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A Hero’s Journey

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Michaela

Sir Lancelot du Lac

An interview with Joseph Campbell on the meaning of mythology with regards to awakening. Many legends, stories and myths describe a certain evolution that is applicable to finding one’s path leading to transcendence and transformation.

Heros are archetypes represented in popular myths all over the world. They have commonalities and they all show us something we need to know on our path to freedom. Not as a map or explanation, but as powerful symbols of the world behind our eyes.

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Lecture with Joseph Campbell on a “Hero’s Journey”

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Michaela

A field of purple

No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.

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The ardent alchemist

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Michaela

Copper Smelter

The bellows fan the fire.
Metal is not the only thing being purified by the heat.

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My ego loves a bashing

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Michaela

In a haze

My ego loves getting a bashing.

Ah, I am no rookie anymore. I know what to do in case of my ego really getting pissed off and preparing to unleash a painbody attack. I settle in my observer mode, watch it rise, blow up, go in defense and accusatory mode and get ready to charge. I feel the anger, hot and fiery. And I consciously and delightfully experience myself reacting.

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Michaela

Love is a mirror

love is
a mirror
you see nothing
but your reflection
you see nothing
but your real face

From: Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Translation by Nader Khalil

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Patterns in the energy of awakening

Posted on September 30, 2010 by jeromemp

A drop of water

The title of a recent thread on the Eckhart Tolle forum site invoked the concept of implosion as it related to the activity of members of the forum. That concept of implosion inspired a recognition and examination of subtle energetic shifts that have been a aspect of my own growth cycles over time. I began contemplating the emergence of consciousness as it has been stimulated by Eckhart’s teachings and also importantly as new teachers have followed the messages of preceding teachers.

Given that I can only truly touch on an understanding of the full experience of my own ongoing growth, I began to contemplate the larger cycles of this growth and their impact on the emerging integration of that growth with prior cycles.

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Michaela

Roses

By day I praised you
and never knew it.
By night I stayed with you
and never knew it.
I always thought that
I was me–but no,
I was you
and never knew it.

Rumi was born September 30, 1207. Today we commemorate his 803rd birthday.