Spirit of Christmas
December 27, 2009
There was some doubt in our house as to whether we would put up a Christmas tree this year. Generally the decorations go up in early November, but this year the first week of December had come and gone, and our trees ( all 5 of them) were still stored in the garage. We just didn’t feel the Christmas spirit.
Well we unpacked the white Christmas tree that we bought six years ago. It was dingy from dust after three years of continous display in my wife’s office. Even the sparkly garlands had lost their sheen. And some of the decorations smelt musty from being in storage. Our green trees no longer fitted in with our colour scheme and overall we sensed something seemed to be missing.
So we decided to shop – and found a stunning purple tree that goes nicely with our silver and white decor. It changed the energy in our living room immediately. Next we looked at the lights. They didn’t accord with the new tree, so three sets of lights were retired and new strings were bought in their place. The room got a colour shift.
Then the snow fell. Thick fluffy flakes came drifting on the wind one night to cover the ground two inches deep. The air grew still, as if the land was settling into another rhythm – breathing more deeply.
For me, snow has always been Christmas: a herald of great change, a bringing of abundance. I become filled with a sense of great generosity. I embody Santa.
But this year I understood that the Spirit of Christmas itself is changing. It’s becoming more of a Spirit of Celebration, telling me that it should not be confined to a special day or a special purpose, but that we should feel celebration in every moment of our lives.
It’s a new era. I sense a liberation in how we celebrate life. The Spirit of Christmas has entered a new phase – each day a gift, each moment celebrating a new birth, each of us the bringer of great munificence – bringing joy and great abundance in all things through the living of celebration.
There is much that we need to make clear to ourselves. That we understand the nature of giving. That we understand that celebration is a commitment. That we understand what we are choosing in every moment. That we choose to honour something of great value in all of us. And perhaps we should remember that, as Santa, we always have a gift for everyone.
Seed Memories
September 19, 2009
I am 57 years old – or so my history would tell me from linear memory, from birth certificate, and from parentage. But I remember different. I have other memories of far-off places, traces of other lifetimes, and a greater knowing of myself that I’m getting more and more able to claim.
Seed memories I call them. Moments around which other memories are formed, legends are made, and stories born from our picture of what is true and what we claim is true.
We invent and create our histories, so that we might become the fullness of ourselves, testing the mettle of our choices. Until the time comes when we are firm and mature, able to stand in the winds of change, and able to share what we have grown.
My seed memories have allowed me to grow because they have a strong basis in my consciousness. Through them I am able to change my knowing of myself and be an amazing being, doing things that would otherwise be impossible to imagine.
I recollect one such memory – of being brought to consciousness in this current life. I recollect that it was important for me to remember what I was capable of achieving. That I stay awake and not fall asleep to dream an unconscious life. The spur – to stay awake and be conscious – was in knowing that I had been called, knowing that I had purpose and work to do, knowing that it was imperative to do the work that I was brought here for.
The guidance I had was simple and clear – you are created from the limitlessness and can become whoever you need to be, and can create in whatever way what the fullness of life desires to be made. For the memory and the form would find itself, and new life could be given from a seed, an immortal seed, that promises to unlock all possibilities of greatness in us.
This is the time of greatness. A time in which we are revealed. That nothing is held back, that we give of the fullness of ourselves, to help one another shape a world that is fully conscious and no longer resting in its own dreams.
So what are your seed memories, I ask?
Imagining the Wonderful
August 30, 2009
A lot of thoughts and feelings buzzed through me as I examined the photos that my good friend Susan had sent.
Susan is in her 60′s and is exploring her own creative story of what life is about. Her work with clay is daring and original, yet what I find most wonderful is her interpretation and imagination that turns the mundane into the magical.
The photo below shows her most recent project, entitled ‘The Inner Planetary Incubation/Feeding/Imagineering System’.
The Inner Planetary System
Here is her description of how it came about …
“The (back) wall had a lot of pipes and meters and did not say anything except utilitarian. Last summer I looked at it and decided that something needed to be done.
The energy as Erik and I worked on it was magical. We worked on it at night when it was cooler, and we dipped in and out of the pool to cool down and have think time.
It felt like one of the GREAT vacations that one takes. Friends would stop by and give input. Some I took, others I smiled at and put on the back burner. Wonderful food. It was VERY much the way I see the new world working. Lots of ease, grace and a ton of joy, plus lots of new ways of looking at things!”
And here is her story of what it’s all about …
“All of the Galaxies send some of their babies to planet earth to experience this planet and the good things that we have here. Things like love, caring, emotions, imagination, colors, skipping, singing, chocolate. What are some other things that you think that they might enjoy learning while they are here? (This is really important because it will make their time on planet earth even better.) I can program it into the robots to give it to the cosmic babies.
The robots take care of them until they are ready to go out into the world. There are families that will take them in and treat them like their own children and share more of our ways with them. These cosmic children then send messages back to their own planet about life on planet earth. And the cosmic children share things from their planets with their earth families.
At the station there are many robots that each have a different job.
One of the Robots
One weighs them. One is in charge of the food, for each cosmic baby needs it’s own diet so that it will be able to adjust to planet earth’s food (each planet has it’s own type of food and their bodies are not used to our food).
Another robot teaches them to laugh (this is an earth thing), while another teaches them to cry (another earth thing).
One robot teaches them how to choose what they want to do or not do (only on this planet do we get to learn about what we want and do not want).
There is even one that teaches them about wearing bows in their hair if they want to do that or how to hit a base ball. There are sooooooooooooooo many things a baby MUST learn for this planet.
As you can tell there is a lot to being on planet earth, but it is the most colorful place to live and the most fun!”
So I replied to her, with my suggestions about what the robots could also be programmed to teach the Cosmic babies …
- Curiosity and Exploration – finding out how things work, taking them apart and putting them back together in new ways
- Magical Eyes – the ability to look with wonder, awe and delight at anything and find the beauty in it
- Delight through Connection – feeling a connection with everything, and changing everything through the delight that they have for all of it
Also, the babies can be taught to be whoever they want to be and they can learn how to make the (seemingly) impossible become possible. That should keep them busy!!!
A few final words from Susan about the experience.
“For me the best part of it was in the doing/playing with it. There were no rules. It was done with ease and grace and laughter and lots of good food. Some wine (not much) but not whining. Lots of think time – most of that while in the pool staring at it. People stopped by to add an idea here and there. Sometimes they would get sucked into the joy of the whole thing. This is the way I see the new world being. Creating with such ease.”
We all have the potential for changing the ordinary into the magical. It requires only a starting point, a storyline, a sense of exploration and boundless fun. So there are two questions that I ask you, as the reader.
- What would you give the Cosmic babies?
- What project are you inspired to embark on now?
You can add your suggestions below.
The Angel of …
August 9, 2009
This is additional to yesterday’s story, about my friends’ difficulty with form-filling.
One of those friends delights in singing angel music for other people, at special gatherings or events. She has an innocence and an angelic quality in her being that is quite special.
Since she can sing the angel of … well anything really … my wife suggested to her that whenever she goes to fill in a form, that she invokes the Angel of Form-Filling. As she produces the sound she will be calmed and able to complete the paperwork.
“Of course,” my wife pointed out to her, “you are really all the Angels – it’s all you anyway.” Having said that though there are many people who find it easier to communicate with what they claim is another intelligence. It may just be story that there is an Angel of Form-Filling, but what a delightful way of making a seemingly challenging job so much fun.
And yet what a difference it makes when we consciously own who we know ourselves to be in the vastest sense: a being who can do, who can be, anything.
Energy Management
August 8, 2009
A couple of friends stayed with me for a couple of days and both expressed a horror of having to fill in forms. One said that she was overwhelmed by the thought of having to deal with paperwork and that it throws her into chaos.
My advice was that they look at this in terms of energy management. The process of dealing with paperwork is no more difficult that dealing with any other aspect of modern life. Of course, we want to complete the job in the shortest time possible but there is a simple way to ensure that the most disliked jobs are included in the energy flow of our daily routines.
For my friends I suggested the following -
- they realise that everything they do is energetically based
- they take charge of the situation rather than be overwhelmed by it
- they engage with paperwork as an exploration activity rather than a mental difficulty
- that they consciously engage with the organisation behind the paperwork, e.g. HM Revenue for tax returns, so that they can choose to work with the potential of the organisation.
When we work with potential of an organisation we consciously interact with its energy form and its own desire for change. By treating an organisation as a sentient being it can tell us the reason why it was created, how it is energetically being run, what its long-term future is, and what current shifts need to take place to bring that organisation to the next levels of its own growth.
With that level of understanding and perspective, form filling is no longer an activity that must be done: it becomes a way of understanding why we do what we do, realising that there are better ways for us to interact with everything.
My final remark was that energy confusion occurs when we activate a mental belief that we can’t do something or that we dislike doing it. Energetically we are competent to do any activity and we have choice in how to go about it. So the suggestion that worked best for my friends was when I said that they should no longer deal with forms as objects – they should treat forms as sentient beings.
The act of giving sentiency to inanimate objects, actually allows us to be more fully competent and in our natural energy flow. It stops us from thinking and allows us to interact with a greater level of intelligence than we might consider possible.
Don’t believe me? Then try this. When you have trouble with any piece of machinery or come across any situation that you feel is beyond you then, instead of allowing yourself to be annoyed or overwhelmed, you ask to be put in touch with the intelligence that can tell you more about the problem or situation.
You allow yourself to know what to do and how to be – and then you orient to what needs to be done. Your energy orientation is such that you now engage with all parts of your life rather than construct problems for yourself.
The truth of the matter
June 29, 2009
I recently visited a friend who is physically challenged. In the last few years he has experienced hardship in moving around his house and yet he adamantly refuses to see doctors, believing that he has the key to regaining his mobility.
In conversation, he declared that he’d been working in the realm between dreams and reality, and so had not given much thought to his physicality, viewing his present condition as a ‘pit stop’. But now his attention is back on his physical health and well-being.
Another friend, now in a wheelchair, states that she wants to be considered as normal and not to be viewed as ‘disabled’.
Both these people have an unwavering strength of determination to have everyone realise that their experiences are expressions of physical transformation and must not be seen as diminishment or impairment of their being. In their eyes, there are no disabled people.
That’s a big statement to make … and a fundamental challenge to established ideas of what we view as ‘normal’.
The strength of these people is in being true to what they fundamentally know is true.
Flight of the pheasant
June 29, 2009
Myself, my wife and a friend had enjoyed a fine meal at a local pub and were headed home. As we rounded a bend, we saw that a driver had spun his car off the road and it was lodged in the hedgerow. The driver was shaken but otherwise unhurt, and we quickly learned that he had lost control of the car through trying to avoid a pheasant on the road .
My wife sat talking with him; our friend phoned for the emergency services; and I directed the safe flow of traffic until the police arrived.
Now here’s the interesting piece. His grandmother had died recently and he was still in a state of shock over the loss. Moreover, his grandfather, in turn, had to be taken to hospital from a heart attack – and the ambulance that called for him was the same ambulance that arrived at the scene of this accident. And to top it, my wife tuned into his grandmother and was able to assure him that she was doing fine.
As my wife observed, the man had preceded us from the pub by only a couple of minutes and it was providential that we had followed close behind, to give the assistance that he needed, not only in dealing with the accident but also in dealing with the loss of his grandmother.
It seemed that his grandmother was looking out for him. But, as someone else remarked, “next time … just hit the pheasant”.