Most of our daily attention focuses on our physical experience. With the constant demands of the body seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, it’s easy to get caught up in the rat race of daily life: eat, work, try to have some fun, sleep, repeat. Eventually our Spirit reaches through this dross to remind us that Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
At any moment, we can choose something new and different. I’ve felt stuck before in life, when I didn’t feel like I had any options. But what was really happening was that I was making the same decisions and taking the same actions as the day previously. It wasn’t until I got out of my Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
“As within, so without; as without, so within” A timeless Hermetic principle that means something completely new in light of COVID-19 and forced lockdowns that keep you inside and gathering with others less. It’s like a big mirror constructed in front of you that won’t go away. Everywhere you look, you see evidence of your Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
I feel incredibly blessed to be living at this time. Sometimes that feels like a risky thing to say. Then come numerous negative and critical thoughts, with questions like: How could you say such a thing? Don’t you realize how much pain people are going through? Aren’t you paying attention? I remind myself that COVID Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
A New Equilibrium In Conjunction, there was a general embracing of opposites. In Fermentation, there was a sheer dedication to truth and impeccable perception. Now, in Sublimation, Love and Wisdom find their union. Sublimation begins, and Fermentation ends, when pure, ecstatic Love floods in. It is a Love unbound, not attached to anything, all-embracing, unconditional. Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
Into the Abyss There is a point at which, to really move forward, a realignment has to occur within the self. This is a deeper process than Calcination - it questions the ego, but it pivots our whole position of awareness. Rather than re-establishing an identity, it relinquishes attachment to ANY identity, even one which Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
Crucible of Union Everything in manifestation is polar. Hot and cold, wet and dry, expansive and contractive. Yin and Yang. Active and passive. The idea that poles are separate is illusory. In alchemy, every pole contains its opposite. And the opposite pole can be accessed through the right approach. In the Conjunction phase, one learns Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
WARNING: this blog post does not contain the messages that you’ve been hearing over and over again from your FB wall and the corporate media or most other sources caught up in the emotion of this tumultuous time in the USA. For the life of me, I cannot ever be a commentator solely on current Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
If you’re like me, times like these make you pensive. I mean, I was already pretty pensive but I’m good at distracting myself so my head doesn’t explode at the end of the day. Now, with so much slowing down around me, I’m bored with my distractions, and I can’t help but move deeper into Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
“As a Buddhist, I believe in the principle of impermanence. Eventually, this virus will pass, as I have seen wars and other terrible threats pass in my lifetime, and we will have the opportunity to rebuild our global community as we have done many times before. I sincerely hope that everyone can stay safe and Activate your Spiritual Intelligence
