Nourishment

I would like to write tonight about the power of an eternal embrace.  This embrace, it comes not from one place or one thing, it is rather a part of every moment.  Consciousness is streaming toward us with every small breath, all we need do is open and receive.  As part of my own spiritual awakening, receptivity is something I have struggled with.  The loyal soldier in me, the one who can take on and transform anything, had to learn to rest.  She had to lie down on the earth and feel the etheric currents of the plants coursing through her, skive off of work for awhile, develop herself and her practices.  And what joy then!  The socially responsible artist is an archetype that is very dear to me, and what I found, in the months in which I have been mainly having tea and meeting beautiful people :) is that an integrated life means rest as well as responsibility...seeds require both water and sunshine to flourish :)  

 http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

Ecstasy comes not by way of the evasive 'new age' or 'hippy' movement, but by the way of courage.  To face our shadows, our shame, our insecurities, to honour these in ourselves and flow, this is the path to a total and lasting embrace.  In psychedelic, near death, and spiritual awakening processes the frightening and the ecstatic work in concert.  One goes through the dark night, through the trauma, through the shit, and then comes the peace and the love.  Without one the other does not exist.  The mutuality and balance of the vile and the beautiful is a key truth, and one which I will write about more in the next post.  Uncomfortable, but worthy.  The presence, eternal and loving and lasting presence, of love carries it all.  Carries us all, nourishes us deeply so that we may face our addictions, prejudices, patterns of behaviour, and "transform" them with courageous acceptance.  

In vulnerability, and courage, and *love*.  Peace~