A Path Well Worth Walking

Our birth from womb to world was a shattering explosion of light, breath, color, sound, taste, texture and temperature. All at once everything changed in one dramatic exploding moment.

If we choose to make it so, the rest of our lives can be a slow motion explosion where we continually experience one moment of awakening after another. If allowed to continue, layer after layer of illusion will die off and fall away and we will eventually experience The Shattering Place.

In the shamanic tradition of this continent we are taught that with proper intention and continued disciplined effort we can stop projecting darkness and illusion which, whether you are aware of it or not, is the way most of us live every day of our lives. We can reach the place where we know ourselves as Beings of Light limited only by our imagination.

When that day comes you have Shattered the Mirror of Self Reflection. No longer are you defined by any external force. You will have no need for titles or credentials and no investment in the projections of others. The only yardstick by which you will measure yourself will be internal and based in constant present awareness and integrity. You will know yourself by living the difference between self awareness and self definition. You become undefinable even to yourself. You appear to be a living breathing paradox. You finally know yourself by losing the need for self definition.

This is a Path well worth Walking.

Even though the experiences you have will fly in the face of everything you think you know, even though you may seem to teeter on the edges of sanity, even though every relationship you have will change and many will end. Even though . . .

This is a Path well worth Walking.

Listen to your heart, moment by moment it will show you the next step.

Shatter the Mirror

Enter a state of Being where the deepest Love resides.
A Love so vast that :
every act of Love that has ever been,
every song of Love
every poem,
every precious gift given
every loss deeply mourned
every sacred sexual union . . .
where even the grandest expression of Love that you can imagine
is but a tiny spark that leaps fearlessly
from the Great Fire that Burns in the Heart of the Universe
into space and dances in the darkness . . .

This is a Path well worth Walking.

Enlightenment and Laundry

A Journal Entry/1999 updated 2009
In the end of the story, when King Arthur has Percival throw Excalibur back into the Lake, when he gives the divine sign of Leadership back to the Divine, the people are left leaderless and chaos ensues.

We take these stories to mean that in order to have peace and prosperity, one extraordinary human must be leader of us all. That great leaders will shine and be noticed and become our salvation so when we do not have our “King Arthur” we see ourselves as weakened and directionless.

When feeling weak and leaderless we look for other kinds of leaders outside of ourselves. When we don’t find what we want we sue our Doctors, bitch about our Government and make Gurus of every self help book author. We wait for Magick we don’t believe in.

Who is The Lady of the Lake but Mother Life ?
What is The Dragon’s Breath* but the forces of Nature and her Laws?
What is Excalibur but your own body, the fact that you live ?

and who is Arthur but you ?

When The Horned One came into my dreams I mated with him shamelessly because he is raw power. I trembled, not with fear of Him, but with the Responsibility of desiring him and the Knowledge that he would come to me if I called.

I became Eve eating the apple, Mary birthing the force of change into Life, Guenivere holding the fate of the Realm in my hands, Morgaine the Witch* calling forth the Dragon’s Breath* and then I awoke and put in a load of laundry.