from infiltrating your own system, your Heart and your Heartfulness.

When you feel in your Heart for another person, you feel how their Thoughts and Emotions are affecting them. This happens with the most regularity when a shared experience becomes common: when you feel sad for people whose homes have burned, and the difference you feel when your own home has burned. Ever after, experiencing just the information of someone’s home burning causes you to respond differently.

What about losing a loved one? You may say “our thoughts and prayers are with them.” How ineffectual does that feel when you are the one experiencing the loss? Does Thoughtfulness equate with Heartfulness? No. Thoughts divide us. Our Hearts engage us.

To be understood and treated with wisdom and compassion, we must do our best to do the same for others. We must feel in our Hearts for the hungry child, the suicidal father, the displaced family, the shamed veteran, the hopeless cancer patient, the grieving mother.

Thoughtfulness is a first step, but Heartfulness is where our bounties lie. Be Thoughtful. Now, take action that is Heartful.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 22, 2019

 

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FAITH VERSUS CONFIDENCE

2019, COMPARISONS, CONFIDENCE, FAITH, INTROSPECTION

MAY 19, 2019

FAITH VERSUS CONFIDENCE

~self-challenge as superior to belief

Faith is a belief founded in tradition, which is repetition, formed most often on the experiences of others rather than Self/self. Whether your Faith has come to you based on repetition, supposition, or witnessing, it began and probably still is, external to your core.

When you have Confidence, you go beyond Faith. That is not to say that Confidence may not fail you, just as Faith can fail you, but having Confidence comes from a self-observance which is more individual and reliable. 

You may have Faith that the sun will rise each morning, because you have witnessed this, or you may build Confidence of the sunrise according to how its cycles feel at your core: through meditation, knowing, and communication with the greater aspects of your planet.

Think of one thing that has your Faith. Why do you have Faith in this thing? How much of this Faith is built on a story that was handed down to you, that your community has assured you is correct? Does this Faith have two sides? If you do this good things will occur, and if you do that bad things will occur? Is your Faith-idea based in polarity?

Confidence is the ability to trust the Self/self in thought and action. It is the ability to release Self/self judgment and expectations of particular outcomes. It is the wisdom to feel your Self/self and your gifts in this world and apply them to the best of your abilities, while holding an open mind and an open heart.

Confidence is personal power utilized for action and change, even when limited to the Self/self.

Spend time testing one Faith-thought you hold as real. Now, self-challenge from every aspect you may mentally acquire, particularly those outside your culture and belief system. What do you find? 

Wherever Faith is holding you back; wherever Faith is limiting your world; wherever Faith is creating cosmically untrue beliefs, consider how you might grow by instead building Confidence with which to navigate your world.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 19, 2019

 

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OPEN ARMS : OPEN HEART

2019, ACCEPTANCE, LOVE, OPENNESS

MAY 12, 2019

OPEN ARMS : OPEN HEART

   ~studying human nature in its commonality

Everyone arrives to human form through a Mother: that is the greatest commonality. That is the most important idea. Your father has helped to make you, but it is the forming of the body and the carriage of the body that are singular to the Mother’s role in your birth, and every person on earth today has been delivered by a Mother. 

That agreed upon, why does humankind in-fight and disagree about so much? Why is it that some humans believe they are Higher or more worthy than others? Why do some live in wealth while others live in poverty? When one can see from a greater field of vision, one understands that we are all related. We are all born into Life, and again into Death. We are One Family.

Even if one does not understand this basic concept, it may be embraced by the Open Arms/Open Heart tenants. Being unique, individual, and indivisible aspects of Great All, we are far more alike than we are different. Think of the cells that comprise your body: they all began from one cell. That cell diversified, but its origin will always be singular and pure.

And this is the heartache of your world: not understanding this, not honoring this, not organizing your societies around this idea. When you embrace your brethren with Open Arms, your Heart opens. When you Open your Heart, your Arms Open. You are meant for so much more than you are doing. When you work together, those Higher things become closer and more real.

Think of someone in your Life that should be embraced by you but isn’t. What can you do to bring them closer? How can you change your Thought-Ideas to banish Scriptures that hold you back? How can you develop Open Arms and an Open Heart in order to grow past your small ideas and fears?

Be a leader. Shine the Light. As you embrace others, they will embrace you.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archive: May 12, 2019

 

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