DABBLING

2020, CO-CREATING, FOCUS, INSPIRATION, MASTERY

DABBLING, 2020 MAY 11

DABBLING

     ~disrupting mastery with haphazard interest

The construction of something first imagined 

can be an exultant achievement. 

Setbacks will occur, requiring modification. This allows that a second effort will yield more streamlined results than the first, and a tenth effort will reveal higher and greater nuances impossible in all earlier attempts. This is how Masters hone their craft: perseverance and attention to detail gained through frequency.

Even repetition, such as placing an object inside a bag, over and over, will yield gains: a direction, a posture, a sequence. Artistic processes are no different. Even when the desired outcome is to produce remarkably different works, the skills necessary, mechanical and ethereal, have still been clarified.

But what about the Jack-Of-All-Trades? Do Dabblers abandon mission when they move from one field of study at another? Do they disrupt their ability to master one thing by having a haphazard interest in many things? Does the sculptor undo the painter? Does the writer undo the musician? Does the mathematician disrupt the farmer?

At what point does moving between

specific activities disrupt the process,

and where is the line at which

one creative form inspires the other?

This depends on the artist.

How do you manage challenge? Can you step back and consider all of the factors, giving a second attempt more merit? How many times will you believe your efforts failed before you abandon a project?

If your attempts are few, have you receded by gaining the wisdom that you and this effort are a bad match (you are not after all, a Flamenco dancer), or have you surrendered to a projected exhaustion attached to doing something well? (You cannot justify the time required to master the Flamenco steps as compared to your enjoyment, or necessity, of the process?)

Knowing self/Self is illuminating, even when we are seeing the smallest fragments at any given time. Think of the last effort you began and then abandoned. First: why did you engage your self in this endeavor? What did you hope to gain or experience? Did you begin with the correct information?

Now, why did you abandon this? Was it too difficult? Was it unsatisfying? Were you lacking natural skills and were unwilling to develop acquired skills? OR: do you choose a new thing to avoid working on an old thing? Do you become hopeless and self-punishing when you are not immediately competent?

It is possible to be competent in many endeavors. Music inspires poetry. Poetry inspires dance. Dance inspires painting. Painting inspires sculpture. Sculpture inspires rock works. Rock works inspire architecture. Architecture inspires math.

So: be a Jack-Of-All-Trades if that is a happy endeavor. Make no excuses for enjoying many ways to express your self. But: be aware of patterns where you behave as a fugitive, running from one endeavor to another. Rather than bringing together the many colors of your talent, you will scatter it, and as it scatters, it scatters your core energy.

Master things or Dabble, but keep your Core organized and energized. You are star matter. Let the universe shine.

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 11, 2020

 

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BIRTHING

2014, BIRTH, ELEMENTS, MIRACLES

BIRTHING, 2014, DECEMBER 18

Birthing is the greatest transition known to Us. 

It is the unparalleled “Coming Into.”

During the mortal lifetime, one tends to think of the Birth of new physical Life as Birthing, and certainly it is the experience that each incarnated person feels most personally while human, and witnesses more than any other.  Your mortal death is perceived as a Birthing here, for the Spirit and Soul leaves the spent shell of the body, and emerges fresh into this world . . .

Sadly, you often mourn as We rejoice.

The process of personal Birthing is recognizable:  entering as a child to a world where the properties of two parents have created a physical vehicle for you to enter and occupy for a mortal lifetime.  Once, and yet still in very small populations there, Birthing Rituals greet the incoming, grounding them in what is a very heavy and disorienting environment (as compared to the spaces we inhabit between incarnations).

Rituals have been lost there, thought of now as backward, and even barbaric.  Is the rock barbaric, who gives its minerals to make your bones?  Is the soil merely to be trod upon, like a lifeless muck—and never understood as a live, intelligent property that synergistically sings forward the plant matters that feed and heal you? 

What of the waters?  Are they so mind-poor you must instruct them in cycles and movement, in how to enter and exit your body, in how to enliven and operate each and every one of your cells?  Without the transformative energy of fire and wind and gravity and sunlight, would electricity exist?  Could you, as a human, exist?

Think you the most basic mettles of your beautiful Earth are barbaric?  They are the incomparable components of Earth’s song.  And together, un-civilization is trying to sing louder by destroying the instruments with which Mother Earth sings.

Birthing, the great “Coming Into,” is a time for celebration.  While each Spirit has made plans for their Life, inspiration may take them anywhere within the web they spin for themselves.  Yes; each tapestry is different; each voice unique.

When you greet a new Spirit, you hold the hand of a miracle.  Do you know how to speak to a miracle? 

Love is their language.  Gratitude is their manner.  Grace is their style.

When you allow the newly Birthed to remain un-harmed by un-civilization, and true to the ideals that live deeper than lies, you may watch the beauty of it grow strong.  Like a flower with its face in the sun, it will remind you where you belong.

The Great All embraces you this morning, sending Love. Love One Another. Let your Love extend to All . . .

 

Blessed Be This Day

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

     Archives: December 8, 2014

 

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EVERNESS

2020, EXPANSION/ CONTRACTION, MASTER IDENTITY, THE NOW

EVERNESS, 2020 MAY 09

EVERNESS

     ~seeds of the Whole

Whomever; Whatever; Wherever; Whyever; However

Everness is part of the Whole.

It is the pivot at the center determining the Way.

Asking questions about Life will always return to the distilled points: who and what you are; how and why you are here; and when and where your journey will begin. We tell you: if you are born, your journey has begun.

You have purpose, but few are born with the fire of Knowing in their hearts and minds. Few engage with early instruments for growth and immediately work to Master them. Child prodigies are the few. Adult seekers are the many. 

Do you believe in your Everness--that you exist in more than "the now"? Do you believe that you are a book with a beginning, middle and end? Or, are you are generator who feeds from all points around, radiating outward in rising and falling waves that connect and commingle with other rising and falling waves?

Your Everness, with its many dimensions, is part of the whole. The seed of you contains many other seeds, breaking from the darkness like plants pushing up and out towards the sunlight. What Magic makes this Life? How do your many aspects, concerned with the who, what, when, how, why, and where, even when in opposition, still harmoniously entangle at the center--or do they?

Feel your rhythm. Which parts work with your immediate surroundings? Which parts don't? What reasoning do you find for both?

A drop of poison in your glass may be fatal . . . but a drop of poison in a lake may not affect you at all. When you are aware of, and living in, your Everness, you are in contact with Great All, commingling in its "stuff." You grow beyond the glass and engage the lake. You move past the abilities of the glass, and avail your self of the lake's greater potentials.

Your Everness is your Master Identity. It is the point from which you may master the Master. It is the place of beginning for the seeker, a quasar. A fully developed quasar gives off enormous quantities of power, no matter that it may have started as an urge, idea, or mind sculpture.

Your Everness is crucial to outgrowing your mortal sense of self. You are here to be human. Do that well. And when it is time to fully own the experience of Everness packaged in limited NowNess, do that well.

Great All contracts and expands.

Learn to breath with Its rhythms.

Learn to embrace your Everness

by embracing and

expanding the Now.

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 09, 2020

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THE SOI-DISANT MYSTIC

2020, AUTHORITY, GROWTH, RESPONSIBILITY

THE SOI-DISANT MYSTIC, 2020, MAY 08

 THE SOI-DISANT MYSTIC

     ~finding your own Song

Will you live your Life under your own Authority?

Or, will you let others judge you by limited external standards?

Who are you? Why are you here?

To be self-proclaimed in anything requires confidence. Whether or not that confidence has been earned is a matter of ego, as the proclamation may meet with resistance, for reasons arbitrary or justified.

Let us say you become a Soi-Disant (soi-di·​sant) Mystic. What might this mean? In the study of oneself, to become self-proclaimed means that you have decided to cut out the "middle man" for your immediate learning. It means that you are listening to your inner voice . . . your actual inner voice . . . the individual, yet indivisible identity that comprises the Eternal part of your existence.

It means that you accept both the burden and the responsibility for your own growth. It means that you cannot blame what you have learned or believed before. It means you will not be limited by one set of tenets or other belief systems. It means you will forge ahead, making your own path.

It means you will try your best to be patient, loving and kind--to your self--as you engage the world as a student. And you will engage the Mystic, sometimes perplexing, and quite often, wholly beautiful things that you experience.

This is not to say that you will not or should not consider other ideas, but that you will look for clues in moving from the place you currently occupy, to the place(s) you will occupy next. It means that you will be a Seeker. You will Seek what is obscure, enigmatic, and even esoteric.

You will become a Mystic by becoming a Seeker of Mysteries. You will self-proclaim as a way to validate the seeds of Truth that are inborn to you, acknowledging that the right time to develop wisdom is the moment you decide to.

You will have teachers. You will be a teacher.

You will Validate and Vilify according to your journey. And forefront to all of this is your own confidence, not of the ego type, but of the exultant and enterprising Higher Mind.

To know Great All you must know your self/Self. What better way than to be the Soi-Disant Mystic, who must wait for no other, and is ever-present?

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 08, 2020

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PARCHMENT

2020, CHOICES, CROSSROADS, TOOLS

PARCHMENT, 2020 MAY 07

PARCHMENT

     ~the textures supporting what is written

Upon what grounds do you store your information?

From what conditions do you draw it?

How does a Life leave Its mark,

and how does Eternity record it?

Take pen to a cold-pressed heavy paper and feel how it slows, responding to the dappled surface as if waking the distant trees from which it was made. Apply this same pen to Parchment and the skin of the slain animal reveals its echo. A pencil to notebook paper; paint to a canvas; ink to glass; iron tools to a stone wall; chalk to a board; they each have their Song. They each have a weight and a gravitas, a Soi-Disant, or self-styled collective effect.

With which tools do you write your stories, and on which surfaces do you record them? What has formed the substrate onto which you express your self?

Think of the many texts produced over all of existence. The ideas meant for transient life have been compiled with grounds and tools meant to dissolve as time passes. That which stands Time's tests have been given more forethought, have been made with complex ritual, with sacrifice, and with tender and wise patience.

What do you create while here, embodied? What will you leave behind? And how will the Great All record your experiences? Is there a book labeled with your many names? In how many other stories are you cross-referenced?

You are here not by accident but by accord. Considered and planned, your Life has been the work of Masters, each contributing to how your Song begins in this incarnation . . . and how it might conclude. Between the end plates, you become your own composer, even if you have boarded the train at a set station, and end it at pre-planned other.

What thus far does your story tell? Are you brave and strong, a local hero? Are you the character who though given the opportunity to rise many times, has not? Are you the victim, or the debutante, or the evil stepmother, standing perpetually offsides and away from the traffic of others? How often do you shift roles? Who are you? Are you more a Verifier or a Vilifier?

To understand your dialogue, you must understand your character. You must understand your character's motivations. What does your character want? By what factors is he or she compelled? Which conditions work for this character's ideals, and which work against them?

Acknowledge the grounds and substance with which the character's Life is recorded. You write upon your tenets. Therefore, being poor in money does not mean you must record your Life on what is quickly destroyed by Time. Being rich in money does not mean you will record your Life on what is Everlasting.

Take a quick survey of your Life. What have you experienced something you would leave in a message for your grandchildren's grandchildren? How might you seek out more meaningful experiences, study them, apply them in your Life, and leave a record that will cause others to resonate?

Harmony. Discord. Illumination. Each day contains these things. Do not blather on to fill time. Let Time fill you. Let down the end-caps of your Life and stretch. See where Life is leading you. Make strong choices at each crossroads. And as the experiences become relevant, record your Illuminations to Light the way for others.

Be a Voyager

Go Walk About

Record Life as a proclaimed arbitrator 

of a singular Song,

needing no external permission

to play in Great All's symphony.

 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 07, 2020

 

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VERIFYING & VILIFYING

2020, OBSERVATION, THE INCONCEIVABLE, THE KNOWABLE, THE UNKNOWABLE

VERIFYING & VILLIFYING, 2020, MAY 06

VERIFYING & VILIFYING

     ~source, reaction, and reduction

As you contact new information, through observation,

dialogue, or experience, you will attempt to Verify.

Is this information True?

When Verifying something new, we rely on the databanks of our experiences, filtered through our core tenets and beliefs. We may observe something objectively: that animal is a bear. Or we may go beyond observing and react to the same experience: that angry bear is in the wrong place and is dangerous. The first observation will be easier to Verify than the second, which is a type of Vilifying your conclusion about the experience.

Why does this matter? Isn't it likely that a large bear, in your proximity, might be a threat? Yes, of course. And, this large bear may just be crossing the street, little aware or uncaring that you are in his immediate area. Either way, unless you draw the bear's attention and provoke a heightened response, you may not be able to Verify the urgent aggression of the bear. Just witnessing the bear changes the outcome, and certainly, provoking the bear will decidedly shift the outcome.

This is an important correlation in our conversations with the world. While conclusions may be dangerously wrong, falsely believing that you have intelligently and fairly considered a situation can be more dangerously wrong. This happens if you have used a skewed line of questioning, and could lead you to an aberrant conclusion. Thought and method themselves do not guarantee an accurate outcome. Our best hope is to arrive at a plausible theory.

And the more foreign an observation is, the higher our tendency to divide it into parts that make sense to us. If you were studying an off-world being, your first inclination would be to arrange your questions according to what you already believe that you know. You may ask how it breathes, eats, excretes, and reproduces. You might spend a great deal of your life pursuing answers to these questions, but what if this off-world being does not breathe, nor eat and excrete, nor reproduce? How do you consider the inconceivable?

This is the Mystery and Magic of Great All. Much more will remain unknown to you than will ever be know. Is this okay? Do you feel not knowing marginalizes your existence? Can you prove that you live, that you are, that you think?

What about your daily tasks? How do you know that this food you have prepared is safe to eat? How do you know what is knowable and what is unknowable? You cannot Verify everything, just as you can't Vilify everything. You strike a balance between the two. You have adapted your process for surviving and creating.

What do you struggle with today? Let us say it is your health. How do you determine what will support you and what will harm? You will make projections. You will seek out group ideas that support theories you find probable. You will tend towards the least repulsive and least harmless ideas, and your plan will certainly differ from your neighbors'. How can you live in the world with such uncertainty?

You will likely not feel uncertain. You will likely feel emboldened by your plan, your research, and your conclusions. This allows you to move forward. And many others will support you. You will find a pattern and stick with it.

But . . . what if you want more? What if you want to rise above group consensus and seek out Higher Ideals? Can you consider the many unfamiliar aspects of an experience? Can you attempt to Verify without immediately Vilifying? Can you use a different pathway to complete your Theorems, even if it means you reach the same conclusion? By observing anything through a Higher order of thought, you will increase values, and come closer to Verifying the experience.

Use this for a neighbor whose behaviors conflict with your own ideals. Instead of diminishing them, try to understand what is at work in their lives. Instead of saying you believe something because "it is right," explore 

why you believe it is right. Likewise, if you believe something is just "wrong," explore why you believe it is wrong.

Attempt to reduce your reactions and build your responses. Attempt to find the Source from which these outer rays of thought and behavior arise. Trace the journeys. See how backtracking differences can lead to the Unity of the Source.

To grow, unite, and harmonize, we must concentrate on solving the issues that most negatively affect each of us, and the organic incredible world of which we are made. 

You are a Co-Creator. Lead with Love and Understanding.

 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 06, 2020

  

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ARRYHTHMIA

2020, AWARENESS, BALANCE, GROWTH

ARRYHTHMIA, 2020 MAY 05

   ~balancing peaks through awareness

When your heart races, as it does in the Fight-or-Flight response, are you in a life-or-death situation that requires immediate management, or are you reacting, rather than responding to, information that conflicts with your belief system?

We have established that most of us are operating from a duality of core tenets and the influences gained in living our lives. Adaptation to these influences has happened over time, moving our central ground in response. Be that traditional (so to speak) or non-traditional (against the grain of current trends in society), each of us has a central point from which we accumulate and study data . . . and our behaviors will reflect how we react or respond to it in whole.

Remember the last time you experienced an Arrhythmia: be it that your heart began to race, or something in your gut-knowing kicked you, stopping you mid-thought and giving you the opportunity to consider new information. This is the physical response to outsider ideas, large enough to be noticeable and sometimes large enough to create an overwhelming chemical condition: seeing red; sick with bile; burning with anger; the heartache of hopelessness and grief.

Because these Arrhythmias are chemically-induced (from the reptilian/survival self), most of us do not control them. Only after many decades do Masters attain the ability to sort the animal self out from the logical and intuitive self. For most, they are an indicator of distress. This is not to say that joyful Arrhythmias do not occur, but for today, let us consider the negative (or less helpful) effects of our response to our world.

How can we balance these peaks, or spikes, in reaction? How can we learn instead to respond, with the intention to fully consider information that may seem threatening, but is not life-threatening in the moment?

What do you want? What do we all want? Beyond the basics of survival, can we agree that most of us idealize harmony, compatibility, valued exchanges, and opportunity? Do we not feel more comfortable, and happy, when we are surrounded by those who are similar to us, who share beliefs with us, whose communities are in line with our ideals and tenets?

Can we survive like the animals in the wildlands, broken into hierarchies of prey and predator, in populations that are either growing or diminishing? Can we create islands where we separate ourselves into belief cultures, never wandering into the territories of other belief cultures? This is not likely. Earth is currently existing in a globally-interactive state. We move about and exchange.

This is good news, if we let it be. How better can the world evolve than through shared ideas in thought, philosophy, science, medicine, technology, and communication? Diversity serves us.

In order to maximally serve us, diversity must operate without false restriction. Culturally diverse thinkers, in collaboration, create more comprehensive outcomes. Problems, and successes are better considered as a group: when island-A presents a problem to island-B-C-D, and they present a resolution; how a success in island-C allows it to share with the other islands.

Open your mind and your heart. Think as a whole being. Think as those being marginalized. Think as those "in power." Think as those in the middle-muddle who long to experience a better world but don't know how to begin.

Begin where you are. Understanding is first. Work to see your self clearly and to understand the world more clearly. This requires not only an open mind, but an open heart, and the ability to step outside our false sub-cultural standards and regulations.

The world has its own Arrhythmias. Can you hear its response to our sorrows and burdens? Can you quiet your self long enough to listen to the world's Songs?  

Remember that you are stardust and that this world from which you were raised and created knows you intimately: how could it not? You are made from its building blocks and vibrate with its rhythms.

Be bold. Each day, step outside your self as you know it. Listen. 

Do not guard your self from new ideas. Embrace them. 

Build your core, growing what is possible.  

You are here, and you are possible.

 What else is possible?


 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 05, 2020 

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