Monday, October 8, 2012

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!