Blog 4/14/17

The feminine is nature itself.  It is the wind.  Hard to comprehend, difficult to grasp and changeable.  The feminine is the deepest longing for love and physical contact.  She is the sand that your feet soak into.  The feminine is nature, she is power itself.  In the Hebrew tradition, the feminine was created when God came into being, and she is God’s wisdom, and her name is Sophie.

When a woman comes into her true being, she is wise, she is sensual, and she demands the masculine to rise up and be what he is meant to be.  If the masculine does not, the feminine in the woman will scorn him. She will scorch his emotions and ego with fiery disappointment.  And this is where we will begin…

Many women have lost touch with what it means to be the feminine, and many men have lost touch with what it means to be the masculine.   We do have both natures within us.  And it is okay for a woman to have more masculine energy than feminine, and for a man to have more feminine energy than masculine.  But when a woman wants to express her feminine and when a man wants to express his masculine, they must know what that means.  And many of us don’t.

Today we live in a world where the man wants to objectify the feminine.  He wants to own it, control it and he wants to use it for his benefit.  This is unfortunate, but nderstandable.  The feminine is life, the feminine is mysterious and powerful to experience.  The feminine is irresistible to the masculine. Many women allow men to objectify them because many of us have lost touch with the feminine nature.  We have come to believe that we must attract the masculine and do things to make the masculine notice us.  We couldn’t be further from the truth.  The masculine lives to impress the feminine.  Look around at the world, it was built by the masculine, and men didn’t construct monuments to appeal to their counterparts.

Today, many women believe it is better to be masculine.  We attempt to emulate the masculine.  So women in power take on the characteristics of men in power. And we become ruthless and competitive. That is not the nature of the feminine.  It is the nature of the masculine. The masculine is active.  It must conquer, it must conquer first and it must conquer more than those around it.  It must, in other words, stand out.  And that’s why we have amazingly ambitious structures like the Pyramids and the Coliseum.  That’s why the world has progressed.  The masculine must conquer and it must advance into new and dangerous territory.  When the masculine is lost, it loses its purpose and stops moving into profundity.  The masculine without a worthy purpose is merely a shadow. 

Many women are involved with shadows who want to control them and assert their physical advantage over them.  The more the masculine is lost, the more it wants to dominate the feminine.  Why do men rape and kill women?  Because they have lost their core, and like a black hole, attempt to devour since they can no longer conquer admirably. But the feminine in a woman can not admire a shadow.  And so therein lies the problem in many relationships.  The feminine wants authentic masculine energy to interact with.  The feminine wants to admire the masculine. And the masculine wants authentic feminine energy to interact with as well.  The masculine wants to impress the feminine that is worthy of his battle for greatness.

A woman is meant to be wise, practical and in touch with her deepest sensuality.  The woman’s body is created and has the potential to feel levels of pleasure that far outreach the body of her male counterpart.  A woman can orgasm over and over and over in the span of one sexual session.  Why? Because when a woman allows her feminine sensuality to soar, it heals her and it heals her partners.  When the feminine sensuality soars, she creates a cocoon that expands beyond this world and lifts both her and her partner into deeper places within them both.  When a woman knows the feminine is the vessel for all of life, when a woman knows the feminine is nature, it is incomprehensible, mysterious, capable of infinite love and affections that heal the deepest wounds.  When a woman knows that if every woman refused to copulate with any man beneath admiration, the world would change because the masculine cannot- cannot do without the feminine- she changes and comes into her power.  Which is not- which is not manipulative- but like the mountain, is unmoved by the unessential.  A true woman, is unmoved by the unessential man.  And the true man, is not attracted to a woman who doesn’t realize she is the essence of life.   

Blog 4/1/17

It is far easier to create when we love ourselves.  Though much art that is considered genius is born from the inner pain of its artist, it is often born because of the desire to evict the pain and have it live outside of mind and body and onto the canvass, a sheet of music or computer screen.  The artist is hoping to alleviate her suffering when she "sings her heart out." But when she sings with a heart filled with love, it affects the world differently. We all know love begins with ourselves and cannot extend outward if it does not first exist within.  We may play games of denial by convincing ourselves and others that we love them when we don’t love ourselves, but we cannot exhale carbon dioxide without possessing oxygen first.  We cannot give to another what is not first within. And so we must all practice the art of self-love, and this will always translate into love for all of life.  In other words, when there is sufficient love within us, the presence of loves makes us incapable of hatred, indifference to other living beings, and the nature that surrounds us. Those who hate and despise, feel hate and despise inside their being, and they evict it, in hopes of finding relief. But evicting the self-loathing or despise leaves a hole hungry to be fed. Like the cigarette smoker who begins to over-eat because they didn't replace the abstinence with a more positive substitute, hate is merely replaced with disdain and harsh judgment.

What is the direct way to transform ourselves and what we feel? Learning to love what is creates healing.  Instead of waging war on our weakness we find its tender energy beautiful.  We experience our anger and have compassion for its outrage and discomfort.  We notice our mean-ness and focusing on the closed heart, know its closing up is a sign it must be in pain.  Matt Kahn, of Truedivinenature offers his listeners the “I love you” meditation.  It’s a technique of focusing on your heart and repeating with heart felt sincerity, that you love it.  When we do this enough times, we feel inner tensions loosening. The places inside that are angry, hurt or that feel unloved, soften.  When these emotions and attitudes soften, like clay, they can be molded into new expressions and often align themselves without conscious effort. 

And so, we love ourselves into alignment, and we love others into alignment.  More often than not, findind a way to compliment a person who is misbehaving will have a more desirous effect than berating them. When we move through this world with an open heart, we feel Herculean, and the splendor we feel is beyond words.  It feels good to be loving, it feels powerful to be able to forgive.  It feels miraculous to see only beauty, and finding a way to love ourselves is the first step into the miraculous. 

Blog 4/15/14

Some of us can learn from almost anything. We have minds that are hungry and without much effort, we are curious and we learn, every day, sometimes many times throughout day. We observe the changing seasons and somehow this encourages us to realize that we too can change. Some may watch children at play and seeing their joy, realize that a mind that is focused in the 'now' is incapable of remaining stuck in anger or pain. We're that person that just doesn't understand what people mean when they say, "Wow, you really think a lot". Think a lot? I hadn't noticed. I guess I was too busy enjoying the mysteries of life unfolding to notice the wheels inside my head churning. Or, how about this comment, "You're really deep." To the person that is supposedly deep, what the others who aren't deep don't realize is that, it only took one, maybe two or three thoughts to get to what they are calling deep. In fact, we don't even know it's deep. We are too busy just being who we are to analyze it, which is curious. The other person who is accusing us of thinking so much and of being deep, is doing a whole lot of thinking too. It's just not the type of thinking that profits their lives. Well, anyway, some of us are just naturally philosophical, just as others are musically inclined, or athletic. No one says to the musician, "Wow, there were a lot of notes in that solo you banged out!" Or maybe they do. But here's what I say- "just enjoy it or don't. Live for once and feel it, or let the experience shift something inside you instead of counting my thoughts or his guitar riffs."

But let's face it, there are those who seem to almost not think at all. Oh sure, they have thoughts about wanting to have a cold beer and relax in front of the TV. Or they have thoughts about how that movie actor must have had plastic surgery. But is this thinking or reacting; reacting for instance, to internal emotions? Well, even if this is thinking, then perhaps I would distinguish it from what I am attempting to relay and say, "But it is not "creative" thinking."  It's more like cruising through life.  And that's creative as well.  "it's all good."  As they say. 

But creative thinking leads to a shift in understanding or a deepening of some aspect of life. It changes you, for the better. And once more, it is cumulative. I can liken it to a puzzle and even say that creative thinking can take the individual to ideas about life that are totally unexpected.

Those of us who can learn from anything don't generally mind learning from each other, either. Sure, we don't want someone thinking they are a know-it-all and preach to us about every detail of our lives. But those of us who love to learn, usually don't mind someone sharing their thoughts that they feel might profit us. People who are creative thinkers, I predict, would actually appreciate suggestions, as long as the person isn't addicted to giving them. No one enjoys another person's compulsive behaviors no matter how well intended. But then there are those who get angry or offended by any suggestion that someone offers. They scoff at it, throw it away and generally give the impression that what the other offered was as insignificant as that piece of trash they just threw into the can by the door. This type of person doesn't appreciate suggestions or knowledge and I believe it is because they have a limited self-awareness. They don't think they need any advice because in their state of denial, they have it all figured out. People with a limited awareness only see but so far. That makes sense right? Hence the word limited, which would suggest an experience of impoverishment in some fashion. In any event, their limited knowledge fills up that space called their 'perception' simply because their perception is restricted. Nevertheless, it seems to fill up that space quite to their liking. This is why they resent someone telling them that there might be another way to see something. To them, this is crazy nonsense because their world is so small that whatever it is that they do know, fills it up! But take someone with an expansive awareness. Their perception is a very different animal indeed. For they see a horizon that is so far from their knowledge base, they realize they need more skills, more insights and more wisdom to traverse that landscape. And this is why they can look up at the clouds covering the sun and realize that behind any challenge, like the sun hidden from view, is some kind of brilliance waiting to be revealed.

You see, everything inside them wants to absorb as much as possible, because their awareness is ravenous. It's ravenous because the vastness of their consciousness must, and does, require food and nourishment that is proportionate to its dimensions. So, the next time you offer a bit of friendly advice and find that it is received with a roll of the eyes and a sigh, you don't have to feel unappreciated. Just realize that for them, ignorance is truly bliss, and no pun is intended.

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Blog  4/11/17

Have you ever had something really great happen in your life, perhaps you received a raise, or followed a dream that began to really take off? You'd like to share your bubbling glee with someone but you know if you do, it will be frowned upon. The other, you realize, will simply think you are bragging or showing off. So you don't share it. Or if you do, you water down your story sufficiently to be considered acceptable. Have you also noticed that if you think you're really looking great, if you're really happy with with the weight you've lost, or how your new hair cut really brings out those gorgeous cheekbones of yours, you aren't really supposed to say so? Here's what is going on in a nutshell. We all say to ourselves and one another, "You should feel good about who you are!" and "Don't doubt yourself, think of yourself as a winner." But as soon as you do think of yourself as a winner, as soon as you say- "I'm going to be an extraordinary, prolific writer that writes books that the public adores," others look at you and then to each other with raised eyebrows. "Oh, someone is full of themselves," they say with a smile. A cordial smile that hints at the gossip that is going to knock you over like a tornado the moment you walk away! I think there is something dreadfully wrong with this social dynamic. We are children of an awesome God after all. We are supposed to be and feel magnificent, not filled with excuses and embarrassment when we accidentally radiate self-love, genius and or complete and unconditional self-acceptance.

You're not fully convinced yet, are you? You're thinking, "I've never felt this way when someone shared their good fortune." Well tell me this, and I am speaking to women right now. When is the last time you stood next to a woman in the bathroom as she painted her shapely lips and saw her throw herself a kiss, wink her long eyelashes and then say, "God, you're beautiful!"? Never, right? Right. Most people who feel this way wouldn't dare do that because they would get slammed by the person standing next to them. Our society has schizophrenia. We say you should love yourself, think yourself beautiful and see yourself as strong and successful, but when you do, people resent you for it. Why is that? You may wonder. I believe that as a whole, our culture has low self-esteem. In fact, I believe it to be a global dynamic And when a person rises above the mediocrity of that poor esteem, it gets our attention, and we don't like it one bit. We only accept it when you feel really bad about yourself and are trying to feel better. In other words, you have to be nearly at rock bottom, and trying to get not to the top, but just the next wrung for us to find your ambition acceptable. But alas, don't make it to the mountain top and actually accomplish self-actualization, and if you do- don't even dream about sharing!

One by one, we have to decide to rise above the mindset of drudgery and dare to feel exceptional and evolve to even greater and greater heights. I can do even better. How about this- tell yourself that you are going to reach your highest destiny. Don't just live well, go for the nectar, for all the juice in that baby called your existence. This is a hard task, but learning to not think about what others are thinking helps greatly. Learn to mind your own business in other words. Oh, I know that sounds harsh, but let me explain. What I mean is this, wondering or projecting what you think others are thinking of you, is their business, not yours. What they think belongs to them and reflects who they are, not who you are. Your business is to be you and to constantly muster the courage to continue being you. If you try to get inside another's mind and divine their thoughts about you, not only will you have wandered off the path of your destiny, but you aren't even functioning in reality! You are functioning in the world of the imagination when you live inside someone else's head. And the only thing you will accomplish is the projection of your own fears that you attribute to them.  But it's your fears that make you think another is juding you harshly when they haven't uttered one word. In other words, what you think as their thoughts will really just be your insecurities and fears. So don't do it- ever! Just being you will be hard enough. So, be you, stay centered and embrace whatever it is you love about you. And then do us all a favor and share every ounce of your self-approval with the world, even if they will scorn you for it.