Any variation on “I can't meditate and I can't stop thinking!”

Do you feel WRONG?

(If you've found your tribe, your path, and everything is really
ease and joy, you can stop reading now.
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OK, you're still here?
Some thoughts for the rest of us....!)

Have you tried all sorts of
- therapies
- courses
- religions
- superfoods
- exercise regimes  etc

and though they may have worked for a while, you don't really have anything to show for it, except perhaps for a worse bank-balance and, on bad days, an even deeper sense of hopelessness?

May I suggest something?
No, not another course or therapy – just a small idea with huge consequences....

Supposing there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU AT ALL?

For the past few days I have been watching and re-watching this amazing film about Marion Woodman (interviewed by one of the most interesting mystics of our times, Andrew Harvey.)

Dancing in the Flames (click on the picture for video link)

If you are like me, where most of the current “enlightened beliefs” are OK (or somewhat less-than-OK) in-theory, and pretty awful (or downright impossible) in-practice, then this film will have you jumping up and down and shouting “YES!!!! I knew it!!!!” (or whatever your own special personal modality is when your own knowing is shown to be spot-on!)

May I underscore 2 particular bits of practical wisdom from the film.

- 1. When we live as fearlessly as possible according to the whole “horrible” (!) mixture of who we are now, our lives change, and we start on the journey to another sort of personal peace-with-ourselves; this journey is impossible as long as we are trying to live someone else's complete modality, some saint's or guru's whole-teachings or fit ourselves into what we feel anyone else - society, political party, church, family or loved one(s) - expect.

- 2. Everything we experience has a hidden meaning, a hidden gift, even if we do not see it or feel it at that moment; when you allow the gift of each experience to “come on its own wing, in its own time” it may actually save your life – please don't let any fundamentalist of any sort take this - your own - knowing away from you!

If you would like help to banish the taunting of those 'helpful demons' (ie the ones trying to get you 'back in line'!) go here and watch the video at the top.

You were made the way you are for a very good reason! May the whole of you be blest!

The Vibro-orgasmic Oneness of Creation?

When you're in the “vibro-orgasmic” resonance of the cosmos,

the small irritations are vibrated into the larger love.....

Many years ago, I was introduced to Source Breathing/Rebirthing by Lena Kristina Tuulse and her team on the Swedish island of Gotland - a series of week-long trainings in bodywork-breathing as well as exercises in unconditional love, and much more. The third training, held on the mainland at Lena-Kristina's and her musician husband Toomas' healing centre in Väddö, was a celebration of love through “Vedic Goddess Tantra” - it was extraordinarily powerful.

I remember arriving at the course-centre in Väddö and nearly turning back at the door; was I really supposed to become so close to all these people, who at first glance seemed rather unattractive to me? (Groups of anonymous people often seem unattractive!)

I find it extraordinary how getting to know one another at the intense levels of such trainings brings out a deeper compassion and love in all of us, me included. On the final day of the “Tantric” course, I found myself reflecting on how I would now find it easy to become very close with any of these people, in any way; what was it that had changed?

3 things came to mind.

Firstly, I had opened myself to their stories and they had opened to mine. This sharing of stories had unlocked floodgates of compassion in me and the whole group – in our shared weaknesses and endeavours and loves and failures and joys, we had melded in our common humanity.

Secondly, there was the gift of doing something together that most of us felt threatening, though we would rather not have admitted it. We had chosen to be vulnerable together.

For me, however, it was the third aspect which was “ the clincher.” Doing this work and play we had opened ourselves into the flow of cosmic and divine vibration which permeates all of life and undergirds everything created. There was a buzzing resonance in each of us and between us which made our individual differences small in comparison to our group experience of tingling Oneness. Love for one another was no longer something to “try and achieve” - it was a vibrating experience which we were all part of and which we felt in our bodies as well as our souls – a wordless vibro-orgasmic weave way beyond thought or perception.

The buzz of this experience stayed with me for a few days after that course. And then, gradually it began to dissipate.

But what the last few weeks and the experience of tingling and buzzing is showing me, is that this vibro-orgasmic state always exists behind and beyond the fabric of life which we so readily identify with as “normal Earth-truth”! And experiencing it isn't incumbent upon what we humans do, though it may be encouraged in us by the choosing to surrender. When we allow ourselves to dip into this vibratory weave, we experience a change in the “normals” of our own life and the lives of those we are in contact with – and in the most enjoyable way!

More on this in a few days

John Overton