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Path of the muse
to reveal and unfold our truth in the world
Path of
the muse
Becoming
a lighthouse and the muse for another
There are many ways to recreate and/or transform
our life. The question is, “Is there a way to transform our life to
access and become the truth of our own being in a fast, gentle and
easy way?’ The answer is we come fully equipped with internal
guidance for such a journey. We only need to learn to follow it.
The internal guidance or
internal compass for such a transformation is based on an inner
feeling. It is based on the feeling of what gives us life, a passion
for life and a desire to live and engage life. It is what gives us a
passion to create
a life worth living. It is to find this feeling within and to
see what externally draws us into life and excites us about life. It
is to find our
muse. When we find such a individual or external focus, we need
to follow it completely as a
single point focus. We need to continually focus until the
passion the muse causes to arise within us shatters the
cage of our own making and all the limitations we have imposed
on ourselves in life. In that shattering our truth becomes revealed
to the world.
The path of the muse (Top)
The way the
muse works in transformation is conceptually very, very simple.
There is a flame within our heart that represents the life we desire
to live and that we
incarnated to express. It is a life that unfolds from the
essence of our being and who you really are. When we are doing what
it is we should be doing, we are in exquisite pleasure and
passion. We are consumed by what we do. There is no perception
of time in such a state of being. We and what it is we do are one
and the same. We are that energy being expressed. There is no
ego for there is no separation between us and the energy.
However, this flame has been encrusted over, hidden or contained,
with our enculturation and the beliefs we carry from our past
experiences of this or any other life past life and some how do not
allow this flame to be expressed.
As a result, there is a belief that it is the physical world and
involvement with the physical world which does not let this flame
within our heart shine brightly. The implication is that there is
something wrong with physical Creation that does not allow us to
shine our light the way we were created to shine Consequently, many
traditions use path of denial and suppression of life where we
denies what arises from within. Rather, we are told to follow
prescribed external truths and/or the guidance of an external
teacher. In the techniques of this “path of denial,” we essentially
attempt to bore through the encrustation around the heart by some
method determined by what ever practice that we choose.
The concept is that since it is the involvement with the physical
plane and the body that causes the encrustment around the heart, in
denying the physical world and the body, one stops the encrustment
from growing. Then the task become to simply bore through the
encrustment with some give technique. We can and will get there but
it will take some time. Once we bore through we begin to channel our
flame through that tinny bore hole and we may or may not allow that
hole to expand. We will feel bliss and joy but only to the size of
the hole we create through our beliefs that allows that flame to
come out. The experience of this tiny bore hole is that there is a
practice we do in life that allows us to have an inner bliss and
joy. Yet we cannot readily take that practice into the world and
into everything we do. So rather than live life, we seek to remove
ourselves from life trying to expand the practice that gives us the
bliss and joy.
Most spiritual practices in the world today are of this type. They
are very narrow, very well defined and very focused. They are
capable of providing a bliss and joy in life but it is at the
expense of our life. Rather than living life in bliss and joy we
removes ourselves from life to follow a prescribed practice that
seems to provide such fulfilment.
However, the
muse works a natural flow. The muse does not ask us to deny
because it is aware of what we feel and we feel our deepest desires
and what gives us life. Our flame does not want to be contained. It
wants to express itself. What lies within our heart is like the
waves of the ocean beating on the shore wearing it away. Our
creative
passion beats against the wall of the encrustment continually
trying to get out. Some of us feel this
blocked energy as
pain and seek to somehow numb the pain rather than removing the
cause of the pain.
What is important here is there is already an energy within our
being working for us telling us how to get our
passion out. We only need to listen to it. Within this
understanding there an encrustment around our heart. But the
encrustment does not come from the physical world. Rather it comes
from how we have had to deny the expression of ourselves in the
physical world. We deny ourselves either because we are afraid of
being hurt in some way and suffering
pain or we are afraid of displeasing those on whom we depend to
live our life. Yet, all we really need to do is to set a
clear intention to become free and follow the flow that already
exist within our being and, as an energy, it will find the
path of least resistance to express itself. But we cannot deny
that energy and where it is taking us. You must flow and go with it.
Now, the beauty of this path is this. If we recognize what is giving
us
passion and love of life, and go with the energy amplifying this
energy however we can, we build up a natural pressure. We literally
are building up the pressure inside this sphere of encasement around
the heart. As we pump up the energy, the pressure builds and the
temperature begins to rise. As the temperature of our heart rises,
it will feel like we are in a pressure cooker.
Now we can become afraid and run away from the pressure and
temperature we feel rising within us. As President Truman is
reported to have once said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of
the kitchen,” is fully applicable here. If we can’t stand the
internal build up of pressure and heat to sit with it, we need to
get out as fast as we can and go do some other path. If this
happens, it is clear this approach to freeing our
creative spirit is not for us for we will need to keep pumping
and pumping this energy even with everyone and everything around us
is telling us to stop.
To stay on this path, we must continue following the
passion within ourselves. There then come a point where we
completely shatter the encrusted vessel around our heart. It is as
though our heart has achieved a critical mass and explodes as a bomb
going off or a star is born. Metaphysically this is what happens. We
literally build up such an intense pressure and temperature that we
create a metaphysical self sustaining thermonuclear reaction. We
begin to glow and radiate that which is us and we become that self
radiating star in the sky. We and our being are one and no one can
extinguish it no matter how hard they try. We will die first before
we give up our
passion and our heart. We will have arrived and have become who
we were always meant to be..
Now once this encrusted vessel shatters, the pressure and
temperature drop quickly and we will feel as though all has been
lost and our
passion has amounted to nothing for all the energy seems to have
dissipated. However, nothing is farther from the truth. Since there
is no longer the vessel keeping our passion contained, we are now
radiating out in all directions. It only feels as if we are not
longer radiating. But everyone around us will begin to see us
differently because we are operating from and internal glow and an
internal warmth. We are no longer the same. we are completely
different. we are reborn and we are remade.
As we continue to live your
passion, our glow and our intensity slow starts to build again.
We get more and more confidence. we become more and more self
assured of ourselves. As we radiate more our external world begins
to change and evolve to reflect the new us. Additionally, as we
radiate light, we will see the world differently. Much become
illuminated. we see with a new clarity and a new perspective. People
will see our light and be drawn to us. As a boat follows the light
house in the night when it is navigating unsafe waters, people will
be drawn to us to help navigate their lives. An enlightened being
cannot not help to enlighten just by living. They cast a light into
the universe showing the way, being the way. However, others feel
intensity. They feel the hot sun and only want to hide. But they
hide from themselves for the intensity of the light only reveals
their own inadequacies.
In choosing to follow the path of our
muse, we will be different beyond belief. When we follow the
path of the muse, there is good news and bad news. The good news it
is probably the fastest path available to enlighten ourselves of the
truth of our own being. The bad news is that there are many fears
that need to be faced and the pressure can become unbearable and it
is intense beyond belief. Even with a focused effort, it may take as
long as two years to shatter the encrustment around the heart.
Pretty tough stuff this encasement. The whole process of shattering
the vessel and becoming a fully glowing individual could take as
long as six years. The number six being representative of man is not
by chance. We need to look to seven years before we become that self
radiating body at one with our
passion in a new world of our own making. Seven years of focus
concentrated effort is too much of a discipline for most people,
even if it is a
path of indulgence. But the alternatives only takes lifetimes.
The choice is yours.
Becoming a lighthouse and the muse for another
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Pursuing the
muse becomes a way of enlightenment of, or rather about, what is
symbolized in the heart.
It
open ourselves to feeling - to what you feel and how you feel.
We will feel ourselves and we will feel others. If we allow
ourselves to freely experience another we will feel the essence of
how they have created themselves. For example, if they live their
creative
passion we will feel a creative passion. They will feel the fire
of creation and be very aware of it. We may not like what we feel
arising from them but we will nevertheless feel it. We will feel
their essence and what they came here to do. Similarly, if they live
in denial, we will feel their denial and probably the
pain the experience around that denial. We can feel the pain
which gave rise to their denial or we will feel the pain they
experience because of their denial. .
If we feel the
creative
passion in another, we will remember and recognize it in
ourselves but we will also begin to remember all the
pain of the past. So to another. If we live our creative
passion, they will recognize it in themselves but they will also
being to remember all the pain of the past that cause them to deny
their creative passion.
The reason is the last time we or they have felt such a
creative
passion was probably as a very young child before we became
consciously aware and consciously aware of ourselves. In
experiencing someone in the spontaneity and innocence of childlike
play of discovery and exploration who is living their creative
passion we will feel deeply and powerfully for a short period of
time. Then the ghost of the past surfaced to haunt us. We will be
reminded of all the reasons of the past as to
why we lost it. We become frighten by what we are experience
because of all the
pain of the past that occurred the last time we were in such a
state surfaces as feelings. That past becomes an expectation of what
we are about to experience. Unless we are mindful and aware, all we
can do is withdrawal. Since the pain usually occurs so early in life
and before we developed our conscious
mind and we had well constructed memories we could consciously
recall, we become confused as to what exactly has been the cause and
source of the fear we feel. What we each experience in this regard
is true for everyone. It is how we create the future in the image of
the past because of how we shut down in childhood.
If we allows ourselves to
step out of mind
and freely experience another in that
creative state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play of
discover and exploration we will be able to feel what that other has
created within themselves. It is a gift we all have and we do it
subconsciously all the time. However, we have shut down our ability
to do it consciously. Rather, we have to be out of out thinking and
judging
mind to experience it. The ultimate Source of our being is both
a gentleness and love that nurtures and sustains another and creates
a
safe and secure space for another to feel safe. But it can also
be experienced as the
passion and flow to create as powerful as a volcano spewing
forth lava into a new creation.
In any case, if we can experience our
creative
passion even for a moment in accompanying spontaneous and
innocent childlike play, it becomes like a flash of lightening that
illuminates the path momentarily so that we knows it exists and that
it is possible for us to find our way back to live in that
passion. However, unless the light shines again, we cannot mark
out the path for others but we know it exists and can look for it.
What needs to be understood, we are all lights for each other and
can shine our uniqueness into each life to be that lightening flash
if the person experiences us as who we really are as opposed to
focusing on the
ego.
It is why Christ said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light.” for
he lived true to his internal light. We all are the light. We all
are the way in one way or another. We each are unique creations and
in the oneness of the universe we can illuminate that part of
ourselves that lies within the other. We can use that connection to
awaken the other to their own truth.
If we live true to ourselves that part we illuminate in another will
show them how to be true to themselves and we become that light for
them to find their own truth. Yet all our paths are different. Some
of us are more important at a given point in history than others.
Just as different light (red, blue green, infared, ultraviolet etc)
illuminates different aspects of creation and we can see differently
with each light, each of us incarnate at a given time because it is
our light that can show the way for people for a given time and a
given place. We all have a time and place to become a lighthouse for
others to find their way home. When creation needs us, it calls us
forth to be the light. We are not being called forth to stand in New
York harbor to guide everyone in the world to freedom although we
could play that role if we wanted. Rather, there will be a time and
a place for us to be the equivalent of that role.
When that time comes, we have a choice. The chose is to become that
light or continue to live within the encrustation on our heart. The
time is now as it always is. We only need to choose to awaken to the
truth within our own being. In doing so, we become a light for
others.
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