Looking Forward - New Tools For Awakening

I have been writing and, as a visual person, trying to make sense of a bewildering experience.....which is also a blessing, a challenge, a curse, a wonder, and a giant question (which is awakening).  And in the midst of it all I have recoiled from using techniques or methods.  There is a reason for this, a really big one....and the big challenge for me has been HOW to communicate a FEELING to people, which becomes the foundation of a given kind of work in awakening.  And yet, techniques continue to be touted and used....and often, sadly, without comprehension about what they are good for.  And on the other hand, I know that in some ways techniques can assist us in reaching certain places within ourselves.  And ultimately, this is what awakening does for us.  It installs, permanently, the energetic circuitry in our consciousness for bliss and ecstatic states of being.  This can lead to insight and fulfillment.

That is because the process is so simple it says. "Yes, I know.....but how do I get it across?" I wonder.

Maybe poetry it says.  "Poetry.  No one wants to really read poetry!"  Nonsense. They do.  If it is good.  Remember Rumi?  How do you show people the way to the chamber of bliss except by using your words, creating images in their heads?

So. I am working on ways to make all of this simple. I wonder if that is possible.  Today as I drove through town, this voice in my head said Maybe you should develop "the Stafford Method" of meditation and then teach it to people to see how effective it is.  A few minutes later, I though that the thought was a little silly.  Meditation has been in use for a very long time, really--- what is there that I would be able to provide that would be new?  It isn't always new. Sometimes you create combinations that work for a given time or place that are specific to those.  So I am thinking about this. I am wondering if its possible, and maybe feeling a little relief in the idea of developing a way to meditate for those who do not have it already. 

But already I have numerous articles on aspects of awakening and the bones of an emerging system that might turn into an online course.  There is a lot of content there, but I think that when it is to the point and aids the person who is interested in awakening specifically, then the value of what I am conveying in the work is fairly substantial. Ultimately I would like very much to be a part of a larger effort, a web ring of people who are all engaged in awakenings specifically.  An online ashram, or a Mystery School.

My hope is that I can get moving on this by the Fall once the remainder of the main material has been written and then a web site is set up to house it. 

Irregularities?

For a while, as you have no doubt noticed, this blog has been very irregular in the posts added to it. 

I wanted to update you and let you know that I am currently working on a new line of content that addresses much of the information in the book I have been working on for close to seven years now (wow--- really that long!).  I decided that instead of not offering up techniques that absent the rocket-ship experience of awakening on your side, people do indeed need some clues into the mystery that is awakening.  I am working on making things simpler and more straight forward.  Its not easy for me as a holistic or visual thinker to keep it simple but this new content is focused on just that. 

I am skimming the cream off of my own experience as well as my own "epiphany talks" or inner inquiries about the nature of a whole range of issues from how the light body detects information across vast distances, to the catalytic effect that prana in abundance (which is just what awakening is or can be) will do to the psyche and self.  For the better. 

Currently I am working on a series of modules that are all designed to move you from one stage of completion to another.  I am including all of the triggers for awakening including not just the old tried and true ones, but the ones that were operative in my own awakening experience.  This will result in a course that will lead the student to the level of comprehension that I think is crucial for a beneficial awakening process to get underway.  Considering how life changing an awakening is, I think its crucial that there is appropriate support for preparing for this experience. 

So.  A  modern mystery school with language that is not steeped in mythologies or semi-religious undertones. 

Once the content is fleshed out and fine tuned, I will be setting up a web portal for the material and inviting those who are interested in taking part in the next stage of Waking The Infinite as a living document and method for realization.  How long this will take is hard to say for certain.  I already have about half of what I consider the "core" material in hand and am currently producing the supporting material that will help supplement the core materials.  My goal is to have most of the materials in place by this summer with a design for a web portal necessary after that. 

Thanks for reading and being a part of the process!

नमस्ते - Nemaste

The Turning

It happens
in our world
in long-scaled cycles
that our inner lives
express something
that continues on the outside
that we each agree to explore here…..

The Light is about to change…

The Collective is getting ready for a new game
a new way
a radical turn
it will seem
to usher in a new age.

This happens in cycles
this turning
that we our souls direct
so that the light in us
might be perfected.

For reasons most will not appreciate
our adventure for the last five millenials
have taken us into the rational
as we became untrusting of our intuition
dull but smart
and forgot the deeper waters
of our knowing, being, and love.

It was not for naught
but it had consequences
for all of us died a little
on the day when we made our last turn
and lost something
in order to gain something…

We did this without grace.
We fell into pits of dark
and damnable confusions.
We forgot ourselves
as empires rose
and we forgot the tender knowing
that we called
the feminine….
in all of us.

As hard as that turning was
and as much as we may want to visit our wounds
I say to you
that this next turning
will be the sweetest one of all
since the Beginning.

For this Turning will be for each of us
and will swallow us whole
in its embrace.
It will dismember us
and take out our bones
and put in their place
a metal of greater hue and temper
and will make of us
beings ready for the greatest love
we have ever known.

We are about to change
each of us
and its process is underway
right now
in cities and towns
and the shimmer cannot be denied
and if denied
not for much longer.

The crustal plates are to realign
in our hearts
and our souls.
We have thirsted for thousands of years
and it is this shock of thirst
that has made of each of us
perfect vessels for the flood
that is about to come.

We have thirsted,
each of us
for Her
and we have been made perfect for the union
that our souls now
yawning wide
are ready to embrace
to take in
and be taken by.

We are about ready now
to see a great folding of the race
into a new way
and it will seem to take years to unfurl
but in looking back
it will have gone by in a wink.

SO I say to each of you;
be of great joy
for we now are each pregnant
with the possibility of Her
and it is this that we birth
not a woman
nor a man
but a fully equipped human
ready for the star nations
for hearing sweet music
touching sound
and smelling light.
We are the new humans
lurking inside of the old
a rebirth that is moving
with great certainty and pace.
What was impossible
will become likely
as new horizons emerge
as we continue to balance
between disaster and light.

Beyond Love?

This love rises above all other loves
it is noble
"separate"
only because it is so perfect…

You might think this then makes some loves imperfect…
No–
but we are. 
We humans
souls dressed in this clay
desperately seeking the day…

This love I know
does not need to make old love
into an enemy
but instead seeks peace
knows peace
wants to make peace
just as much as some wish to make love.

But we do not let love take us enough
nearly ever enough
to build us into its image
we instead take sips
from a vast cauldron
overflowing
and call it the great love
but there is more still
that our narrow caged minds can know
this love destroys you
and your notion
of separation
and loss
and desiring to make an old love into a demon
or who is cursed.

We forget ourselves
as love
when we do this
and it is we who are cursed
as our bitterness comes back to our hearts
a hundred fold.

So let love take you deep into its chambers
and undo you
unmake you of who you thought you were
so that you might shine incandescent
as the self that you truly are.

Such a love requires a mad fool to follow it
or the bravest of hearts.
Let this love take you tonight
and show you the way
that the deep enveloping presence
of its heart can do
and go back to drink of it
ever thirsty
ever seeking
ever knowing
that has always been with you
with a certainty that makes masterworks
of this clay and soul
transiting this land once more
trying to get it right…
if we will but listen to the flower
blooming in our chest…